My 600 lbs life

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  • thickerella
    thickerella Posts: 154 Member
    I just don't get it..
    How do they get to the point of being Bed ridden?
    What snapps in their mind that says 500lbs or 400lbs or 300lbs is O.k...

    As someone who is over 300lbs, I never "snapped" or thought "Wow, I want to be 300lbs!" or any of that. I gained over 100lbs when I was in a long, unhealthy, emotionally abusive relationship. I finally got my crap together, ended the relationship, lost weight, went back to school, and was moving up in my career when I was disabled in a car accident. I regained a lot of the weight I lost when I was in recovery.

    Stuff snowballs. You make bad food choices one day because you're sad. Then the next day because you're stressed. Then the next because you had a party to go to. Then a week of it because you're on vacation. Then you're too tired to cook, or you hurt too much, or you just have a craving. A million tiny, seemingly harmless excuses add up to a year, and before you know it, it's harder to move, it's easier to comfort yourself with food, it's seems impossible to change...

    It would be so much easier to stay fat, but for ME, I want to be strong and healthy more than I hate the struggle of change. Most days. I still fail.

    A lot of these people who end up like that are like me, without the motivators I have to change.

    A lot of these people who end up like a lot of people here, that may have had a different life in different situations.
  • zacsmommy101010
    zacsmommy101010 Posts: 20 Member
    The Penny episode really pissed me off too. I am very much overweight, but not to the extent that the people on the show are. What made me mad about Penny was the fact that she was missing out on about 90% of her son's life and she didn't seem to care. She said that even with the little time she was able to be with her son, she was better mother than most, and that just ENRAGED me.

    I weighed over 300 lbs before I got pregnant, and after having my baby boy last year, I decided to get healthy not only for me but for HIM. I will NOT allow my weight to impede on his childhood whatsoever. If he wants to go to the park, I'll take him. If he wants to go play, or wants me to coach his basketball team one day, or go swimming, I will never tell him that we can't simply because I'm too tired, sore, or lazy to do it. If she really cared about her son, she would have gotten herself walking in time to attend his kindergarten graduation. Really? 5 years after you have a child you haven't made the lifestyle changes to be able to even go outside with him? As a mother, I just have no patience for her and feel like she has no excuse.

    I have a lot against me -- family history, PCOS, hypothyroidism, and insulin resistance, but I will not use those as excuses as to why I can't lose weight. It's simple math, and after an entire lifetime of being overweight, I am finally seeing food as fuel for my body and making healthier choices. If she didn't love herself enough to make those changes, she should have at least loved her son and husband enough.

    So sad for that little boy. :(

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