Hello!
This is the second weight loss community I've joined. I was too scared to visit the last one after posting my intro.
Okay! Onto the introductions.
I'm a 19-year-old female from the US. I'm here for some kind of advice.
I'm about 5'7'', large bones, and 350-375 pounds. (The scale we have doesn't go up that high, so I'm just going by my last Doctor visit and adding a little from personal assumptions.)
I currently have quite the mysterious obesity. I've been tested for Diabetes and thyroid disorders several times. Always come back negative.
I exercise very regularly and my diet is super healthy. (No, for real. Strict vegetarian.) I don't have soda or junk food of annnnnnny kind. I don't have any sort of emotional attachments to food. (Stress and depression eating? I've read that it's the most common reason.)
I've always been on the "chubby" side. And until I was about 13.. I was a normal "fat" girl. Just an extra 40 pounds or so, right? Okay.. Well, I fell into deep depression around that age and was put on antidepressants almost immediately. My weight skyrocketed.. I was taken off the medications after just six months. It's been years later, and the weight still won't come off.
Everyone keeps telling me to get the gastric bypass surgery or the lap-band done. Which is something I really don't want. Because.. One, it's not that I'm consuming too much food, so I really don't need a surgery that constricts how much you can consume and absorb. And.. Two, I just don't trust doctors. All of my surgeries end up with an infection of some kind.
But despite my attempts to lose weight.. I just slowly gain more and more. Doctors are highly skeptical of my claims of "healthy" eating and plentiful exercise. And they are even more shocked when I tell them I rarely consume table sugar or salt. (My diet is roughly 65% fresh veggies, 4% dairy protein, 1% supplements, and 30% fruit.) Gee, I always look forward to checkups.
In a moment of desperation a few months ago... I was considering on trying Nutri-System or some other diet with meals already packed for you.. Until I learned they're just processed meals packed with sodium. But the results looked so good, then I got online and read REAL reviews from real people. Yep.. Not wasting money on those. I had assumed they were made with special low gluten ingredients or something, instead of being itty bitty meals packed with bad things.
Yep, yep.. So, other than being 250+ pounds overweight, I have a clean bill of health. No joint or back pain. Healthy skin, nails and hair..
That's about it. I just wanted to say 'ello and hopefully find someone who knows about this.
Also, I'm sorry if I seem rude. Doctors always tell me I have a rotten attitude. I'm just tired of being judged by everyone in the entire world; all of which assume I'm completely oblivious to the fact that I'm the size of a small planet, and feel the need to notify me when the opportunity arises.
This is the second weight loss community I've joined. I was too scared to visit the last one after posting my intro.
Okay! Onto the introductions.
I'm a 19-year-old female from the US. I'm here for some kind of advice.
I'm about 5'7'', large bones, and 350-375 pounds. (The scale we have doesn't go up that high, so I'm just going by my last Doctor visit and adding a little from personal assumptions.)
I currently have quite the mysterious obesity. I've been tested for Diabetes and thyroid disorders several times. Always come back negative.
I exercise very regularly and my diet is super healthy. (No, for real. Strict vegetarian.) I don't have soda or junk food of annnnnnny kind. I don't have any sort of emotional attachments to food. (Stress and depression eating? I've read that it's the most common reason.)
I've always been on the "chubby" side. And until I was about 13.. I was a normal "fat" girl. Just an extra 40 pounds or so, right? Okay.. Well, I fell into deep depression around that age and was put on antidepressants almost immediately. My weight skyrocketed.. I was taken off the medications after just six months. It's been years later, and the weight still won't come off.
Everyone keeps telling me to get the gastric bypass surgery or the lap-band done. Which is something I really don't want. Because.. One, it's not that I'm consuming too much food, so I really don't need a surgery that constricts how much you can consume and absorb. And.. Two, I just don't trust doctors. All of my surgeries end up with an infection of some kind.
But despite my attempts to lose weight.. I just slowly gain more and more. Doctors are highly skeptical of my claims of "healthy" eating and plentiful exercise. And they are even more shocked when I tell them I rarely consume table sugar or salt. (My diet is roughly 65% fresh veggies, 4% dairy protein, 1% supplements, and 30% fruit.) Gee, I always look forward to checkups.
In a moment of desperation a few months ago... I was considering on trying Nutri-System or some other diet with meals already packed for you.. Until I learned they're just processed meals packed with sodium. But the results looked so good, then I got online and read REAL reviews from real people. Yep.. Not wasting money on those. I had assumed they were made with special low gluten ingredients or something, instead of being itty bitty meals packed with bad things.
Yep, yep.. So, other than being 250+ pounds overweight, I have a clean bill of health. No joint or back pain. Healthy skin, nails and hair..
That's about it. I just wanted to say 'ello and hopefully find someone who knows about this.
Also, I'm sorry if I seem rude. Doctors always tell me I have a rotten attitude. I'm just tired of being judged by everyone in the entire world; all of which assume I'm completely oblivious to the fact that I'm the size of a small planet, and feel the need to notify me when the opportunity arises.
