The greatest thing for me about 3FC is that I am now in touch with soooo many people who are going through the same exact thing as me. That they can relate to me so very well and I to them.
Sometimes I'll be reading a post, many, MANY times in fact, and I'll just sit there and nod my head in TOTAL agreement. I love that. Though my family is super, inredibly supportive, they have never gone through the torment that I have due to my weight. So to be able to "talk" with people who have is so very helpful and so well, just, wonderful.
I can also share my inner most weight related stuff here. I mean nobody in my at home world knows what I weighed when I began this journey. Nobody knew about my binging. No one knew how miserable I was and how I feared - gulp - seats and chairs. To be able to talk about that has been extremely helpful to me.
My family, though again, very supportive can't really listen to me night and day about my journey and my eating and exercise habits. If I feel the need to do that I can do that as often as I'd like here. People could either read about - or simply ignore it. No harm done. So, it's a great outlet.
I've learned that maintenance will be just as hard as losing it and that it CAN be done. I don't think I realized beforehand that maintenance would be quite so difficult. I was not a yo-yo dieter, so maintenance will be something new for me. But that's okay, I'm prepared for it.
I found 3FC about 10 days into my journey. I don't know how this journey would have played out without 3FC, but boy am I glad I never had to find out.
LaurieDawn, thank you so much for the compliment. But I will tell you this. I don't see a beautiful woman or an ugly woman when I look at that before shot of myself. All I can see is very, very sad woman. An unhappy woman. An unproductive and inactive one. One who's missed out on so, so much - all because of her weight.