felici
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I feel a little excited about registering here, and a little nervous too. I am excited because I just had the idea of trying to find a forum to help me lose weight about half an hour ago, and here I am registered! I joined another forum about 6 months ago that is mainly just fun for me, and yet has made a big difference to my life. This forum is about something massively important to my own life. Life and death. It's so easy to write that, but so hard to keep to my plans to modify my life so that I lose weight and have a better, healthier, longer life. Anyway, I am hopeful that this will be a significant help to me.
Partly I am scared about registering because every single time I have tried to do something different to get my weight down it has helped for a while, then I have stopped making progress and then had a backlash where I've ended up fatter. So I'm really in a bit of a bind. I must try again to push my weight all the way down, but I'm a bit scared about making myself worse instead of better.
Now I'm fat enough that it's a health danger. I don't have any scales here. My glass scales smashed a couple of months ago and I'm not sure that scales help so I haven't replaced them. Judging by how I feel and my recent behaviour I would guess I weigh about 96 kilos (211 lb). I am 5 foot tall.
I am in a position where my health is actually okay right now. No diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease yet. I do have impaired glucose tolerance. My joints are not totally ok. I can't expect to run, but I can still walk to exercise ok. I have had breast cancer but it is not active. I am scared that all this fat will bring it back when my 5 years on an anti-oestrogen drug finish in a few days.
I am married. I have two children 13 yo and 10 yo. I think being this fat slows me down physically and mentally and that when I control my eating I achieve more in all other parts of my life. Another good reason to try again.
I work as a relief teacher. Just now I am working most days. There is only a week an a half left here for me to be able to work before school finishes for the year.
I just started thinking again about losing weight because I saw something about lack of sleep tending to lead to increased eating of sugary, starchy foods and I have noticed that in myself. I was thinking I'd like to talk about that in my normal forum but that it probably wouldn't be an interesting topic for most of those people. It seems quite possible to me that the increased pressure the average person lives with now, and the general tendency for people to be chronically lacking sleep might be a significant contributor to the current obesity epidemic.
The other thing I saw (also on my other forum), was something about research showing that scare tactics to help people stop smoking are actually ineffective for many who think that as they keep smoking despite the horrific consequences, that shows they are helpless and actually makes it more difficult for them to quit. I was thinking that I have been a bit like that about my weight recently, without considering that trying to frighten myself into it might have the opposite effect to what I wanted.
My current plan is to eat 3 well balanced meals a day and avoid simple sugars.
I will try to walk the dog most days.
Edit: I will take a water bottle with me when I'm away from home and try stop myself getting thirsty.
I will aim to get to bed by 11 pm.
It's past that now, so good night from me.
Partly I am scared about registering because every single time I have tried to do something different to get my weight down it has helped for a while, then I have stopped making progress and then had a backlash where I've ended up fatter. So I'm really in a bit of a bind. I must try again to push my weight all the way down, but I'm a bit scared about making myself worse instead of better.
Now I'm fat enough that it's a health danger. I don't have any scales here. My glass scales smashed a couple of months ago and I'm not sure that scales help so I haven't replaced them. Judging by how I feel and my recent behaviour I would guess I weigh about 96 kilos (211 lb). I am 5 foot tall.
I am in a position where my health is actually okay right now. No diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease yet. I do have impaired glucose tolerance. My joints are not totally ok. I can't expect to run, but I can still walk to exercise ok. I have had breast cancer but it is not active. I am scared that all this fat will bring it back when my 5 years on an anti-oestrogen drug finish in a few days.
I am married. I have two children 13 yo and 10 yo. I think being this fat slows me down physically and mentally and that when I control my eating I achieve more in all other parts of my life. Another good reason to try again.
I work as a relief teacher. Just now I am working most days. There is only a week an a half left here for me to be able to work before school finishes for the year.
I just started thinking again about losing weight because I saw something about lack of sleep tending to lead to increased eating of sugary, starchy foods and I have noticed that in myself. I was thinking I'd like to talk about that in my normal forum but that it probably wouldn't be an interesting topic for most of those people. It seems quite possible to me that the increased pressure the average person lives with now, and the general tendency for people to be chronically lacking sleep might be a significant contributor to the current obesity epidemic.
The other thing I saw (also on my other forum), was something about research showing that scare tactics to help people stop smoking are actually ineffective for many who think that as they keep smoking despite the horrific consequences, that shows they are helpless and actually makes it more difficult for them to quit. I was thinking that I have been a bit like that about my weight recently, without considering that trying to frighten myself into it might have the opposite effect to what I wanted.
My current plan is to eat 3 well balanced meals a day and avoid simple sugars.
I will try to walk the dog most days.
Edit: I will take a water bottle with me when I'm away from home and try stop myself getting thirsty.
I will aim to get to bed by 11 pm.
It's past that now, so good night from me.
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