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Do you know how much you really weigh? As I said this one frightened me, it is hard in the beginning getting on those scales, seeing little progress, sometimes regression (oops...) Lets be honest it is not fun! Watching what you eat, just not eating? trying hard to stay at a reasonable healthy weight. it actually becomes even more depressing often I found myself braking open even more bars of chocolate just to soften the hard feelings I had, I have given time to "lose weight fast"....they don't work, I have tried "slimming programmes" that you need to join for a fee, I would have been just as well throwing my money into a fire, wasted money.
For years I was working a high stress very busy job, busy home life, so weight watching was never really an issue. Then after an accident when I could no longer work, the weight just seemed to creep up on me. I had always been relatively thin, with a not bad figure, however as the years get on, the family grow up, and I stopped working due to illness,
It was so easy just to have a packet of crisps here, a biscuit there, at night time was the worst, I love fruity gummy sweets they probably will always be my down fall. If it was just one that would be okay, but I just had to eat the packet.
Only when I was to be put on a certain medication and I was asked how much I weighed, did I get the fright I needed, I was positive these scales were wrong!
I had never weighed myself at all so I just roughly guessed my weight, I was 2 Stone over my Guesstimate! I was mortified and decided there and then something had to change.

I found a FREE weight loss calculator online

When we worry about our Doctor saying "you need to lose weight" I will tell you a story about my husband who is fit as a fiddle, but he is by the doctors standards "extremely overweight" he is an ice hockey player, his thighs are the size of tree trunks, so his ratio of muscle to actual fat is near zero, but because of his weight he is deemed obese? He eats healthy and does indeed live a very active lifestyle.

It seems we all start off well then we slowly creep back to our old habits, some we have had since our youth, my favorite, go swimming come out go to the cafe and have a plate of chips, chocolate cake and a can of cola, because I am starving! Doh...
I hated the thought of "going on a diet" ....I could not bear it.
So I set out to find a way that was going to work for me. I was not massively overweight however I was uncomfortable with the extra weight I was carrying, I tried to work out the height / weight chart but that seemed flawed to me, we are all different shapes, so I found that calculating my body Mass was easier. This gave me an idea of how much extra body mass I was carrying, and psychologically this made sense to me.

Here is where I found out how to calculate my BMI - and you can too