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Seeking male and female friends on site to give and seek encouragement.
In November I lost my job of 16 years. Wracked with depression, diabetes, bad cholesterol, a crumbling 6-year relationship and gaining back most of my 115 lb. weight loss of ten years ago, I was up against it. My career as a teacher was over; my acting career was in the past, my writing career flatter than a pancake and my…
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I welcome all potential friends.
January 9, Day seven begins, food has been good, tend to use exercise to get a little more calories in. Not spending any time at the gym where i need to work on my conditioning. My back is so bad. I am in pain when I play tennis, my body cannot hold up my weight. I look at the pic where I lost 115 and gained back all but…
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The Guaranteed Way to Lose Weight. PART ONE
Recently I’ve been in terrible emotional pain. The issues are varied but the worst part was I was using food to deal with my pain, it’s my perfect sedative, my heroin. Did you know how heroin was named? Heroin is named after the German word for powerful, heroic, heroisch. It’s inventors were that excited about its…
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Quoting Aesop on my first day.
So today is day one and I’m free-associating on various quotes; A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~ Aesop – So I love this quote and how it pertains to the journey I’m about to go on. At first my food might feel like crusts compared to the great home cooked food my new girlfriend has been…
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the most important weight loss - between my ears
So I get on the scale feeling like I've gained 5 lbs. (because I'm insane) and it's now official, I weighed 299 (actually a tad under). Really the reason I feared the weight gain was because I could feel last nights dinner in me. I was stood up by a client and made a bowl of cereal, banana and milk. I weighed and measured…
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Today I weighed 299.8 lbs.
Two years ago I weighed 365 lbs.. Usually because of the great amounts of weight I have to lose I decided to only count one pound at a time, no fractions. (had a big yoyo in between) It's really cute when a child says, "I'm 3 1/2 years old." It's funny when a teen says, "I'm 14 1/2 years old." It doesn't work again until…
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have I gone insane?
Have I gone bonkers? The answer is - kind of, yeah, Allan you've gone somewhat bonkers. So I weighed 365 two years ago and after a year of hard work got it down to 240. Then the site I counted calories on had a beta version that destroyed all my records and I decided (like an alcoholic) to go on my own. I went up to 327…
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Have I gone bonkers?
Have I gone bonkers? The answer is - kind of, yeah, Allan you've gone somewhat bonkers. So I weighed 365 two years ago and after a year of hard work got it down to 240. Then the site I counted calories on had a beta version that destroyed all my records and I decided (like an alcoholic) to go on my own. I went up to 327…
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What I learned losing a 100 lbs, gaining it and now losing a
1) I learned counting calories, that means weighing and measuring my food is the only way I will ever lose and keep weight off. 2) Without exersize it will take a looooong time to lose, but it's possible. 3) have to do this for the rest of my life or I'm kidding myself. 4) Community support on different levels is a must.…
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Guaranteed way to attract lovers
So you might think the best way to attract lovers is to lose all your extra weight. That wouldn't hurt, but that's not the key. Here's the bottom line - if you want someone to be attracted to you - you better like yourself and then you can attract others (not all) just by virtue of feeling good about yourself. I'm feeling…
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What's your short term goal?
Set Your Goals High Enough To Inspire You And Low Enough To Encourage You. ~ Unknown Just finished my first short term goal. thirty straight days of counting my calories. My reward, I gave away 19 pounds. The equivalent of one 16 pound bowling ball and three pounds of fish wrapped in butcher's paper. So now I weigh 308.…
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Weight charts are criminal.
My ideal weight is 215 lbs. this was found by getting tested at a special facility. Yes, I have big bones and muscular legs. Charts say at that weight I'd be obese. The only way I'll ever get to 185 is by amputation. The bad news is I went through childhood labeled obese even though I was just out of shape. The good news…
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The Invisible Man
I weighed 367 pounds a few years ago and at six feet tall with a waist in the 60 inch range I could be seen from quite a distance, but when walking down a hallway with an attractive woman walking towards me, I just had to look in her eyes and see I was invisible. Over a period of a year I lost about 120 lbs. and with every…
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Hi, I'm new and I have a question.
First of all Hi, not sure how to develop friendships on the site yet. I'm a male writer living in L.A., lost 115 lbs two years ago and then the weight loss counting site I worked with went beta and destroyed all my records and that of every member's. I gained most of my weight back as i tried to get back on course and hit…
