[tammy1214]

I too have done this before and looked nice and enjoyed clothes and felt great all the things that should have made me never gone back to this again. I said I wouldn't.

I did...plus some. This time I know there are issues outside of food and exercise that I am going to have to deal with if I am going to stay thinner; that is when I get there.

For some of it is...hiding. I was not happy with how people looked at me fat but I didn't like some of the attention I got when thein either. It (being thin)wasn't the universal bandaid for all my "issues" I thought it would be. I still had work to do on myself and how I handled things....

Anyone else???

I am so glad to have found this. You are all my sisters. I thank you each and everyone for being here and for sharinging the darkest secrets with all of us (yes my sex life...well it isn't either).

[Jen415]

HI Tammy....yes it is definitely true that there's more going on with me than food. I know in order to conquer the weight I need to conquer the cause of it as well.

Glad you are aboard!

[YP1]

I don't think it's any coincidence that I started losing weight about a month after I sorted out some other personal issues that I think indirectly led to me wanting to hide behind a layer of fat so that I could avoid unwanted attention. At the simplest level I was fat because I ate too much and exercised too little, but I knew that, and I knew what I had to do. I just had other issues that stopped me committing to doing it because I was scared of the results. Once they were out of the way the task looked a lot simpler and more manageable.

[Sheila53]

That sounds like a breakthrough to me, Tammy!