QOTW! If U Knew Then What U Know Now

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QOTW! If U Knew Then What U Know Now
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Tue, 06-22-2004 - 8:49pm

If you could go back to the age of 8, but know everything that you know now about weight loss/dieting/health, what would you do differently?

 

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Registered: 04-16-2004
Tue, 06-22-2004 - 9:02pm
I would have started exercising when I was 95 pounds.
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Registered: 05-23-2004
Tue, 06-22-2004 - 9:15pm
I'd go back and start eating the all the fresh and healthy veggies that I turned my nose up at when I was 8. I'd also stay away from the fried potatoes and biscuit-n-gravy. I was pretty much average weight then and played B-ball. I must have had the metabolism of a hummingbird though because all I ever ate was fried and fatty foods. I never actually learned or had examples of healthy eating. Most of my family at that time were overweight to some degree. Many of them had diabetes and heart problems also. Still we all ate like it was going out of style. Ever meal was a "pig fest". In a really sick way, I think food became the center of family time. It was love, comfort, happiness. Your whole day might stink, but darn it you could go home and eat a huge meal while surrounded by family. (does that make sense?)

After I moved out on my own I just continued eating that way. Gee, how well that's turned out :P

Vikki

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Registered: 05-17-2004
Tue, 06-22-2004 - 10:02pm

I'd have kept playing outside :)

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Fear

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Registered: 06-13-2003
Tue, 06-22-2004 - 10:55pm
I have to say ditto to that. I ballooned in weight from age 8 to 10 precisely because I quit playing outside. And since I learned to cook about that time, I also never made anything with a vegetable in it (A habit that I am slowly breaking).

Along with that, I probably would have tried to be less-nerdy. Since I grew up in a neighborhood with no kids, I was used to acting like an adult (Picture a fat boy in fifth grade talking about Iran-Contra, or the reasons the US invaded Panama). I would have definitely talked to girls more (but not about Iran-Contra).

Tony

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Registered: 06-18-2004
Wed, 06-23-2004 - 7:16am
I would have stayed away from Ms Donalds BK Taco Bell all them fast food places I couldn't get enough of.... every time I didn't like what my mom was fixing I would

 

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Registered: 12-06-2003
Wed, 06-23-2004 - 9:39am

I didnt have the problem REALLY till I was an adult...but I would make some sort of sport a regular in my life . Through highschool I played softball and volleyball and cheer but I didnt stay on top of it when I "grew up" and I am wonderign now if I need to be EXTREMELY active to maintain a "normal" figure ???


well hell that just stinks cause can you imagine a 280 pound chicka running to third...I dont think so . grrrrr

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Registered: 06-16-2004
Wed, 06-23-2004 - 10:39am

Hi there Rely!

 

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Registered: 03-11-2004
Wed, 06-23-2004 - 11:54am
Never go on birth control pills. Never marry the man I married. Never let myself get this fat before deciding to do something about it. Hugs, Brenda

Hugs, Brenda 

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Registered: 06-23-2004
Wed, 06-23-2004 - 6:43pm
Good question. I would never diet. I'd just get educated. I'd concentrate on seizing the day. I'd would have done everything in life I desired to do.

I'm a thin person now because of that, but if I began that as a child, I would not feel as though I've wasted away ten years of my life. When I was obese, I felt as though I was in hiding. Funny as it was, I wasn't even comfortable with myself in the privacy of my own home. Anyway, I'm rambling.

Once again, great question!

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Registered: 04-05-2003
Wed, 06-23-2004 - 6:54pm
I'm really not sure I would have changed anything. I was active in my childhood.

I've actually been thinking about this a lot. Personally, my weight loss journey has been a huge journey into myself. I never had a bad self esteem when I was at my heaviest, but I also thought I could never put in the time and effort to lose the weight either. I thought I'd get bored and get off track. Losing weight is the best thing I have ever done for myself, even above quitting smoking (because that really wasn't that hard for me at all). So, honestly...I'm glad I went through this journey. It was the toughest change, but the most rewarding change I've ever done, and it showed me that I am capable of doing anything I put my mind to. ;) .








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