Hi all, new to this forum.

Hi all, not new to oh, just this forum.

I am Joanne. I am glad I found this forum. It is nice to see some of us in the same boat. I don't want to bash on the lightweights, but i get discouraged sometimes looking at their stats. It bothers me to see people starting their journey where I am now. It is nice to see people who get my issues being over 350 # starting.

Thanks for being here!

Joanne

Hello Joanne! You are in a great forum, as being a "heavy weight" starting our journeys means usually we have longer to go. It can be discouraging especially as we near our one year out and still are not to our goal. Never give up, cause we all can get there!! It is nice to have this forum, I agree!!

Hugs out to you all!!
Sherrie

Thanks Sherrie!

It's really nice to have this forum - because light weights really have no idea how much different this process is for us. We can't starve ourselves for 6 months, and then do a happy "ive reached goal" dance.

This is definitely one of my fav boards - so welcome!!

i don't want to sound like i am knocking the light weights journey. obviously they needed to lose weight too. glad they were able to do it early then when they get as big as i was when the light bulb went off. i know we all struggle with it, but i agree that they just don't get it as to what we go through.

Thanks for the welcome. i lurk you too!

Joanne

Welcome!!

Your going to find some amazing folks within this forum!! These guys sure have helped me out!
I'm eternally grateful for this forum!

Thank you!!!

 Hi Joanne

Welcome to the boards!!!!

thanks!

I am very new to this board as well and I am so grateful for it. I am starting at 381 and I feel like my journey is so different than people on the main board. The dr told me that I will likely only get to 200-230 pounds and I told myself that I will be excited to be 200 pounds! When I see people complain that they are 200-230 it makes me sad that they feel disgusted in the body that I wish I could have. I just feel like I have questions to ask that I can only ask here, like the bike question that I just asked.

They say that the bigger you are the quicker you lose weight... uhh I think they lied! *******s!