We are a group of individuals who weigh or have weighed 300+, or near there. This group was formed to provide a place for others like us to find support and hope. We are aware of the distinct problems that come with weighing over 300 lbs.
We want to invite everyone to join us in our journey.
We share laughter and tears.
We share what works for us and what doesn't.
We often use a "Topic of the Day" for discussion.
Motivational Monday
Tuesday Tips
Wednesday Wish List .. and What you are doing to obtain it.
Thankful Thursday
FUN Friday ... don't wait until you lose your weight.
Sit-up Saturdays - any physical activity
Share your Success Sunday
These are not required topics ...just ideas to share. We often find them very helpful. We also share heartaches and fears ... joys and celebrations.
We have several extra threads going on simutaneously such as Monthly Challenges, Weekly Weigh-ins, Recipes, Bios, and more. Please feel free to check them all out.
We have a bi-weekly 2x2 Challenge.
Our goal is to lose 2 lbs in 2 weeks.
We have a long term goal of losing 300+ lbs within our 300+ group in 2005.
We have found this thread to be more than just a support group...
we have found it to become a home. We invite you to join us.
WELCOME!
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Back from Fed Ex and luckily they let me pick up #1 Son's package. He's a very happy camper!
Jill: Sounds like you've got a great plan going for you. Post often and we'll help each other reach our goals.
Angela: Is that turkey, veggie, curry thing a recipe? Wanna share?
Michelle: WOW, you have been busy! Did they fire the girl because now they have you to take their place??? You know, with Andrew old enough for kindergarten, that means you're older too!
Judy: Glad to hear you got it back together. That's GREAT!!!
Synn1977: Welcome to our corner! Hope you'll post more often than you've been used to in the past. We're glad to have you here and I'm sure that it will help!
Pasted from #657: Hello all....
Been on this site for two years (I think) been doing forums for just about a year now (again I think) but have finally decided to get comfortable and lose this extra person I am carrying around!!!!
Not real plan of attack yet other than to eat healthier and start my butt a moving. I am thinking about joining either LAWL or WW...depends on which one is going to be more beneficial to me in the end.
I do walk like a fiend when the weather is nice, so for now I am pretty lazy (live on the east coast so outside is kinda crappy right now)...but am looking forward to my 2 to 3 hour walks with the BF.
Anyway....just thought I would pop in and introduce myself and wish the group GL in all endeavors!!!
Lilion posted at 9:24 PM:
Hello all! It's so nice to "meet" everyone. I've looked at a lot of posts and on a number of journals and it's so great to see other's with the same struggle as me.
Well, I suppose I got what was coming to me for acting all offended when my DH was concerned a 330 lb scale wouldn't weigh me. I was such a good actor that he bought a 300 lb max scale and now I can't weigh myself at home! This is what comes of being pissy to your husband when he doesn't deserve it. Ah well, at least I can go to my Dr. Office easily, it's just up the street from my office. (If it wasn't uphill, I'd walk it...but I'm SOOO no there yet!)
Tomorrow I'm going to weigh. We'll see how I did then for my first week. Wish me luck!
Lilion
Synn: Already responded once to your post (see above). We're all accustomed to reading from where we posted last and moving ahead. You'll find that these numbered conversation threads move pretty quickly. Yesterday was pretty slow, but most of the time they are very active.
Lilion: I brought you over here because the last thread had ended when you posted. *Too funny about the scale. You're right, sometimes we mess things up for ourselves, don't we? At least now your DH really doesn't know what you weigh. And I'm sure it won't be long before you don't have to run to your Dr.'s office any longer.
Ok, attempting another night in bed early.....YUCK....this re-programming stuff had better get easier.....I'm about ready to scream after spending night after night laying awake watching the time click by. (yes, I have one of those projection clocks that puts the time on the ceiling. Makes it easier to see how long you're laying there awake! )
Good rainy morning friends, My day has started already, so get up and get moving all you sleepy heads! It is time to move those buns! Yes, I know that 4:30 is a little early.
Thin, thanks for the instructiions on starting the thread. I think I will try to avoid that for awhile. I don't know how you are doing with retraining youself to go to bed earlier, I couldn't do it! I can't stay in bed. My husband had just as soon that I not stay in bed and keep him awake!
There are SO many new posters! How am I ever going to keep up with all of you Welcome Lilion, Jill and Synn, and anyone else that I forgot to mention. This site is a very good place to be. EVERYONE is super nice here.
Sue Marie, Ruby, Joyce, 2cute and all of you other cold sufferers, feel better soon. Just don't pass it my way.
I will be back later to catch up. Stay dry! Iwillbe
Good morning, all! I told myself that I wouldn't just lurk around here, but would post occasionally. I changed my eating habits- and started going to a hypnotist- early this month. What finally put me over the edge was my 2nd grader coming home from school upset because the kids in his class had a spirited discussion about how fat I was, and how amazed they were that I could get thru the door. Nice, huh? I told him the story about how, when I was three, I beat the stuffins out of an eight yo boy for saying the same thing about my mother. Then I congratulated him for NOT doing what I did, and reminded him that I am, in fact, fat...and the kids would find something else to talk about soon. Now he says that they haven't said anything else nasty about me since I brought in pizza, drinks and cupcakes on his birthday. Funny how that works!
I've lost a LOT of weight really fast (21 lbs. this month already), and I know that things are bound to slow down soon. When they do, I'll need all the encouragement I can get!
Has anyone else tried hypnosis along with an eating plan? I'd love to hear about your experiences. Enjoy the day!
I'd love to hear more about your experience with hypnosis. My sister was considering it for a while but never made it much past the wishful thinking stage. How often do you go? Is it insanely expensive? My boss at my old job had gastric bypass surgery and kept trying to convince me to do the same. I am 22 years old and am certainly not planning on having surgery voluntarily anytime soon! After all, surgery is part of how I got to this point in the first place (gained a lot of weight when I had a 10-inch ovarian cyst removed when I was in high school--had no restrictions on what I could eat but couldn't exercise due to the 20-something staples going up my abdomen). Besides, you have to watch what you eat soooo closely after the surgery--no fried foods, not too much sugar, take vitamins and supplements...if I were that disciplined, I wouldn't be in this position in the first place! Anyway, hypnosis seems like a more realistically doable option...no slicing and dicing involved I'm also thinking it might be a little less exensive than the thousands of dollars the surgery would cost (I'm pretty much positive my chop-shop medical insurance wouldn't even consider covering it). Anyway, tell us more!! I'm interested to hear of hypnosis experiences!
For those of you who pray, please add my BIL to your prayer list. This situation continues to worsen by the day. He has had another stroke and now is back to being unable to communicate and is incontinent on top of it all. He was taken back to the medical hospital from the rehab hosp last night for further testing. Pray that he is able to have the carteriod artery surgery today as it is his only chance to turn around and not have more strokes.
DH and I had a big fight last night and it was over nothing. He was so belligerent last night. His family drama is sucking the joy out of our lives. Neither one of sleep well at night. The helplessness about what to do is a big grip on our hearts. I think we needed to release the emotions because he finally broke down and cried with grief about his brother.
Now for a Public Service Annoucement: If you do not have a will or do not have medical and financial powers of attorney's established, run to the lawyer and get it done. Protect your loved ones from the pain and agony in the event something should happen. AND if you have given those, make sure that the family members are capable of acting in your best interest.
BIL's son is now threatening not to sign the release for the surgery and is looking to move his dad to a nursing home. If he was capable of really knowing his dad's heart, he wouldn't be doing this. He's trying to show that he's the big man and what he's done is destroy the family and is killing his grandmother's heart.
AND if you're not married and living with someone, protect them by giving them the right to make decisions and not have to fight family.
End of PSA.
Anyone see the Sonic commercial for the sweetheart blast? Its a scream. The husband eats the cherry and the wife is like I can't believe that you did that without consulting me, how inconsiderate, I hope you're happy, etc. He says no he didn't enjoy it because she was talking.
Okay, anyone find the Wednesday episode of American Idol totally obnoxious? I thought it was awful how they eliminated the folks. The first girl looked like she wanted to hit Ryan and the second girl sure didn't like it when the other gals came up and tried to hug on her while singing her final song. I may not watch it on Wednesday nights. That was just too strung out and painful to watch.
If all goes well today, I'm going for a ride on Tanyah. I am going to try to get two nights a week for riding.
Thin - Throw a towel over that clock! No naps during the day! Exercise!
Lilion - I saw your bio. Where abouts in Missouri?
Oops, just looked at the clock. I've got to get ready for work. Sorry for not doing replies to every one. And I'm really sorry for the morose stuff.
Good Morning all! Trying to wake up at 8:30 at work-stayed up WAY to late. I have such respect for you ladies getting up at 5:00! I only do that for the after-Thanksgiving sales!
Thinthinker, Thanks for bringing my post over. The post saying don't post anymore was posted at the same time as my post. Well, you know what I mean. I just figured I didn't say anything important enough to justify moving it.
Jillybean, I know exactly what you mean about surgery. I'm 41 myself, but I also had a huge ovarian cyst removed when I was about 22 or so. 20 lbs! I remember how much that abdominal incision hurt! I also remember that as being the thinnest I was ever in my adult life. Those 20 lbs came back really quick and there was no surgery to get them off.
Terri, I live in our lovely state capital...and work for the state, a job I better get back to!
Weigh in at noonish! We'll see if that little slider has moved!
Good morning to one and all. Its snowing here in OH today.We have
around 2 inches so far. So I did my exercise on the
I want to say WELCOME to all the new folks jillybean-lilion-prplecat-synn
post often we like to hear from you!
Terri-Sorry to hear about your BIL. I was hoping when you said
not to long ago he was doing better he would keep going that way!
These situations in families put a lot of mental and physical stress
in our lives. Hope everthing gets better for you and yours real soon.
prplecat-You are doing really well. Iv'e known people who had the
hypnosis for smoking and weight loss but I never heard any real
success with it. You on the other hand are doing real well, keep
it up.
Lilion--I too know people who have had the surgery. We have
a couple ladies in my TOPS group. They have lost a lot of
weight but now after 2 years they are leveling out and not
having as much loss and a lot of gains. I suppose you have
to have a real mindset even with surgery. I don't think that I
am that kind of person. When I think of surgery I also think
ouchy oooie.
thin--well my FEB challenge is over for me I finally reached back
home. I am still going to add my cars just for the heck of it.
It was nice of you to offer to put me up for a month, but after
thinking closer its almost 2. and just like fish company starts to
stink after 3 day.
Iwillbe--really 4:30 your kidding. I'm still sawing logs then! But I'm
proud of you keep up the good work.
THANKFUL THURSDAY--Well today I'm just going to say that I'm
thankful for waking up on this side of the grass.
I'd just like to say that I LOVE how often people post on here! Other message boards can go almost a whole day without any new interesting posts to read, but you all are here throughout the day. This is awesome because I work from 6am (yes, I get up at 4:30, too) till 2pm and am often bored at work, so I check these boards and my email constantly.
Hi all, Well, yesterday was OP as far as food and water went, but no exercise. I seem to be in a real motivation slump. But I'm determined to stay OP today and get SOME exercise, even if I don't get my 20 min. and a car (boy my road trip has slowed down the last week or so).
Michelle—Hope things get better at work soon. Great for you, getting a pool…. if I weren’t an apartment dweller that’d be my best way of getting exercise.
Judy—Good job staying OP yesterday.
synn—Welcome! I think you’ve found a good place; I’ve found it very helpful in keeping me on track.
Thin—The turkey-veggie curry was made by someone else for a potluck (I got to take leftovers home, lucky me). I can ask for the recipe, but she’s traveling at the moment, so I’ll probably forget. Remind me if you don’t see it from me sometime soon. Hope you got some good sleep last night.
prplecat—I haven’t tried hypnosis as a regular thing, but when I was hypnotized once, I was really convinced of the power of the mind’s determination. I’ll be interested to hear how it goes for you.
Terri—Thinking of your BIL, and of you and DH. It’s really hard not to let tragic and painful situations create tension elsewhere; I went through this with family members when my father died. You and DH are in my thoughts—hope things get better for you.
Can you tell that I'm happy with the news! I know, I know, lots of folks lose a bunch at first and it'll probably not be nearly so much of a loss next week - but still - 8 pounds! I'm quite pleased. This is the first time I've tried to lose weight in a long time and the first time I've weighed without it going up.
Someone on the WW points board directed me to http://www.calorieking.com/ and to http://www.dietfacts.com/ Boy! What a wake-up! I can't believe the calories and fat grams in some of the foods I was eating. It's become clear that my bad choices were even worse than I thought! I swear, with the number of calories I ingested in the last couple of months I could have energy until Xmas! I'm going to seriously rethink food! I'll be spending a lot of time on those sites figuring out what's ok and what's not.
I suppose my mini-goal of 20 more lbs by April 11 is a bit ambitious...but I'd really love to be to 300 by then...I'm headed on a weeks vacation to Las Vegas then and I know I'll be surrounded by food....being under 3 would sure be incentive to be good... Does anyone think it's do-able?
Hey everyone.. Its been quite a bit! I've been crazy caught up in all my class work - and thought I'd stop in just to say hi and give big hugs before I dive in to another full day of class work. I've been popping in whenever I can which isn't too often for too long of time
Welcome to all of our new members! I hope you enjoy it here.
For those of you struggling or having troubling situations, my thoughts are with you stay strong.
I've been doing alright. My eating is .. almost perfect sans the fact that I'm out of groceries already so I'm probably not eating too nutritionally wise - like brown rice with some salsa and lettuce.. all the time heh. I've been trying to have scrambled eggs when I'm up for it though so I can get some protein. I swear I'm going to remember to buy tuna next time I'm shopping - its just so hard for me to want to eat that too!
Well I better head out. Love all you lovely ladies. Just wanted you to know I'm doing well _ I'm about to start a "42 day habit" challenge in my journal with some friends so I'm still trying hard to keep on track!
I'll be back in as soon as possible to really catch up and say all my hellos and comments.
Thankful Thursday? I'm thankful for all of you and all the new comers coming to join! Thankful for the fact That I really love brown rice with salsa and it is a very small amount of cals! Thankful that the popcorn I ate last night was only 105 cals and 60some fat cals! woo.
300+ And Ready To Try Again....#658
You know, with Andrew old enough for kindergarten, that means you're older too! 
ya bunches!!!!
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My day has started already, so get up and get moving all you sleepy heads! 
It is time to move those buns! 
Yes, I know that 4:30 is a little early. 
I don't know how you are doing with retraining youself to go to bed earlier, I couldn't do it! I can't stay in bed. My husband had just as soon that I not stay in bed and keep him awake! 
This site is a very good place to be. EVERYONE is super nice here. 
I'm also thinking it might be a little less exensive than the thousands of dollars the surgery would cost (I'm pretty much positive my chop-shop medical insurance wouldn't even consider covering it). Anyway, tell us more!! I'm interested to hear of hypnosis experiences!
Well, you know what I mean. I just figured I didn't say anything important enough to justify moving it.
Look At The Slider! Look At The Slider!
I can't believe the calories and fat grams in some of the foods I was eating. It's become clear that my bad choices were even worse than I thought! I swear, with the number of calories I ingested in the last couple of months I could have energy until Xmas! I'm going to seriously rethink food! I'll be spending a lot of time on those sites figuring out what's ok and what's not.
