[Dairy Fairy]

WOW...How did I get here?

I now weigh 248.5. I had gotten down to a healthy weight before both pregnancies and after having twins I ballooned during pregnancy and stress ate after. My husband and I decided a couple of years ago we were finally sick of being fat...he was 300 #s and I was 220. I have put on weight while he has gone to 180 on the DASH diet (which is a very safe diet...it's what doctors give out for hypertension). I did not work for me whatsoever, so I am back to what I have done well on...LA Weight Loss (on my own, not through a center).

3 fat chicks was integral to me getting to my healthy weight before my twins and I need this support. Unfortunately LAWL is defunct so while the diet works, the forum is just dead. Can anyone recommend a good support thread on here? I'm 2 days in and feeling great, but if I don't lose weight on this I don't know what I can do. I feel like my hormones are out of whack. I don't want to use this as a crutch, but when you gain 10 lbs in a month of dieting faithfully something is wrong.

I have to do this for myself....I feel HORRIBLE and can't exert myself much at all...and I'm in nursing school. I don't wanna be a hypocrite telling people how to be healthy when I can't walk a flight of stairs without being winded. I also want to be smaller than my husband. He's been soon good to me and never made me feel anything but loved, but I want to lose weight so we can live to our old age. I don't want to leave my kids early either. Anyway, looking forward to this. I think I am finally ready to shed this.

[Terra1984]

I'm a member of the 300+ Chat Thread and The Worldly Chicks thread and they are both really great support threads.

The 300+ Chat Thread is in the 300 Area and the Worldly Chicks are in the Support Groups area of the forum

I have 146 pounds to loose, This my my 3rd attempt, 1st was May of 2013 and then the 2nd one was Jan. of 2014 and I started my 3rd one on the 12th of this month.

[Dairy Fairy]

Thank you Terra and good luck to you on your journey too!

[DreadPiratePanda]

It looks like you and I are somewhat similar! I'm in nursing school too...between the stress and the STRESS EATING, I don't know what's worse! I can relate to the not wanting to talk to patients if you can't do it yourself...today is my 7th day of quitting smoking and I'm down 7lbs total. I wanna be able to tell them that I get it, and that I've been where they've been. That it IS possible to quit and get healthy and active when you thought you couldn't. You can do it! And you've definitely got my admiration that you're doing nursing school, children/family, and working on your weight loss at the same time. I can't imagine adding in kids to my mix!

Have you talked to your doctor about why you're still gaining if you're eating okay? Maybe it really is a hormone issue, like your thyroid. If so, medication could help you out and losing weight once it's under control could get you back off the medicine. There's no shame in just getting a CBC to check everything out and get a status update on your body. Worst case scenario, there's no hormone issue and it really is just up to you...but your doctor can help you plan your weight loss!

PM me if you wanna be weight loss buddies!

[Terra1984]

Your welcome Mary, I hope to see you in those threads soon, It would be nice to have you join us.

[Dairy Fairy]

I had ovarian cysts (hemorrhagic) which is when my weight ballooning started. they never would do any tests, which is tragic since anybody on medicaid can roll up and say they might be pregnant and they will run tests on them, but here I am begging for help and they just say "eat less". my doctor had gastric bypass and now has no sympathy whatsoever so I switched. I purposely filled out my paperwork to get her to screen for hormone issues and she finally did but she said I am ok...A1C are great. If you don't have kids...never get a tubal! it will ruin you.

I hope this will work. I don't want to buy any 3x scrubs for clinical LOL!!