newbie to this forum

I weigh 330lbs and have succeeded twice at losing 70 plus bounds, but lately have been depressed and stressed and now am back up to this high weight.

I am considering weightloss surgery, but the idea of surgery really freaks me out, plus I am on a budget and do not have money for surgery right now.

I am going to go back to watching my calories and trying to a do zone-form diet.

Hi!
I know how hard it is when you're dealing with a lot of stress and depression to lose or even maintain your weight. I've struggled with my weight for most of my life, and can definantly pinpoint times of high stress/depression when my weight climbed. I'm trying to change my way of dealing with stress currently. As of now, i'm not eligable for wls with my insurance (simply bc i'm not diabetic, dispite other comorbidities, what a crock...anyway) but I am trying Atkins to lose some weight becasue I had to do something. I'm working with my PCP and a councilor about my depression, and have found an antidepressent that seems to be working for me. I'm learning how to deal with stress without eating my feelings. So far so good, I'm on day 13 of my Atkins plan. I've been just taking things one day at a time, because if I start looking ahead to how much weight I have to lose, I just get overwhelmed and want to give up. I've been getting a lot of support on the OH message boards too. That helps because I don't have a big support system in the 'real world'.

Whatever you decide to persue, I suggest talking to your doctor or a councilor about you're stress and depression issues. It really does make a difference on how sucessfull you'll be if you take care of yourself as a whole.

Take care, and good luck!
-Heather S.

P.S. I usually post on the non-surgical weighloss forum, if you decide you can't do surgery right now, they're a great bunch of women and terrific at support and motivation help!!

thank you so much!

I talked briefly with my doctor about possibly being depressed....and I tried something, but it didn't work for long.....the bottom line is that everyone says I will feel better once I do more exercise and get some of this weight off (the main point of my depression was fatigue).....

thank you for your encouragement....I am sending a hug back. :)

Its funny how people can say  that your depression is mostly fatigue and if you get up, exercise, and lose some weight you'll feel better. When people tell me that, I want to scream. If it was that easy, I would be skinny and not depressed!! lol  It's hard to break out the depression cycle enough to gain the energy to get up and exercise everyday. Its a struggle to keep doing it enough that the depression fades and the weight starts coming off. And its soo hard not to fall back into old routines that lead back to the depression cycle. Ugh!

Welcome to over 50! This is a wonderful forum full of kinb supportive people.

You can do this...whatever you decide!

This is a very supportive board. I'm non-surgical myself so far (unable to quit smoking). Something Atkins-like is a great starting place. The non-surgical bard seems like a nice place too, but these folks here know the hard road that we who start at higher bmi's have.