Re: Having a wieghty personality.

[Guest guest]

To All, Well here I go again. I am 5'2 " tall in my bare feet that is

standing head to toe upright. I am also 4 foot wide if you measure me from

side to side. I have lost and gained more weight than an elephant. I have

tried weight watchers. tops, adkins. They all work, it is me that seems to

be unable to stick to any one of them for a long enough period of time. I

hate being fat. Especially since little Jessie has come into my life. I

love being able to get down on the floor and play wit her.

Food has become my crutch in life. I eat for a variety of reason. all which

are seldom real hunger. I swore when I saw the wedding pictures of my son

wedding that I would diet before my daughter got married as I hated the way I

looked. I have good intenetions every night before I go to bed. I promise

that in the morning I will do what is right and get on top of my weight and

manage it. Aproper diet with some proper exercise. Then morning comes and

its a brand new day and I need to get up and I am so tired and I feel so bad

and everything hurts and maybe I will just have this one thing and it will

make me fill like I have a little more energy. I believe I have learned to

eat to feel and deal with everything. I am not into sweets so much it is the

salty crutch foods that I reach for.

Last year when my daughter got pregnant I beside that I would eat health wit

her for the next nine months and how ever much weight she gained I promised

to lose that much. I made the promise just to myself, no one else knew. I

am ashamed to say when I started this program I was at 232lbs. I am proud to

say that today this very day that I weigh 181. I am still very over weight

but I can't tell you ow much better I feel. I am still not following any set

fast rule except. Only two snack nights a week.

I have a terrible cas of GERD and reflux. I have had two procedures to

correct but no have worked. I have learned to eat small portions and I am

trying to learn what is hungry and what is need. I eat more for need than

hunger.

Let start a group to help each other, but lets promise that we except each

other just the weigh we are. Clean house or cluttered house rich or poor.

God sound like s wedding vow.

Love and Hugs

Sharon in Ohio

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hi sharon,,,,

my problem is slightly different but not uncommon i think....

i wake up refreshed in the morning,,,,but have to pop 3 ibuprofen to bring

the pain in my hips down to a dull roar.....

i only have coffee, with non fat creamer, and no sugar,(not even a substitute.)

once the pain subsides i get moving,,,not fast, not slow...just kind of

half fast....

i dont even think about food as long as i keep busy.....

but, come evening when im totally worn out and tired and feeling sorry for

myself......i grow a snout about a foot long and cant stay away from the

fridge....cant have one baloney sammich,,,(has to be 3)

and for the rest of the night im off and running and like lisa, not so much

cause im hungry,because i usually have a sensible meal....last night it was

steak,,, a very small baked potato and peas and onions.,...only pepper for

seasoning......by 11 when i went to be i had probaly had 3,000 more

calories in junk......

one day ill figure it out....

bob in pa

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hi sue,,,,

i sure do agree with you.....but,,,,,,,im one of those stubborn germans and

50 year old habits are hard to break...

i remember i tried the slim fast diet.....i drank my can of slim fast

faithfully every day for two months.......with that diet i gained about 20

cause about 20 minutes after i drank the can of slim fast id make a big

lunch anyway......

what can i say....snout snout snout........

but now that summer is here, some will come off....when im active all day

and physically tired i dont seem to crave the food so bad.....

bob in pa.......

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[Guest guest]

Bob......

> but, come evening when im totally worn out and tired and feeling sorry

> for

> myself......i grow a snout about a foot long and cant stay away from

> the

> fridge....cant have one baloney sammich,,,(has to be 3)

You sound like one of those folks who are just cut out for that weight

loss stuff called Body Solutions.

Their ads say to take a tablespoon of the 'magic stuff' with a glass of

water right before going to bed,

on an empty stomach..... you can't have eaten or drunk anything (well,

maybe water is okay) for the past

3 hrs. before you take it. Hello? When do most overweight people nab

their calories? In the evening!

They eat a small supper, but then snack in front of the TV till they go

to bed. So stop that, and take the

expensive Body Solution stuff, and you WILL lose weight. You'll also

lose it if you stop that eating, and just

take a no-name cheapie vitamin before going to bed, too.

Sue

[Guest guest]

Sharon.....

> Let start a group to help each other, but lets promise that we except

> each

> other just the weigh we are. Clean house or cluttered house rich or

> poor.

> God sound like s wedding vow.

LOL! Sure does. Well, i'm not overweight, just the opposite. But i am a

fierce and addicted smoker. So i

can relate to using food as a crutch.... i just use cigs. instead. I

quit last yr. for 6 glorious weeks. Felt like

Rocky after he took the match! No more morning headache, no hacking up

nasty stuff and having to quickly

swallow it so as not to offend, no wheezing when i went up the hill to

the parking lot after work, etc. I smelled

nice, my clothes smelled nice, my hair smelled nice.

Then i fell off the wagon. Still laying in the road letting the cig.

truck run over me. Same excuses you have.

You did awesome with your initial weight loss.... 50 lbs.??? Wow!

Wanna help each other? What's a fair

trade? A cig. for a lb.? If you lose one lb., i have to give up one

cig., and vice versa? I smoke about 50

cigs./day. You need to lose about 50 lbs. Sound like a fair trade?

Anyone else want in on this?

Sue

[Guest guest]

Bob, the way I look at it there is just more of us to love. I love to eat

good food. I am in to fish and all that stuff when I am normal but my

problem is that I seldom stay normal for a 24 hour period. When I get up in

the morning I take my eleven pills and twoshots of pepto to get all down then

I take a couple of tyenol so that I can get my fingers and knees moving then

I stumble down the hall and do the morning ritual, then it is coffee with low

cal fat free flavored cremer and oatmeal or fat free yogart.

By that time I am into the house routine and then by the time I get the

basics done I am so tired I need just something to pick me up and then well.

Hey if you figure it out we could market it and sell it and by bigger bost

and sail.

Sharon in Ohio

[Guest guest]

Your on, Sounds great. My husband is a two packer a day smoker. He quite

about 20m yeas ago for three years then he had a heart attack so he figured

it didn't matter and started again. I will ay that since granddaughter has

arrived he has switched brands he says it is his way of winging himself. It

seems our little Miss Jessie doesn't like grandpa's stinky smell when he

picks her up and cuddles her she wrinkles her little nose and cries and

cries. Then oh course our daughter is constantly reminding her Dad about

second had smoke and what he is doing to his grandchild.

As I see it we all have some sort of a grutch one way or another. the

terrible thing is I really like good food. I love veggies and salad and

fruit and sea food and fish. I am really not a big red meat eater. My down

fall is pasta and spicy mexican dishes. My other big down fall is sometimes

I just don't care and I am just to tired to bother about cooking so fast food

heaven. Then the Gerd makes me puke all night and I swear tomorrow will be

different but then!!!!!

Shaorn

[Guest guest]

Hi Guys and Gals;

I am back in action and back home. About his weighty friends thing. You know I am a Turk and in our culture there is still smoking in restaurants except for a few and people still smoke 1 2 3 4 packs a day and I am not exaggerating so for me to quit a pack a day you guys have to lose 5 lbs each for a cig, im in so when you lose 100 lbs for the one that 180 lbs 40 lbs so 2 lbs per cig im in and when you start i start counting cigs so ill quit 1 cig after you say ok. Good Luck(really) Good Weight Losing and Quitting Sigs, Good Halth and Good Heart. Luv Y'all TURK

PS: THIS IS WHAT I CALL A SUPPORT GROUP. C'MON WE CAN DO IT. I promise i will visit each one of you and give you a trophy (after 1 year of keeping the weight down that sound fare right?)

Re: Having a wieghty personality.

Sharon.....> Let start a group to help each other, but lets promise that we except> each> other just the weigh we are. Clean house or cluttered house rich or> poor.> God sound like s wedding vow.LOL! Sure does. Well, i'm not overweight, just the opposite. But i am afierce and addicted smoker. So ican relate to using food as a crutch.... i just use cigs. instead. Iquit last yr. for 6 glorious weeks. Felt likeRocky after he took the match! No more morning headache, no hacking upnasty stuff and having to quicklyswallow it so as not to offend, no wheezing when i went up the hill tothe parking lot after work, etc. I smellednice, my clothes smelled nice, my hair smelled nice. Then i fell off the wagon. Still laying in the road letting the cig.truck run over me. Same excuses you have. You did awesome with your initial weight loss.... 50 lbs.??? Wow!Wanna help each other? What's a fairtrade? A cig. for a lb.? If you lose one lb., i have to give up onecig., and vice versa? I smoke about 50cigs./day. You need to lose about 50 lbs. Sound like a fair trade? Anyone else want in on this? SuePlease visit the Zapper homepage athttp://www.ZapLife.org