I came across the website lookin' for motivation. For help, For support and everything else I felt like I wasn't getting from my own lack of self confidence and so forth and on...and this is the place that it led me too.

I'm a 24 year old women who wants to lose weight for her health and for her life. I've always been big my whole life, but finally something happened to me where I could finally push all of my fears of looking like a fool aside and workout. I got tired of waking up feeling as if I was the butt of every bodies joke including my family. I got tired of being short winded and not being able to wear clothing that didn't look like my living room curtain set. But most of all..I'm tired of feeling ugly and disgusting to myself... I cannot even love myself..no matter how many lies my friends or people close to me tell me or try and tell me about myself.

Currently I lost 10lbs... Don't know if it was the help of the SlimQuick Ultra Fat Burner thing or from just me doing what I was suppose to do. Before I decided to post this..I noticed alot of Badddd reviews from people...and I finally see all this after I had been taking it for a month. LOL. But anyways.. I don't experience any of those symptoms. Anyways... I try my best to work out with my WII Game: Michael Jackson: The experience.. I SWEAT SOOOO GOOOD when doing that game. That has been my motivation..cause I'm such a big fan of his and doing those dances works out everything from the legs to the arms. That has been my help..

But I have a problem... lately I've been so discouraged and I want to give up.cause when I Look in the mirror and don't see what I want to see..I just...completely want to stop what I am doing ...and I hate the fact that my mind tells me.." Stop it Starla... you aren't getting anywhere.." or " Your arms aren't gonna get smaller.. leave it alone.."

That tears me down alot...and sometimes I feel like it's more ME than anyone else...as a woman..how do we get through these swings...that feeling of failure?

Starla, Starla, let me tell you that I had those same thoughts in the beginning as a matter of fact just today I wrote about all of those 'what if' questions! It was annoying! Looking through all of the success stories on this site really helped me see that it was possible. If someone who weighed twice as much as me could do it, then I had no excuse! It WILL come off with dedication. The main thing is to power through the difficult times. When you have a bad day do your best to get right back on track.

One analogy that I heard makes more sense than anything I've ever heard. Look at it as stairs. If you trip or slip on a set of stairs, you dont go ALL the way to the bottom and start again, so why would you restart here? Pick yourself up and continue the CLIMB TO THE TOP!!!! You can do it!!! :hugs:

Come and join us!
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/30-s...needed-25.html

You'll find many great support groups on this site. Feel free to come and join ours! There's a lot of nice and supportive women there.

Also it's soooo hard to see changes in the mirror because our brains see us as we've seen ourselves for so long so you can't see the changes. I got really discouraged once when I'd lost 20 pounds and couldn't see not a single difference BUT my clothes fit looser BUT I couldn't see it! I was sooooo frustrated but I kept on pushing through and I can finally SEE it with my OWN eyes!

Take pictures NOW and once a month. The changes you see will inspire you and help you to continue moving forward.