Weigh Less

My Story

Where it all began

By

Anne Marie Graham…

The E Plan, The F Plan, Atkins, The Zone, The South Beach, The Carb Curfew, The British Heart Foundation…counting points, counting units…the list is endless, the results have varied over a colourful career of what turned out to be almost 10 years of dieting!

It’s the trap so many women in particular fall in to, the quick fix attempt to solve a much deeper routed issue.

I spent many of the years of my late teens from about 18 years old until my early twenties battling the bulge. At 22 I had reached my ideal weight only to continue to struggle to keep it off and fluctuate anything from a half stone to one and a half as I continued to go from one quick fix diet to another.

Where did it all start? Where did it all go “pear shaped”, pardon the pun!

Having entered a career in nursing with hospital food being my main staple for the first year and a social life that entailed a fair calorie intake also I slowly crept up in weight from 10 stone 5 lbs to almost 14 stone within about 2 years. This was coupled with the fact that at 5 foot 7 even at 10 stone 5 pounds I was still a little overweight. Having left school in September and not entered nursing until the following March I began working and before I knew it I had gone from 9 and a half stone to nearly 10 and a half within a matter of months.

And so from there on I had fallen in to the fat trap and one that was about to see me go through many ups and downs along the way; before I achieved the point in my journey where I am today…Freedom for Life by Weighing Less…and more importantly full knowledge that I am in control of all the thoughts and actions that affect the situation;  not the latest celebrity craze diet, the obsession with the scales knowing that if I weigh in tomorrow morning I’ll be that pound or two pounds lighter than I am in the afternoon; not the inner demon that tells you to start that diet on Monday but isn’t even still talking to you in your head by Wednesday!

We all know the story, you get up on Monday with the new found intention to “start” on another diet which you think is definitely the final solution to all your problems, the quick fix solution that by Wednesday is making you feel so miserable and making you feel that you have such a mountain to climb that you wonder if you ever do make it to the top whether the view will be everything you ever dreamed of and if you’ll be able to even enjoy the dream life its promising you.

My weight had become an obsession that was taking over my conscious as well as my sub conscious thought process and had a hold on me that was starting to feel like a prison sentence and effectively it was. I can look back now at how low my self esteem was and the effect that weight in general had on my life as well as the lives of others around me. My inner critic was controlling me and my weight was feeding my inner critic so it really was one big vicious circle.

Thankfully the last 6 years have seen me stabilise this and form a new way of thinking, a new way of eating and a new sense of stability in my relationship with food and all its fat traps!

My knowledge of nutrition in general from nursing studies was never really the issue, we all know what we should be eating and what we shouldn’t so I can honestly say that its not the diet that looks at the how or what to eat that’s effective, it’s the program that looks at the why that’s important and effects real change.

I have learned along the way that it’s the thought process that has to be looked at more than just a calorie plan. It the motivation and focus to keep going that is key, its about learning to love what’s on the inside so you get what you want on the outside, happiness is not the final destination or the ideal weight on the scales, its about control of each and every step along the way and the knowledge that I have the ability to control and affect each and every step, each and every action and each and every pound of weight lost. This new found control actually means that I don’t even have the same fixation I had with the scales 10 years ago, infact I probably only weigh myself once a week or every ten days.

I have used my experience to develop Weigh Less, a program that promises to make a real and permanent change and a difference once and for all because it works on the why as much as the how. I have taken the best aspects of the good diets and addressed the worst aspects of the bad ones in looking at all of the factors it takes to achieve your goal. I have eliminated the need for cutting whole foods groups out, for taking supplements or shakes promising to fill you so you won’t have to eat because they just don’t work, they are a quick fix but they don’t address the real issue and they also have a negative affect your health.

The Weigh Less Program promises Freedom for Life, freedom that has seen me as a person become the happiest I have ever been, I have achieved more in the last 6 years in both body, mind, spirit and life than I ever dreamed possible. I have eliminated the fear factor associated with weight loss and weight gain and have finally set myself free from the fat trap.