Welcome :wave: Choco ... Oh we all know those saboteurs :( but there are none on this forum... So pull up a chair and make yourself at home :D

can i join you??
 

hi featherweights!

Here's a brief resume of me and my weight.

I was an active child and teenager, and weighed around 8 stone (112) up until i was about 22. (i'm 5'4) Then, I got a car, and stopped moving around so much. the weight slowly crept up and now I'm 142 pounds.

I didn't really start thinking about my weight until recently. I always thought I was kind of ok ish and I can't say I spend alot of time thinking about my appearance. Then, I've met my current boyfriend. I think he loves me (he says he does) but he's made some comments about how I look. And I know, I know, I'd tell my friends, don't bother loosing weight for a guy. But now I've got that thought in my head, I've started to feel a bit less confident in myself and like I should lose weight.

So this is the start of my journey. I'm just watching what I eat (started fitday.com on monday) and trying to be as active as possible. I hope to get down to 120-125 pounds, but I guess anything would be good.

I love reading all your stories on here, and can't wait til I caan post my before and after pictures!

lily :)

hello featherweights, i don't feel like a featherweight. 20lbs isn't so easy to lose. i am soon 42 and my baby will be 4. he is also number 4, yet that doesn't seem like it should make a difference. the first two boys, i had at 21 and 23, and the next batch, girl and boy were at 36 and 38.

i didn't lose all the weight after my daughter before i was pregnant with my last son. he nursed for two years. walking and exercise in general is not easy with small children. also i didn't have too much trouble with the first two though i did exercise.

now with four children, though now two are in college, it seems as if time is not on my side. i am a partner in a small business, have the kids, the house, the dogs, and a husband that is gone a lot; so basically i am a single parent.

i eat well and don't have too many vices. i don't drink often or even much at all. my biggest problem is i believe a math situation. eat fewer more important calories and exercise to create the deficit i need to loose the weight. i just don't seem to be consistant enough in burning the calories. i have just seemed to lose a few, have a few cold days where i don't feel like walking, but then i will eat the same ammount. i think a lot is mental. i need to find more solace in different activities.

this site i hope will provide me an outlet when i am feeling ansy. i think i eat when i need to release, especially at night when the children are sleeping and i can not work out or walk. i am starting to add light weights and am hoping this will help.

those of you who are in their forties, please expound on what part you believe age has in the weight battle. i am not giving up no matter what, but i do want to hear from successful weight losers as to what motivated them and how they have stayed the course to achieve their goals!!!!!

also even if you aren't fortyish, i welcome ALL suggestions as i want to slay this dragon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Featherweights, I just registered today.
I actually enjoy exercise and I even enjoy most healthy foods. The problem is that I get depressed and lonely because I have various anxiety problems, and when I'm depressed I eat. I end up binging on insane amts of cookies or other stuff when I'm depressed. I have had therapy and gotten better since my darker days, but I need to get a dose of willpower and support from somewhere.
I am "small-boned,” short, and delicate. For most of high school, I weighed 95 pounds. When I got to college 3 years ago, I weighed about 105, and I was pretty happy with how I looked. Then I had a bunch of trouble making friends at school, holed myself up in my room and ate like a fiend (entire loaves of bread for dinner, or an entire box of cookies, etc). I had never had any problems or even an interest in eating before that, but once I was lonely, food was the only thing I had.
I rocketed up to 125 in no time at all, even though I went to the gym and did cardio constantly. I couldn’t fit into any of my size 0 clothes anymore and I wore sweatpants a lot. I may have gotten up to 130 at one point. I am not sure. The more weight I gained, the less confident I felt, and the more I hid out in my room and ate. Luckily my fast metabolism and the fact that I enjoy exercise managed to save me from getting up any higher. I have never stopped enjoying exercise.
I have continued to surge up to 125, up and down for the past 2 years. One summer I went on the South Beach diet and got down to 112 pounds, my lowest since high school, but then I went to Europe … and when I came home I was 125 again! I was so upset and too overwhelmed to start all over again with South Beach. All the work I had done got ruined in just three weeks abroad.
A couple weeks ago I was 115, but then I went back up to118. Even if I could just get to 112 or 110, I would feel like I had accomplished something, because I’m so frustrated right now. I was feeling good at 115 but then I undid my work again. I really don’t want to go back up to 120. I want to at least stay at 118.
I have friends at school now, I’m fulfilled emotionally, but the addiction to eating hasn’t gone away. I think it would help if I had somebody to talk to about this, because my friends tell me that I look fine. I know that I am not in bad shape; this is primarily about me getting control of my life. If I could have the willpower to get down to 112 again, I know I would feel better about myself and stronger.
The problem is I’m not sure what else to do. Between classes and my job and the play I’m in, I can’t get to the gym more than three times a week. I do weight-lifting and cardio. I’m afraid I’ll hurt my knees if I do more than half an hour of cardio, but maybe I should do 45 min. The treadmill is my favorite but I know it’s bad for my knees.
I already eat only whole wheat. I eat sugar-free desserts, and I love fruits and vegetables. I never drink anything but skim milk or water. Even though I surround myself with healthy food and exercise, I just can’t manage to stave off the desire to run to the café and grab a humongous cinnamon roll … and I do that sort of thing JUST often enough to not lose weight. Maybe all I need is somebody to talk to … so that’s why I’m here.

:welcome: ariel :wave:

Join us on the main thread of Featherweights and we'll keep your spirits up as much as we can so you don't run to eating :D...

hey!
 

i'm annie, and i just joined today. i've been overweight my whole life, but it peaked in the beginning of last year. in 2005, i weighed around 200lbs. i was extremely unhealthy (drank a lot, smoked a lot, ate a lot) and unhappy. i took a year off from university and got a job as a nanny for a few months. i gained another 20lbs, and after i quit nannying, i was just at home all the time. i didn't exercise, and i was still smoking and eating fatty foods. my metabolism was probably shot.

in april of 2006, i decided to finally do something about it. i started taking a self-defense class with a class full of my close friends, and i became excited about exercise. i got a membership at the gym near my house and started going 3-4 times a week. i changed my diet and lifestyle drastically. i ate a lot of meat and tuna for protein, but not too many fruits and veggies. after about a month, i started going 5-6 days a week. the weight started melting off and i was so excited. by the summer, i was in the 170s and i felt great. i bought new jeans and shirts and felt good about myself. there's a lot to say that i don't want to say here, but it has to do with eating disorders and the like. i struggled. badly. this was before i became vegan in late july. it was such a huge change to my diet and lifestyle but it turned out to be such a blessing. now almost my whole family, including my brother and his wife, are vegan and we are all living much healthier lives.

i now weigh around 145lbs and i feel wonderful. i'm a size 8, whereas, when i began my weight loss, i was a size 20. about a month and a half ago i was really stupid and starved myself and exercised excessively for about a week and a half, and lost 10lbs. then when i started eating correctly again, i gained it all back and now i'm doing it the right way again. i stopped going to the gym so faithfully, but i vowed starting yesterday to go 5-6 days a week again, and i have a personal trainer. i want to lose another 20-25lbs.

so there is my story. it's not that interesting. i was an overweight child, lost a little bit of weight on south beach in my younger teenage years, gained it all back, became extremely overweight. now i'm healthy and loving it.

sorry it was so jumbled! i'm glad i found a place like this to join. you're all awe-inspiring.

wow, annie! Great story. Welcome!!! Join us in our featherweights weekly threads--we have a lot of the same stuff going on ourselves.

New here (again) here's my story
 

I've been on and off this site for awhile, but never really joined up with a group! Featherweights is where I belong...glad I found you (can't get much support from people with 200 lbs to lose when you're only looking to lose some vanity weight!)

My story: I am currenlty 35 and live in Tennessee. I was always underweight as a kid/teenager/young adult and ate like a pig...absolutely no food restrictions ever. I am 5'6, weighed 115 lbs when I got married (at age 19)...got pregnant...ended up at 165, dropped back down to 128 after the hospital and held steady there until the past few years (no food restrictions still). Over the past 3-4 years (my "baby" is now 14), I have managed to slowly gain up to 154 at my highest. I am currently 151 and have lost and gained the same 6-8 lbs the entire time. Everytime I restrict calories and lose weight (slowly), it just comes back on when I lax up--usually with 1-2 more lbs added. Every time I begin an exercise program, I end up with some kind of injury (just nursing my left ankle currently from riding an exercise bike for a few weeks, before that it was my knee from walking, shoulder from yoga...the list goes on!!!). To top things off, I was diagnosed with meniere's disease a few years back and have a lot of water retention problems! I stay frustrated and fight a vicious cycle of food-deprivation, anger and resentment, and giving up. My husband and daughter eat sweets and fattening foods constantly...I just can't be one of those women who can watch their family eat pizza and be content with a salad! Maybe I'm just weak. Anyway, I thought maybe a group of like minded people could help me.

Hello
 

I just joined yesterday, on the recommendation of my future sister-in-law, YuppieGirlie! I'm getting married in September and have about 25 pounds to lose. So far I've been really really good about working out and tracking my calories/water intake on Spark People, but the pounds aren't coming off too well. Nice to meet all of you :)

:welcome: Lalena75 :wave:

Join us on the main Featherweights thread ...

Featherweight's thread?
 

How do I get there? Thanks in advance :-)

Here is the Featherweights main page

Scroll down a bit and you'll find Featherweights Planning for Mar 19-26 along with a whole bunch of other threads started by Featherweights...

Hope this helps :D

Wow!
 

Fast reply. Thanks Ilene!

My weight has been up and down since about 8th grade. At my highest (8th grade) I was 4'10" and weighed around 125 lbs. I'm now 5'0" and I weigh around 110 lbs. Last July through October (2006), I lost 15 pounds without trying due to the stress of moving to a new state and starting my career. For the first time in my life, I was actually happy with my body. Since then, I've gained about 10 back. :( I liked the way I looked and felt at 100 lbs., so I'm trying to get back to that weight. (Yes, 100 lbs. is a healthy weight/BMI for my height and bone frame. I realize that to some, 125 as a high weight and a goal of 10 pounds might not seem like much, but I need some support in this nonetheless. I have a family history of crappy eating habits, which did rub off on me. I'm now trying to overcome 25+ years of bad habits so that I can get to (and stay at) the weight at which I feel the best about my body.

New and not a fat chick but not a skinny chick either
 

Hey Everyone,

I am going to guess this is the group I should be posting in a I was conflicted between this and the 20-something group but I looked at some of the posts and I think I have more common goals with people in this group.

Anyways, Heres my deal I used to be soo skinny gorgeous model skinny. Like 5"7 and 105 pounds skinny. In fact up to grade 10 I was probably too skinny. Anyways, then I started packing on the pounds amazingly fast and by grade 12 I was like 135 lbs. I dieted down to 120 lbs in about 2 months. Then my weight went back up pretty fast after. Anyway, I've basically been in this cycle of yo-yo dieting over and over since then (for the last almost 2 years) and it's making me absolutely crazy. So I've decided to take the healthy slow route because I want to get back to my healthy skinny self more than anything and I want to stay there. My goal is to lose 5 pounds a month until I am down to 108 which I think will be amazing!

Me recently 133 lbs (much more than ideal):
http://i15.tinypic.com/4974fau.jpg

Forum newbie
 

Hello!
At last! A group for people who are a bit overweight, like myself. I am 50 this year (last month to be exact) and I have struggled with the same 10 - 15 lbs. since I was a teenager. I used to vary between 120-135 lbs (I'm 5'4") and now, with menopause, I'm teetering between 130-145.

I'm very active - I work as a dog walker walking 15 -20 dogs per day in 5 daily walks. I kayak and bike on the weekends, weather permitting, and cross-country ski in winter.

I eat healthily from Monday to Thursday during the day. My problem is after dinner and on the weekends. I'm usually so pooped in the evening from all the walking and wrestling (did I mention I walk almost all labrador and golden retrievers?) that I plop down in front of the TV and start snacking. Weekends I reward myself with dinner out on Saturday, tea and pastry Sunday, etc.

I doesn't help that my sweetie is quite overweight and a couch potato, but that's another forum.

I just bought a diet book "the Bech diet solution" to try to take off 15 lbs. and keep it off for the rest of my life. It suggests getting a "diet coach" for motivation and support and that's why I'm here.

I'm kind of technically challenged but I will try to provide support for anyone else who needs it. First order of business is to figure out how these darn little smilies work :)

Blue Eyed Girl: I know where you are coming from...assume you are in your 20's from your post. Just wait until you are older...it gets worse. You are smart for taking care of it now before it gets out of hand. It's hard for us who were once too skinny and used to eating whatever we wanted (with absolutely no thought or need to obsess about food!) I'll always miss those days. I am in a similar struggle (only older and fatter) :) The secret is consistency (not so easy though for me). I also yo-yo up and down. It is easy to get comfortable when you lose a few lbs and start back to old eating habits. Good luck with your diet/fitness plan!

Blue Eyed Girl -- I would kill to be 130 and I am 5'3'' tall... At 130 I would be a size 4 for sure, as it is I am a size 8... I truly think that at 5'7'' and weighing 108#, you would be stick thin and not very healthy looking... Just my honest opinion...

Blue Eyed Girl: at 108 lbs and 5'7", your BMI would be 16.94. Spain and the UK recently passed laws that runway models must have a BMI of at least 18 (slightly below what is considered within the normal range for adult women) to work. Regardless of the law, a BMI of 16.anything is considered unhealthy. Do you do any weight or resistance training? That will decrease your fat or "fluffiness" look without sacrificing your health.

Mel

I'm Sara and I just joined yesterday. I've been overweight since elementary school but a couple of years ago I finally decided to make some changes, I exercised a bit more and tried controlling my portions. Eventually that "portion control" got out of hand and turned to near anorexia. That was about a year ago and luckily I'm way out of there. I gained weight since then, which I'd much rather do than starve myself. So now that I know how to not over-do the portion control I want to lose the remainder of the weight the healthy way.

I'm New Here
 

I just joined today. I have been overweight all my life. I lost 65 lbs many years ago. Unfortunately, I have regained and lost it several times. During the last 10 years or so I have managed to stay within about 15 lbs of my goal. I turned 55 last month and am tired of being a yo-yo. I would like to become healthier and stop always needing to lose 10 or 15 lbs. I seem to find it harder and harder to eat as I plan. I am always starting over

Enough of my sob story for now. I look forward to giving and receiving much support. Thanks for listening

Sara: Sounds like a good plan! Cute screen name by the way. :)

:welcome: GramTX :wave:

I've found a home!!
 

Back in HS, I was a dancer and gymnast and a muscular 115 #s. By 18 (thanks to birth control), I was up to 125 or so. When I got pregnant with my first son I was 127 and had no idea I would be waving goodbye to bikinis forever. I hit 181 by the end of the pregnancy and even though he weighed near 10#s and I breastfed, I stalled at 165. I've managed to bust butt and lose SOME of the weight between babies, but despite gaining less with each one, I still got to about 180 and then stalled at 165 everytime.

Two years ago I changed everything and finally got going on the weight loss. I got down to 132 in about 6 months and was fit and toned. I did pilates, counted calories, cut carbs and sugar dramatically, ate whole grain stuff and ran 5 or 6 miles a few times a week. It was awesome. I really thought it was a lifestyle change, and didn't worry about gaining it back, since I never had any dramatic weight gain when I wasn't pregnant. Well, I started gaining weight last summer and I'm more than halfway back to where I started (165#). Despite best intentions I hover between 145 and 150. I have been under a lot of stress and usually tell myself I'm too tired to workout, and I'm a chronic sweets snacker.

It's not just my weight that bothers me. My body is WRECKED. I do not have a stomach, I have a mass of stretch marks. I think I could be happy at my current weight and size (8), if it was smooth, but it's a mess. I want to loss as much as possible so I can get it fixed in a few years. Sometimes I've thought, maybe I should just be fat, because they didn't look as bad, but at least when I'm thin, I can look good clothed. You know my husband doesn't care, but I DO!! I want to have no fat on my stomach, just the skin, so that when I get it fixed they take as much ugly as possible. Someday I want to have a belly button again!!

Hope you don't mind chatty people! Nice to meet ya'll!
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Testing
 

Sorry, I'm quite hopeless technically. Am testing to see if I managed to put a photo with my profile. Thanks for your patience.
Dagmar

Hey all, This is the third time I've ended up on a diet. I was a pudgy teenager and had a family that loved to eat, esp. binge eating to deal with emotional issues. At 19 was finally around 125. (I'm 5'3) and felt great. I lost a bit more in college and worked out fairly consistently. Then I had wee babe number one and ate constantly. The snack box at work was a primary source of nutrition and I was constantly trying to get enough protein. (I wasn't eating emat at the time.) After wee babe one the lowest I could ever get was 151 (Down from 178) Then 18 months ago, along came weebabe number two. He was a strapping lad and luckily I only gained 35 pounds. After he was born, at a svelte 178 I eventually whittled down to 151 again. I gained five pounds back and since joining 3fcs I've lost two. The things that have worked for me are very strenuous short work outs (stepping vigorously in front of the TV for half an hour), yoga, trying to engage more actively in playing with my children, going to bed early (I eat like a crazy horse when I'm tired.) trying to add things to my diet rather than starving (superfoods for example) avoiding meat, eating whole grains and trying to keep some balance. Also keeping crappy food out of the house always helps!
Good luck everyone...it helps to have simpatico co horts. Also, it's hysterical to be ina group called the featherweights...a first for me!

:welcome: ralfetty :wave:

I'll go ahead and introduce myself even though I'm more of an observer than a responder.

I was not overweight most of my life. Throughout my childhood and adolescence I was very active from being involved in sports to just riding my bike everywhere. It was after my knee injury (3 knee surgeries in 2 1/2 years( that I became more sedentary and started my unhealthy eating habits. I started gaining weight in college but I was pretty much in denial of my weight. My main problem was I would eat when I was bored and didn't have anything to do as well as eat late at night (typical of a college student).

The event that finally got me out of denial of my state was while I was in California in the summer of 2002 for an internship. I had gone to Yosemite to go horse back riding and they had to weigh me to make sure I wasn't too heavy, talk about embarrassing.

Well, that following September/October (I can't remember exactly) I had it. I felt gross, my back hurt, my knees hurt, I was tired all the time and on top of all that I had GERD. So, I got off my fat butt and took a walk, which lead to jogging which lead to healthy eating and not eating junk food and coke.

Since then I've lost about 37lbs. I'm not sure exactly how big I got but I'm guessing 190lbs and I'm currently 153 and wanting to get to 140. I eat healthy whole foods, portion control, planned healthy snakes like fruit or nuts. I also do PUSHtv strength training 3 times a week and get in at least 100 minutes of cardio a week. But, I don't jog anymore because I was having too much knee pain so I walk or do any other physical activity that doesn't give my knee too much pounding.

So, there you have it. I look forward to observing the posts here and maybe I'll have something informational or helpful to say. If you would like I'm adding some links to before and after photos.

Before Photo 1
Before Photo 2
Current Photo 1
Current Photo 2

I've been overweight for 2 or 3 years. I just can't seem to get rid of these extra 20 lbs.

Hi I'm new here and I guess this is where I fit in. So here's my story.

I'm 5'7 and I was 117 when I joined the military at age 17, after getting on birth control I was 124 a year later. My last year in I gained 20 due to stress from work and lost 10 of it when I got out. So I was 135 when I started having kids. I gained to 170 with our 1st girl in 2003 (normal birth) and lost it all back to 135. I gained only to 165 with our 2nd girl in 2004 and since then I keep stalling at 148. However with her I had to have a c-section plus with it I had my tubes tied and I swear that is partly to blame for my weight loss troubles.

Now I'm today at 148 and I really want to just get back to 135 so I can feel comfortable with myself again.

:welcome: hearthgal :wave: you've come to the right place...

HI,

I have been a lurker here for a few weeks and decided it was time I introduced myself.

I have felt that I was overweight since I was a teen though in retrospect I was not - just pear shaped with a big hips. So I have been trying to diet and exercise for as long as I can remember. I really felt great about myself when I was in grad school when I weighed around 125. However, after that I slowly gained weight a few pounds every year. When I got married I was around 135. When I had my first kid I put on 45 lbs or so. I used to walk a lot and settled down at 145. With my second pregnancy I gained 40 lbs but did not lose much afterwards. Last december we had gone to Bahamas for a vacation. I was really disgusted with the way I looked in the photos - I was wearing a size 16 pant - my biggest size ever and I could not fit into many of my pre-pregnancy clothes. From Feb 15th onwards I have started down on my weightloss path again. I have been exercising, eating healthy, and getting a better handle on portion control. I have lost 13 lbs in the last 3 months. I still want to lose 18 lbs to get down to 130.

Welcome BabyFat! I'm with ya. I can't seem to get the baby weight all the way gone. I got really close a few years ago, but have gained about half of it back. I never gained weight when I wasn't pregnant before and I DON'T LIKE IT!! Good luck to both of us!!

So I guess this is where I belong. In high school, I was not the skinny kid, not ever. I am a weight now, I never saw growing up, I just went right passed it. That is something I am so proud of. About my junior year in high school I went into the doctors for a physical, my chart was left on the counter. Under first impression it said "obese” Now I understand that is something they have to put down on paper, but not to leave in front of the easily influenced teenage girl. (I’ll add my disclaimer, no one really new how big I was due to the baggy-ness of my clothes)

Well that was when I was set out on a mission. My senior year I took up lacrosse and running, the pounds didn't just roll off, well not till college. When I started college, I decided to take lacrosse more serious. Made the team, I started as defense, but when the goalie shattered her thumb for a shot on goal I decided to step in. Turns out I was pretty good. So I stuck with it all four years. Most people gain the freshman 15 well I lost the 17-year extra gain of 30 lbs. My junior year of college I was in my best shape. 132 and the fastest distance runner on the lacrosse team. Since graduating college in 2004 I gained back about 15-(somedays)20 lbs.

I am a much happier person when I am happy with myself. So I joined a gym and I am back down to the 132, I even saw 128 one day but I had been sick all week so I don't think it counts but it totally felt amazing!!! Well I'm trying to get a few more off. Even though I know I look so much better I still have issues with feeling comfortable in my own skin, so I would like to.

My new running goal - marathon. I started training in January for a half marathon on May 27. My next hill to conquer will be the complete marathon in September. Who knows I might get hooked on them.

Well that’s my story,

Good luck to everyone with those last few pounds, I know it's hard because your body doesn’t seem to want to change, switch something up and maybe it will work!!!!

Hi everyone -- I'm not quite sure if I belong in featherweights...like another person said, I sure don't FEEL like a "featherweight"...ha...that's hardly what I see! But anyway, it's the forum that I think fits me best so here we go.

I've always felt overweight, since I was a kid and my parents (even though I knew I was chubby) would say things to me about how I should think about working out with them and losing weight....even when I was probably 12. And shouldn't a 12 year old be given a break? I don't know, but it was always a problem, not being overweight but just chubby until about my junior year of high school. I went on Atkin's hardcore, didn't eat a single ounce of bread for a year and a half, didn't eat a lot of anything, and lost about 30 pounds pretty quickly to get about 135 or so. It felt AWESOME. I felt normal for once in my life!

Then I got my first "real" boyfriend, and I think we know the story from here. Happy fat! All 30 pounds of it. And since then it's maybe yo-yoed back and forth 5-10 pounds or so, but at 19, in my 3rd year of college, I'm right back where I started in the low 160s!

So my goal is to get back to the high 130s/low 140s. I think it's the most natural for me, since I do have a natural pear shape and I will ALWAYS have a fat butt. Even when I was 135 I had a fat butt and thighs. So whatever! I just really want to work out every day and get myself healthy for next year of college! I can't wait to talk to all of you to keep me going...!

My weight loss Story
I've always felt too heavy, I wasn't a fat child, or even a heavy child. I was short and strong for my age, but I felt fat because I weighed more than my skinny cousin and had thick thighs to boot. My high school years were spent at a boarding school where the food was very starchy and fatty and diets were forbidden unless you were under doctors' orders. At that school I learned that losing weight meant starvation and skipping meals.

After I graduated I was depressed. The doc put me on Elavil and I gained a lot of weight. I wasn't eating a lot but I was sleeping twenty hours a day. I could barely function. I stopped the Elavil and stopped seeing the shrink. I desperately wanted to lose weight.

I went to Weight Watchers. My metabulism was so messed up that I gained weight on their 1200 calorie diet. I never went back after the second week. I joined an exercise class but quit when the instructor wouldn't let me use the weights because most new people couldn't and they couldn't make an exception for me.

In my early twenties I was anorexic, weighed about 90 pounds and wore a girls' size twelve jeans. I got that small by eating no more than 400 calories a day, exercising for hours on end and taking mega doses of laxatives.

Not healthy, I know, but it worked.

Then life intervened and I got sidetracked from dieting. Slowly my weight crept up. I got stressed and starting drinking, My weight crept up more. From time to time I tried the old starvation, laxative route but I couldn't stick to it. At work I met a man whom I am still sharing my life with, nineteen years later. I stopped watching my calories strictly but somehow I didn't gain a lot of weight. I maintained. I wasn't fat but I wasn't thin and I was miserable.

Over the years my weight has gone up and down. It's gone up when I've been stressed and down when I've been focused. I haven't been focused for a while and right now I'm about 140 pounds ( a lot when you're as short as me). I would like to lose about 30 pounds but I'll be happy with fifteen.

Hi everyone!

I'm back after nearly a year's absence. My story isn't that exciting. I was the very skinny little girl of a mom who's always been heavy. When I hit puberty and ballooned up to the mid-140s my mom(whom I love dearly, byt the way) smugly said that it was my lot in life to be chubby like her. She was pretty vexed when the weight fell off just as quickly in my late teens.

Cut to adulthood: I've never been able to eat much in one sitting, but get hungry really quickly. My diet was pretty abysmal in my twenties and I always hated excircise but I walked everywhere so I always hovered between 117 and 123. Weird! Anyhoo, the last few years have seen my diet improve but my metabolism take a hit because I don't walk for miles anymore because of Multiple Sclerosis.

I'm at the level now where, even with the not moving around too much, I hang out in the low 120s if I don't go crazy with the sweets. I had a hungry May, which bumbed me up over 130 and brought me back here. :)

:welcome: back Fitaitch :wave:

Thanks Ilene! And I feel bad after re-reading my post. I know that mid-140s isn't that bad, but I'm only 5'1" and I have a really tiny frame. My standard 120ish weight makes me quite pudgy, and now I'm even pudgier, so that's why I'm hoping to get down a bit lower. So sorry if I seemed snooty.

Snooty?! NOT at all :hug: