Friday Weigh in - The Starting Weight

So here it is, my starting weight -  14st 7, or 203 lbs.

Some stats;

Age: 44

Height: 5ft 4

Weight: 14st 7

I still can't quite believe how I've allowed myself to get to this point, when I was first married at the ripe age of 20, I was 8 st 7, that means I've put on 6 stones,

 that's  the weight of a little person!

I'm the first to admit that 8st 7 was a tad on the thin side, I soon settled in between 9st and 9st 7, I stayed this way for 10 years.

Then I had my first child, gained the correct amount and lost the weight down to 9st 7, I did do this by following weight watchers.

Then I had a couple of miscarriages, which to be honest really messed with my head. The whole way it was handled by my local hospital didn't help.

I was now wavering between 9st 7 and 10 stone.

Finally I caught pregnant again, but also lost my mum who was 54 suddenly. I just ate through out the pregnancy,  and delivered a beautiful baby. All was fine, but then a year later all the emotions that I'd held together after losing mum, and the previous miscarriages,

 just proved too much, I had a break down.

Medication followed, and then the weight started to pile on, I can't blame it all on medication - I began to comfort eat, anything that came my way. Whereas in my early 20's I could eat pretty much anything I liked and not  really gain weight, suddenly the weight was piling on.

I fell pregnant with my third child in my late 30's at 11st 7, weight gained ensued, although I did manage to get down to just below 11st after I gave birth.

It has been a battle ever since and I seem to have put on a stone a year,

 leading to today's weigh in of 14st 7.

Over time I have been to various weight classes, weight waters, slimming world, I'd lost half a stone and somehow lose incentive, I also lost lots of money.

One of my favourite diets was low carbing, it was the first time I lost weight without feeling hungry, the creamy sauces over chicken I just loved.

I managed better than I though without, potatoes, bread, pasta and rice, but in the long term when your family likes all those things it becomes hard to stick to.

So now yet again a different diet, no expensive classes,

 yes I have bought the books, 

but I could quite easily have not bought the books, as with the internet and trusty google, there is plenty of information to find out about the diet.

It will be interesting to see can I manage it, and will it be the ONE...