I doubt theres anything wrong with you, maybe your body just burns off calories quicker than others. I would say thats pretty lucky indeed. But I would suggest doing so cardio because that junk food might wear on your heart later

Thank you for the reply Tom. You are right, my doctor told me my heart is fine, and I'm now taking Prevacid. So far, I haven't had any major issues with it. However, I still have the feeling of trouble breathing and it can keep me up if I eat a big meal before bed. I'm gonna stop doing that. I've always heard people who lose weight can sometimes fix their GERD and stop taking medicine for it. I was happy to hear that I could potentially finally get rid of this stuff by losing weight.

I try to do about 25-30 minutes every 3 days on a local track with my friends, and that seems to help. Though so far my weight seems to stay around 310-315. I suppose I should also do weight resistance too, or maybe cardio.

Dawn - I feel for your pain, my daughter is now 18 and heading to college soon, but in the last 3 years has ballooned to over 200 lbs.... It's tough when they are young, but hell when they are teenagers.  Kids can be mean, but teens get depressed.  I've been lucky in having a very strong willed, independent thinker for a kiddo *****alizes shes to blame for being where she is.  She hates exercise and nothing we've tried has changed that much....  

I only have a few thoughts regarding exercise for a younger kiddo - have you tried some 'fun' activities like roller skating, or playing games on the Wii as a family?  Maybe bike riding, going fishing or bowling is an option?  Most cities have youth legues and they will get a surprising amount of exercise doing it.

As for food - have you figured out if she has a trigger food, such as being a carb addict or something else?   Try taking all processed carbs out of your meals at home - you can control that and have only fresh veggies, protein and fruits for deserts.  Make dinner a family affair where everyone has to pitch in and contribute.  Perhaps if she helps make dinner, she'll be more invested in eating it and take pride in having contributed to something.

With everyone being on top of her, yelling and focusing on the food - it may actually push her to eat more as a comfort...   Just my two cents worth.

Hope some of these ideas can be helpful - it's not easy and will require change for everyone.  We've done these ourselves and my daughter gets irritated because she doesn't like what we have for dinner now (a lot of fish, grilled chicken and veggies), but I keep other things around like sandwich meat too...  She can pick what she wants to eat, but it somewhat limited in caloric intake because her options are limited.

Either way, I'm sorry to hear of your struggles and wish you well battling them.  Good luck!

Hey there, so I've been playing this game called World of Warcraft for the past 4 years now and ever since then I have become very lazy. Ever since I started playing I have not really been eating healthy. I usually just snack alot and eat junkfood such as chips, cookies, TV dinners, gatorade, soda, etc. I'd say for the past 2 years I've done nothing but get up and head straight to my PC and start playing (independent study) I don't work out, exercise, anything. The thing is, I have not really gained much weight at all (maybe 5 pounds) which I find very odd. So, am I just very lucky or is there something that might be wrong with me?

Oh Robin I wish I could give you a big hug! xxxxxxxx!!!!! We are in the same boat.  My daughter is morbidly obese as well. Do ppl actually think we don't care about our kids so we LET them  get obese. I worry everyday about what is happening to my daughters body. I just keep trying to fight the battle. Lately she has started asking questions showing interest in exercising again such as walking at the park and playing. I'm obviously no expert but I've decided not to sugar coat anything about  her being overweight. for example she asked me last night if her face looked fat, and usually I would avoid it by saying you are so beautiful who cares or something to that effect because I didn't want to hurt her feeling and sometimes I would just be to tired to deal with hurt feelings honesty can cause. So when she asked me that I said yes it does. and I told her that I'm only telling her because I want to be honest with her and the only way that its going to change is if we work together but mommy cant do it all for her. We have been going to the park which is beside the dog park we've been taking our new puppy and walking around and then playing on the playground part. well shes been wanting to skip the walking part (which is about 1/2 mile) and only wanting to do playground stuff claiming that should be enough. so of course we've had to discuss it to the10th degree. That's also a big battle due to the obesity any kind of activity prolonged sucks as we know so getting her to do it is a battle. So this is my latest attempt to help her and myself. I'm trying to feel positive but our track record scares me. please stay in touch Robin maybe we can help each other. I hope you get this soon I know something is going on with the email not notifying ppl of their responses. Take care, Dawn.