3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

Hi guys! Name is Hannah. I am new officially to writing in the forum but I have been looking around and reading for a long time. I really like this community and I think it will help me out tremendously. I am looking forward to starting and building some great friendships!

I was always a really small girl. The thing is, I never ate anything good for me. I lived off crap foods (Little Debbies, french fries, microwavable pizza) pretty much since I can remember. My parents weren't really into the whole "nutrition" thing.

In my late teens, I developed an eating disorder. It wasn't to lose weight. It was because I was so anxious that I just couldn't eat. Whenever I did eat, I got sick. It was awful. It was like that for about 8 months. My doctor was threatening to hospitalize me because I got under 90 pounds, and I am 5'7". But, I got scared, and started eating and eating and eating. I gained and gained and gained. Now, I am 178. I have lost weight recently, though (due again to threats from a different doctor). Before I started losing, I was actually on the obese side of the BMI charts. Unbelievable.

Last year at this time I weighed 150. I want to get back down to that, and then eventually to 140.

I am experimenting with the weight loss regimen and I am open to suggestions. Right now, I am working extensively inward on my emotional junk in the trunk. I have been reading "The Four Day Win" by Martha Beck and going through it. I have cut out all sweets for the time being. I am interested in starting South Beach. I am vegetarian though, and I have been wanting to reintroduce chicken (already eat fish), but I am afraid that I will get major sick. Ugh.

Anyway, hi everyone! I hope I didn't bore ya to death!