hi girlie ;)

Tonya, You know what? I think you are right. When I was fat I ate whatever I wanted and now I do argue with myself about why I cant eat what I want. I think I eat it in spite of myself. I just need to figure out how not to feel deprived and continue on. :lol:

I got in a 3 mile walk this morning since it wasnt raining and I think Rebel would have bitten me if I didnt take him today. :lol: It is so muggy out.

Jay found an RV he wants to buy....if only I had a few less bills. haha

Hey cosmopolitan girl, WELCOME!!!

Thank you! Thank You! I was wondering...question to all.


What were your reasons for starting your diet, why? Also, what led to the weight gain?

Thank you for the friendly welcome!

I remember the night I decided that I was going to lose weight. I weighed 265.5 pounds and I had just finished off a box of SuzieQ's and I was sick and I just said this is enough. I dont want this to be my life and I started the next day and I never messed up not even once that whole year. I got down to 130 pounds in 11 months. Of course, I gained back 76 pounds while trying to maintain and I have had to do it all over again. Currently I am back up to 141 and in the process of trying to get on with it and make it to goal or at least figure out how to maintain and not feel like bingeing.

1. My Nana had diabetes and was very overweight. I am deathly afraid of needles and I didnt want that to happen to me.

2. I got skin rashes from being so big,etc.

3. I weighed 128 pounds when I was 16 and met my husband so I knew what it was like to be thin and I knew I could do it and I also didnt think it was fair to him.(Not that he ever once complained or said anything negative about me) I just wanted to look good for him and myself.

What led to my weight gain? As I said I weighed 128 pounds when I met my husband at 16. His parents had a bakery and sub shoppe. We just started to eat there all the time. We would go hang out all night and at like 12 or 1 in the morning we would go to the bakery and make fried chicken tender sandwiches and fries. Every night. We are eating buddies and I porked up fast after I met him. I weighed close to 200 by the time I graduated in 2 years.

About Me!
 

Thanks for sharing!
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Me, well! I was always pretty thin, I went through a chunky stage when I was 13. What led to the weight gain was a sickness I had ( severe anxiety) and having to take medication at the age of 21. This just led to more of a lower self esteem so I lost track of who I was and allowed men determine my worth. The medicine made me so tired, and all I did was sleep, and eat. Those two do not mix well! :mad: :mad:

I lost the weight, but the severe anxiety was still there, and an abusive marriage did not help much. Took meds again, and Boom 120 lbs turned into 200!

Anyway, In the last three years I left my husband, started over kicked the pills and I rarely have anxiety! I have never dieted before nor really had to so this was a challenge! My weight has declined, but not as rapid as I want! So I added more exercise to my rountine and started the SBD to aid a more quickly rapid weight loss! I do the walk to be fit program trying my best to take in 10000 steps!

When I was 120 I never had to think about what type of bra to wear (C cup) and never even thought of oh, will the cover me, or ??? you know what I mean right?

Anyway, what made me decide to start the SBD and kick the weight loss in a faster gear was...

1. I am in a competitive enviorment! Women around me dressing to the T, and I used to be one of them.

2. I like colors but recently have worn more conservitive darker colors to hide the buldge! cow sleeping :moo:

3. I have been losing slowly in the past three years, but all those above it what made me decide to make it a more quiicker rapid weighloss. :cloud9:

4. Hourglass figure, but with extra wight, my BOOBS got so big, I hate them. C sunny :sunny: to a now DD! censored :censored: I am happy with just a D cup. Regualr size 34 C/D Now...............40 DD

I could go on and on to the reasons, petty ones I bet....

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Q&A
 

Why did I first start dieting? Honestly - I found out I weighed more than my husband to be (husband now) by double digits:o . I didn't want to be Jack Sprat and his wife. :sumo: So that started me on the diet - or change of lifestyle. I started learning more about food, health, portions and determined not to be a fat bride. I started at 175 lbs. and by the time my wedding came around I weighed 143. I felt better than I ever have. :hyper:

What started me off that way? I am 5 ft. 2 inches but I have never looked like what I weigh but I have felt it. Part of the gain was keeping up with my sister who has a metabolism rate that goes at the speed of light and another was just portions and not knowing what was contained in food (You mean a Mocha Grande is bad for you????!!!!:yikes:) and the sports I used to be involved in tapered off duing college. Then I lived over seas and was learning to eat better - partially due to I would not eat at an American restaurant - and now I can live without somethings (chips, fast food) and some things I cannot (chocolate, wine) but do in moderation :cheers:

I am still learning. I gained after the wedding over the year and was back around 160 and I am now down to 152. I don't have a scale or go to WW because meeting times are not convenient. I just exercise and keep track of what I am eating. It is great to have a suppoirt like this because people empathize not just sympathize with you.

I hope that answers your question cosmo girl (welcome by the way!):wave:

Summer/GEM

Great! Thank you for sharing. You lived oversea`s? Me too. Actually I am now in the Expat Phase!


I am in Tokyo, how about you?

I was in Jerusalem then I moved b/c I got a job in Brussels (where there is too much good chocolate!) and lived there until 3 years ago an now I am stateside and married. SO I will probably be stateside for a while just visits when it can be afforded. I miss it though.

Why Tokyo? Do you love it?

Why Tokyo!


Here it goes in this order.... ( I love Europe too)!

1. Left Ex-husband

2. Got Job Offer

3. Hooked up with a great friend.

4. Friend Turned Boyfriend.

5. Boyfriend Turned Lover

6. Lover Turned Fiancee!

LOL! I have to travel due to work, but my fiancee I met in the states he was just a friend then.

I would have to say Tokyo because I needed to be safe and get away from and ex-husband when my best friend from Tokyo invited me to come for a relaxer, vacation. I networked, got offered a job, the friend turned into a (see above)!

Now, I love it! My fiancees work keeps him here, but we are able to travel so I get to enjoy that.

Marriage plans. I have not set a date yet!


I loved Brussels!

Gosh it is nearly midnight and I am starving!

EEEEK!

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I weighed 115 - 120 pounds in high school and after graduation when I met my husband. I danced my whole life, so I was very fit, I was the "best bod" girl in my class.. :lol: so like Angie, I knew what being thin and looking good was like, the type of attention I received, etc. When I met my husband, I was working a sit down job, for the first time in my life I just sat there all day, and answered phones and ate. I got pregnant before my wedding too, and the combination caused me to weight 210 at delivery of my first child. At that point, I became depressed, and lost all my self confidence. And I no longer cared that I was heavy. I got down to 180 after my first baby, and never lost anymore, had another child, back to 200+ at delivery, back to 180 after... and so on. On new years of 2001, my sister in laws and I put $25 in a pot, and whoever lost 20 pounds first won the money. I won that bet in april of that year, and got my 2nd tatoo with the money :D I weighed 157 when I won the bet.

A year later, I had gained like 3 of that back, and then I got a condition called Bells Palsy, half my face was paralyzed for 2 months, they put you on steroids called Prednisone for that, to help your nerves heal faster. That caused a 10 + pound weight gain for me, so I was back to 170'ish, I managed to lose 5 of that when I went off the prednisone, but stayed there for about a year.

Last August (almost a year ago!) I decided enough! I was going through a divorce, I didn't feel good about myself at all, and I just wanted to be thin again, I knew I could be a happier person despite financial difficulties and the stress of being a single mom, and I did weight watchers. I just decided one day (August 21, 2002) and I just did it! I was so motivated. I remember the first week, I had worked SO hard. I weighed in at the end of the week, and I remember thinking that if I hadn't lost any weight, It would be really bad, because I would get discouraged. When I got on the scale and I was 4 pounds lighter, I was so excited. Each week when I got on the scale and saw a loss of at least 1-3 pounds, my motivation grew and grew. I had a goal to get to 145, then when I hit that, it was 135, then when I hit that, 130. Now it's 120, and to be honest, 130 is fine with me. I just want to see if my body will let me be 120, I am starting to doubt it, but I will keep trying. If all I do is maintain between 125-130 forever, I will still be satisfied though, because judging where I was 2 years ago, and where I am now, that is a major accomplishment in itself :)

HI CG I missed your post yesterday. I was really busy at work and at home. Glad to see you here.

Sorry I wasn't on much yesterday guys. I am busy at work trying to get ready for Florida again. :cp: I am supposed to be designing some fliers right now but I am sneaking on the puter. :devil: We had a DU meeting at the house last night and they didn't leav until 9:30 so no computer for me. I was beat once i finally got them out of there. It is so weird to see a bunch of men shopping for things to sell at the banquet. Tonihgt I have to sit down and write out all of the checks for the stuff. One order is over $2,000. :yikes:

I have done good so far with this Body Rx thing so I guess I will be easy to stick with.

Angie please don't give up girl. You are one of my inspirations. I think Tonya is right. We have thought such negetive thoughts for so long it is hard to get out of the pattern no matter how much we think we have changed.

I really don't have much of a story about why I deceided to lose weight. I have been dealing with this since I was 14. I never really got big, but it was big to me. I hit 168 right whne I moved back home from Flordia. I have a mild for of depression so I have to work with that to.

Noelle, Sandy, Holly, GEM, Jen I want to see al sort of chatter from you guys today!!!

I hope everyone has a great day. I'll be back later.

Tonya I had Bells Palsy once too. It sucked so bad and I didnt have a clue why my face was numb. I couldnt wear my contacts so I had to go to the mall to buy new glasses to wear. I hated it so bad. Mine didnt last that long though just a few weeks. I got on the prednisone the day after it happened so the doc said I got there early enough so I didnt have to worry about permanant damage. That was like 5 years ago and it hasnt happened since. THANK GOD!!! My mother thought I had a stroke or something when I asked her if she knew why my face was paralyzed. Scary stuff!

Kempy, When are you going to Florida again? I am trying so hard to plan a trip there in January. My in laws have a triple lot 5 minutes from Daytona Beach so we are gonna see if they can get a landscaper there to clean the lot up so we can park there for the week. They havent been there in 10 years so it is probably pretty overgrown by now.

Yup, I thought I had a stroke too. And I had to wear glasses too, my eye doctor said NO contacts. I had to see just about every type of dr. in the business. I had to see a nuerologist, I had severe headaches, I had to see the eye doctor to make sure my right eye was ok since I couldn't blink. I had to see an ear nose throat doctor because my hearing was fragile , everything echoed big time, and something with the reflexes in my ear drum could have caused permanent damage. I went in the day of my paralysis, and was put on the 2 week dose of prednisone, but it did nothing for me. The ear nose throat doctor is the one who put me on another 3 week dose of it, because he was worried about my hearing.
Anyways, couldn't wear makeup, because I couldn't get my eyelid to position right, and if I used my finger to hold it up, my finger was in the way. I was tired all the time at first, I slept like 15 hours a day +. I gained weight, had to wear my glasses, I got depressed fast.. :(

I hope I never get that again. The only thing I still notice is that when I yawn, my right eye shuts on it's own, while the left eye stays open, and I can't control that at all. I also get a twitch in my right cheek every so often, it scares me, I don't want to get that again, heh.

Good morning gals! I don't know what was wrong for a few days, but today I got on no problem.

I lost the original ?s about losing weight so I will just ramble :)
I think I just posted this a few weeks ago, but here is the short version.
I too was very thin in high school- 122 at 5'7. Got a boyfriend, jerk of a boyfriend, got depressed and started to eat! Was 135 that summer and 150 by the end of my first year of college. I maintained that all through university (closer to 155) but stayed an emotional eater- good thing I was exercising lot!
Anyway, got up to 165, lost to 145 for my wedding (to that boyfriend now ex-husband) Gained again through the 3 years we were married and got up to 192. Lost to 175 when I met current DH. I've gained with all 3 of my pregnancies- started the first at 180 and started the 3rd at 225 YUCK! So now I sit at 235 bigger than ever trying to get motivated again to get it off!!!

The reasons I want to lose are mostly for myself. I love how I feel when I'm wearing "normal" clothes and am exercising and active. Of course I want to be healthy. But now that I do have children I want to lose for them too- I don't want to be the biggest mom and I want to lost my inhibitions and be able to go swimming with them and play soccer and baseball. And I want to feel "hot" again for my DH. ;)

Blah, Blah, Blah- why can't I find the motivation to DO it?! I hear a faint click so I know I'm close- LOL Ian is 3 months old today so I don't really have the excuse anymore of a tiny baby!

Well, I need to get busy on house stuff fopr awhile. Will probably be back later since it's supposed to be 100 degrees and will need to escape to my basement!

Emily

I am really sorry to hear that a few of you experienced such hardships with your temporary sickness, honestly I never heard of it before?

What caused the Bells Palsy? Anyway, I am surely glad you are over it and feeling better!

Well today is my second day on the SBD! I did not sleep much of a wink last night, I was going to the bathroom every 30 minutes, now when I did my counting calorie diet, this did not happen, so this is my second day on the SBD, could me that I am doing carb free for two weeks, perhaps?

Anyway, I am about to go for my walk, 4:00 AM here, and I am not going to take a nap before work! This way, I can sleep through the night tonight with out running to the bathroom every 30 min! I am sure it will be hard to keep up and going today with little sleep!

Well, have a great day today!!!

See you online soon!