Hello i’m a 24 year old woman and this is my blog about dealing with weight and life in general. I have struggled with my weight from the age of 7. I became aware of it on a holiday in Florida when I said to my nanny that if I kept eating all this bad food (I was at McDonald’s!!!!) I was going to get fat. However, i was never a really a fat child just chubby, but when I hit my teens I had a big bust and I was only 5’4, so I was a burly little teen.

When I left school I worked at various retail shops. It was one day at work I was very weepy when I overheard my manager talking to someone about me… they were wondering if I was ok. I got really upset that they were talking about me. My manager took me aside and we had a chat about why I was upset. He said it sounded like under active thyroid (his Mother had it) and my symptoms were like hers. I told my mum (who also had an under active thyroid too) she said it could be hereditary so we got it checked out.

The doctors didn’t really think I had it because i was too young, you normally get diagnosed with it about 40ish, so they put me on a low dose of Thyroxine but it seemed to not work. Luckily for us my parents had private health care so I got to see a specialist which put me on a high dose of Thyroxine so it was like a kick to my system and I started exercising and losing weight. I got down to a size 10 -12 and weight about 9st 5 … I was the skinniest I ever had been.

I went on holiday to Cuba and got engaged to my beautiful fiancé and came back 10 pounds heavier and from then on I put on more weight. That was 3 years ago and I am now 13st! So this is my blog about helping myself and others on losing weight and dealing with the mental affects it has. Why is there soooooooo many skinny celebs about and also horrid fashion for the bigger built young girls!

So please feel free to comment and email me with stories about your battle with the horrid bulge and let me know what mad diets you have done and what worked and not!

Tewsday