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I have been overweight since having babies years ago .I have four, My oldest is 29, the youngest 16. I have done a few diets with some success but, my thoughts about dieting were that I can't maintain it so why bother. At this point I just have to do it for health. I now have high blood pressure and my knees are always hurting. I feel old all of a sudden and I blame that on my weight. I gotta do this.
I also have to say that after being married for 20 years, I lost my husband to cancer. I was lazy about my weight and he was okay with it. I have now been thrust into the dating world. Let's just say that being in you 50's you'd think that men would be a little more accepting of a little weight but, no they aren't lol. They are just as judgemental as 20 year olds.
I want to lose about 35 or 40 lbs.
Jemma welcome! Originally Posted by jemma51
Hi everyone, I am restarting today. I originally started in Oct. made it through the holidays and just quit do to some emotional eating. I gained back all I had lost. I am doing all alternatives as I did last time. Using EAS RTD's along with some products ordered from Proti Thin, Proti Diet and Quest Bars. Last time I only did RTD's and followed IP with no snacky stuff. I found just eating protein and veggies extremely hard. So, this time hopefully with the addition of some of those products I will succeed.I have been overweight since having babies years ago .I have four, My oldest is 29, the youngest 16. I have done a few diets with some success but, my thoughts about dieting were that I can't maintain it so why bother. At this point I just have to do it for health. I now have high blood pressure and my knees are always hurting. I feel old all of a sudden and I blame that on my weight. I gotta do this.
I also have to say that after being married for 20 years, I lost my husband to cancer. I was lazy about my weight and he was okay with it. I have now been thrust into the dating world. Let's just say that being in you 50's you'd think that men would be a little more accepting of a little weight but, no they aren't lol. They are just as judgemental as 20 year olds.
I want to lose about 35 or 40 lbs.
I can relate to so much of your story. Not the part of losing your love however, that I can't imagine what you went through and I am so deeply sorry for your loss.
This is my first time doing IP but I have been strictly eating Protein and veggies primarily, and after a week now, I realize that I am gonna have to shake things up a bit for some variety. Next week, I'm ready to add in a few alternatives myself.
I also have high blood pressure and have been on medication to control it for the past couple years. And I hear you on the knees...mine hurt too, and I know it's the added pressure of carrying all this extra weight. For every lb of excess weight you are carrying, you multiply that number by 4, and that gives you the actual pounds in pressure we are putting on our poor knees! for me that is over 300 lbs of pressure alone!
You WILL Do this! We WILL do this! There is no looking back this time. Eyes straight ahead, mind focused on what we know we have to do. Let nothing get in our way! Time to make the change! I'm excited to walk this journey with you arm in arm!
I bet you will have a great WI Thursday!