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Thanks :) Made the first photo smaller now too so it fits on the page :P

When I was still quite young (somewhere between 12 and 14 I reckon) I wasn't overweight at all I was just tall and not a bean pole, I was at my nan's house and out of nowhere she told me I could 'do with losing a few pounds' I was so horrified I started crying and she told me not to be so silly. I still don't know why she…

If you diet then go back to eating more than the calories required to maintain your weight then yes you'll gain. If you initially starve yourself to lose weight quickly you'll inevitably gain it back - our bodies do not like to be starved, if we do that they start clutching onto and storing fat, so whenever you eat more…

I work exclusively with men at my current job - it's a family run business (owned by two brothers, started by their dad), there are 8 of us who work there and I'm the only woman. With the exception of the Saturday boy who's 18 and the assistant manager who's in his 30's everyone else is 50 or 60+. For the most part I love…

It's the name of my business.

I'm a bit like you - I don't comfort eat, I comfort don't eat :P Seriously though when I was depressed I completely lost any appetite - even the smell of food made me feel physically sick and I could hardly force myself to eat anything. I ate virtually nothing for 3 weeks and ended up shedding 2.6 stone! Not healthy :S…

I'm sure we can all do it in the end - we might slip some days but as long as we don't let that get us down to much and pick up the next day where we left off then it's not the end of the world. If anyone wants to see some comparison photos of me (the wrong way round to what people usually post!) here they are... In 2007 I…

My boyfriend is like yours too - he's 5'7" so a good few inches shorter than me, but I don't like the fact that he's also just 2/3rds of my body weight, the man is supposed to weigh more! I definately put on weight when we moved in together - probably down to his obsession with chips. He's very fussy and ends up eating…

Thanks everyone. Mini mini goals sound good. I think I'll always be size 14 trousers - even when I was at my skinniest I only had one pair that were a size 12, on the plus side no one believed me when I told them I wore size 14. I think it would just be nice to feel better in the clothes I have at first and to be able to…

Maybe that's why I seem to be doing quite well with the weight loss - I eat a potato for luch 3 or 4 times a week :P