Hello everyone! I thought I would introduce myself.
I'm not new to 3FC and have been a member for nearly 8 years now.
My highest weight was 205.
I was always very very thin as in 103 soaking wet with rocks in my pockets. I'm 49 years old and have 2 children who are grown.
My weight gain started probably a year after the birth of my 2nd child. I had lost all the weight from the pregnancy and was maybe 121 and my mother started making comments saying I was too thin. I would get comments about me being anorexic or bulimic or something. I am 5.4 so 121 is nowhere near too thin. My marriage was very bad to a mean abusive drunk.
I found a miracle to cope in anti depressants. What the good doctor didn't tell me was the side effects of these drugs. I gained over 50 pounds in 6 months or so. I became more miserable and had a viscous cycle of eating more and more and gaining weight until I reached 205.
I joined WW and managed to lose about 20 pounds and stayed there for awhile.
Finally I moved out from my husband in 2003 and quickly dropped another 10.
Then in 2004 I had met someone online and was talking to him for a few months and we were going to meet. He lived in Australia and me in the US. I never posted any full body pics to him. I was too ashamed.
I had never dated as an overweight person.
Finally we set a meeting date several months down the road and I thought if I can just get to 150, I will feel confident enough to meet him.
So I drank EAS protein shakes and ate air pop corn for 3 months and didn't cheat a bit. I was working out almost every day. The weight melted off.
I showed up there in Oz a slim size 10!
I managed to keep the weight off pretty good with portion control. I had some cosmetic surgery done in 2007 and was up 14 pounds the day after surgery!
By that time me and my now husband were pretty serious and I had decided to move there in 2007. So now I live here in Oz.
I managed to keep at 160 until we moved in together. My husband is one of those guys who is really tall and thin, like 6.3 and 170. He loves fast food and chocolate so he would frequently get us fast food, pizza, and 3-4 large blocks of chocolate. I can't be around chocolate without binging on it so I would never buy it or keep it in the house. Well the chocolate was always laying around I was eating it.
So needless to say I was up to around 177 in now time.
We got married and then last year was a very bad year with deaths in the family and a stressful job situation. It was funny because at work I would eating perfectly and then I would get home and eat pizza and chocolate or even if I ate well all week, I would ruin it all on the weekends.
So I started at 194 and thought there is no way in bleep I am going to weigh 200 again! No way.
So the 31 of December I started a proper diet. No junk food, no chocolate, and no fast food at all. Lots of water and walking every day. I don't drink soda so that was never an issue. I keep my calories below 1500.
The first week I get to 189 and I am thrilled. I thought this is great. I'm on my way. Next week is TOM. So here I am a month later at 191.5 and the weight is not budging at all! I have lost no inches.
So for some reason, a regular diet is not working for me this time at all.
I came back over to 3FC and was looking around and found the Ideal Protein forum. After reading about it, it sort of sounds like how I lost all the weight before so I thought I would research it and do it.
So here I am ready to get going and lose this weight! I have to go out and buy my items so will very likely start this evening or in the morning.
I'm glad to be here and wish everyone luck in achieving their goals!
) for quite a while. My story is long and dramatic, but I'll skip it tonight to say that I just had my introductory meeting for my IP program this evening - I've got all my packets and info for the first week (which I will either start Sunday or Monday), and I'm really excited/nervous! There are so many wonderful and inspiring stories on this forum - I feel like having this type of support will really make the difference for me, and help lead me towards success.
My physcian had retired for a several years to be home w/ her small children. When my college age daug. asked me to find her a good female physican I went to see this dr again for her, in spring of 2010. She mentioned she had a successful weight loss program and held meetings a few times a mo.and I should come to one. Well I went and found it interesting, and as another gal and I, who had struck up a converstaion were walking out a woman joined us. She had lost 70 lbs in a relatively short time and looked great. I did not do anyting right away, because of course there was busy summer coming, then a fall vacation, then thanksgiving. The Christmas schedule was changed and for the first time it would just be myself, husband and our 1 and only daughter. Sooooo I decided to start the first part of Dec and just keep it b/w me and my family. Did not need the stress of family and friends, well meaning of course, checking in and watching me do this. (all other family lives 2 to 4 hours away.) I'M 61, was very thin as a child, at age 21 weighed 110. Married at age 23. At 30 weighed 132. From age 35 slowly gained. Our daug. was born when we were 40. For the first time I stayed home from work and over the next 20 years gained 2 lbs a year to add 40 lbs to the extra 40 I was already carrying. Why is it so hard to figure out not changing your eating habits and cutting your activity way down is going to put weight on? with IP I have lost 21 lbs in 7 weeks with another 1.5 at this weeks WI. I had joined WW aprox 8-10 x and barley lost. Too many choices. I'm shy about being on this site and "exposing" myself but find the info, stories and support so kind and honest it was hard not to want to participate.Thank you all for sharing your stories, may you all find the success and peace you desire. IP has kept it reasonable to do, low hunger, good results, and this website for support. Gods blessings to you all.
