Weight Watchers has been the answer for me.

For me exercise is my biggest problem, I love walking and do try to do a little more but I am waiting to go into hospital for a hip replacement and my husband (who is 9 years older than me) is getting increasingly less inclined to walk with bad knees and hips. I too have been out in the garden a lot more lately, after a dreadful April the weather finally has started to pick up so hopefully I will be spending some more time around my little garden.

I sure can understand that, oldchem. My biggest issue is my lower back but my hips do like to make their voices heard and sometimes they scream their heads off. All I've been told so far is, "Eventually, you may need hip replacements." Eventually. Hmmmph! They hurt NOW! I hope your hip is at least feeling a little better since that weight has come off of it. I know that I feel better when I drop the weight. Good luck to you when you do go in for the hip replacement. I hope it goes smoothly with no complications and you come out feeling like you're 21 again. (I'm waiting for a full-body transplant. )

Thank you!!! I have certainly seen a great difference with lower back pain since losing the weight! Prior to the weight loss I could hardly walk with the pain and often used a stick, but now the pain has completely gone; just the old hips that are giving way.Old age is an awful thing!!!!!! 21 eh, I do hope so!!!!! Do I get the toy boy to go with this new lease of life I wonder

I think when you're taller smaller people think that your weight is very heavy, but now at my age if I lost much more weight I think that I would look far too thin and begin to look ill and drawn.

Sadly that is my problem, as I get older I am less active than I should be, however I feel that I have permanently changed my eating habits now so hopefully will be able to keep off the weight.

Hi, there is a little information about the new ProPoint system on my website http://weightlosswitholdchem.weebly.com/index.html There is also a plan with Weight Watchers called Healthy and Filling, with this you just 3 meals a day. Any of these following foods can be eaten at each meal until full. Anything else you eat has to be taken from a weekly points allowance of 49 points Fruit: Fresh, frozen or canned. Canned fruit should be in natural juice, not syrup. Apple, Apricots, Banana, Blackberries, Blackcurrants, Blueberries, Cantaloupe Melon, Carambola (star fruit), Cherries, Clementines, Cranberries, Custard Apple, Damson, Elderberries, Fig (fresh), Fruit Cocktail, Galia Melon, Gooseberries, Grapefruit, Grapes, Greengage, Guava, Honeydew Melon, Kiwi Fruit, Kumquats, Lemon, Lime, Loganberries, Lychees, Mandarin, Mango, Nashi Pear, Nectarine, Orange, Papaya (paw-paw), Passion Fruit, Peach, Pear, Physalis (cape pear), Pineapple, Plums, Pomegranate, Pomelia, Quince, Raspberries, Redcurrants, Rhubarb, Satsumas, Sharon Fruit (persimmon), Strawberries, Tangerines, Watermelon. Vegetables: Fresh, frozen or canned Alfalfa seeds (sprouted), Artichokes Hearts, Asparagus Spears, Aubergine, Beansprouts, Beetroot (including pickled), Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Butternut Squash, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celeriac, Celery, Chilli (fresh, green or red), Chinese Leaves, Corn on the Cob, Courgette, Cucumber, Fennel, French Beans, Garden Peas (Fresh or frozen), Garlic, Gherkins, Gourd, Green Beans, Jerusalem Artichokes, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Marrow, Mooli, Mushrooms, Mustard and Cress, Okra, Olives in Brine, Onions (including pickled), Parsnip, Peas, Pepper, Potato (not fried or processed), Pumpkin, Quorn, Radish, Rocket, Sauerkraut, Shallots, Spinach, Spring onions, Sugar Snap Peas, Swede, Sweet Potato, Sweetcorn, Tomato, Turnip, Vine Leaves, Water Chestnuts, Yam. Beans: Dried, canned or frozen Aduki bean, Baked beans (in tomato sauce), Black beans, Black eyed beans, Borlotti beans, Broad beans, Butter beans, Cannellini beans, Chick peas, Flageolet beans, Haricot beans, Kidney beans, Lentils (red, green or brown), Lentils (sprouted), Mixed pulses, Mung beans, Pearl Barley, Pinto beans, Soya beans, Soya beans (sprouted), Tofu, Yellow split peas. Grains: Breakfast cereals must be eaten with skimmed milk – not as dried cereal Breakfast Cereal: All-Bran, Bran Flakes, Corn Flakes, Porridge, Puffed Wheat, Rice Krispies, Shredded Wheat, Shreddies, Special K, Weetabix. Buckwheat, Bulghar Wheat, Couscous, Wholewheat Noodles, Wholewheat Pasta, Polenta, Popcorn (air popped), Quinoa, Wholewheat Rice, Wholewheat Rice Cakes, Rice Noodles, Semolina, Spaghetti (canned, in tomato sauce), Crumpets and Weight Watcher bread Meat, Fish, Poultry & Eggs: Choose lean meet, trim any fat, and discard fat that results from cooking. Meat: Bacon (lean back), Beef, Gammon, Ham, Lamb, Pork, Rabbit, Venison. Fish: Canned fish should be in water, brine or tomato sauce – not in oil. Bream, Caviar, Clams, Cockles, Cod, Cod Roe, Coley, Crabsticks, Eel, Haddock, Hake, Halibut, Herring, Herring Roe, Hoki, Jellied Eels, John Dory, Lobster, Mackerel, Marlin, Monkfish, Mussels, Oysters, Pilchards, Pike, Plaice, Prawns, Red Mullet, Red Snapper, Salmon, Sardines, Scallops, Sea Bass, Shark, Shrimps, Skate, Sole, Sprats, Squid, Swordfish, Trout, Tuna, Turbot, Whelk, Whiting, Winkles. Poultry: Choose lean poultry, remove the skin and discard fat that results from cooking. Chicken, Duck, Turkey. Eggs: Eggs, any type. Dairy: Cottage cheese (any type), Fromage Frais (low fat), Low fat soft cheese, Quark, Skimmed milk, Soya milk, Soya yogurt, Yogurt (low fat or very low fat, any flavour). Drinks: Coffee, Diet drinks (any under 1 cal per 100mls), Fruit Squash (low sugar), Soda Water, Tea, Tomato juice, Water. Soup: Containing only Simply Filling ingredients (no cheese or cream) Canned, Dried, Homemade with any ingredients on this list, Restaurant. Condiments, Sauces & Dressings: Apple sauce, Artificial sweetener, Baking Powder, Beef extract, Bicarbonate of soda, Capers, Cream of Tartar, Curry powder, Fat or oil free salad dressing, Gelatine, Gravy granules, Herbs fresh or dried, Lemon juice, Lime juice, Marmite, Mint sauce, Mustard, Passata, Pepper, Salsa, Salt, Soy Sauce, Spices fresh or dried, Stock cubes any type, Sugar free jelly, Tabasco pepper sauce, Teriyaki sauce, Thai fish sauce, Tomato puree, Vanilla essence, Vinegar, Wasabi paste, Worcestershire sauce. Must have 2 teaspoons ‘healthy oil’ a day