(Sorry, after I finished typing I realized how long it was!)So I'm not exactly new here but I've been lurking a LOT over the last few weeks and figured I should just do an introductory post. Maybe it will be an actual catalyst to my weight loss journey since I'm coming up short on motivation to get started lol.
So for starters, my name is Tisha and I'm a 26 year old RN in New Jersey. I've been overweight pretty much as long as I could remember. My lowest weight that I remember was 150 and that was like in the 6th grade or something. Since then it's just rocketed up to where I am now (345). When I was in high school, I was right at 250, and after I graduated I gained 100lbs in a year. Not even joking. I guess it didn't help that my days consisted of chatting away on yahoo then going out to get dinner consisting of fried shrimp with french fries - and that would be my only meal for the day
. I'd follow that up with going straight to sleep. I know, super healthy, right?! lol Anyway, I always figured once I started a full time job as a nurse the weight would start coming off since I'd be fairly active and running around for 12.5 hour shifts. Yeah, so far that plan has failed because the weight is staying put lol. A couple of weeks ago I decided I'd try WW and I did it for a week (coupled with eating something every 2 hours) and I was so surprised when the scale said I had lost 11 pounds! Sadly, in my usual fashion, I must have regressed and now I gained back about 8 of those pounds.Anyway, point is I need to lose weight and I'm tired of trying and giving up EVEN THOUGH I GET RESULTS. I don't understand why I do that. It has happened every time. When I first moved from the islands to NJ, I lost about 50 pounds in 3 months just by going walking at night. Then I stopped and ballooned back up to where I am now. Then I bought a treadmill and used that for about an hour a few times a week and lost weight easily. Again, I stopped and ballooned back up. I no longer have a treadmill, but I bought an elliptical a few years back and now it sits in the basement collecting dust. In the last few weeks I've bought a WATP dvd and Zumba for my Wii (a Wii in which I bought several months ago in the hope that having a video game for fitness purposes would help and now it collects dust too
).Well, enough rambling... My name is Tisha, and I have a problem sticking to weight loss with an even bigger problem of being morbidly obese. lol I'd love a few buddies or more to chat with. I always find it so hard keeping up with the new threads. It would be awesome if this site had a chat room but oh well.
Nice to meet you all!
