Okay everyone! So, I've got this friend. She is a really great person. She is fun to be around, she is kind, and she cares about other people. She loves her family. One of her biggest problems is putting everyone else ahead of her needs and wants which ends up sabotaging her weight loss efforts. I hope she doesn't read this cause I'm sure she will get mad but I'm trying to do this for her own good...I'm running out of ideas....
Here is a little about her....
She used to live here in Tennessee. She had a so so job (good benefits like insurance and paid holidays off and 2 weeks of vacation and such but crappy pay). She had plenty of friends. She was at a really good weight for her height. She is pretty and spunky at times...LOL...sounds like she was doing pretty well huh??? But she just wasn't happy with her life....she either didn't have a man or the one she had or liked was being a butt hole to her....I would say the majority of her problems here was she didn't have a BF and wanted one...she wants to get married and have kids. Her standards are a little high I think...I think that is part of the problem...she wants a hot ripped up guy that makes loads of money and will treat her like a queen....LOL ....don't we all!! Well she finally thought she would never find what she wanted here so she moved to Illinois to live with her dad and sister and work at her dad's pizza place....
She has been there for 5 years. Her weight has went way up....from what it was when she was here...she hates her life even more. Her dad is a drunk and very verbally abusive to her. She hates working in that hot pizza place...and that is part of the reason she has gained so much weight. She doesn't have any friends up there, no man still, and doesn't get out and do anything because she is so self conscience. She is fixing to be 29 and she is freaking out cause still no man, no kids...nothing.
I try to talk to her and tell her things....I finally have her convinced to move back down here...away from her dad and that pizza place....I think that will help alot.....but I'm trying to get her to eat better and exercise....its one excuse after another....I can't eat right because I work around food, I can't plan my meals what if I don't want what I planned, but I'm soooo hungry all the time, but I'm too tired, but I have always eaten alot even when I was smaller....so forth and so on...
I have tried to tell her the reason she is soooo tired all the time and hungry all the time is her high intake of sugar and carbs...she won't listen
Does anyone know any good reliable websites with info on this that I could give to her?
Any words of advice....its like if it isn't her idea she won't listen...or everything I say she has an excuse for...she is sooo unhappy...I just want her to be happy!