ok here i go again!!

[jkp_9192002]

i am so down on myself today. i am sitting here reading all of your posts and i am thinking to myself that i want to be proud of myself just as many of you are.
my trip to disney is for thanksgiving 2007 and i do not want to feel this way when i go. i now weigh 235# and i am 5'3" tall. i am married to a wonderful man and he too wants to lose weight. i know that he loves me the way that i am. i have been heavy all of my life. when i met my husband i weighed under 200# and weighed 220# when we were married 3 years later. now after 5 years i gained another 15#. i have a son that is 4yo and he loves his mommy just the way she is. but mommy can't run and jump and slide down the slide with him because she is too big. i want to be a fun mother and do all those things with my son.
today is saturday nov.25th, i will begin tomorrow morning on my new journey.
my short term goal is to weigh: 227# by january 1, 2007
my long term goal is to weigh: 60# by november 18, 2007 (the day we leave for disney)

please anyone that can help please do so. i welcome anyone that wants to join me in my new journey. i would like to know about you and your struggles no matter how big or small.

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

Welcome to WISH!

You have come to a wonderful place here and with yourself. Here as you know you will find a great support group to help you along your journey. With yourself you have come to a decision to be healthier. This is wonderful!

Please don't consider the "D" word when you are working along your journey. Think of making a lifestyle change to healthy eating. As you are already aware, making those small goals that you can work toward is a good thing.

Join in on any of the threads, for whatever you can do to participate in the challenges. I'd also recommend a journal of your progress. You might want to take those pics and measurements of yourself now so as you move along here you will have something to remind you that you are progressing.

Read the "sticky" threads at the top of the forum. I see you've grabbed a WISH clippie to help you keep motivated.

There is a thread you can use here to begin a journal. Good luck to you on the journey, I WISH you success as you go. Come often, post lots!

 

[Princess Michelle]

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[kathmzh]

So funny, (well, not really) I was just sitting down to post just about the same thing as the OP. I, too, have always struggled with my weight. I walk about five miles three or four times a week, but I think I need to step it up a little and do more. I know I need to be more vigilant about what I eat. I want to look, and feel, good for my trip in April. Let's do it!!

 

[MelanieC]

Hi there!

I'm so glad you found WISH! I promise that if you make a commitment to yourself from today on you will be able to go on your vacation next year feeling like a NEW woman.

I have struggled with my weight since I was 16. Not my entire life, but most of it. When I get into my zone I do very good with loosing weight. Where I have a problem is learning to make this permanent. Somehow I need to learn that just because I go on vacations, it doesn't give me a licence to go hog wild. I haven't learned it yet, because every year since I joined WISH I gain 15 or so pounds over the winter and thus I seem to be doing perpetual yo-yoing.

I am here to say that WISH is the best form of support out there. Everyone here is really great and without WISH I would never have been able to get back on track.

You can do this. Just jump into the threads and don't be shy. Everyone here is very welcoming and friendly.

 

[AlaskaMOM]

i am so down on myself today. i am sitting here reading all of your posts and i am thinking to myself that i want to be proud of myself just as many of you are.
my trip to disney is for thanksgiving 2007 and i do not want to feel this way when i go. i now weigh 235# and i am 5'3" tall. i am married to a wonderful man and he too wants to lose weight. i know that he loves me the way that i am. i have been heavy all of my life. when i met my husband i weighed under 200# and weighed 220# when we were married 3 years later. now after 5 years i gained another 15#. i have a son that is 4yo and he loves his mommy just the way she is. but mommy can't run and jump and slide down the slide with him because she is too big. i want to be a fun mother and do all those things with my son.
today is saturday nov.25th, i will begin tomorrow morning on my new journey.
my short term goal is to weigh: 227# by january 1, 2007
my long term goal is to weigh: 60# by november 18, 2007 (the day we leave for disney)

please anyone that can help please do so. i welcome anyone that wants to join me in my new journey. i would like to know about you and your struggles no matter how big or small.

Welcome to WISH jkp
As I read your post I kept thinking to myself "that's me"
I started the most recent journey in July starting at 235 pounds. And only being 5'3" is quite a lot to be carrying around.
And just as tigerLily said, join up on as many threads as you can, they help so much with the motivation!!!! The people on this board are very kind and encouraging so much of what we need after living a life of being heavy (fat) and beating ourselves up about it!! The exercise challenges are what kept me going in those first weeks (you know the time normally when you quit!)
I think that princess michelle has the right idea, it would be great to have a buddy to take this journey with!

The road I'm on now has led me to a much better life. When I started out I could barely walk 1 mile on the treadmill without pain. I have bad hips!!! and my weight was not a good thing! I drank way to much pepsi, ate way to much food without even thinking about it. Back in July I finally had it with my body!!! I knew I had a disney trip in a few months and I was so out of shape I would really make it a sorry trip for the rest of the family because I wouldn't be able to go all out. I set my self a goal of 50 pounds by December 13 (our original departure day, we've added 3 more days since) and then added anothre 5 pounds as a cushion for the trip. So my goal was 55 pounds by dec 10. That was 11 pounds per month; A LOT BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE I thought. I got the South Beach book and started taking walks, doing exercise videos, and using free weights. And it worked!!! The more I exercised the better my joints felt, the better my joints felt the more I was able to exercise, added into that as the weight started coming off it was even easier to exercise!! I am now down 50 pounds. I still have 5 more to go and only 13 days left, so I might not make my cushion. But I know that I will have a much better trip than if I had done nothing.
So absolutely your plan is very doable. The part you probably don't want to hear: I did not cheat on my eating plan! The first 2 weeks on So Beach is NO picnic (major sugar withdrawls) but so worth the end result! I do have to tell myself no to certain things, but it's the only way not to backslide. There will come a time when I can start saying yes, but not until I'm much closer to my final goal! Now it's up to you to do it!!!

And I'm willing to help any way I can. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm going to assume that anyone else here on the WISH would help you out any way they could!
Good Luck, and keep us posted

 

[Princess Michelle]

Jill, I just wanted to say GREAT JOB! Losing 50lbs. is incredible! You are definitely an inspiration showing us that it can be done.

 

[MJGirl]

Hi all ... This is me as well. I just got back from the doctor's today. My blood pressure is border line, my knees hurt, she is constantly checking my cholesteral plus testing me for Diabetes. Today I hit the 250 mark (my highest ever) and this is the first time I have admitted it. In 87 when I got married, I was in a size 9. I can't blame the smoking as it has been over 10 years since I quit. My daughter is now 16, so I can't blame her. I got me here, so I have to get me back. To top it off, my mother had a stroke in June (she is doing really good now) so I have to worry about that as well. I'm signing up for WW in January as we are starting up an At Work Program. I joined a gym last May, went for 2 months and quit. As I have a one year membership .. it is time to start going back!

I want to wish you luck jkp. Thanks for letting me rant. Maybe we can support each other as we try to reach our goals.

 

[tiggerlover]

jkp_9192002, welcome to WISH!!!

I think anyone here on these boards can say that they have started over again (and probably again and again). You have come to the right place for support and motivation and through a healthier lifestyle and people here on WISH you CAN feel good about yourself throughout your journey.

Tiger Lily said it best, don't think of the "D" word, this IS a lifestyle choice. It isn't temporary, it is for as long as you want to maintain a healthy body. It took me a long time to realize that, I have struggles with my weight since I was a little girl. I was always the chubby child and then the fat kid. The summer after 10th grade I got serious and lost a lot of weight, at 5'5" I weighed a healthy 135#. I graduated HS, was in love and got married at 19 and in my happiness I ate and ate and ate. I eventually made my way to over 220#. My DH loved me no matter what, we loved food so I found no reason to lose weight, just felt ashamed and frustrated with myself most of the time. When I was 30 I had my first child and through nursing lost a lot of weight and looked good. Then after the nursing stopped the weight came back and then some. It wasn't until 6 years later when a fellow school mate of DS's was making mooing sounds at me that I woke up and got serious. I started WW in 2002, found WISH in February of 2003 and by May of 2004 I had lost over 60#. I thought I knew how to do this, I could eat some of the bad stuff, stop exercising, then a major move happened, DH retired from the military, we bought our first house, my father got sick and passed away and I gained back almost 24 pounds. I stopped doing what was right for me and went back to the old ways and the weight started creeping on again. After 24# and going back up in clothing size and realizing what I had to do I joined WW again this past summer. To date I have lost a little over 14 of the 24 pounds I gained and I have also gained the knowledge that I have to make smart choices for the rest of my life. Does that mean I can't have ice cream or chocolate? No, it just means I have to be smarter about what else I eat when I eat these things and be mindful of portion control. I will be turning 40 in a few weeks and I look forward to being 40 and a healthier me. With the support of my WISH friends, my WW leader and co-WWers I will continue on this life time journey. If you keep a positive mindset, set small goals and don't deprive yourself you too can be successful.

Good luck on your journey and I look forward to seeing you around the boards.