southern_gal
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Just wanted to say hello!
I have *struggled* (note the emphasis) with my weight just about my whole life. I'm 19 years old and I have been over weight since the third grade, so I guess I was about 8. I'm addicted to food, literally. Now some of you may argue that there is no possible way to be addicted to food since it contains no nicotine, harmful additives, etc. But I beg to differ. I used to be a smoker, you see, and I quit that cold turkey with no looking back. Food on the other hand is much more difficult.
While you can quit cigarettes and never have another one, food is something you have to have to live. I have went on the South Beach Diet - absolutely great by the way, I recommend it to anyone - and lost over thirty pounds before, but somehow my motivation depleted and left me to start from the beginning again. If food is around, it calls my name. I'll eat anything: vegtables, meat, fruit, junk food, carbs, anything. I'm not a picky eater and I always, ALWAYS, have an appitite.
Now, don't think I don't have any self control, because I do. If I didn't have any I would be in a Nursing Home unable to walk. On the other hand, I do not have enough. I have the potential, like everyone, to look great and be my gorgeous thin self, but I have no willpower. One day I'll be so ready tackle any obsticle that comes my way, and then others, I feel that I want that bag of chips more than I want my figure.
I don't know why I feel this way, I just do sometimes. But then again, can anyone explain logically why they let themselves get heavy? I guess what I'm trying to say is that I need motivation. I need to know that I'm not the only one struggling with my weight and yet brave enough to try to do somehing about it. I need to know that while that candy bar or those french fries look good at the moment, they only darken my future and lead to failure.
I have *struggled* (note the emphasis) with my weight just about my whole life. I'm 19 years old and I have been over weight since the third grade, so I guess I was about 8. I'm addicted to food, literally. Now some of you may argue that there is no possible way to be addicted to food since it contains no nicotine, harmful additives, etc. But I beg to differ. I used to be a smoker, you see, and I quit that cold turkey with no looking back. Food on the other hand is much more difficult.
While you can quit cigarettes and never have another one, food is something you have to have to live. I have went on the South Beach Diet - absolutely great by the way, I recommend it to anyone - and lost over thirty pounds before, but somehow my motivation depleted and left me to start from the beginning again. If food is around, it calls my name. I'll eat anything: vegtables, meat, fruit, junk food, carbs, anything. I'm not a picky eater and I always, ALWAYS, have an appitite.
Now, don't think I don't have any self control, because I do. If I didn't have any I would be in a Nursing Home unable to walk. On the other hand, I do not have enough. I have the potential, like everyone, to look great and be my gorgeous thin self, but I have no willpower. One day I'll be so ready tackle any obsticle that comes my way, and then others, I feel that I want that bag of chips more than I want my figure.
I don't know why I feel this way, I just do sometimes. But then again, can anyone explain logically why they let themselves get heavy? I guess what I'm trying to say is that I need motivation. I need to know that I'm not the only one struggling with my weight and yet brave enough to try to do somehing about it. I need to know that while that candy bar or those french fries look good at the moment, they only darken my future and lead to failure.
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