mathsoup
02-25-2009, 08:07 PM
Hi. I'm Caitlin. I'm not all that great at intro posts but I always seem to end up horrifically trying anyway. I guess I'll share my diet story.
I've played sports my entire life. I've never really been overweight. I was extremely active, ate at home all the time since I didn't go away to college, and ate whatever the heck I wanted. I stopped playing softball after college, ended a bad relationship that lasted over six years, and ate myself into oblivion. I went from a healthy muscular 140 pounds all the way to an unhealthy and depressed 230.
I tried so many diets, from South Beach to "The I'll Just Eat Better and I Know What I'm Doing Diet" all the way to a desperate year on Nutrisystem that got me absolutely nowhere. I'm not going to say I haven't been successful at all, but I've teetered between 205 and 230 for the past few years, and between 205 and 210 for the past 13 weeks. It's very frustrating.
There was only one other time in my life that I was heavy. I gained about 60 pounds from a medication that I needed to take. What ended up happening was I changed medications and the new medication's side effect was weight loss and loss of appetite. I never had to change anything I was doing, really. I've never dieted at all.
I finally decided I'd try to calorie count and exercise. I should be ashamed of myself for trying to take shortcuts but I guess I made the best decisions that I could at the time.
Now my wedding is this June. I hope that I will be able to lose at least 30 pounds more by then but I just find myself getting frustrated and screaming at the scale. I'm finally actually trying and doing it a healthy and good way and I'm having no luck. It's been about two weeks since I started eating healthier and I haven't seen much change at all.
It's hard to not get discouraged. How do you keep yourself to keep going when this happens to you? What are some of the things that have helped you as far as diets go? What's a big nono. I'm just looking for any sort of inspiration and a little kick in the rear to not give up.
And hello.
I've played sports my entire life. I've never really been overweight. I was extremely active, ate at home all the time since I didn't go away to college, and ate whatever the heck I wanted. I stopped playing softball after college, ended a bad relationship that lasted over six years, and ate myself into oblivion. I went from a healthy muscular 140 pounds all the way to an unhealthy and depressed 230.
I tried so many diets, from South Beach to "The I'll Just Eat Better and I Know What I'm Doing Diet" all the way to a desperate year on Nutrisystem that got me absolutely nowhere. I'm not going to say I haven't been successful at all, but I've teetered between 205 and 230 for the past few years, and between 205 and 210 for the past 13 weeks. It's very frustrating.
There was only one other time in my life that I was heavy. I gained about 60 pounds from a medication that I needed to take. What ended up happening was I changed medications and the new medication's side effect was weight loss and loss of appetite. I never had to change anything I was doing, really. I've never dieted at all.
I finally decided I'd try to calorie count and exercise. I should be ashamed of myself for trying to take shortcuts but I guess I made the best decisions that I could at the time.
Now my wedding is this June. I hope that I will be able to lose at least 30 pounds more by then but I just find myself getting frustrated and screaming at the scale. I'm finally actually trying and doing it a healthy and good way and I'm having no luck. It's been about two weeks since I started eating healthier and I haven't seen much change at all.
It's hard to not get discouraged. How do you keep yourself to keep going when this happens to you? What are some of the things that have helped you as far as diets go? What's a big nono. I'm just looking for any sort of inspiration and a little kick in the rear to not give up.
And hello.