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Hey im a 24 yr old with three kids aged 6 yrs, 18 mnths and 3 months. II amstruggling with weight as i have alot on in my last pregnancy and would be interested in talking to others who could share some proven tips to help me lose weight. Thanks

HI Tittemonster, As you know by now, losing weight is a strange strange thing. I wanted to shed some of my excess kilos last year (because of high blood pressure and general unwell feeling) and decided to count my calories. Invested in a Tupperware digital scale (expensive but worth it) . Took all my slimming books off the shelf, in particular you need a good calorie counter. For the first week I diligently weighed all food and counted calories - I put myself on a 1800 - 2000 per day calorie intake for starters. By the second week I was quite used to the counting and stopped weighing everything - I tried to err on the "good" side and not on the bigger portion side, gauging with my eye only. I then went down to about 1600 - 1800 calories per day. I ate anything I wanted as long as it was counted.

A tip: I would see my calorie allowance as a purse filled with allowance -money - Question; do I want to spend my allowance on this piece of chocolate cake or rather on this huge plate of chicken stir fry? We will all answer differently but I quickly learnt what kept me feeling full and what made me want to eat, eat, eat.

I managed to shed 14kgs over the next 3 months and have kept it off ever since by "calculating" (without scale) before I eat.

I am thinking of maybe starting up again and try and shed another 10kg at which point I will not bother to shed any more (I think). For interest: I also gained my weight when I was pregnant - 29 and 26 years ago.

All the best with your efforts - the library has a good stash of calorie counters etc.

Hey to you too tm, welcome to our site

Sounds like you have your hands full enough with your three babies. Hopefully you will find in this stie, a caring and warm community where you can come, rant, rave or get excited and just share whatever.

With regard to weight loss, the only proven tip I can give is stay active, thats it, keep moving and eat healthy.

By the way how's Huntly? My family used to live in Huntly West a very long time ago and I used to spend holidays down there. Do you or your family know the Pique's (PKs)? Probably a dumb question just because you live in that area, but it used to be small enough that everyone knew everyone else!!!

Anyway welcome again

Hey Thanks so much for your tips. No i dont know the pk's but i only been living in huntly for a few years. yeh everyone sorta does know everyone in some way lol. I just enjoy the quite rural living to the city. so much nicer for the kids to grow up in a small community knowing most of all the other kids.

Welcome to Realwomen tittermonster. I personally think the best you can do at the moment is eat as healthiy as you can, exercise as much as you are able and get as knowledgeable as you can about both. If that is not enough then I would suggest going to a dietician and hiring a personal trainer as with both you can achieve wonders. I have had my best weight loss using both and the other time was when I was training for a triathlon but I think that would be too difficult with three wee ones unless you have good family support. It's not easy for any of us who are overweight but one small change at a time will make a difference. I am 25kg less than I was at my heaviest so it is possible. Whatever you do, don't try fad diets or drugs because they don't work long term. It's easy enough to lose the weight with fad diets or drugs but 95% of people put back on the weight they lost and often more.

Hi there - I know I am late but welcome aboard from a newbie my self.

This is a great place to chat about whatever with intellegent women! Can't say I fit that bill, but all the others do lol

All the best and enjoy your stay!

Crys