SUzzy, WTG on making good choices at the shower. It sounds like you're right back on track!

Suzy, you sound so much like me! I have been in denial for an awfully long time. My weight is hovering around 220. On one hand, I am very much of the "love yourself as you are" school of self-acceptance thought... but on the other hand, I realize that this weight is not doing me any good!! My joints feel achy, and I can imagine this will only get worse as I get older. I also see bad patterns that need to be broken.

Great job at the shower! Yay you!!

Now... if I can just get through tonight with no more food. (just had dinner)

It doesn't help matters that my husband can eat like a teenager and not gain a pound... or that I have two teenage boys and a preteen girl who also can eat me out of house and home without it showing... (all are lean and healthy) Seems it's just me and the chunky cat who have issues.

Anyhow, keep up the good work!

hopefuldreamer

hopefuldreamer: Try not to be discouraged, daily I find myself getting stronger and stronger with my motivation.
I just found that days turn into weeks and weeks into months and we all want to be healthy but trying to get out and walk, or buy that video to exercise to just never happens. The floor needs washing, the sheets need changing and we put ourselves on the back burner. WELL NO MORE !!! I am now putting ME first and going out for that walk, and taking time to cut up some fruit salad to take to work. We have to do it for us. I look at some of the success stories and hope that someday soon mine will be up there as well. Lets do this TOGETHER !! Suzy

I hear you suzy, I put on blinders and walk around the mess to go work-out.

Hopefuldreamer, I've got a 13 year old, man can that kid eat, and my husband never gains weight. I wish he would excercise more though, thin doesn't neccessarily mean healthy, especially in your 40's and up.

I have a little sausage dog that has weight issues

We can get down to onederland and beyond.

Welcome and good luck!

Thanks so much for the encouraging words. Last night was mixed. At 7ish (after calling my mother!) I ate 2 small cookies (storebought chocolate chip things... chipsahoy type), felt guilty, then exercised AS PLANNED. 20 min. straight on stairstepper working pretty intensely, followed by 10 min of stretching/yoga. No more food!!

I'm taking it one day at a time. Okay... so I ate cookies. It's not like I expect to go through life never ever ever eating a cookie. I am not doomed. Today is before me, fresh and new. After I get kid 1 off to band camp (everyone else is away this week... just the two of us are here) I'll hit the stepper, listen to my hypnosis cd, and get on with life and work.

Thank you for the support! It's right backatcha.


hopefuldreamer

Good stuff about the shower!

One day at a time!

Hope to see you around!

Suzzyy,

Congratulations on shocking yourself into motivation rather than defeat. Several years ago, I had been dieting and exercising for several months. My clothes were fitting a bit looser, and I thought it was time to step on the scale and move on from there. BIG MISTAKE!! When I looked at the scale and it said 297 lbs. I fell into a deep dark black hole with lots of chips, cookies and snack cakes at the bottom of it. That is my highest known weight, although I am positive I have gone well over that. This most recent time, I have refused to step on a scale at all. I am judging completely by how my body looks and feels, and how my clothes are fitting. Please don't feel shocked or embarrassed. Just know you can do it!

Hi Suzy,
I'm new here too but not new to dieting. New to beginning AGAIN tho
I have to agree with everything everyone else said. I made myself a journal and count several areas of what I eat. I've researched and talked to others about the RDA of many things and do my best to keep my daily intake above, below of within those areas. Recently, I've started using whole grain breads, and decreasing my carbs. (I LOVE CARBS--and have lost weight with them before, but my friend has scolded me and made me TRY this--LOL) it seems to be working much better!
I count points, Calories, Fat, Fiber, Carbs, water, protein. It keeps me really accountable for my choices and I made MUCH better choices.

Keep that motivation!!!!!! Anything is obtainable and you are well on your way!
Diane

Just loving all the positive energy here... Way to go all of us!

WTG SUZY.....you took the BIGGEST STEP....getting on the scale and deciding to do something about it~!


KUDOS TO YOU ~!


I too felt the same way when I got on the scale in January 2008....I *NEVER* thought my weight was as out of control as it was....and my hubby, bless his heart, didn't want to "hurt my feelings" and never said "boo" about how *wide* I was becoming....

Anyway....stay focused, stay POSITIVE, and take "baby steps"....the weight didn't "pile" on overnight and it will take more than overnight for it to go away...I find WW easy to follow and easy to stay on track with. Decide the program that works for you and DO IT ~!

Smiles,
Joni


P.S. Feel free to drop me a line anytime...I love chatting and exchanging dieting and cooking light ideas~!!

Denial with the scale is to blame from me crawling out of my slender body into a fat one. I remember I thought it was healthier not to be obsessed with weight, and tossed my scale. I gained about 10 pounds in a couple of months, and it went up even when I started weighing again. I know that there is a whole philosophy behind not weighing in, but I don't see how that serves anything but to aid in denial if you have a weight problem. Might be fine for a stable slim person, but not for those of us who are prone to rapid weight gain.

I now weigh every day, whether I'm up for dieting or not. It's my way of Facing Who I Am on a daily basis. I even went as far as recently telling my husband how much I actually weigh, and now the number isn't such a big issue to fear, but the lifestyle is what has got to change. I say to weigh everyday in order to be accountable to yourself, and exercize (at least walk 20minutes) everyday to be responsible to yourself , regardless of where your head is at with the food.

Stay loving yourself, it's very important, and congratulations.