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Hi Everyone,
My name is Tina and I just joined the board. I know there are a variety of different stories here... so I thought I would chime in with mine. I've been overweight since I was about 10 years old.
There's only been one period in my life when I was truly successful at making a lifestyle change to the point where I lost a lot of weight and was relatively healthy. My previous highest weight was about 250, during this period I got down to 180.
Unfortunately this shining moment of my life happened was while I was in college, following my favorite band around the country... I was living the rock and roll lifestyle of eating one, possibly two small meals a day and then dancing for hours every night. It wasn't sustainable as a way of life, which I realized and started to use the momentum I had to make lasting changes with going to the gym every, keeping the junk food to a minimum and keeping my portions in control. I was doing great., just 30 lbs away from my goal (I've never been at 150 before).. and then I met my husband.
Like many people who find the one person who completely accepts them for who they are, I was happy... and I got lazy. I stopped going to the gym, I started eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted again and the weight all came back and then some. I was disgusted with myself to say the least. I was about 320 when I finally looked at a scale again, which was shortly before our wedding 3 years after my husband and I met. Unbelieveably he's never said a word outside of being concerned for my health, he loves me for who I am and that's great... but I don't love me like this.
Shortly after our wedding, I became pregnant with our son, Kieran. He's 2 years old now and despite the promises to myself to lose the weight before he's old enough for me to have to keep up with him, I'm finding myself exactly where I was after deliving him. Now that he's walking and running around, I'm feeling more and more like I'm going to be robbing him of the mother I could be if I were thin... the mother I wanted my mother to be had she been thin.
I was recruited by Microsoft about a year ago. Part of the health benefits is a weight loss program offered by a local gym... it's this really comprehensive program where you have your own doctor, personal trainer, nutrionist and psychologist as well as group therapy. I started it around this time last year. I did well at first, I started at 342 and got down to about 313 over the course of 5 months... but then life got in the way, I fell off the program and canceled the remaining sessions I had.
Now here I am 6 months later and I'm back at 333, just 9 lbs shy of where I was before starting the program a year ago. More time wasted... again.
I tried Atkins before and had some success, but admitedly, I didn't stick to it for very long after the initial dramatic drop. I do remember it being the most do-able of all the eating plans I've ever tried, so I'm going to give it another shot and hopefully this time stick with it.
Rght now I'm at a point in my life where I'm getting desperate and I need to do something, both for my own health and so I can be the wife and mother I want to be.
I'm seeing a therapist to deal with my emotional eating issues (they are many and varied), so I thought it would be a good idea to have the group support through a forum like this.
Anyway... thanks for reading, looking forward to getting to know you all!
Take care,
Tina
My name is Tina and I just joined the board. I know there are a variety of different stories here... so I thought I would chime in with mine. I've been overweight since I was about 10 years old.
There's only been one period in my life when I was truly successful at making a lifestyle change to the point where I lost a lot of weight and was relatively healthy. My previous highest weight was about 250, during this period I got down to 180.
Unfortunately this shining moment of my life happened was while I was in college, following my favorite band around the country... I was living the rock and roll lifestyle of eating one, possibly two small meals a day and then dancing for hours every night. It wasn't sustainable as a way of life, which I realized and started to use the momentum I had to make lasting changes with going to the gym every, keeping the junk food to a minimum and keeping my portions in control. I was doing great., just 30 lbs away from my goal (I've never been at 150 before).. and then I met my husband.
Like many people who find the one person who completely accepts them for who they are, I was happy... and I got lazy. I stopped going to the gym, I started eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted again and the weight all came back and then some. I was disgusted with myself to say the least. I was about 320 when I finally looked at a scale again, which was shortly before our wedding 3 years after my husband and I met. Unbelieveably he's never said a word outside of being concerned for my health, he loves me for who I am and that's great... but I don't love me like this.
Shortly after our wedding, I became pregnant with our son, Kieran. He's 2 years old now and despite the promises to myself to lose the weight before he's old enough for me to have to keep up with him, I'm finding myself exactly where I was after deliving him. Now that he's walking and running around, I'm feeling more and more like I'm going to be robbing him of the mother I could be if I were thin... the mother I wanted my mother to be had she been thin.
I was recruited by Microsoft about a year ago. Part of the health benefits is a weight loss program offered by a local gym... it's this really comprehensive program where you have your own doctor, personal trainer, nutrionist and psychologist as well as group therapy. I started it around this time last year. I did well at first, I started at 342 and got down to about 313 over the course of 5 months... but then life got in the way, I fell off the program and canceled the remaining sessions I had.
Now here I am 6 months later and I'm back at 333, just 9 lbs shy of where I was before starting the program a year ago. More time wasted... again.
I tried Atkins before and had some success, but admitedly, I didn't stick to it for very long after the initial dramatic drop. I do remember it being the most do-able of all the eating plans I've ever tried, so I'm going to give it another shot and hopefully this time stick with it.
Rght now I'm at a point in my life where I'm getting desperate and I need to do something, both for my own health and so I can be the wife and mother I want to be.
I'm seeing a therapist to deal with my emotional eating issues (they are many and varied), so I thought it would be a good idea to have the group support through a forum like this.
Anyway... thanks for reading, looking forward to getting to know you all!
Take care,
Tina
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