Time to Spill the Beans About My Weight

I am also morbidly obese and I need to lose more than a person. Previous excuses like school/work kept me from focusing on my health and boy am I paying for it now (swollen ankles, shortness of breath, metabolic issues, etc.).

Hang in there. I look forward to reading about your continued success. Take it one day at the time.

You have the right attitude, and a year from now you will much closer to your ideal weight than you are now.

You’ll find that as you become healthier and shed some of that weight, that you will begin enjoying the process more as your body is able to respond to things like exercise and a balanced diet.

I know and have met a lot of people (both men and women) who compete in the local racing scenes who once weighed way too much and are now in much better shape than when they were in their teens and twenties.

Good luck; I hope that this site helps to inspire you as well as the debt site seems to be.

I totally understand how hard it is to say how much you weigh and have to give you props for putting it out on the internet. Two Years ago I weighed 256 and I am short so I was well into the morbidly obese category. As of this morning I weigh 187.6. I lost about 50 pounds using sparkpeople.com and stagnated for a while and started gaining it back. I joined Weight Watchers though my job (they pay for it and the meetings are on site) and have lost about 27 pounds since November. I agree it is totally not about just what you eat. I have lost tons of weight before (Atkins and Shakes) and gained it back. This time I am really trying to modify behaviors not just what I eat. It has been a challenge to look as a lot of changes as long term like exercising 4-5 times a week for the rest of my life not just until our next vacation. Just keep on keeping on and you will see results. Good Luck

I couldn’t agree with you more about how difficult it is to confront one’s weight and to make it public. I feel more ashamed of this issue than anything else even though, as you said, it’s obvious visually. So strange.

And I agree with you that the problem is so much more complex than just making “rational” choices regarding food, water, exercise, etc. The reasons I over-eat are very deep-seated and I don’t even fully understand them.

Having said that, I also agree with you that NONE of the excuses that overweight people make (including myself) are valid. Everyone (even people working 3 jobs or who have tons of children) has time to exercise if they prioritize it. We just don’t want to exercise or it’s hard to do, so we make excuses. We can all eat healthfully and make time to sit down and eat or eat more slowly. Having said that, I keep making excuses

Best of luck to you! You have gotten me thinking about blogging about my weight. I need to be held accountable!

You inspired met to pay off my debt…44% is paid and I am still going strong.
I am also tackeling the weight problem.
With the same determination I used to reduce the debt…I am going to reduce the weight.
I used a tip from the blog Zen Habits: get up early and do your excersie first thing in the morning. I bike 60 minutes a day.
I used a very good book:
Eat to Live by J. Fuhrman
and am following his plan. I hope to switch to his ” life plan” as soon as I reach my goal.
It works for me…may be it can help you.

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