Good Morning......I am Teresa..long lol

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Registered: 02-19-2005
Good Morning......I am Teresa..long lol
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Sat, 02-19-2005 - 7:48am
Hi everyone, I ran across this site looking for something else but am so happy to finally found a place that I might find the support that I need. I like so many here have did the ups and downs of dieting for years. I am now at my highest 267.5, and to be real honest I am miserable, and it seem the harder I try the more my weight has climbed. I believe though that I am my own worst enemy. I sometimes feel that I hide behind this weight, and that I am truthful afraid of success. I know that probably doesn't make any sense, because on one hand I am so miserable and can't stand this body that I have allowed myself to become trapped in, but then in the same breath I can come up with the.... well as long as I am this big, nobody will want to get any closer. But in the last couple months I have finally come to terms with some of that, and decided that it is no longer about wanting to be that woman that stops traffic...lol... I just want to be healthy and be comfortable with myself... I have missed out on so much with my children because of my weight, yet I have also passed on my very unhealthy eating patterns to 2 of children and both are very big for children their age.. and this just breaks my heart. So this isn't just about me anymore, this about giving my family a chance to break the pattern of obesity, and become healthy. I guess I have really rambled, but I think that is part of what I need is a place that I can put my feelings out there, and know that there is others that can relate and understand. Thank you for letting me be a part of this journey, and I am looking forward to getting to know everyone... have a great day everyone.. Teresa
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Sat, 02-19-2005 - 10:54am

Hello Teresa :)


it is so hard to be a parent

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Sat, 02-19-2005 - 10:55am
And omg...I just really looked at your screen name...Three boys?!!
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Sat, 02-19-2005 - 2:20pm
Hello! I also find it hard to swallow that I have passed on my lack of control--to the person I love most in the world, my son. While he is not extremely overweight (his doc has said nothing) he is more than solid. That is the way most friends describe him because he is also very tall and his 9yo shoulders require a medium men's shirt, but...he has a bit draping over the belt, if you know what I mean. He is built exactly like his father. Right down to the bubble-butt! Anyway. We don't have a lot of crap in the house. We cleared the pantry a long time ago. I cook almost every night. Most of the meals are healthy, but he, like many of us, eats too much and exercises too little. He is always hungry. Or, thinks he is. Does any of this sound like your situation, momof3bratboys? skye
Skye 255/225/155
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Sat, 02-19-2005 - 11:59pm
Oh yes that sounds alot like my littlest guy, who is also 9, but he's bigger than that, we bypassed the mens med. a little over a year ago, so will give ya idea of how big he is. I to find that even if he is eating healthy foods, he just has no self control... geez imagine where he learned that from.... we have actually tried the portion control, and he will literally cry and scream for more. That is one of my biggest goal right now is to try a cook more for us, it seems with my boys and all their activites we are constantly on the go, and it has become way to easy to grab fast food or something from the station.
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Sun, 02-20-2005 - 12:13am
Yep, Shawna three boys... and some days it is OMG...lol:) I haven't honest came up with a game plan yet, other than I KNOW the junk food in this house has to go, it is so bad that I am embarrassed. I am talking about 1/2 of grocery sack of different chocolate candy bars, a ton of different snack cakes, chips, and the list goes on and on. And I wonder how I got this big..lol..the only positive I have found is that I have traded my addiction for Mt. Dew for diet Dr. Pepper and water. I truely have tried every diet plan out there, and every diet pill, even I know that most probably failed because I wasn't giving my all to them. So for now I think it more about a lifestyle change than a diet, though if I am to decide to go back to a diet plan it will probably be Weight Watchers, because I felt that was the one that I wasn't limited to what I could eat if I was willing to sacrifice the points, and I found that I was more willing to find something healthy and low in points because I still had that need to feel like I was eating lots of food.
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Sun, 02-20-2005 - 10:11am

Sounds like my kind of pantry!