The Consumers Insights Series was developed by Health Consumers’ Council in consultation with WA consumers, carers and community members with lived experience of overweight and obesity.

I am a proud Ngarigo woman, a mother and a grandmother and I live with obesity and have most of my life.

I have spent my entire life living with obesity. My. Entire. Life.

I worked very hard to lose weight, through daily exercise, various diets. I did have some success, unfortunately, not for long.

For all of my life I have carried more weight than I would like.

I’ve had a weight problem for much of my life since I was about 8 or 9 years old. I was placed on diets repeatedly and I repeatedly failed.

When I stopped nursing, and when I got to peri-menopause, that’s when I started to put on weight. 

I’ve tried everything all kinds of diets, gone to all kinds of gyms.