Obesity/Overweight

[livingwith]

I have always been over weight, and it has taken me over 30 yrs to deal with why I am over weight. While why I became over weight in the first place is a issue, right now my issue is dealing with the weight and trying to lose it. The reason I am even righting this and sharing my shame is because if I can help one person from getting where I am right now it will be worth it.
Currently I weight six hundred and ninety pounds (690lb) that’s right I wrote it out because that is not a typo. I w...Read the full article

[beth1954]

Dear sweet "living with,"

I feel your pain, your shame and humiliation. The most I got up to was 305 lbs and it was horrible.
I could not get on the floor anymore to do anything because it took so long for me to get up and took everything in me to get up. I can imagine how you felt when you had to have strangers help you up.

I suggest going to a site called "The Daily Plate." It's a GREAT site. It has some tips and everything on losing weight. Also has a forum, but most of the people on there seem to already be quite fit and on protein drinks (don't do that) and are a bit critical too. I rarely get on there, and then just to read. It's one of those kind of "negative" forums.

BUT "The Daily Plate" is part of this whole site. It appears that the site was started by Lance Armstrong.

What I like about the DP is that you type in everything you eat. It calculates the fat, carbs, sodium, fiber, etc. for each thing you eat. As you add things, it recalculates and updates it. I don't know how I lived without it!! I was just kind of floundering trying to stay at a certain amount of calories.

On the forums, the one thing they stress is not to eat too LITTLE. You are definitely eating too little. When you only eath 1200 calories, your body feels like it starving to death, and goes into a mode where almost everything you eat turns to fat. Your body wants to hold on to it, because it thinks it's not getting enough fuel (and it's NOT at 1200 calories.) DON'T TORTURE YOURSELF EATING SO LITTLE!!!

There is a place on that site where you enter your weight, and some other things, and it will calculate how much you should eat and still lose weight. I did go a little under what was suggested for me, but not too much. As long as you eat good things, calories don't matter that much--I mean a little bit, but you can definitely eat more than you are!! Also, if you are addicted to chocolate like I am, I eat about 4-6 Hershey's kisses every night. It's not gonna kill me. If you deprive yourself from EVERYTHING that you love, you will fail. 1200 calories isn't enough to fuel your body to get up and go to the bathroom. Your weight requires more. PLEASE PLEASE go to this site. It's so helpful. I started losing weight in September because of high cholesterol. then my knee started in (I've had bad knees for a long time, but now I am "bone-to-bone" on my right knee. I am going to need a total knee replacement before the end of this year. I have had two surgeries on my feet (weight is partially responsible for the surgeries.) When I am in excrutiating pain because of my knee or my feet, I just want to find a couple of thousand young people and tell them to TAKE CARE OF THEIR BODIES. No one should have to go through what you and I and countless other overweight people go through. We really don't think about the future and how it will affect us until we get there. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Research, etc. By the way, I'm not on some kind of fad diet. I lowered my calories and I'm trying to eat the right things and mostly stay away from fat. I even have a candy bar occasionally.
The weight has come off slow (50 pounds since September) but that's OK. I'll be praying for you.
Beth

P.S. I didn't "proof" this, so there might be alot of typos!