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Hi Kim,
I'm not new to the main message board, but just qualified for this board as my anniversary was earlier this month.
Welcome, you will find people here much more laid back than on the main message board which is the home of the newbies and pre-ops. I still go there daily, but love this board!
Pat
Hi, Kim! I've been an OH member for a few years now, but just started "hanging out" here at the Grad board not too long ago. Congrats on your marvelous success. How wonderful that you've been maintaining so well. If you have any other "secrets" to share, please feel free!
I've been struggling a bit lately, and can see my weight "creeping" up very slowly, so slowly in fact, that it's easy to deny that something is happening there. But I'm going to work on it, and try to make some small changes here and there, and hopefully can get this back under control. I don't really care if I get back to my lowest weight, but would really love to lose 5-8 pounds and then maintain that. I'm going to start with the water - I haven't been drinking near enough and that should be something easy to correct.
Nice to meet you too.
Carlita
Hi Carlita,
This board seems really nice. I am glad I finally found it. It's nice to meet you!!
As for keeping the weight off, I weigh myself every morning, and if I gain a pound or two, I start RIGHT then and get them off. I NEVER let myself gain over a certain amount. I refuse to look the other way and let it happen.
Hope this might have helped.
Kim
Kim: It does help me to see someone who is really putting this into practice. However, I have never been what you call a really disciplined person, and when I was heavy before, I would let my weight go. I wish I could be as diligent as you and not allow myself to do this. Have never been a good dieter either, so I'm finding it really difficult to make the needed changes. As I said, I'm going to try to start with more water/sf fluids and see if that helps to curb my appetite. I think I have to find things to do that will seem "easy" to me and not like a diet. Same with exercise - if it seems too much like "work" to me, I won't do it. I need to get back to doing things that I thought of as fun - like dancing or skating. What do you think?
Carlita,
I let my weight go. I went to where I was within 60 pounds of hitting the 400 mark.
I was out of control. I lived to eat, it was all I thought about, wanted to do. I was a food addict.
Now I've turned that the other way. I focus on keeping the weight off. To be honest, there for awhile, I probably was not eating enough. My sister made the comment that I had went from "eating myself to death to starving myself to death".
That was when I realized I had to be more in control. I now eat basically what I want, just not very much of it. I know what my pouch can handle, and that's what I eat. I know if I eat more, I'll be in misery until I hit the bathroom and am throwing the extra food up.
I don't eat protein bars anymore (GAG!) and I never count protein grams any longer. I don't feel I have to. If I NEVER eat a protein bar again, it will be too soon. Now I DO buy Zone Bars. I think those are great! If I get hungry later at night, I will eat one of them, and a cup of fruit.
I know I will be doing this the rest of my life. But then I think, "So what?? So does everyone else who is thin. They don't stay looking that great without working at it."
I don't mean to sound vain but I like being as thin as I am, and it makes me want to keep the weight off harder. I enjoy being the smallest person in the room. I love it that I can buy anything "off the rack" or look in a regular clothes catalog and go thru it and pick out whatever I want and know I can wear it. One of the happiest days of my life was when I tossed my last Lane Bryant catalog in the trash.
I like that my family and friends now grumble about clothes in in their closets not fitting them, and how they all give them to me, and tell me, "Well if you can wear it, you can have it." And when they are asking me if I can wear it, they mean it's more than likely too big for me.
All these things are new to me, and I love them. That's why I have kept the 200 lbs off. I hope this gives a bit more insight into me. =)
Kim
Kim: You're doing so great - and your attitude is just exactly what we all need more of. You're doing what you know will help you to succeed, and I so admire that. Thank you for sharing a little more of yourself here. I hope that some of that great attitude will rub off on me, and give me the "kick in the pants" that I need right now. Thanks again, and I hope you will post a lot more here.
Carlita
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