Hi Everyone:
I found this site while searching the internet in the beginning of this month. It looks like there is a lot of support and a wealth of information! I know I tend to self-sabotage so I hope staying on this site will help prevent this.

I have been overweight most of my adult life but I am now at an all time high and it is having a serious affect on my life and health. I am tired of having to take 3 meds for high blood pressure and having joint pain all of the time. The final straw came for me when my M.D. told me if I did not lose weight, I would have to take a cholesterol med. Right around the same to time I went to an old movie theater with a friend and could barely fit into the seat. I am done looking at booths to see if I will fit, etc.

I have tried different diets with limited results because I never stick to them. This time it feels different. I am more aware of how I sabotage myself and recognize this will be really long journey. I started South Beach diet 3 weeks ago and have lost 21 pounds. .

I am so glad to have found a forum specific to people who have a significant amount of weight to lose. It is easy to feel like you are alone at times...

I am also quite new myself and I'm looking for some support because I have the same issue with self-sabotage. It seems like I've gotten too comfortable living this way because I have been overweight even since I was a child. It takes a lot of changing in my life and I'm ready to do that now.

I know that this website will give some really good support. Hang in there and you'll be in the movie theatre seats comfortably in no time. For me it's amusement parks I haven't been in a long time and I really would like to go.

!!!! Congrats on those 21 lbs gone forever ^^ Amazing feeling isn't it?

Keep on posting & let us all get to know you

Best of luck!!!

Welcome to both of you!! It really does help to have people around who understand. Feel free to check out our weekly thread-- it really zips along, but even reading you get a good sense of it. post when you can!

Hello all - I am pretty new myself. I have lost about 35 lbs over the past year. I could have lost more, but I am also prone to self sabotage. When I see the scale go down, somehow I think it's okay to binge a little - then I gain a couple pounds back, then take it off ... it's a vicious cycle. I have been married to my husband for 5 years now and I have gained about 100+ in that time. I have completely lost myself ... and I need to find her again. I do not like who I am now, but for some reason, I am still sabotaging my progress. I am just looking for some support and maybe others that are going through similar situations.

Mitze, SouthernGal & Heatherbelle!!!

This is such a great place for support whether you are just starting out or already on your way!

Wow...I could have posted pretty much your exact thread. And after 20 years of doing this same thing, it is harder now then ever to make the pounds come off.
All we can do is keep on trying...one step at a time. When we trip(and it's a guarantee we all will many times before we reach the end) we need to get back up , brush ourselves off and keep walking. I find the more I beat myself up over my mis-steps the more mis-steps I have. I am trying really hard to not dwell on the mistakes, and just move on.

I'm pretty new(well new again, I lurked around here a few years ago) here too,and am hoping maybe this time I will stick it out for the long haul.

Thanks for the warm welcomes and the encouraging words. I know I can do it - I just need to keep my spirits high and try to figure out why I keep going back to the self sabotage. I know I can do it ... I have lost 35 lbs and I know I can lose the rest of it!

Ditto to Heatherbelle and AJJJ3. Thanks for the support from everyone. I sabatoge the same way you do. I don't realize I am going all the way back to old eating patterns until I am there. Other times I use falling off the plan as an excuse to stop all together. However when I am doing really well, I will also start thinking that I have such a long way to go there is no really point to trying. Now that I am more aware of this, I am more able to confront it. I am trying to view this as a lifestyle change rather then as a diet. When I think of it as a diet, I tend to see it as being deprived. I then want whatever I can't have even more.

Welcome to all and remember that you just need to make small steps, and keep going with them. One day at a time. My biggest issue was if I had a bad day I'd turn it into a week, or a month, or whatever. If you're not on plan today, well, just be on plan tomorrow.

Best of luck to all.

Welcome to the board I am sure your're going to live it up here and makes lots of new friends!