People Who Need to Lose Over 100 or 200 lbs?
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jbiggars63
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No offense to other people - I know losing weight is losing weight - but someone who's never been over 200 lbs doesn't really get what it's like to have to LOSE 200 lbs. Any others on here?
Thanks, guys
Hello! I have dropped from 493 pounds just before Christmas 2009 to 377 last Friday. 116 pounds lost, 143 to go! Just take one step at a time and stay focused on your goal! It will come off! Good Luck!
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cherrygarcia
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heya janice,
if you notice my ticker it says 193lbs to go
so i kinda know where your coming from. but we're all here to support each other and slowly but surely we'll be able to win this battle!
by the way just thought i should let you know there's a section in the forum called clubs and there's the exclusive 300+pound club of which i'm a member of...lol! but don't worry we all have the same goal to get the heck out of it and get into the more exclusive 200pound club and so on till we get to our goal weights.
wishing you all the best in your weightloss journey xoxo
if you notice my ticker it says 193lbs to go
so i kinda know where your coming from. but we're all here to support each other and slowly but surely we'll be able to win this battle!by the way just thought i should let you know there's a section in the forum called clubs and there's the exclusive 300+pound club of which i'm a member of...lol! but don't worry we all have the same goal to get the heck out of it and get into the more exclusive 200pound club and so on till we get to our goal weights.
wishing you all the best in your weightloss journey xoxo
No offense to other people - I know losing weight is losing weight - but someone who's never been over 200 lbs doesn't really get what it's like to have to LOSE 200 lbs. Any others on here?
Thanks, guys
usedtobefatmatt
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I know your ticker says 190lbs to go and that seems like a long way to go. Do you think it might help to make shorter, more easliy obtainable goals? It might be better mentally if you see it say 10lbs to go.
Also, welcome to the site. You have come to a great place to motivation and support. I wish you he best of luck on your journey.
Matt
Also, welcome to the site. You have come to a great place to motivation and support. I wish you he best of luck on your journey.
Matt
Cord the Seeker
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I second what matt says.
Don't let yourself obsess over the total picture. Make short-term goals. Each success builds your confidence and will to continue. Sometimes if we only look at how far we still have to go we get discouraged. We don't want that to happen to you.
Take the journey in small steps. Try (once you are able to determine your weight) to start by losing 10 pounds.
Even better, start by trying to eat better food one day at a time, or even one meal at a time. Try to cut back on one item of junk food.
Even small steps forward are still steps forward. Two steps forward and one step back still equals one step forward. If you look at it this way it might not seem so overwhelming.
Don't let yourself obsess over the total picture. Make short-term goals. Each success builds your confidence and will to continue. Sometimes if we only look at how far we still have to go we get discouraged. We don't want that to happen to you.
Take the journey in small steps. Try (once you are able to determine your weight) to start by losing 10 pounds.
Even better, start by trying to eat better food one day at a time, or even one meal at a time. Try to cut back on one item of junk food.
Even small steps forward are still steps forward. Two steps forward and one step back still equals one step forward. If you look at it this way it might not seem so overwhelming.
Fat rehab. Eek.
I've been overweight my entire life. The perfect opiate. Taste and pleasure and texture. Socially acceptable. Widely advertised and encouraged on television. It's an insulation. Perfect excuse to withdraw from life. But if I could finally lose it - that'd leave me naked and vulnerable to the world. If I'm rejected I couldn't blame it on my weight. On something external (and something I've convinced myself I cant' control.) It'd be because of ME. I don't know if I can handle that. I have found the perfect shield to protect me from pain. Or so I think. Just a big fat realization this morning. The reasons to stop seem so small when compared to the protection of staying the same. It's lonely. I don't think anyone could understand. It's the ultimate self-destruction and self-protection. I'm not living the life I want to. It just feels like I can't change. I feel like I'm doomed. I'm an addict.
Part of me wishes I had the money and time to go off to some kind of "rehab." C'est la vie.
I think that's why I've never managed to keep off weight. I don't want it enough because the "benefits" of staying fat are too good. These are the things I've got to deal with I suppose. I feel like an alcoholic or drug addict in some ways. It's stemmed in fear. Part of me thinks - what if I'm still the last kid picked for gym class when I lose the weight? I have to lose the comfort of victimization. I have to actually feeling that hurt. What if I don't have food to turn to in order to numb that pain?
I need a counselor I think. But in the meantime I"ll keep thinking about all this and try to be more active and eat better.
Thanks, guys.
I've been overweight my entire life. The perfect opiate. Taste and pleasure and texture. Socially acceptable. Widely advertised and encouraged on television. It's an insulation. Perfect excuse to withdraw from life. But if I could finally lose it - that'd leave me naked and vulnerable to the world. If I'm rejected I couldn't blame it on my weight. On something external (and something I've convinced myself I cant' control.) It'd be because of ME. I don't know if I can handle that. I have found the perfect shield to protect me from pain. Or so I think. Just a big fat realization this morning. The reasons to stop seem so small when compared to the protection of staying the same. It's lonely. I don't think anyone could understand. It's the ultimate self-destruction and self-protection. I'm not living the life I want to. It just feels like I can't change. I feel like I'm doomed. I'm an addict.
Part of me wishes I had the money and time to go off to some kind of "rehab." C'est la vie.
I think that's why I've never managed to keep off weight. I don't want it enough because the "benefits" of staying fat are too good. These are the things I've got to deal with I suppose. I feel like an alcoholic or drug addict in some ways. It's stemmed in fear. Part of me thinks - what if I'm still the last kid picked for gym class when I lose the weight? I have to lose the comfort of victimization. I have to actually feeling that hurt. What if I don't have food to turn to in order to numb that pain?
I need a counselor I think. But in the meantime I"ll keep thinking about all this and try to be more active and eat better.
Thanks, guys.
Why not think of trying Overeaters Anonymous, that I recommended in the other thread. My co-worker, who is in the high 200's at 5 ft, has found this VERY helpful. She also views her eating issues as an addiction and this program has helped. Her sponsors spend so much personal time and effort on her, and they encourage her to call them ANY time that she wants to eat more than what she had planned. Its free and in the City so give it a shot!
cherrygarcia
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i used to feel like this before i started on my own journey, i used to think i've been fat all my life, that's the only thing i'm good at and the only thing i know how to be/do, it was my comfort zone...but one day i just woke up from it all and said enough is enough no more and started my new lifestyle change. i draw a whole lot of inspiration from marianne williamsons poem about our greatest fear, if you google it you'll find it, i think it's beautiful and keep reading it every now and then for motivation.
i used to dream that one day oprah would pick me to be her project and send me to those luxury fat camps where i could just go in fat and leave thin.
i am indeed a foodaholic and can only see this now that i've changed, i'm sooo not proud of the things i've done all my life the way i've eaten my way up to where i am now. everyday is a struggle but we have to keep going on.
i used to think this ALL THE TIME before. then as i started my change i decided to open up to my family and tell them how i've been really feeling about my weight, i mean every single last detail....they were dumbfounded, they had no idea all these years the extent the weight had damaged me emotionally and since then they've backed me 100% and i'm glad because i have no more weight on my shoulders (emotionally) because i just let it all go. and now i can deal solely with the physical aspect of the weight loss.
talking helps a whole lot with those you love and who love you back, or if you don't feel comfortable with that then the counselor idea is also just as good. i also find that letting your weight related issues on the forum helps because it lets the emotions go....and you also find many people who can identify with you which makes you not feel so alone and gives you the strength to continue with the journey.
here's a link to the post i put in a thread which was basically asking what our rock bottom point was, you can read everyones reasons, they're all quite moving actually, i'd never told a soul all these things and it just gave me some form of release when i wrote it out and hit the send button, but all of that is in my past now and i remind myself where i've come from so that i can keep going forward and never return there again: http://weight-loss.fitness.com/topic/30276-what-your-wake-up-call-2.html#post597988 also http://weight-loss.fitness.com/off-topic/30824-confessions-foodaholic.html#post603727
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