Everyones story is different, whats yours?

twinmombb

I'll start with mine..

My weight has always been a rollercoaster ride, no better way to put it. In the past I lost 100 or so pounds, just to gain it all and more back due to a bad relationship (didn't realize at the time). I simply let myself go. After gaining it back the health issues started, severe arthritis in my hips and knees prevented me from exercising as I could barely walk. At my heaviest, on advice from my dr, I decided to have Gastric Bypass. This was the hardest and best decision I have ever made for myself. Probably the hardest road I have travelled.. BUT I would do it again in a heart beat. I maintained very well for 2 and half years till a bad fall left me with a head injury and on bed rest. I was lucky and have healed. However ended up gaining back around 40lbs in the process of bed rest and getting my life back on track. Old habits die hard. And I ended up very disappointed in myself.
So here I am working hard to make the changes needed.
Please feel free to share your story, I can use all the motivation and friends I can get.
Good luck to everyone on your journey!!

MessyApron

I started gaining weight when I was about 12 years old, and I started the yoyo dieting and exercising cycle when I was 14. I bounced from fad diet to fad diet never really achieving my goal weight before I gave up and ballooned to a higher weight than before. My highest weight was 219, then I got pregnant. I was terrified of giving the baby a poor start, so I cut out almost all processed foods during the pregnancy. The result was that I went down to 196 after the pregnancy.

I've mostly been able to maintain that weight, vacillating between 190 and 195 for the past 2 1/2 years, and now I'm ready to get down to a healthy BMI so I can be a good example to my daughter.

I've decided to bid goodbye to the fad diets that I love to start but never finish, no more trying to hate myself thin, no more harsh restrictions, no more trying to out-exercise a poor diet or using exercise as a punishment for bad decisions. Instead I chose to take the approach that I won't do anything to lose weight that I'm not willing to do for the rest of my life.

4theking

Food is one of the many things I have struggled with throughout my life. I witnessed and experienced things that no child should have to and this led to a lifelong struggle with pornography among other things. I finally felt I had it all together than in 2006 my wife was tragically killed in an accident in our front yard. This life is filled with potholes and pain but God has graciously brought this messed up sinful man to a place that is more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. I am living the dream and am hopeful for my future! Good luck on your journey and may you be blessed!

IVMay

twinmombb wrote: »

I'll start with mine..

My weight has always been a rollercoaster ride, no better way to put it. In the past I lost 100 or so pounds, just to gain it all and more back due to a bad relationship (didn't realize at the time). I simply let myself go. After gaining it back the health issues started, severe arthritis in my hips and knees prevented me from exercising as I could barely walk. At my heaviest, on advice from my dr, I decided to have Gastric Bypass. This was the hardest and best decision I have ever made for myself. Probably the hardest road I have travelled.. BUT I would do it again in a heart beat. I maintained very well for 2 and half years till a bad fall left me with a head injury and on bed rest. I was lucky and have healed. However ended up gaining back around 40lbs in the process of bed rest and getting my life back on track. Old habits die hard. And I ended up very disappointed in myself.
So here I am working hard to make the changes needed.
Please feel free to share your story, I can use all the motivation and friends I can get.
Good luck to everyone on your journey!!

Good news that you've healed. Congrats. Hope you succeed in shifting whatever your plans are to get back to where you want to be.

My story is longer and probably a lot more gruesome than yours not to mention not worth bringing up on a public forum but I am doing well and getting back into the health side of things of late after years of neglect and half heartedness. Sticking to the resistance type work moreso than cardio currently and thankfully things are going well so far apart from the wrist tingles and joint pains but it's all good.

Onwards and upwards.

twinmombb

4theking wrote: »

Food is one of the many things I have struggled with throughout my life. I witnessed and experienced things that no child should have to and this led to a lifelong struggle with pornography among other things. I finally felt I had it all together than in 2006 my wife was tragically killed in an accident in our front yard. This life is filled with potholes and pain but God has graciously brought this messed up sinful man to a place that is more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. I am living the dream and am hopeful for my future! Good luck on your journey and may you be blessed!

Food is one of my struggles as well, food addiction, over eating, stress eating , oh hey I passed the fridge I better see whats in there,,, it was bad. Have overcome most of it. working on paying attention to when I am full.
Glad you are now in a good place
Thank you for sharing, Good luck in your journey as well