Evening everyone, my names Heather and I'm new to the boards. I've come here to seek support for the longest battle of my life. I've been struggling with my weight all my life. A little over a year ago I hit my highest weight of around 344lbs. I never saw myself the way the world did until I got a picture developed that I took with my mom with a tiger cub. I was mortified at what I saw. But that didn't make me change.
It took me several more months, and some self acceptance to start. My life was pretty much falling apart, I was constantly getting bad news and my stress levels were through the roof. I had no support from co-workers, if anything they made me feel worse than I did. After having a near scare with a heart attack, and my blood pressure causing consistent fits of dizziness and fatigue I walked away form my job. I just snapped, and fell apart. I told my boyfriend at the time (RIP Andrew) that I was going to loose weight. And my journey began in May of 2010.
By November of 2010 I had managed to hit the 280's and have barely been able to make the scale budge. I have no support here at home. I live with people who insist on dinning out, and bringing bad food into the house. I have trouble saying no, but I am thankfully working on leaving the 270's.
I just joined Anytime Fitness last month, and have been going at it for about 2 weeks now. My first week I saw a gain instead of a loss and today the scale finally moved by 3.2lbs. So while it's not a HUGE loss, it's something.
I'm trying to change my diet, and eat healthier, because before the move to WV I was eating healthier and exercised everyday. I tried that last week and burnt myself out so fast that I thought I'd return to the gym. So for now I'm going every other day. Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope that I can report positive results.
