Hey Everyone:

My name is Katie and I am a 21 year old senior in college. I am currently about 40lbs away from my goal of 125 lbs. I have struggled with my weight my entire life and there have been a few abusive relationships and circumstances that have made things that much more difficult. But I also know that I am very emotional and feel like food is my drug. I know that sounds so cliche but it is true for me and probably many of you. I am actually battling disordered eating and depression and have been for about 10 months now. I feel really alone and misunderstood. I feel like people think I AM at a healthy enough weight for my height and stuff and based on my numbers I am not, and based on looking at me I am not.

I am about 5'2-5'3 and weight around 165 right now. I have always tried to lose weight off an of for about 10 years, but it never was something I stuck to until about Aug 2009. I weighed in at about 195 at that point (although I know I have weighed more off and on before that). I got to about 147 in May 2010, but now am back up to 165...

There are many details that go along with my journey that I would like to share with people I could bond with. I have been a member of a few forums in the past, but never really clicked with anyone. Sometimes it felt like people were so judgmental..or people that had lost weight a certain way thought they knew everything and just acted rude about it. I would really like to find friends to be able to really bond with because at times it feels like no one around me really understands what I am going through.


Happy New Year!! Good Luck to Everyone in their journeys!!!

Hi Katie!

Good for you to stick with the studies. It takes a lot of perservence to get there!! As for the disordered eating and depression, I hope you are seeking professional help with that. There's a separate forum for both issues. Most of the people of these forum are only trying to be helpful and relating what they learned from their mistakes. Given that, there are a lot of different forum that focus on the many ways there are to address weight loss.

As for your thread title ~ I stumbled upon this site recently and it has given me a lot to think about.

http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/

Check it out.

Good Luck to you and welcome!!

Welcome!

There is such a wide variety of posters here at 3FC. I'm sure you'll find lots of friends to support and encourage you. Read a little every day and post. We're glad you're here.

Thanks for replying! Yes I have been seeing a therapist for about 9 months..and I am on medication for depression but am unsure if it is working.

Thanks for your encouraging words. I am trying to keep positive.

Thanks so much I really appreciate what you said