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 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:57 am
Hello, I'm 253 lb, extremely over weight, as are my Parents. We are all trying to lose weight but I don't see any difference in myself. (While my Parents do.) From what they say I have dropped one size.
What makes me mad though is school, when I was younger I had no friends, it was the worst time of my life. When I entered Jr. High I made four good friends..Then the worst happened after two years of being with them we moved five hours away. Now I am in High School and I have one good friend and a few people who will talk to me without insulting me, I'm not sure whether to call them a friend.
Well there was my little story. Now I have to ask a question. What have you people been doing to lose weight if you are at all? I do a couple things myself. I ride horses which is putting alot of your weight on your legs, it can be quite painful if you are over weight. I also have been walking home from school once in a while (1 1/2 miles). And last but not least watching what I eat, counting calories, and measuring food.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:09 am
Okay, I have to go somewhere for a bit, feel free to post, I will respond to them when I get back later. Ta-ta for now! ^-^
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:17 am
Number one way to be treated like crap: acting like you feel that way.
Lose the fat girl personality and you'll start feeling a lot better. Just because you are heavy doensn't mean you can't dress fashionably and look cute.
Go buy a teen mag, go shopping at Lane Bryant or Dots or Torrid and find some cute clothes that match up. You can even find things at walmart and Target these days. Get a new haircut.
Worry about things that make you happy and suddenly everything else falls into place.
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:59 pm
I haven't tried to lose weight in forever. I honestly don't think its important. You should love yourself for who you are, even if people are jerks to you. Its their loss smile
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:25 am
I need to start working on losing weight myself, but I haven't bothered yet.
But I am too lazy to post all my weight loss tips, I'm sorry. However, you can find a bunch of really helpful tips in... I think it's called "Meagan's Weight Loss Thread" or something like that.
I personally feel life is too short to watch what I eat or count calories, beyond maybe saving some of my meal for later. Although, I'm just naturally bigger so I'm perfectly healthy... It's not necessarly how much you weigh, so it's more accurate to measure yourself... but it's really how much body fat you have that matters. How tall are you, exactly?
But definatly have confidence in yourself. If you don't like yourself, nobody else will want to either. When you realize you're totally friggin' sexy as-is, then life is ten times better. I used to refuse to even allow photos of myself, now I'm a total cam-whore.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:19 pm
Well, I'm about 5"2'- 5"3', short to me but thats because alot of my friends are like a foot taller then me. xD I do wish I was taller though so my weight could be more evenly...Passed out and spread through my body.
I suppose I want to lose weight because I want to feel comfortable, being the way I am now I have well...the fold of my stomach. When I look at myself I hate that skin and thats what I want to get rid of because then I could be able to fit into cloths that I have been wishing to wear all my life, I don't want to be skinny, I just want to fit into better cloths. From what I have been told though is that fold goes last when losing weight so I have been frustrated, I gained 5 pounds for Christmas (ugh!) and then lost 3 the next week, so I feel PRETTY good about myself.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:27 pm
I know what you mean.
I’m like 230 and 5'10'', this is the most I have ever weighed in my life, but even when I weighed less I didn’t have very many friends. I don’t think having friends has anything to do with how much you weigh. I have never really been a confident person, and since I have moved a lot in my life people say I seem like I shut people out (I don’t like people getting too close to me). Pretty much I give off that I am not happy with myself so I won’t be happy with anybody else. I am really trying to work on myself though.
Try to act confident even if some times you don’t feel it. Buying new clothes or wearing nice makeup might make you feel a little better.
Ultimately if you are not happy with your weight go on a diet (even if it is not drastic) just try to eat less and healthier, maybe do sit ups every morning or at night.
When I was loosing weight 2 summers ago I did 100 sit ups a day and it helped A LOT, you start to get a lot firmer. I lost like 50lbs that summer, but because of depression I gained it back again XD
You could also make calorie cards, or a journal. What I like doing is weighing myself before I loose weight, then cutting out pieces of paper each representing 1 pound you want to loose, and every time you loose a pound you remove a piece of paper.
Example:
Let’s say I weigh 200lbs, and I want to loose 50lbs
Then I would cut out 50 pieces of paper and label them 1 pound each, and every time you loose a pound you remove one until the container is empty.
Doing this also stops you from gaining weight, because it is not fun to fill the container xp
Another tip is to drink a lot of water! I don’t know why but it helps me loose weight.
I hope that helped XD
Just know you are not alone in the world and we all know (well at least I do) what you are going through. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:27 pm
~.Yuki.Dragon.~ Well, I'm about 5"2'- 5"3', short to me but thats because alot of my friends are like a foot taller then me. xD I do wish I was taller though so my weight could be more evenly...Passed out and spread through my body.
I suppose I want to lose weight because I want to feel comfortable, being the way I am now I have well...the fold of my stomach. When I look at myself I hate that skin and thats what I want to get rid of because then I could be able to fit into cloths that I have been wishing to wear all my life, I don't want to be skinny, I just want to fit into better cloths. From what I have been told though is that fold goes last when losing weight so I have been frustrated, I gained 5 pounds for Christmas (ugh!) and then lost 3 the next week, so I feel PRETTY good about myself.
But I'm afraid I'm still too lazy to type up hints right now. Hopefully sometime tomorrow I'll be awake enough to do it, I've just been particularly out of it lately.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:19 pm
i used to have that issue back in middle school... i was probably about 260-275 in those days, and i was about 5'4. i always wore this gray hoodie. i think my 8th grade year, i went to school without my hoodie twice
anywho. i was miserable back then. i was not confident, and i gave off the "leave me alone, i hate myself" vibe. i realized one day that it does not pay off to be like that. i slowly started feeling better about myself, just by doing little things, like incorporating better clothes slowly but surely into my wardrob, or getting a cute haircut, or even staring at yourself in a mirror and pointing out all the good traits in it, and ignoring the bad flaws.
i found that when you feel better about yourself, you dont eat as much. but maybe thats just me?
i lost about 40 pounds through that, and eating better.
i gained most of it back because i, unfortunatly i suppose, became a pot head, and broccoli (sp) just doesnt cut the munchies most of the time
i remember, not to long ago, i was stripping down to take a bath. i used to never really look at my body in any mirror, in shame really. i caught a glimpse of myself as i was taking off my sock and stood up in just a cami and panties and forced myself to look at me. what i saw kind of shocked me. i thought i actually looked ok. i didnt look like a huge monster that children ran away from in terror. i thought i was even hot! nothing really changed about me. i look a bit slimmer because, even though i'm still 260ish, i'm now 5'6.
the point in that little story was to explain that, when you feel better about yourself, your aura is better. people can sense things, and people can sense when others dont like themselves, and people want to be around others who are a-ok with themselves. .:tips:. -eat things higher in fiber. fiber fills you up faster and keeps you full longer.
-drink lots of water. it helps out with metabolism
-in the morning, drink fresh juice and have a light breakfast. the light breakfast prevents from snaking before lunch, and the fresh juice jump starts your metabolism
-do little excercises. like before you go to bed, do 25 sit ups, and one day out of the week, take a nice (at least half hour) walk. try and include little hills in the walk too
-eat a little something, preferably high in fiber, about an hour and a half before you go to bed. this way, your body has time to digest so you can sleep comfortably and wont be hungry when you wake up, so your not tempted to eat more when you get up.
-allow yourself some junk food, small portions, every now and then, maybe once a day or so. this way, it doesnt feel like your depriving yourself of anything
-cut down just a tad on portions during meals. eventually, your stomach will be accustomed to the smaller portions and you wont be able to eat as much
-dont be down on yourself! losing weight in a healthy way takes its time. it didnt all come in a month, its sure as hell not gonna be gone in a month
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