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| Fri, 09-16-2005 - 10:17pm |
Hi... Ummm... this is my first time here so I dont really know how it works. But I know I need to do SOMETHING!! I am 29, the mother of 7 and after I delivered my last baby I was at 338lbs. That was on 07/15/05! I am 5 feet 7 inches tall and my BMI is like 56-57. I was down to 240 from 325 but then in December 2003 I got pregnant for my sixth baby. 2 months after he was born I was pregnant again!! Soooo I am at my worst and I feel my worst. My husband is feeling it too. He is up to over 400lbs! It makes me sad to see all the things in my kids lives go by and we are to embarressed to go. When we go to things at their school the kids make fun of us to them. I dont want to be like this anymore but I just dont have the motivation to do anything about it. I have lost contact with all my old friends and Im shy so I dont have anyone to help. Thats how I found my way here. I needed a place to talk and share my feelings to get help and ideas. I have been to other sites but most of the people dont really want to help you. This site seems to truely want to help people not just say I'm hopeless and should have surgery. I want to do this my way. What I need is help with planning meals on a budget and for a large family. Maybe a friend or two near me that could keep me motivated to go for walks and to exercise. I placed a bookmark on my tv for 2 exercise shows with the intention of watching them. That was a month ago and all I have done is switch it back to my kids cartoons. I finally deleted the bookmarks today feeling lost. I have been overweight sence I was in 3rd grade and I have strugled more because of it. I once paid over 1500 dollars to ballys for a membership I used maybe 10 times. I need help before it is too late. I would be happy to be 220! Well I guess that is me. Thanks for listening.
Theresa Ditmore




Hello there;
I am new here too. There is supposed to be a place to journal. Is this it? I am not sure but, you sound desperate and I can relate to that feeling. I came here feeling the same way. I am 257lbs, 37, two children, I feel my weight continuing to rise. I posted a couple of messages and so far got some great tips. I feel the support here too and know it will help. Keep your faith that you can do this. It is a choice. To be fat or not. I know it is not as easy as it sounds. I have been struggling for a long time with this. I eat when I am not hungry and I stuff myself like I am not going to get food again. I am going to start posting to the board every day even when I eat awful. I am going to try to particapate in this board as much as I can. I will keep looking in on you. Maybe we can be good support for each other. I am going to try to take some of the suggestions. I haven't yet. I was going to walk the other day and I didn't. I need to plan my day around my exercise and eating habits. Not plan my food and exercise around my day cause it always gets way to busy. speaking of busy. Seven? Wow. You got your hands full. Well, I hope to chat soon. I am going to get up in the am and start to post right after I get out of bed. Then I am going to do everything in my power to stick to it. I am tired of fooling around. I am in so much pain from being over weight. Mentally, physically and spiritually. It is so draining. Well, You take care.
Allie.........
Wow, 29 with 7 kids? Shoot, I'm 29 (Well, I tured 30 today, but f$%^ that LOL), and I don't even have one. Well, I'd need a man, first. Um.... Haven't worked on that in a while... oops.... LOL
This board is great. They really know what it's like to have that long stretch in front of you that seems impossible. I'm so glad I found it. Those other boards are lame because you meet this little women who need to lose, like, nine pounds. They whine about it, too. Please! I WISH i had only nine pounds to lose instead of 90. Honestly.
Girl, if you can run a house with eight kids (husbands count, whether they like it or not!), then you can totally do this thing! Just kick it in the face and tell it who its daddy is! ;-)
Welcome!
I hope for all the same. I know the feeling of saying I am going to start tomarrow and it never comes. I sit here ever night and say I am going to take the baby for a walk in the morning, I get up, get dressed and get side-tracked. My hubby bless his heart is NOOOO help. He tells me I am so perfect. I keep telling him by making me feel great in my skin you are killing me. I wont do that to him. I am honest with him. I tell him I love you but I want to grow old with you and if we dont stop now we are going to leave our babies way to early. While I was pregnant with all my babies I had gestational diabetes which helped oh so much in making my body go from 180lbs at 17 to my HUGE 338lb body. I go to the DR. next week and I know he is going to yell at me!! I feel so lost. It is so hard to change habits you have been perfecting for years :) I am so bad that me and my mother-in-law who is 4'11" 290lbs. started our own weight loss group.... we gained weight!! It was just sad :( I told her about this site in hoping she could get help. She needs it worse that I do. Oops see I always try to help everyone but me. Its time for me to help myself and not to feed my face. I dont think foods really my problem though. I only eat once a day(problem 1) I dont make the right foods(problem 2) Im not good with portions(problem 3) we eat out ALOT(major problem). Hmmm. Ok so I may have a problem... DENIAL!! I need to get out there and exercise. We are moving to our first home in a few weeks and my mother(who is only 140lbs) is giving me her tredmill. She says she wants to help me not be so fat. Geeze that made me feel like a HIPPO! So I will have it but will I use it???? I say yes now but it will probebly collect dust. Ugh!! I have a picture my babies colored of a pig that they wrote on it "is this you?" and hung on our refrigerator! Boy did that slow down the snacking. Too bad laughing doesnt burn calories. Oh before I go this isnt the journal I belive it is lower down. Thanks and I hope to talk to you again! We will loose this other person attatched to us together :)
Theresa
Thanks sooo much!! Im going to go start my journal now and hope that tomarrow I will get up, get dressed, and go for that walk!! Thanks I'm glad to be here.
Theresa
Welcome, Theresa!
I was a member of this board last year and lost over 40 pounds with the help of these wonderful women.
~~Linda
I sure do. Having so many kids actually stops me from doing alot of what I should do. Its hard to find the time to exercise when I am alsways with them. My hubby is trying to help but he works for Avery Dennison and they work 12.25hr shifts and they switch 1 month nights and the next month days and they alternate which days so some weeks he works 3 days and some 4 and they are on massive overtime. While the money is good I'm alone ALOT. Soooo everything I do has to work with my kids. Right now I only eat once a day and have done so for a long while so I thing my first hurdle would be to get my metabolizm working again.... I just dont know the best route to go? I know eating every 4hrs is best but I'm not sure how much or what is best. I guess I should pick a plan then figure out what to eat. Maybe I'll post and see what people recommend!! Thanks!!
theresa