I Used To Be Fat Challenge

i need him as my personal trainer

Stop taking inspiration from MTV, srsly

Has anyone else been watching "I used to be fat" on MTV? well basically if you haven't, it's overweight 18year olds spending a summer loosing loads of weight before they start uni (or college as they call it- silly Americans!).

Well, being a fat 18 year old about to go to uni in September, i have been inspired and just really want to shift some serious weight in order to feel more confident in my own skin so that starting uni and making new friends is a much less daunting prospect.

To get within a healthy range for my height, i need to loose around 4 stone, i aim to have lost this by the time i start uni.

I plan to do this through a calorie controlled diet and an extensive exercise regime, ive lost weight in the past, but this time i need to loose more and keep it off!

I'll chart my endeavours on my dieting journey on here, and any hints or tips are greatly appreciated! Also, if your doing anything similar, i would love to hear from you! Here goes...

Hi there Your idea is great, however I don't think you'll be able to lose quite that much in such a short period of time. I'm losing weight at the moment and have lost a stone and a half in three months. I have cut back a lot and do a lot of exercise, and don't think it would have been healthy for me to exercise more/cut down food any more drastically.

Also, losing weight might not make you happier.. if you're not happy as a person and don't have confidence now, losing weight alone won't change that. That's something I'm learning right now. You have to learn to love yourself for who you are, not just what you look like. Once you've learned that lesson, you're laughing :-)

Hello ! Well done for what you've done... just wondering what height / weight you were and how you ate / exercised before you started? I hope you don't think I'm rude but I need to lose about a stone and a half in three months so would love to hear how you did it guess it will just make it real to me that I can do it too.

It's weird because I know exactly how... so many people have told me and it's all over the NHS - i.e. eat a healthy balanced diet, not too little and not too much, and do lots of exercise - but it just helps to hear exactly how someone else has done it. I lose confidence doing what I'm doing and it particularly threw me off course when someone told me I was eating too little ! So hard to balance it all.

Thank you

Hi there.

Of course I don't think you're rude, I'll always answer anything anyone asks me :-).
I was 18 and a half stone when I started (- I know!) and am now around 13 and a half. I'm 5'9''.

Basically before I started I had such an unhealthy relationship with food. If I was feeling down I'd reach for crisps and biscuits, and I'd never do any exercise.

Now I only eat 1,200-1,500 cals per day, and do a lot of walking and jogging, and even a bit of lifting at the moment. Not sure what I can say to inspire you; I had my own motivation which obviously won't mean anything to you, but you just need to find your reason to make that change, and don't lose sight of that :-).

Feel free to PM me if you want to chat/fancy a bit of support etc!

xx