I found this thread today while I was surfing the internet looking for information about Joy Bauer's 90/10 diet. I had heard about this site a few years ago so when I found it today, I was absolutely thrilled.
My name is Alicia and I live in Idaho. I live with my man partner and four girl dogs. I enjoy gardening, reading, fishing, hiking and traveling to Mexico.
I have been overweight the majority of my life. When I was a child, I was heavy but not obese. But as some of you know, in the 1960's and 1970's you had to be stick thin to be considered as someone at a normal weight. When I turned twenty, that is when it seemed that my weight totally blew out of control. I used to keep my weight at 160 pounds by taking all sorts of measures, diets, diet pills, starvation, excess exercise, etc. My weight crept up and up. Around this time, I was married to a total loser and by the time I decided to leave him, I weighed around 216. I went back to college and my weight crept up to 225. I began to yo-yo between 225 and 190 for several years until in 1992, I descovered that I weighed 250. I lost 65 pounds by keeping to a low-fat diet and exercising A LOT, but around 1995, I re-gained almost all of the weight. I have been at that weight up until now except for a loss of 33 pounds, but that came back. Last year, when my mother died, my top weight was 268. At present, I weigh around 257 and am 5'6. My weight fluctuates ten pounds or so.
This past fall, I turned 50 years old and have decided that I have to lose weight because of my health and not for looks. I had maintained the notion that I would never look like a super-model, so why bother losing weight. Silly. I am starting to feel pain in my joints because I am having to lug this excess weight around. Also, I want to be heart healthy. I don't care if my skin and boobs sag. So what. I am taking lipitor and hydrocholorthiazide, synthroid, wellbutrin, and doxicycline. I know that if I lost weight, I could get rid of at least three of this pills. Losing the thyroid medication is inevitable as is the doxicycline which is for microbial cysts.
My partner is very supportive of me and does not nag. Occasionally, he will mention that it's important for the both of us to lose weight because he is diabetic and because I would feel better about myself.
My hopes for my post-weight loss life are to enjoy horse-back riding, be healthy, finish writing some books that I started, and travel as much as possible.
Thank you very much for reading this post and I look forward to participating on this forum.
