Question of the Day-Day 1

DaFrogRibbit

Honesty to be more attractive. I was a fat slob. I was extremely unhappy in the relationship i was in. When i ended it i told myself no one wants to be with a fat slob. Therefore i proceeded to watch what i ate and lost quite a bit of weight. I still have 20 -30 lbs to go. Which seems to be the hardest. I still find that i am an emotional eater and until i come to terms with those issues then i feel that i am doomed to gain back all the hard work i have put into this journey.

BettyMargaret

When I went to the docs and had to have an MRI but was to fat to fit into the machine!

charmainecurrie

I have lost and gained many time before...this time it will be the last

1) for me

also to be around longer for my children

ShannaB83185

wow i relate to so many of these posts in no particular order here are some of my reasons

1. i have a hot husband and i want to be his hot wife ( i hate thinking people are thinking wow what is he doing with her?? )

2. i weigh about 50 pounds more then my husband

3. i want to be able to keep up with my kids in everything they do

4. i hate the clothes in the plus size section

5. my husband and i want to renew our vows ina little over 2 years with a real wedding ( because i felt to fat we just went to the courthouse ) and i want to be seriously hot in my wedding dress

6. i hate always being the fat girl

Wow Amber we sound so much alike!!! I have the exact same feelings about my fiance! I feel like everyone looks at me like eeww why is he with her lol I also wanna look good in my wedding dress for when we do get married! I would hate to look back at my wedding pictures and say ugh look how fat I was! I am also bigger then my fiance! Good luck with your journey! I know you can do it

TruckerChick

I missed the question of the day yesterday but I'm going to chime in now, if that's okay (or course it is!! LOL)

I have been gaining weight since I hit puberty. I'm 44 now and somewhere in my 30's I decided that I was okay with who I was and what I looked like as long as I was healthy. I was still doing things like playing basketball with my kids, and hiking the canyons with my husband. My heaviest weight was 325. I was able to bring that down to 260 with a fad diet. It didn't take long to get back up to 280. That, by the way, is where I have lived most of my adult life... at 280. In 2007 I took a job that made me more active than I had been in a really really long time. I had had desk jobs for so long, that I was getting secretary's butt, but I couldn't see it, so I didn't really care. Remember, I had come to terms with the fact that I was fat and would be fat for the rest of my life, and I was okay with it. Then my aunt, who has been obese for as long as I've known her, had bariatric surgery. I was going to prove that I could lose the weight without the surgery. Well, I did, but I didn't. I lost about 20 pounds. Right about that time is when I got the job cleaning pools. My first summer I lost 50 pounds! I couldn't believe it!! I was so happy... I had found the answer... or so I thought. That first winter, I gained back 60 pounds. Dammit! I also learned that working in the cold cold air during the winter was not fun with my arthritis. I wasn't sure I would make it through another winter. But, I made it through my 2nd summer losing only 35 pounds. I was okay with that because I was losing slower this time. But going into winter made me a little leery. Fortunately, I only gained back 15 pounds. And so went the following year as well. In the meantime, my aunt (who had the surgery) was having complications - from the surgery then from her diabetes - and she was getting so bad that she was no longer ambulatory. So I quit my job and moved to Idaho to take care of her. Too late. She passed away this past May. In the meantime, I quit smoking in January. That coupled with the move to Idaho where I have no job and nothing to do, I have gained 35 pounds and am this close to 300 pounds again.

Bottom line ... I want to stop, once and for all, this yo-yo-ing of my weight!!! Lose then gain then lose then gain. I took the first step to getting healthy by quitting smoking. That helped me to gain the weight that I had so meticulously lost the previous summer but at least that beast is off my back. Now, I need to get this other beast off - I need to not be morbidly obese anymore!!

I found this site because my cousin is here. I thought I would check it out and see what it was all about.
I'm glad I took that step!

So, this is like day 6 for me... not nearly as far into it as most of you are... but I"m willing to do the work and put in the effort. And I really like the support I"m getting! So, thank you, Mike, for continuing to post your results on facebook, and thank you MFP for becoming my new best friend!!

ShannaB83185

I missed the question of the day yesterday but I'm going to chime in now, if that's okay (or course it is!! LOL)


So, this is like day 6 for me... not nearly as far into it as most of you are... but I"m willing to do the work and put in the effort. And I really like the support I"m getting! So, thank you, Mike, for continuing to post your results on facebook, and thank you MFP for becoming my new best friend!!

So YES of course you can "chime in" the day after better late than never and I am on day 5 so we can totally relate!! MFT is becoming my best friend too! Can't belive it took so long to find it

ShannaB83185

Oops I meant MFP!!!

MichelleLydia

I had a baby, and one day was looking through pictures of me and him and decided I didn't want him to have a mommy that looked like that! That was 45 lbs. ago. Also, my boyfriend is very tiny (like 5'5 and 130 lbs.) I HATE being bigger than him!

Betsybeee

A breast cancer scare..............not diagnosed with cancer but with atypia. There are only a few things in my control to help my health and these are exercising, improving my diet, controlling stress, and losing weight. So my time is now.

bell33usx2

A lot of the same as everyone else. Diabetic but have lost enough to come off of insulin and pill. My wake up call was when I was sitting in the bariatric surgeons office. I was there to start the process for the lapband surgery. It was OK because I felt that wasn't a very drastic surgery. When the surgeon told me I was a better candidate for the gastric sleeve I was like, "WHAT?" For some reason the whole thought of having something like that seemed serious. I know crazy! This whole food addiction thing is. Anyway, I came home and cried and cried and realized I didn't even know the person in the mirror anymore. I'm in this shell of fat and I'm aching to get out. I've become more active and LOVING every minute. I will never go back to where I was. I have a long way to go but mentally and emotionally I've come a long way already. I'm excited! I finally feel like I'm living. :bigsmile: