Hello everyone. What a nice place to come and figure out the how's and why's of fatdom. This is the first time in my life (other than pregnancy and I didn't count that because I lost the extra weight in less than 4 months) that I have been over weight. A year ago I weighed 112 lbs. Now I weigh 170. At 5'5, I not only look grotesque but I FEEL grotesque. I know if I was able to go back to work I would lose this crap in no time. Unfortunately, my doctor says that won’t happen due to the hours I had to put in coupled with what he terms as a foot “ailment”. In truth, I had a bunion surgically removed and it came right back. Yes, it was horrendously painful, and still is, but it didn’t keep me from working like the doctor does. I’m an ex-smoker for 2 months now but I think I got depressed with the loss of my job and became inactive. I just didn’t feel like doing hardly anything. Junk food, something I never cared for before or even thought about became something I now couldn’t live without. Fast food, something I considered atrocious, now suddenly seemed not so bad. My husband would almost cry when he would come home from work and see that I had decided to fix dinner. The poor guy lived on TV dinners and cold cuts. I’m still lethargic feeling but it isn’t as bad. I have been speed walking off and on for about 2 months and I have taken up biking as well. However, everything about food confuses me. Calories, fat content, carbs… you might as well be speaking another language to me.
So that’s me in a nut shell and I look forward to making friends and gaining information on weight loss.
You all can wake up now
Fat and fed up...and also new
Congratulations on making a move towards a new you. Hang in there and keep posting! There's a lot of great support to be had here. 
I had to edit yours. Thank you! 
