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My name's Laura and I've lost 5 stone, no I haven't! I'm on my fifth stone! My name's
Laura and I have lost 4 stone on the Ideal Weight programme. For me, the difference between
Ideal Weight and other weight loss programme's that I have been on, i'd say I have a 15 year
career in losing weight, is that this really teaches you the skills to handle life whilst
losing weight, rather than life being on hold whilst you sort your weight out and then you
get on with life. So for me this journey has been almost about self discovery, challenge,
really increasing my self awareness. I think i though i was too intelligent to be an emotional
eater but actually what the sessions get you to look at in a very supportive way is why
am I choosing to consume food and what are the reasons that lie behind that.I'd say one
of the things that I have found doable in a very busy life, this year I became a single
parent which wasn't really on the plan but despite all of that I am thrilled in terms
of the way my weight loss has gone so far. I think one of the things that has meant that
I've been able to get on with it and achieve so much is it's a framework rather than a
regime. So what that means is that when you've had a particularly tough day, rather than
thinking well if I have something now and that's it's, it's all over and I'll start
again in January, you've actually got enough stretch within the framework, enough skills
and as part of the tool kit to be able to handle some of the challenges which means
you're not using food, I wasn't using food to then get through a day. So it's been really
great fun, you do a lot of exploration on the coaching sessions and they have been skills
for life. So I'm now 4 stone lighter, it means I can walk into any high street shop and I
know that I'm going to get something that not only I know that fits, but actually I
can buy something I like or look great in, It's fantastic to sit in the car seat and
have to adjust your rear view mirror down because your 2 inches lower in your car seat
and it's every time you sit in your chair you realise just how much further you have
to drop because you're slimmer and every single morning when I open up the wardrobe it's now
deciding what would I like to wear rather than I'd better go to the black stuff at the
back as that's the stuff that fits. So the thing about gaining weight you know whether
you've gained weight slow and steady or for whatever the reason is, mine was because I'd
had a baby and then just got into eating cake and one of the things is that really gets
you down when you are big, when you are over weight is you know, you've got a night out
planned and you're thinking well I wonder what i'll fit into and then suddenly, 4 stone
lighter, on my way to losing my 5th, and you think what night can i go out to wear this
new dress I just bought so it's completely flipped the way that I view life it's now
an opportunity to go out and feel great rather than have how can i minimise how I feel on
a night out.