Just a small lil rant

Ok so I keep seeing these beautiful pictures of people on my other forum-their befores and afters. Well, their befores are what I want my afters to look like! LOL I mentioned this before in a previous post but sometimes it can be so frustrating looking at where some people start out at and how far I still have to go in this journey. I am so happy with my progress so far, but at times I need to vent a lil and just say that since starting out at such a higher weight than many-my journey is so much longer. And I am impatient. haha anyway, just needed to write that all down but now I am ready to get over it and move on :)

I hear ya... their journey is just as tough, but we have the long haul. I remember one of the first posts I saw as a "before" of someone at 210 and I was like.... "really??"

Sigh.

so true!! I see ones where they say they are at goal after just six months-click to see the pics and learn they started out at like 225. I dream of 250. Hell, I dream of 299! Haha But, yes their journey is just as hard as ours. Maybe a lil harder since with us it tends to come off much faster in the beginning.

I sometimes feel like ONE of my legs weighed as much as the starting weight of a lot of pre-ops.....I think I saw someone's starting weight as like 190 one time!  Granted they were a pretty short person but can you even imagine?  I used to really judge thinner overweight people but as I get down in the numbers (my BMI is like 27.5 now) I am starting to see how grossly overweight you can still feel even when you are only 17 pounds from a healthy BMI. 

Still.....it's such a journey for us "heavy weights" and it sucks.  I have been in a long drawn out miserable stall the past month and have had a lot of feelings of hopelessness surrounding this.  I want to taste goal like all the people who do it so easily when they are smaller!   Grrr!!

Too true. A few ive seen I just wanted to give the diet and exercise peptalk to :) I just had surgery and i feel like its just taking its sweet time this week. It seems like sooo far to go still.lol Oh well time to get out and get moving!

I hear you...with both ears. It is hard to see people lose 100 lbs and be 120 lbs. But they made the right choice earlier and were smarter than me. I didn't do the right thing and waited until my body fat was at 56. I always tend to push the bar. Not good all the time.

It's also harder as you inch down towards goal. The closer I get to goal the harder the stalls are to handle and the longer it takes. I think part of it is because I have had so much to lose and the journey is so long. I tend to get bored with the same stuff and at the same time, need the sameness to keep the order of things and stay focused. I know a lot of choices do not work for me.

I think we are all doing great. I'm glad we have each other to rant and share the joys. It is a big part of what is keeping my head in this game. I need to come here everyday and read about how someone has done this or that. I also need to journal it out sometimes and I do it here. I read somewhere that people that use internet sites to share the journey of weight loss, lose the weight and keep it it off. I believe that because it has worked for me.

I love you folks. Keep ranting, I need it.

Hugs,

Sharon

 

Ditto for me! I wish I was done or close to done but I cannot even say that I am halfway done. That and the fact that it seems like if I just a few grams of carbs above plan, the scale jumps up regardless of how much exercise & healthy eating I do.

 

Oh well, I guess I should thank God for the loss so far and keep striving. I wish I were like some where the weight was still melting off so effortlessly!

I hear ya, and I catch myself thinking - jeez, if I only weighed 200 lbs, I'd be doing this myself, if at all, but then I remember...

I'm doing this because at a starting weight of 365, its been EASY to lose 57 lbs on my own, but I KNOW it will stop being easy when my daily calorie allowance drops below 1800, let alone when it gets to be 1200 or less...and that's where it would need to be to keep losing weight if I was 200 lbs. I'm doing this because I'll need this tool more at 200 lbs than I do at just over 300.

hoping for my consult early in the new year & surgery halfway thru...

Yes, this site has helped me so much. It is so good to know that you are not alone. It truly does help. Thank you all for your responses :)

i have to lose more weight before the doctor will do the surgery than some of them need to lose altogether

but losing a few every week and my nut is happy,just need to finish the 6 dietion visits and lose like 25 more lbs

then i'll be on the real losers bench