The "NEVER been thin/ in-shape" Club

I am definatley on board!!!Always been big girl...Im so tired of it....I want to..need too...loose weight...I want all the help I can get and Whatever support I can give also...

heaviest 307lbs last year may 2010
current 300 02/25/2011
goal 200

when I reached 200 I will re-evaluate my goal...for now..I would be happy to be 200. I cant remember when I was 200 lb.s

Oh yeah my name is Edith

Wow! I can hardly believe it but I'm down 3 lbs this week! We had a ladies dinner yesterday evening, and I overate even tho' I knew I was weighing in today. But I lost! I am now down to 210 which puts me 1/3 of the way to my goal! YAY!!!!:drinker:

That's great! Congratulations!

I would love to join this club. I've always been teased for being the "fat" friend, and I'm very self conscious about meeting new people. This club is a brilliant idea, and I'm hoping to find the support and motivation to stick to my goals.

Heaviest Weight: 182
Lowest Weight: 165
Start Weight: 170
Current Weight: 170 (I just joined today)
Goal Weight: 145

Keep up the great work, everybody!

Down 10 pounds in 10 days. I know it's an impossible pace to keep but for now it's working!
I love THIS thread the most. So much motivation.

Thanks for starting this group. I have NEVER been skinny last time I was a normal weight was when I was a newborn. I've always been the biggest in my group of friends and of course everyone in my family is as thin as a toothpick. It's always hard hearing "your mom is the skinny version of you" or just when you don't think you can't be THAT big someone has to make a weight comment about you or a picture pops up and you never thought you were really that size. I haven't weighed myself in years but last time I checked I was at about 218. The only way I know if i've lost pounds is when someone will tell me i've slimmed down a bit. It's just very frusterating knowing you put time and effort into eating healthy and excersing but you never lose anything meanwhile your other skinny friends who never workout and eat junk food can lose weight at the drop of a hat.

I'm right there with ya! My mom has an amazing body and has never struggled with her weight...we look so similar, I'm just a ton heavier!! I also hate my skinny friends! They like to complain how "fat" they are...yet never go to the gym/diet and eat all the crap they want! So unfair!!!!

Well, I'm down 1 lb this week. After losing so much the last 2 weeks, 1 lb is kinda disappointing :ohwell: - but I know it's not good to lose too fast. I'm just glad the numbers are going down instead of up. :happy:

CW: 182.5

I think that's up a little from before. I was at 180.5 a little while back, but then had Birthday celebrations. Now I'm getting back on track again!

This was my post on January 18th when I came to this group:

CW: 189 (great... I went up from New Year's celebrations)
5% Goal = 9.5 pounds = 179.5 (which is ironically, the exact weight I was trying to reach by New Year's)

CW: 177.5

YAY! I'm officially lighter than I've been in my life!!! New goal = another 5% down (168.5)
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How is everyone else doing??

This was a bad week for me - didn't lose anything, but at least I didn't gain:ohwell: I now know I have to log what I eat immediately or I don't pay much attention to what I'm eating :grumble: My internet was down most of the week, so by the time I got into town to log I was way over or had forgotten some things. That plus not getting in any strenuous exercise seemed to slow down the weight loss. I'll put this week down as a learning experience and make sure I get in some good workouts this next week.

Bah this last month has NOT been good for me. I'm totally addicted to weighing myself daily, and sometimes multiple times a day. So I found a challenge one of my MFP friends started, giving up the scale until Easter. EEK! So far so good - I'll share with you the same thing I just posted on there:

I feel totally refocused. Just these last 5 days not weighing in has made a big impact on my thought process. I'm only a day or so away from logging my food for 180 days straight on MFP. About a month ago I got to a place where I was too comfortable. I'd lost 21lbs, my clothes were feeling more loose, and I was starting to get compliments. So, what did I do? I started slacking off. Then I hit my plateau. The combination of those two things left me staring at the same weight for over a month!

The last 5 days have been like a slap in the face - and I needed it!. I'm paying strict attention to my diary and what I'm eating. I'm logging EVERYTHING that touches my lips and I've decided to up my excersize.

Just thought I'd share some positives. Yes, I still want to climb the latter to the loft and risk landing flat on my chubby butt getting that scale down from where my hubby hid it, but I'm going to refrain because I think I'm learning something really valuable not living by the numbers on the scale.

If anyone is interested in joining, we just started this week Search "Lenten scale diet" and it should come up!

I am right there with everyone. Right now I'm at 250lbs but I've probably been obese since I was five. I was surprisingly never teased much but that didn't make it any easier. I've set my goal at 170 because if I set it for my "ideal" weight I'm gonna go crazy waiting. Plus I'm not sure what I'll look like under 200! I think the first time I actuLly paid attention to weight was in middle school and by 12 I was over 200, sad but true. Right before I became pregnant I lost alot of weight and was around 210 and immediately after giving birth I was 216. But of course in the five years since I've gained instead of losing.

I did lose 17lbs last July but I've gained back all but 4lbs and I'm so peeved at myself because just think of where I could be by now. But! Positive thoughts and im excited to be here and excited to find friends so that we can help each other. Good lck everyone

Ps I love this giving up the scale thing since I'm constantly trying to forget it exists. I'd love see where I am a month from now instead of agonizing over my weight for the next 5 weeks!

Jumping on board a bit late, but just found this. I should be in the 'club' - I have no idea what I would look or feel like at a normal weight. I've just hit a weight that I last was 8 years ago, and as I still had a lot of clothes from then, I knew what it would be like getting to this weight again. From now though, it's unknown ground, as I have no idea what it will be like weighing less than I do right now. Must have weighed less than this at some point in my life, but certainly can't remember it! Great to be joining you all for the ride of our lives!!

Would like in this club for sure. Can't say I am the poster child for this, but then again maybe. For me it's ALWAYS been an up and down thing. I was a very small baby, turned into a chunky toddler, a just right pre-schooler and into about 4th grade was "fine". Got into middle school and 5th grade came along w/ my first period. And the weight gain began!! Was pretty much the "fat girl" until 9th grade when I started starving myself, eating only lettuce for days into weeks sometimes, ended up in the ER a couple times for low iron and hemoglobin. Makes me sad to think about it, got down to about 120 and everyone told me you look "sickly", the same people that sad I was to fat. So I started eating again, met my current husband, started dating him, was a healthy but not toned 140, got married and had two kids and been on the up up and up ever since!! Got down to 185 lbs last August, was feeling really good. Ended up getting very depressed over the winter, Dr.'s say SAD (especially worse living in MN) and I started on St. John's Wort and now I am at a place mentally where now I HAVE to change, I WANT to change, I NEED to change and I am ready to CHANGE!! I don't want to be a super model. I want to be a good role-model for my girls, that is the NUMBER 1 thing in it for me.

heavest - 265
current - 227
goal - 160 to 180

Hello all, i have been a size 18 for WAY too long, i am currently 31 yrs old and now i am at my high school weight and size. Happy to say that this is the thinnest i have been my adult life. i refused to be on a diet for years because my mother dragged me to them with her. She was on WW, nutrisystem (when they had actual stores in towns), Jenny Craig, Over eaters... etc, i did not want to fall into that pit that she was in, losing 20 and gaining 40 afterward. she was eventually around 320 and got the stomach surgery. During these years i had a child, who is now 11yrs old, got a divorce and living in Sedona AZ. My mother and i now wear the same size clothes (this is strange). All i want is to be healthy, and wear a conservitive (due to strech marks) swimsuit and feel damn proud. i am lucky to be so tall (5' 8") so i can weigh more than a 5' person (sorry). When its all said and done i have come a long way, and most of it was without dieting, just moving my body alot (thank you retail work). Now that I am at that HS weight this last year has been hard... i got down to 215 in Aug, but then i quit smoking on the 17th (the day after my birthday). I knew some weight could be gained, got up to 232. I am not too worried, i just know i needed a little bit more help to get this last 30 lbs off... it could be more, i am just going with how i feel.

also... We all are beautiful.... Say something about yourself to yourself that is your best feature. There is nothing better than positve reinforcement to keep yourself on your goals.