Hey, my name is Laura, and I currently weigh 301pds. I have been over weight ever since I hit puberty. I am just tired of accepting myself the way I am and I want to lose weight. It has taken me a while to come to this decsion, because I learned to accept myself and tell myself I can never lose weight. I think I am now able to do that, I need all the prayers, and encouragment I can get. I currently doing walk away the pounds system, and swimming in our pool, and just trying to watch what I eat and not eating after 6. I have only been dieting for a week, please I ask you guys keep me accountable in this long road ahead of me. I will need it, but I think you know that already. Please any tips you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Im very happy that you decided to go through with this! Im 14 years old and in the middle of puberty already, so I want to lose weight because I got really depressed when someone at school called me a whale. So I want to welcome you! And tell you youre gonna do great!
hello! I'm totally in the same boat as you!!! I'm not even 21 yet! But this site is full of information and people who will continue to help you stay motivated and on plan!
GOOD LUCK!!
P.S. There are some wonderful people to meet and help you out in the 300+ and ready to try again chat thread!
I voted in your poll Laura, and I chose eating right and exercising (this is what I have done) BUT if you have the opportunity to do so, going through a program like Weight Watchers has a very high success rate if you need non-cyber human contact type support. I would have joined something like that, but I couldn't afford it. But you've found the next best thing. I WOULD NOT be where I am today if it wasn't for the online support of 3FC. NOW, as for surgery, I decided to save myself a surgery, because I know I'll need reconstructive surgery after all is said and done.
And like Brytt mentioned, those gals in the 300+ and ready to try again are fabulous and extremely supportive of one another. I don't post there myself because I have a home in another area, but I often read their very inspiring and supportive posts.
As for tips, take your journey one day at a time. DON'T give up. I've fallen off countless times, but I never gave up. Don't let giving up be an option.
I wish you much strength and luck as you begin your journey
Im very happy that you decided to go through with this! Im 14 years old and in the middle of puberty already, so I want to lose weight because I got really depressed when someone at school called me a whale. So I want to welcome you! And tell you youre gonna do great!
Stephanieee<3, I would PM you but you have PMs off. I noticed you are 14 years old, you posted in another thread that you have hunger pains and your 2 recorded days in Fitday say you eat 1000 calories a day. Please do not restrict so terribly to lose weight, it touches me so deeply because that is what I did, starting a little older than you. It set me up for a cycle of binge/restriction that just made me fatter and fatter and more miserable.
One of the biggest mistakes I ever did was fooling around with the math of weight loss. I thought if you cut some calories and you lost some weight, if you cut MORE calories you could lose MORE weight. This is possibly true short term, but it is rarely true long term. You have to think long term, you are young, you have a lifetime ahead of you.
Make healthy choices you can live with forever. If I could go back to my 14 year old self, I would just concentrate on eating healthy foods 80% of the time, eating plenty of foods that were good for me, avoiding foods that are terribly bad for me and finding some sort of exercise I really liked. I definitely wouldn't restrict - the restriction/binge/sometimes purging just made me feel like a loser, like a no will power, awful loser. I wouldn't want anyone else to feel the terrible things I've felt. I would want you to eat plenty of good foods, enjoy what you are eating and make goals you can follow, so you feel like a winner everyday.
PM me anytime, I've lost 70 lbs and kept it off for nearly a year and a half. I have 20 years of failed dieting experiments as a history, plenty of experience with what DID and DID NOT work.
Laura - My story is similar to yours except it took me a whole lot longer to get there. I became so tired of dieting and being on the emotional roller coaster of deprivation, buckling and overeating and then the guilt - I just couldn't take it any more. I realized that in order to change I needed to work on this from a positive perspective. It was only through self love, not self hate that I was going to be able to make a change. It took me many years of working on emotional issues before I could start to think about losing weight. But when I was ready I started and have been able to mostly stick with it. Sure I haven't been perfect, but no one is, but I am making progress. There are many areas here at 3FC. The 300+ section is my home and you are welcome there. Getting support here is definitely one of the best things I have done and it has made such a huge difference.
Laura...congrats for making this decision. This is a great group of ladies, (and the occasional gentleman). Eating right and exercising is the best way to go at it...but I agree, if you can afford to go to JennyCraig or something like that, I'm sure it'd be very helpful as well. I am in the same boat. When I started coming here I was 19 years old, and weighed 350 pounds...eeps. I'm just now in my early 20's...lol, since my birthday was last week...I suggest coming over to the main thread...it's very great for keeping you motivated and on track. Also the exercise thread that Wyllenn coordinates every month has been crucial to keeping me with my exercise! I wish you the best of luck, and look forward to seeing you around!!
300+ and only in my early twenties
So I want to welcome you! 
And tell you youre gonna do great! 
