MY 100 POUND JOURNEY

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  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,124 Member
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    No new car here.
    Started at 184.2. Today 184.4.
    Guess I'll drive my 15-year old Toyota a few more years.
  • 7freshflowers
    7freshflowers Posts: 222 Member
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    I’m going to start wearing perfume now. I’ve learned it’s important to always smell nice. Although low income, I plan to invest in only 1 bottle of high quality Perfume, not cologne. Anyone have any suggestions? What scent do you wear?

    I do like vanilla, patchouli, gardenia, and sweet, floral scents. I want something I can wear to my congregation meetings, without offending anyone (allergies, etc.)
  • 7freshflowers
    7freshflowers Posts: 222 Member
    edited January 30
    Corina1143 wrote: »
    I'll just wear my grandma jeans 👖, Thank you!
    You’re welcome! No matter how much I weigh, I will only wear jeans that have pockets, an elastic waist, and stretch, for comfort. I guess I wear “grandma jeans” too.👖 👍

  • 7freshflowers
    7freshflowers Posts: 222 Member
    edited January 31
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  • 7freshflowers
    7freshflowers Posts: 222 Member
    edited January 31
    Corina1143 wrote: »
    🙁
    No new car here.
    Started at 184.2. Today 184.4.
    Guess I'll drive my 15-year old Toyota a few more years.
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    Corina, if I were you, I’d embrace the fact that you weigh 185. Make it your goal to stay under 200 lbs, and be healthy, happy, and self-confident. At 5’9” you’re a tall drink of water and can carry the weight. I’m sure you look great.

    The $90 billion dollar Medical/diet industry wants to convince us all that we need to be thin to be healthy and attractive. It’s not true. I’m only 5’5” and although heavy, and a size 16, I’m at my healthiest at 200.
  • dodieneatfreakwannabe
    dodieneatfreakwannabe Posts: 1,406 Member
    7freshflowers wrote: »
    Corina1143 wrote: »
    🙁
    No new car here.
    Started at 184.2. Today 184.4.
    Guess I'll drive my 15-year old Toyota a few more years.
    haw6jgmcavpj.jpeg

    Corina, if I were you, I’d embrace the fact that you weigh 185. Make it your goal to stay under 200 lbs, and be healthy, happy, and self-confident. At 5’9” you’re a tall drink of water and can carry the weight. I’m sure you look great.

    The $90 billion dollar Medical/diet industry wants to convince us all that we need to be thin to be healthy and attractive. It’s not true. I’m only 5’5” and although heavy, and a size 16, I’m at my healthiest at 200.

    184 is my ultimate goal weight!! If I weighed that little, I'd be strutting my stuff. :D
  • dodieneatfreakwannabe
    dodieneatfreakwannabe Posts: 1,406 Member
    edited January 31
    7freshflowers wrote: »
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    Without coffee, I have no personality whatsoever!

    Me, either! I don't remember if I've introduced myself here. If I have, it's been a good while ago, so I'll do a new one.
    My name is Dodie. I live in Georgia. At one point I weighed 356. I had yo-yoed around 320 for years, mostly dieting vacillating between Nutrisystem and Atkins. In 2016 I got down to 286 by eating very poorly, and paid the price for that with ill health, poor dental health, my hair fell out, etc.
    I have struggled greatly with depression especially after my father's death in 2022. Everything just went to hades in a handbasket, I didn't care. I'm a diabetic, and my glucose was very high, cholesterol was a mess, everything on my blood work was really bad. My house became a pit. It was a very low time.

    A change happened, however, when a family member who had been very disrespectful to me at my father's death had come around here to visit around Thanksgiving, and it was sort of the final straw. I decided to start standing up for myself. You cannot beg someone to love you, treat you with respect, or be kind. However, I decided I could love myself, treat myself with respect, and be kinder to me. I decided not to do anymore extreme diets even if that meant weighting over 300 pounds for the rest of my life. I am tired of it. My goal since last May or so has been to eat as many meals 50% fresh, as weell as eating lower fat and mostly protein. I'm feeling better. I had my bloodwork done in November and it was fabulous. My AiC was in the normal non diabetic range, my cholesterol is excellent, etc. My weight is going up and down between 295- 308 for the last four or five months. This week I'm up and down between 298-303. The scale can't seem to make up it's mind. ha ha.

    I read a lot of your posts and it was like reading my own words. Two days ago I went to visit my mother and we went to Sprouts, a local health food store. The people in there were so mean, with people taking pictures of me with their phone. I don't really get that, it's so rude and degrading.

    I really want to be normal. I want to fit into normal seats, to be able to cross my legs, to be able to walk up stairs or go for a walk in the woods. I want to not have leg cramps. I want to eat out without being stared at, ridiculed, or having to struggle to sit in the booth. I want to travel and to be able to walk without assistance. I want to be able to buy clothes in a normal store, even plus size clothes. I want to be able to be friendly without having to try to overcome the first impressions my weight seems to give to people in general that I'm scary or aggressive. I'd like to be able to give free classes or instruction in areas that I have expertise in, but right now my appearance is such that I don't have credibility with an audience. My weight has become a barrier.

    I'd really like to go on a date with a nice man. I just turned 61, and I don't want to be debilitated by my weight and negative self view anymore. I can't go back to the girl I was at 16 before I screwed up my life. But, I can be me, like myself, and have a life I enjoy. I have to believe that.

    Nice to meet all of you.

    Dodie
  • 7freshflowers
    7freshflowers Posts: 222 Member
    dodieneatfreakwannabe wrote: »
    My name is Dodie. I decided not to do anymore extreme diets even if that meant weighting over 300 pounds for the rest of my life. This week I'm up and down between 298-303. I read a lot of your posts and it was like reading my own words.

    I'd really like to go on a date with a nice man. I just turned 61, and I don't want to be debilitated by my weight and negative self view anymore. I can be me, like myself, and have a life I enjoy. I have to believe that.
    Yes. You can “believe that” Dodie, because it’s true. 👏 😀
  • 7freshflowers
    7freshflowers Posts: 222 Member
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  • 7freshflowers
    7freshflowers Posts: 222 Member
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    Weight loss and the color of your plate

    Most people fail to keep track of their calorie intake and end up overeating. This is where the color of your plate comes into play.
    Studies suggest that people tend to eat less if there is a higher contrast in colors between the plate and the food. If you eat light-colored food from a dark colored plate, you will probably eat less. The reasons being the portion of your food looks greater as it stands out in a darker plate. In a light colored plate, it just blends and you overeat

    The right color

    Bright colors like -yellow, orange, and red, are known to stimulate our appetites the most. These colors, especially red, increase our blood pressure and heart rate, making us feel more hungry. However, grey, black, brown, and purple are considered as an appetite suppressant. By having food in plates of these colours, the chances of overeating decreases. The blue color is considered the best among all. Science suggests that eating in the dark blue plate can help you control the portion size in a better way.


  • pw813
    pw813 Posts: 2 Member
    edited February 4
    Hey Everyone! My name is Sharon and I need to lose over 100 lbs. I was never heavy until my late
    20s which was over 30 years ago. My current weight is 290 and I would like to lose 130 lbs. I need to lose, not only for physical reasons but mental reasons also. I find that I don't engage socially like I used to for fear of ridicule or failure due to my weight. I know my fear is self-imposed and people don't see me the way I think they do but it is an issue for me. I am the first to cheer others on but, as some will say, I am very hard on myself. I have tried several weight loss programs but realized any results were short lived because the programs did not change my mindset towards food.I am looking forward to this journey! Good luck to everyone! We've got this!!

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