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.
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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.
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we have found it to become a home. We invite you to join us.
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I have news -- hubby (who was recently laid off) got a job!
Sorry I'm not really posting these days, but it's so busy at work, and trying to fit in all the exercise and eating well means I read, but have less time to write!
Birthdays everywhere!!! A great one goes out to Brandnewme, Maria, and Cerro ( by the way I haven't welcomed you yet! )
Just checking in on my way out to the gym. Day 2. How exciting! Anyhooo, for those that know the story, I got my call for my Apnea Machine. I am heading to the city this afternoon to pick it up. I can't wait to see if it makes a difference in my life!
Wyllenn ~ Congrats goes to your hubby! Thats awesome!
Happy Birthday Cerro, Brandnewme, Maria.. all three of you.. man I need to bake a big ole cake then,,
Brenda~ I am glad that the clinic called ,, keep me posted on how it goes.. and let me know how the gym is working for you.
Ammi~ Good Idea on the Torture Essay, I may do that to finish this thing,, Man it is just taking me forever to do it..
All is well here in Central West Virginia.. No school for me today, so I will have all day to write the Essay from ****! still OP.. I have some water retention this morning, I swear I have felt like my body has been PMSing for the past week,, Dont Know what is going on.. Will Allergies make you feel like that as well? Take Care All
I am still on a bit of a 'downer' (yep... again!) since yesterday afternoon, as I had gone to the doctor to find out why I was so tired and she is pretty sure that I am still exercising too much. I REALLY didn’t want to hear that, because it makes me feel as though I’m not doing things right and I thought I had worked it all out. She made sense though, because she said that my body had gone through quite a trauma over the last couple of years and it needed time to recover. She actually said that the amount of weight I had lost, in the time I had lost it, was too fast. I was really surprised to hear that because I have always read that you can lose half to 2 kilos a week and that is fine. I lost one kilo (2.2lbs) a week for most of the time, and less than that at other times. I truly thought that I had done this in the healthiest way possible. She said that ‘medically’ a loss of that much is TOO much. I have a feeling that it could be more to do with HOW MUCH I lost, because it is probably OK to lose, say, 30kg (66lbs) or so at 1kg a week, but to lose what I lost should be done at a slower rate. I’m not really sure, but that is all that I could think would be the problem. Anyway… I think that because my body is still recovering from this ‘trauma’, I should give it a bit of a rest. She said that the weight I am at now is perfectly fine, considering where I have come from, and I should just maintain that weight. And, to maintain a weight, you only need to do 30 mins of exercise, three times a week. WOW!!!! I really don’t know if I can cut back to that little. I didn’t exercise yesterday afternoon, after the doctor’s visit, and I didn’t exercise today, but I plan on doing something tomorrow morning. I have been walking to school yesterday and today, which is a 10min walk each way, so I feel as though I am still getting some movement in. I decided to walk because we are trying to save fuel, with the prices being so astronomical. I have driven before because I have so many bits and pieces to get to school, but Neil is taking some with him when he walks up earlier, so that is making things easier.
I think I will be able to cut back my workouts to ONCE a day, for 30 mins, alternating the equipment I use. I think though that I will still try to exercise every day of the week and see if that works and I get more energy. I know that I am probably addicted to working out (the doctor said that too), but I am fit now and I don’t want to lose that fitness if I can avoid it. I have always wanted to lose weight to become healthier, and being fit is part of that, so I would prefer to not drop my fitness level. It is going to be a little ‘trial and error’ I think.
I just wish that I didn’t feel as though I have ‘failed’ in some way by still not being able to sort out how much exercise to do. I know I have achieved such amazing success in losing this weight, and now I feel as though I am not doing too well. I just have to get my mind around that though. The doctor did say that if I can’t stop exercising, it may be worth talking to a psychologist about it. I don’t mind doing that if the need arises, as I would prefer to have myself ‘mentally’ and ‘physically’ healthy.
Anyway… that was all that happened about the tiredness part of my visit, but we also talked about other stuff, so I have a few other things that we are looking into. I had a blood test done today to recheck my B12 levels. I am also going to have a bone density scan done, because of the Vit D deficiency and the contraceptive needle I was on can affect this. I am ALSO going to have a heart monitor attached for 24 hours one day to see how that is going. It is to try and pick up the palpitations I sometimes get, but they are so irregular that I don’t know if I’ll have any in the time I have it on. I’m not sure it will just read my heart rate, to show how low it gets. I’ll have to wait and talk to the people about it when I get it put on.
I ALSO had to go back today and have a ‘punch biopsy’ done on a patch of dry skin on my back. She said that it looks like some kind of allergy, but because I have had it for so long, she wanted to do the biopsy to make sure it wasn’t anything worse. I mentioned it to her because my exercise bra rubs on it and makes it weep and it even bled one day. Other than that, it hasn’t changed at all in years, and it hasn’t bothered me before. When I asked her if it was worth getting it removed because it was rubbing when I exercise, she looked at me calmly and said that it might be OK now because I wasn’t going to be exercising as much… was I? OK… point taken.
I don’t like having a ‘punch biopsy’ done, just in case you were wondering. The anesthetic needle hurt, and I could feel a bit of the procedure still. I had my very first stitch too! And I could feel a little bit of that towards the end. For some reason, anesthetics don’t seem to last long with me. She took a few good chunks of skin out, and I have to have it covered for a week, which is going to be fun. Poor Neil has to help me dress it each evening and I’m supposed to keep it dry. Showering is going to be a bit of a contortionist act I think.
Anyway… I have decided that I’m falling apart, but hopefully I will be put back together again after all of this. Fingers crossed that the biopsy comes back clear.
I don't have time for personals after that 'novel', but I'll try to get some done tomorrow. I should have time on my hands if I'm not exercising in the afternoon. *sigh*
Wyllen - I am SO glad your husband got a job!!! What a relief for you. I can't wait to hear more. Was it from the phone interview? Does he get to wear the suit???
ummmmmmmmm Brandnew me is listed with her birthday,, did I miss Maria and Cerros announcement. or what? What ever Happy birthday,now or later..
Still drinking My coffee and trying to wake up..
Heather – That is great news about your husband. That didn’t take so long – what a relief!
Zelma – How do you feel about your doctor’s diagnosis? Does it feel like it makes sense to you or does it feel like she is looking for easy answers? I have to say I am slightly dubious about it. Maybe it is true, but from my understanding the body is built to work much harder than we do now. Think of people who spend all day in heavy labor. From what you say it doesn’t sound like you are working out THAT much. You may have been already planning on doing this, but I would ask Meg and/or Mel over in the Maintainers’ forum what they think.
I forgot to mention my NSV from the other day – I was able to lower the steering wheel in my car and now I can see the odometer without having to lean forward! I was so thrilled I almost started to cry. Oh, and I have been officially banned from ever cooking collard greens in the house again (unless I can figure out a way to make them not smell).
Zelma i hope you get a good report and can resume your exercise level but not at risk to your healyth.
Nancy keep on cooking those collard greens if you want to they are so good for you ! people will just have to adjust!!
Nancy ~~tell me how you are cooking your collard greens. I am NOT getting enough vegetables per day,, and I have got to come up with something,,I have never been a big veggie eater..need somehelp here.++
Wyllen~ I am happy you hubby has gotten a job.. now settle down and get comfy and start posting .... Take Care.
Heather - that is wonderful news that your hubby has found a job, I want to know, just as Velma does, was it the job that he had the phone interview for, and does he get to wear his suit now
Zelma - I am sorry you are feeling so down. I wish you wouldn't feel bad because you think you haven't lost the weight and exercised the way you should have. To have lost as much weight is fantastic, and personally I think you lost it at just the right speed. Maybe you are exercising a bit much, I guess by cutting back a little you will soon find out.
I am sorry you felt some of that procedure done at the docs on your back, ouchies I hope that nothing nasty is found when they analyse what they took.
Crock - MariaLucia mentioned it was her birthday coming up not so long back, Cerro mentioned it was her birthday today, and I know that Misti has a birthday coming up too. I think we should have a birthday list so we know when to wish our friends here a wonderful day.
Glad my suggestion may have helped you in your efforts to finish that paper on torture. I bet you will be so glad to hand it in.
Sorry that you feel like you are PMSing, and have water retention etc. I have never had allergies so I am not sure if that's all part and parcel of them. Are you taking any medication for them that you haven't taken before, maybe that's the reason why you are feeling rough. Good on you for staying OP even though you aren't feeling the best
Brenda - that is excellent news that you can finally have the Apnea machine. It looks very convoluted and constricting, but if it helps you to get a good nights sleep then I am sure it will be worth it. Besides I have heard people say they soon get used to wearing the mask etc. Do the docs think your apnea will go once you lose some more weight?
Nancy - that is a wonderful NSV that you got to lower you speedo, it's the lovely things like that which inspire you to keep on going isn't it. I am really happy for you
Please do tell me what Collard Greens are, is it some type of cabbage?
Ammi~ I am just going to drink a gallon of water today, inhale it that is. and see what happens.. I will call the Doc Tomorrow if it continues.. and see if it has something to do with the inhalor or the Allergie Meds.. Allegra D..
I have made it to page 7 now on the report.. 3 more to go.. whooo hooo.
Ammi i am doing great today.. got my exercise in so now i have to do some housecleaning and get ready to Idol tonight! how are you doing now? is the cream from the DR. helping?
Crock - glad to hear you are now on page 7, only 3 more to go, come on girl, you can do it
Also pleased to hear that you are going to call the doctor if drinking a load of water doesn't help with the water retention. Let's hope it does help though!
Patti - glad to hear you got your exercise done, and now it's housework time. Are you going to put some great music on to make it less of a chore?
I am doing great thank you, as for the cream, well it's early days yet, so no change. Hopefully it will clear the infection away within a few days though.
You are so lucky you get to watch Idol tonight, I have to wait until Friday night to see it. You can tell me how they all sing, but please don't let on who goes out. I like them all now, so whoever it is I am going to be sad about it
300+ And Ready to Try Again...#902
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And blessings.
I want to know, just as Velma does, was it the job that he had the phone interview for, and does he get to wear his suit now 
that is a wonderful NSV that you got to lower you speedo, it's the lovely things like that which inspire you to keep on going isn't it. I am really happy for you 
