New Member

[Guest guest]

I am new to this list and am hoping it will help me. I've been on

diet after diet (usually WW) and it gets harder and less successful

every time. It's almost like I eat to sabotage myself - I say today

is the day I'm going to do it, and then I get a craving for fries, so

I say, ok tomorrow is the day. After all, what is one more day of

eating badly going to do to me? But I can't stop at one day, I go on

to the next day and the next and the next. I eat when I'm not

hungry, I eat when I'm bored, I eat when I feel down, you name it.

I'm not extremely large (5'7 and 200 pounds) but when I think that I

was once 130, I get scared. It was only a few pounds here and there

but look what it has added up to so far.

I don't know how to stop eating. That sounds stupid I know, but

that's how it is. I like lots of good foods, and I'll cook up some

vegetables but then I'll cook them in oil, so there goes that idea.

Or I'll have carrots but I'll dip them in ranch dressing (and not the

fat free kind either).

I am afraid that one day I'll wake up and realize I am obese and

unhealthy. If I can't lose 50 pounds today how will I lose 100 in

ten years.

I need ideas! I desperately want to get to a healthy weight but just

can't do it alone! I guess I'm just looking for support from people

who know what it's like. I have support from family and friends, but

they don't know what it's like to see a tub of icecream and want to

eat the whole thing in one sitting.

So that's me. Long message I know, but I'm glad I've been able to

find an outlet!

a