Sylvia

My Name is Sylvia, I am 65 years old, and have been on a diet as long as I can remember,  I think I must be the oldest person on this board.

I am a neighbour of Mimis and met her at a dinner with the weight  watchers group I attend,  I became very interested in her weight  control programme, read Atkins, found it all made sense and have been trying to follow it since January this year, I have been down to my goal weight and then gave up smoking as I had promised myself I would if ever I managed to get my weight down to 65 kilos,  I immediately started to put weight back on, I got so depressed as I have really tried hard and also I wasn’t eating any differently than before, when I met  Rosemary I thought I will never be able to stick to a diet with out bread, but I did and have been on it now for 6 months, I have lost about 6 pounds and am rather disappointed, I feel I have hit the wall. And the last few weeks I have been off again and giving into cravings for sweet things! So I know I have to renew my efforts and really get into it again, I can and I will.

I have 4 children they are all grown and married,  my youngest son died 11 years ago, and my beloved husband, Mal, died 3 years ago, I have been rather lax and have been comfort eating I know, as if that will bring comfort?

But I just need something to kickstart my metaballism and hope some day on the page to see the answer to my problem, in the meantime I will go back on to induction, and hope that does the trick.  I help Mimi with the HGA group here in South Australia, and we have some very lovely people all helping one another,  I know I have the very best support there is and hope I will be able to write on the board before very long, I have done it!  And if anyone has the answer to how I can start up my metaballism  please give me a call!  I would like to say that I feel good in my general health, my blood pressure is down , now all I need to be happy is to get my weight down too. I am now 71kilos and hope to be back to 65 kilos by the end of this year.  My original weight was 83 kilos. Like to point out that a kilo is 2.2 pounds. Since starting writing this I have spoken to Checky who has suggested many things that may have caused the halt in my losing weight, and I do think that my medication may be one of the problems, so onwards and forwards as they say, and I will keep on trying.