Hi from south UK

Greetings!
Im a 36 year old woman with a bloke, kids, chickens, a cat, and a dog, we live in south UK.
Ive put on 2 stone over the last year or so from sitting down recording music and drinking too much! I have been aware of the paleo/primal style of living and eating for a long long time, but never implemented it as a lifestyle.
I used to be supple, fit and a normal weight but I recently realised my weight was [B]well [/B]over what it used to be and have kicked myself into action..given up smoking, cut out drinking apart from at weekends sometimes, cut out a lot of carbs from wheat, started exercising again. Ive been using a calorie/food logging site and unfortunately after 5 weeks I have lost not one single pound!! I was 160 when I started, and Im still 160 today! Im 5'5" and my usual weight was always 135lb, but even then I wasnt exactly skinny/lean. In my youth I did a lot of work and became very strong but it wasnt visible. I put muscle on very easily but struggle to get rid of fat. Im hoping cutting out carbs/wheat will help with that.
So I am here, hopefully to get some direction but mainly to focus on the fitness side of things.

Hi Deegie! Welcome to the forum. Nice job giving up smoking! A good thing about primal diet is you don't really need to count calories. Sometimes I check with a food logging site just out of interest to see how my macros are and as a reminder to keep up good levels of veggies & healthy fats.

Thanks!
Well, I started counting calories to find out what they were coming from, its quite a handy app because it showed nutritional values per day, per food etc. It allowed me to see what I was doing in terms of a day. It always makes me laugh though because every single day it was saying 'too much cholesterol' - the eggs!!
As I said though, my main concern is the exercise side of things now.

Hi Deegie, I'm in a similar position to you.....I did lose weight on the food logging site but was hungry a lot! I st ill use it but now it's to make sure my fat/carb/protein ratio looks right. I only started doing this properly this week & I want to lose 2 stone so a long way to go lol. Let me know how you're getting on :D

^ Hi! Yes, I hate to be hungry so 'not eating' diets have never worked for me! Im sure we can do it primal style :P

nice to meet you men

Hi guys, hope you'll have a look at our UK based Facebook group, trying to organise some meetups in the near future so we can all chat about PB etc. we have 15 members and counting!

[QUOTE=messymisstess;959809]Hi guys, hope you'll have a look at our UK based Facebook group, trying to organise some meetups in the near future so we can all chat about PB etc. we have 15 members and counting![/QUOTE]

Nice one! Got a link?

Hello from south uk :)

Welcome....Its like a community within a community in here haha.

Glad to see we are trying to address the problem here in the UK. Up here in the blistering sunshine of Scotland we have a serious problem. Im fighting the good fight and trying to convert clients etc, but its a slow process.

Richard