Needing to lose 150+ pounds.

Feel free to add me. I am also working on loosing 100 pounds. Good luck on your journey. This has been a great resource for me and I am down 10 pounds already.

I suffer with the same addiction and it is a hard addiction to kick because it is my go to drug. So it is so hard to kick an addiction to something that you need to live. It is a constant reminder in my head that I can just keep eating. I have to eat the amount and nothing else. I have to totally change the way I think about food and the relationship I have with it.

Hi! Feel free to add me. My end will be -178 pounds ( I think). We can help each other! :flowerforyou:

Hi Dee, you've already had a huge success in understanding that it's a real, honest to goodness addiction that you're facing. Some folks on MFP are not addicts and they're people who perhaps didn't have nutritional information and they gained a bit of etra weight. It's my opinion that someone like me who gained all the way up to 339 pounds has something more going on than simple overeating. I call it "a touch of the fang" because sometimes it feels like a ravenous beast nagging me to eat more and only then will the beast shut up. I knew for a long time that the beast was never satisfied, that eating until I was stuffed didn't even stop it's demands for 24 hours. Even worse was the guilt, the genuine remorse I'd feel afterwards, knowing full well that I was being controlled by something that not only was making me ugly but it was actually killing me. After years of yoyo dieting I just gave up, feeling like I would never get the upperhand. I gave up for about 6 years, ate everything the beast wanted and began the trips to the doctors for them to fix what ailed me. I developed heart disease, sleep apnea with pulmonary hypertension, crippling arthritis, and still I ate. Thank God, one day I had a moment of clarity and I understood that I was committing a form of slow suicide because of my ADDICTION to food. I wasn't simply overeating, I was gorging myself to death. I faced the lie, you know, the one where we think we'll feel so good if we just have that ice cream or a dozen cookies. True, after a certain point of stuffing myself I did reach a sort of homeostasis and a calmness or more aptly a TRANCE would ensue and the fangs would retreat until the next day. I finally got the message that like any other addict I had to stop, just stop. It wasn't easy, and it still isn't but for me the first step was facing my addiction, understanding that I was causing my own health catastrophes, and that I was allowing a lie to lead my life. I made changes immediately. I stopped drinking all soft drinks and substituted lemon in filtered water with lots of ice. Instead of sweets I switched to slices of cold, crisp apples with lots of cinnamon. I discovered that many of the new granola bars were delicious, less than 140 calories, filling and could replace my craving for sweets. Look for the ones without sugar preferably. I bought an air popper and to this day I have a bowl of popcorn every night. I logged in to MFP everyday, several times a day, and I found inspiration and success stories. I've now lost more than 100 pounds in 15 months. I'm still an addict and I'm not sure if I'll ever not be, but I have learned to substitue healthier foods and the beast is a lot less noisy now. I'm off all blood pressure meds, my sugar levels are normal, and I while there is permanent damage to my body from the morbid obesity I am facing it and trying every day to be a stonger woman. Now, you're still so very young and you have a young child and you the center of his universe. He will do as you do. You're here because you made a choice ...you chose life. You can do this!

You can do it!!!

Trust me on this one . . When I get a food craving . . (all the time) I work out or just drink water! Find something else to do . . .

Never give up

add me i need your help

Feel free to add me as a friend. I have about the same amount to lose and have struggled to lose it my entire adult life. Recent health issues have given me more focus - as my profile says I am not yet ready for the big dirt nap. I lost 30 lbs. in 2013 and have a goal to lose 70 lbs. in 2014. I am 12 pounds towards that goal of 70.

Feel free to add me. I'm on the journey to lose 120 lbs. It's going to be a journey but I'm committed and very ready!

Anyone can add me.

I'm right here with you ... how do we 'add' people? new to this site ... i keep failing at loosing and i'm tired of it. Every time i try to exercise/eat right (even have skinny fiber) i get the most horrible cramping that leaves me almost unable to walk down the stairs to leave our apartment. It scares me off continuing ...anyone else have experience with this or how you got past it how long it took?