Any other slow losers? Looking for friends!

for being so young i too loose very slowly, i've been extremely healthy this week, exercised and still nothing..

please join my christmas countdown group, its only 20 weeks away, even a slow loss of 1lb a week would make up 20lbs lighter by then thats how im trying to see it ( i know its fustrating)

add me too



my sticker is what i managed to loose over two years (very slow)

Hi, I will send a friend request. I too, avoid pictures like a plague. My profile pic is from 2 yrs ago and the other one is from my birthday last year. I started logging consistently about 50 days ago (sayeth mfp). Still haven't gotten a handle on my eating so I haven't lost anything yet. Actually since joining I've gained about 9 lbs. Not blaming the site, I know it's my eating.

So, I have resolved to keep going until I see results or get sick of sabotaging my success. Don't exercise like I use to mainly because of work and school. Although that is an excuse. I have finals this week so I hope to get on some type of consistent workout plan.

Hoping we can encourage each other in reaching our goals. I don't want to be fat at 40, so I have 3 yrs to get it together!

I avoid pictures too, and I hope that will change in the coming months. My profile picture is me snorkeling even though I was huge (and still am, just starting to try again to lose the weight). I plan on exercising but need to drop about twenty pounds first due to knee injury and ankle problem at the present time, going to set my weight gym back up by the time this weekend is over and do what I can on that until I can recover enough to do the cardio.

Don't give up!! Good luck on your journey

It is frustrating. I went on vacation and gained 3 lbs. in about a week. Not sure why~guess I thought I'd enjoy things more if I ate everything I missed! Slower weight loss is usually better for your body and habits. I try to remember it took a while to put it on, will take a while to take it off. Good luck to all~

I have been losing and gaining the same 2-3 pounds for two months now. Everyone, feel free to add

You can add me.

I am a slow looser also. I started at 250. Lost 50 pounds then gained back 29. Now I have lost 25. My goal is to get to 165 and then see what happens. I loose really slow but gain very easily. I know I will never be skinny but I would like to be fit. I would like some friends dealing with the same issues.

Hi

Its been a very slow journey for me as well. I have been a member for some time and just recently started logging in daily. Hoping to find my routine and start seeing the scale go in the other direction. feel free to add me as a friend.

I think you have just created an awesome group! I have 50-60 to go as well. We should all add each other for support here. Add ME!!!

Hi Tavins mom,
1st of all congratulations on your recent weight loss! We al go through things in our lives that make us seek comfort,
food or otherwise. I am a little older, than you, ok, a lot older than you, and I have never experienced a weight problem in my entire life, so this is all so new to me! I was a former fitness trainer, and never weighed more than 105lbs-110lbs except when I was
pregnant, and I hit 180lbs. I lost it within a year and was back in my favorite bikini! We all fluctuate in our weight, so it is not the same every day, in fact through out the day, just like with blood pressure it can be different. I think this site is great because you feel guilty about cheating on it! I have had a few problems with menopause weight gain, medicine weight gain, and I stopped smoking which led to another weight gain! We are all conscious of weight gain, but we also go around comparing ourselves to others who are slimmer, prettier etc! Wrong thing to do! We need to love , respect, and accept ourselves, and if we can't do that we need to change for our own peace of mind. When it comes to the point of not feeling good about you, you has to get to work because no one can do it for you!

You may look at me and say I am ridiculous for being here, but I know from all my years what feels right and what feels wrong to me! I have thought screw it I'm getting older, but I know that's a [poor excuse! So let me tell you what brings me here. I worked hard since I was in my teen years, I workout all the time, taught fitness, and was a restaurant manager! I have always been plagued by a body image problem, so maybe that's why I was looking for perfection, which in my mind to this day I have never found! I'm the type of person that can't even decide what to wear each day, and I may change 3 times before I feel I've gotten it right! 4 yrs ago I was living life large, had a great job, with the best benefits one could hope for, bonuses were a plus, and each year I also got one for 10 % of my annual salary! My boyfriend of 30 yrs was on my policy too! He became disabled in 2000 and that's when stress set in! We got by until 2008 when while I was at work closing for the night, I was preparing bank deposits, and other duties when I thought I heard movements and saw something out of the corner of my eye. I summed it up to the fact I was alone in building that night, I got up to take a look around, when a man came towards me and placed a gun to my stomach, it was a horrendous night, and I won't go into it, but here I am, a survivor.!

After that is when all my problems began! about three weeks afterwards, I started shaking uncontrollably, I wouldn't go out, fear had me 100% of anything and everything! I went into therapy for almost two years but nothing changed. I was 103lbs sick to say the least, and people were pretty mean saying I looked like the walking dead! The Psychologist sent me to a Psychiatrist or ordered lab studies. It came back that I was hyperthyroid from the trauma and so sick I wouldn't have lived past another 3 months.
I was sent to a endocrinologist ( gland Doctor ) and he put me on meds. Now between the two Docs I was taking 70 pills a week!
I started gaining weight, complained, was put on an amphetamine to lose it> It was all caused by the medication. Working out and walking, I lost the weight! Then my boyfriend had a stroke 3 day before Thanksgiving Last year, and I almost lost him! It was on a day that for some reason I changed my schedule, so I was there when it happened! I got him to the hospital and they gave him a clot buster telling us it would either work and break the 10 clots in his brain or kill him, there was no other options! He survived without any residual effects and he was told to stop smoking. We went on the buddy system together and have been smoke free for almost 9 months! Meanwhile I gained weight, but the amphetamine destroyed my appetite, so I wasn't eating much, and I wasn't losing because I put my poor body in starvation mode! How can you lose weight when you have nothing to burn? My body just held on to whatever I managed to shove in my mouth. I had no attraction to food at all! So I came here, liked the set up and what I was reading and thought I would give it a shot! I am eating now, it feels strange, but I know I have to do a report of the day each night of what I ate, and what I did, and I can't leave it blank! So a friend for support is the best think you can have! I look forward to "talking to you", sharing and helping each other! I m not judgmental and through my experience I can share some of my tips! Welcome to a new friend, talk to you soon!