Hi everyone, I read about this site from a health magazine and am so glad I joined. Let me introduce myself, I'm 32, mum of 2 and have struggled my whole life with my weight. I finally decided to fix it once & for all after I saw photos of myself at my daughters 1st b'day (jan. 2007). I have now lost 60 kgs & have 15kgs to go. I hope to inspire & be inspired by others!

Welcome! Congrats on your loss so far! Keep up the great work.

--Jason

Wow, that's a lot of weight loss in that period of time! Congrats!

How did you go about doing it?

Welcome to the community.

Oh yea, and what health magazine did you see this forum in?

Thanks for the welcome!

I came across this site via Slimming and Health magazine(Australia), I read the success stories to keep myself motivated.

As for my weight loss, I learnt about portion sizes and decreased the size of my food servings at lunch and dinner, snacked on healthy foods every 2 hrs,cut out soft drinks, started excercising ( 30mins walking every day if possible), repititions with light weights and perservering with it & being consistent.

when I first started at 145kg, I could only manage to walk 2mins at a time!
I now do 30-60mins on the treadmill. some days i slacken off and will eat far too much & do no excersise, but i pick myself up the next day and keep going, coz it'll be worth it in the end!