Sammi Robinson
Lost Nine Stone and still Target Weight Ten Years Later.
Sammi joined slimtone in August 2000. Her heaviest weight was 19 st 5lbs and I lost 9 stones.
I keep it off by exercising to videos and DVDs 5 times a week, walking the dog and being very careful what I eat. I have learned how to prepare tasty food that is low in calories and fat from my 'lifestyle' slimtone book
My Story....
I was very overweight and very unhappy. It was the year 2000 and everyone was going on about making new starts for the new Millennium. I was spending a weekend at our static caravan in Garstang near Blackpool and I was bored. The kids were all busy playing and my husband had gone home. So I headed to the local shop for a magazine. I picked up a Slimmer magazine and in it was a story about a lady called Debra (I think) and she had lost a lot of weight with a group called Slimtone. I had, I have to admit, never heard of Slimtone, but something about her story just seemed to connect with me more that any of the others.
Having three small children and an errant husband, I found it difficult getting out on my own so going to a slimming class was out of reach, that and the fact that Slimtone is based in beautiful Wales and too far for me to travel. So I went online and enrolled. I couldn't wait for my 'pack' to arrive. When it arrived I read everything, went out bought some food scales, body scales, measuring spoons and jug and set to with tape measure in hand.
The recipes just fitted in perfectly with my lifestyle, even the kids enjoy them. I combined a healthy diet of 1,250 calories with aerobic videos done five days a week and the weight just seemed to slide off. But unlike other diets, this became a way of life, it re-educated me in how to cook and prepare food. But more than that it made me delve into myself as to why I over ate and comfort ate. I started to understand my triggers.
My main trigger was how unhappy I was. I was in a dead end marriage, with a husband who was never at home, his attitude being work hard play hard, usually with other women meant I was virtually a one parent family. He finally admitted to one of his affairs and I now had the confidence to chuck him out and start again. I moved myself and my children away to another area and started our new life away from him.
I started to socialise with my friends more, I loved being able to buy off the peg clothes in normal shops and my confidence soared. I invited an old friend round and he came to see me with his mother, who was a friend also. He admitted he had always liked me and we became a couple.
In January 2003 we were looking forward to getting married in the August, then mum was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, it was a blow but we managed through Christmas, in January we decided Pete and I to go for a hike to blow the cobwebs away. It was a beautiful crisp winters day, a covering of snow on the ground, bright blue skies, breathtaking. We hiked up to Darwen Tower, had lunch over looking Blackburn and Darwen then started the descent. There was a steep hill, Pete went down via the grass I chose to go down a cleared path, I caught my right foot in a rabbit hole, there was a blood choking snapping sound, I realised it was my leg. I fell and as I looked down my heel was were my toes should have been. I suffered a potts fracture. Mountain rescue came and carried me down the hill on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance and I was taken to Blackburn Royal. They tried to reset it but did not do it very well. My mum was an orthopedic nurse at Bolton so she arrived and arranged for me to be transferred to Bolton. Mum helped my surgeon reset my leg in A & E and I was transferred to the ward. Two days later I had an operation to pin and plate my leg back together. It meant three months in a wheelchair.
Frightened that I may gain weight as I could not do my beloved aerobics, I found a video with a section on Wheelchair Aerobics on it so I still managed to do my aerobics and keep in shape. I am determined. While I was recovering mum had a lumpectomy on her cancer, dad had a massive heart attack and I had to take him to hospital as mum was away recovering, in pink pot leg. My sister ended up in hospital having her gall bladder removed as she had got ill too so I was visiting her in the wheelie. A Wheelchair really tones your arms up.
We finally got married, it was a gorgeous day, I had designed the dress myself and had a lovely lady make it up for me.
Two of my three children, Joey and Shanley have a condition called Albinism which effects there skin, hair and eyes. When Joey was diagnosed at one year, I asked the consultant for information on the condition to which he said 'there may be a leaflet in the waiting room, and he won't be able to drive'. That was it. There was no leaflet. So I headed off to the library, only to find very few books on the subject, but I muddled through.
I decided because of the lack of knowledge, even within the local medical profession I could do something myself. I bought some web space and designed my own website. The website and support group has gone from strength to strength. I told the consultant what I had done, he was very impressed and gave me his media connections phone numbers and told me to call them and spread the word, which I did. I have never looked back.
From the website I have done radio shows for Insight Radio a radio station based in Glasgow and on the internet for people who are partially sighted and blind. I have done interviews on Bolton FM a local radio station, I was invited to do a show on Channel 4 called Doctor Doctor, I helped make a documentary for Channel 4 called Britain's Whitest Family which can be seen on 4OD. I have done newspaper articles on it.
All of this was done because of Marie Griffiths, if I had not discovered Slimtone, I would not have lost weight, I would not have the confidence I have now, the confidence which encouraged me to set this website up and help other people.
In the past two years I have been involved in two car crashes. I had a car crash in November 2008 and needed intense physio which meant I was off my aerobics for 4 months which drove me crazy, then another crash in June 2009 and again landed me off my game for a while. I am now back to my physical peak and enjoying every minute of it. I stay active it keeps the weight off, keeps me toned and the kids now see me as a fit and healthy mum and are encouraged to exercise themselves, its normal daily life.
Next big event is a School Reunion in June and I am working extra hard as I want to be absolutely toned for it, everyone from High School only knew me as dumpy and overweight and I want to look my best to show how much I have changed.
Lost Nine Stone and still Target Weight Ten Years Later.
Sammi joined slimtone in August 2000. Her heaviest weight was 19 st 5lbs and I lost 9 stones.
I keep it off by exercising to videos and DVDs 5 times a week, walking the dog and being very careful what I eat. I have learned how to prepare tasty food that is low in calories and fat from my 'lifestyle' slimtone book
My Story....
I was very overweight and very unhappy. It was the year 2000 and everyone was going on about making new starts for the new Millennium. I was spending a weekend at our static caravan in Garstang near Blackpool and I was bored. The kids were all busy playing and my husband had gone home. So I headed to the local shop for a magazine. I picked up a Slimmer magazine and in it was a story about a lady called Debra (I think) and she had lost a lot of weight with a group called Slimtone. I had, I have to admit, never heard of Slimtone, but something about her story just seemed to connect with me more that any of the others.
Having three small children and an errant husband, I found it difficult getting out on my own so going to a slimming class was out of reach, that and the fact that Slimtone is based in beautiful Wales and too far for me to travel. So I went online and enrolled. I couldn't wait for my 'pack' to arrive. When it arrived I read everything, went out bought some food scales, body scales, measuring spoons and jug and set to with tape measure in hand.
The recipes just fitted in perfectly with my lifestyle, even the kids enjoy them. I combined a healthy diet of 1,250 calories with aerobic videos done five days a week and the weight just seemed to slide off. But unlike other diets, this became a way of life, it re-educated me in how to cook and prepare food. But more than that it made me delve into myself as to why I over ate and comfort ate. I started to understand my triggers.
My main trigger was how unhappy I was. I was in a dead end marriage, with a husband who was never at home, his attitude being work hard play hard, usually with other women meant I was virtually a one parent family. He finally admitted to one of his affairs and I now had the confidence to chuck him out and start again. I moved myself and my children away to another area and started our new life away from him.
I started to socialise with my friends more, I loved being able to buy off the peg clothes in normal shops and my confidence soared. I invited an old friend round and he came to see me with his mother, who was a friend also. He admitted he had always liked me and we became a couple.
In January 2003 we were looking forward to getting married in the August, then mum was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, it was a blow but we managed through Christmas, in January we decided Pete and I to go for a hike to blow the cobwebs away. It was a beautiful crisp winters day, a covering of snow on the ground, bright blue skies, breathtaking. We hiked up to Darwen Tower, had lunch over looking Blackburn and Darwen then started the descent. There was a steep hill, Pete went down via the grass I chose to go down a cleared path, I caught my right foot in a rabbit hole, there was a blood choking snapping sound, I realised it was my leg. I fell and as I looked down my heel was were my toes should have been. I suffered a potts fracture. Mountain rescue came and carried me down the hill on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance and I was taken to Blackburn Royal. They tried to reset it but did not do it very well. My mum was an orthopedic nurse at Bolton so she arrived and arranged for me to be transferred to Bolton. Mum helped my surgeon reset my leg in A & E and I was transferred to the ward. Two days later I had an operation to pin and plate my leg back together. It meant three months in a wheelchair.
Frightened that I may gain weight as I could not do my beloved aerobics, I found a video with a section on Wheelchair Aerobics on it so I still managed to do my aerobics and keep in shape. I am determined. While I was recovering mum had a lumpectomy on her cancer, dad had a massive heart attack and I had to take him to hospital as mum was away recovering, in pink pot leg. My sister ended up in hospital having her gall bladder removed as she had got ill too so I was visiting her in the wheelie. A Wheelchair really tones your arms up.
We finally got married, it was a gorgeous day, I had designed the dress myself and had a lovely lady make it up for me.
Two of my three children, Joey and Shanley have a condition called Albinism which effects there skin, hair and eyes. When Joey was diagnosed at one year, I asked the consultant for information on the condition to which he said 'there may be a leaflet in the waiting room, and he won't be able to drive'. That was it. There was no leaflet. So I headed off to the library, only to find very few books on the subject, but I muddled through.
I decided because of the lack of knowledge, even within the local medical profession I could do something myself. I bought some web space and designed my own website. The website and support group has gone from strength to strength. I told the consultant what I had done, he was very impressed and gave me his media connections phone numbers and told me to call them and spread the word, which I did. I have never looked back.
From the website I have done radio shows for Insight Radio a radio station based in Glasgow and on the internet for people who are partially sighted and blind. I have done interviews on Bolton FM a local radio station, I was invited to do a show on Channel 4 called Doctor Doctor, I helped make a documentary for Channel 4 called Britain's Whitest Family which can be seen on 4OD. I have done newspaper articles on it.
All of this was done because of Marie Griffiths, if I had not discovered Slimtone, I would not have lost weight, I would not have the confidence I have now, the confidence which encouraged me to set this website up and help other people.
In the past two years I have been involved in two car crashes. I had a car crash in November 2008 and needed intense physio which meant I was off my aerobics for 4 months which drove me crazy, then another crash in June 2009 and again landed me off my game for a while. I am now back to my physical peak and enjoying every minute of it. I stay active it keeps the weight off, keeps me toned and the kids now see me as a fit and healthy mum and are encouraged to exercise themselves, its normal daily life.
Next big event is a School Reunion in June and I am working extra hard as I want to be absolutely toned for it, everyone from High School only knew me as dumpy and overweight and I want to look my best to show how much I have changed.