Better to have been fat and lost...
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code-frog wrote:
I used to way 260 pounds and am now down to about 195 pounds.
:omg: How tall are you?
I've had the same problem all my life also of being over weight. :) It started when I was about 1 1/2 years old. I ended up with a parasite in me the made me have a very high fever and crossed eyes. After getting out of the hospital my father set me on the obese road by always saying "you are not eating enough". This lead to being the fat kid that always got beat up in school. I joined the Air Force in 1973 and had got my weight down to 235 pounds. For those four years I fought to stay below 220 pounds. (I think I looked pretty good at that time.) :-D Since I got out, my weigh has gotten up to about 500 pounds at the maximum. :omg: Over the last 3 years, and while on a 2000 calorie a day diet, I have slowly dropped to about 450 pounds. It is a sloooow process. My self set goal is 225 pounds. This may take a while. I have recently joined the local YMCA/YWCA where I can swim for exercise. This type of exercise is less painful on my old joints. In case your interested I'm 52 years old and 6 feet 3 inches tall. Losing the weight may also help clear up some of my medical problems. ;) The one thing that I have trouble putting up with are these people who have been skinny all theirlives and have to "lose 10 to 30 pounds because I'm to fat". they do not know the struggles of the people that are truly on the fat side. :mad:
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I've had the same problem all my life also of being over weight. :) It started when I was about 1 1/2 years old. I ended up with a parasite in me the made me have a very high fever and crossed eyes. After getting out of the hospital my father set me on the obese road by always saying "you are not eating enough". This lead to being the fat kid that always got beat up in school. I joined the Air Force in 1973 and had got my weight down to 235 pounds. For those four years I fought to stay below 220 pounds. (I think I looked pretty good at that time.) :-D Since I got out, my weigh has gotten up to about 500 pounds at the maximum. :omg: Over the last 3 years, and while on a 2000 calorie a day diet, I have slowly dropped to about 450 pounds. It is a sloooow process. My self set goal is 225 pounds. This may take a while. I have recently joined the local YMCA/YWCA where I can swim for exercise. This type of exercise is less painful on my old joints. In case your interested I'm 52 years old and 6 feet 3 inches tall. Losing the weight may also help clear up some of my medical problems. ;) The one thing that I have trouble putting up with are these people who have been skinny all theirlives and have to "lose 10 to 30 pounds because I'm to fat". they do not know the struggles of the people that are truly on the fat side. :mad:
I can hear you! Most of my life has been on the over side of things. When I was in my early 20s I dropped down to 155 lbs at 6'2", I was thin, thin, thin. Prior to that I had never been over 220 lbs. I let the pounds come back to a set point of around 212 lbs which I remained at most of my 20s until I quite smoking. It seemed like I replaced one addication with another and gained 75 lbs in just two months. After getting back in control, I remained in the upper 200's until I got married, but bloated me to a max of 365. I have dropped to 311 lbs (as of yesterday) by mostly moving my life to a "mini-meal" type style of four to six meals per day. We make large meals early in the day one and divide them up into small portions and freeze them. When a meal time comes along, we pull two out and mic them. While they are not "as" good as fresh, they are close and we never have extra (as the rest is frozen) to splurg. While we do not throw anything into a "banned" mode, we do focus on a somewhat balanced mini-meal of chicken and potatoes, chicken and rice or roast and potatoes for the majority of our daily meals. For example, the chicken and potatoes mini-meal is boneless chicken breast boiled in heavy seasoning and the potatoes are often diced (chunks about the size of the upper part of the thumb) and roasted in the over with olive oil, italian seasoning, salt, pepper and real butter. The size of the meal is 100 grams of potatoes and 70 grams of chicken beast. While it does not fill you up, it makes it so that you are not hunger for about three hours (after you have been on the plan for a few days). Our weight loss is not drastic and we still have some blunders, but it is consistant, we keep on losing. We look at it more of a change of life style than a diet and plan to stay on it permanently. As I said, we eat anything we are hungry for at least once per day but we keep the portion small and fill most of the meals with high protein and carbs. Yesterday, I made a huge lasagna, with five types of cheeses, meat and tomatoes. It made 22 mini-meals..
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