Do you remember hitting the 200's? Kinda long & rambling :P

[becca1969]

For me I hit 212 pounds with my first baby. I have not seen below 200 pounds since then. She is almost 17 years old. I got to over 3 hundred pounds after my third. I started a very physical job when my baby was 2 and got down to 232 pounds. Then I met my DH and with both of our love of food the scale crept back up to 257 pounds. My DH had gained 60 pounds over the last 6 years of us being together.

The change for us was after both of us had a physical. The tests weren't positive. Him, Diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and the addition of 9 medications. For me it was Diabetes at 34 years old. What a eye opener.
3 1/2 months later my blood sugars are normal with no medication. My DH has had 2 of those medicaions discontinued and just had a normal fasting glucose.
His cardiologist recommended the diet. Thanks to him my DH and I hopefully will continue to lose weight, feel great, and never see 200 pounds again. Once we have lost our weight that is.

Beckie
257/225/150

[granny]

I remember weighing 172 in high school, wearing a size 16 or 18..feeling miserable because I couldn't get 'nice' clothes and age appropriate. Getting married and weighing 186 on my wedding day...having a size 18 gown. Then 4 years and one baby later weighing over 200...three babies later weighing 232 for a LONG time and somehow creeping up to 286 lbs. what I wish is that I had seen myself as OKAY at 172, wishing clothing manufacturers hadn't made that size seem so horrendously huge and thus I felt like a freak. In reality when I look at old photos...wish I could look and feel that good again.

Right now I weigh 264 and keep trying and trying to find enough commitment to get back to 200!!

Good thread...thought provoking

[Emelia]

I assume you mean on the way up?

Unfortunately, I don't remember it. I remember being 180 in college, and then about 4 years later, going to WW and starting at 210. I did get to around 185, but then went back up...and never looked back.

A part of me has always seen myself around 190-210...even at 294, my MENTAL picture was of a thinner woman. But every time I looked at photos, I saw a 500-pounder.

I KNOW I will remember hitting 200 on the way down, however.

Emelia

"We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch, Irish writer
294/208/174 since 25-Nov-01

[JustBelieve]

I will be the happiest woman on earth the moment I hit 199.9 (on the way down)

That will be the goal that will reassure me more than anything, that I'm going to make it.

Just Believe.

[JinniLynn33]

I cant weight to hit 299.9 right now !!!!

I can do this!!

[winterchillsco]

I dream of the day the scale shows 200 again on the way back down!!

Mary ~
"It's never to late to be what you might have been"

[acme65]

I remember being a very skinny child. You could see my ribs! Then in HS I went to an all girls boarding school and there was nothing to do, so we eat and I got up to 160's. I thought I was huge and after that year I went to normal school and was around 145. I always thought I was a cow. When I got married the first time I was 18 and wore a size 14 wedding dress. It was so hard to find one that "big" My mom kept saying if you would only lose 5 pounds. When I divorced him at 23 I was 180 and now I know I really looked okay. Guys would look at me still. I had two children and stayed below 200. I don't remember going over 200, I just remember being on vacation and being too heavey to go horse back riding. They had a 225 weight limit. I want to die my DH was lighter then me! In 1996 I had a still born and weighed in at 237. In 1997 had another baby and don't remember her weight. In 1998 had baby #4 and at the 6 week check up I was 267. I went to Woman's Work out World everyday at 6 a.m. for 3 years and joined WW I lost 60 lbs all together. Then I don't know I just kinda of quit everything and now I hit the scales at 278.8 I was right near to 280 and then I knew 300 was almost there. I also think of myself as much thinner, or I did. Then when I pasted 235 all guys (even drunk guys) stopped looking at me. I see my reflection in a store window I all I can think is look at that cow! There are no more women bigger then me in the place I hang out or my little ones school. I'm soooo grossed out by myself I don't know how my DH wants to touch me, but bless his heart he does. Anyway I'm now rambling. Yep, don't remember going over 200, but going below 200 will be great!

Joy,
278.8/268.2/250

[CarolynInTexas]

I don't remember hitting 200, but I was always big, in grade school and high school I learned to sew all my own clothes (and I do mean all) because alll they had in the 60's for large girsl were old lady clothes. Anyway, I moved to texas at 23 and was well over 200 by then, and lost about 85 lbs to put me at about 165 - the thinist I was as an adult.,... was eating right and running 3-4 times a week. Then I stopped running and there it went, creeping to the current 314 (lost 13 already). Lucky for me I met a man that wasn't concerned with what I looked like, how big I was and been with him for 20 years. I can remember being told I had baby fat on me and it would burn off, it never did, and believe me I think I still have that baby fat hanging out. It will be nice to see 250, he__ I would be happy to see 300 for starters.... only 14 more lbs to go.
Heres to all of us, struggling day by day to
get this food thing under control.... I remember going to WW once and the leader equated losing weight with other addictions.... drugs, smoking, alchol.... you can give those up and its ok, but you can't give up food, you have to learn to deal with food every day, till you die..... as we are learning to deal with food..... HATS OFF TO ALL OF USE, WE ARE WONDERFUL AND DESERVE THE BEST WE CAN BE.... I love this forum.
carolyn in texas

[Mona]

Do I remember hitting 200 ??

Yeah I do. I have always struggled with weight since about 8 years of age. Before that I was skinny and sickly. After having my tonsils removed, and appetite increased, my mother was so happy to see me eat. I ate & ate & ate. I was chubby in high school, but managed to lose weight for the prom etc.. by starving myself.
I weighed 125 when I got married, and although I gained 60 lbs. with my first baby, managed to take it all off . After my second baby , I came home from the hospital weighing 157 lbs. I felt so fat. Oh ...... if I could only weigh that again...... actually I have not been that low since that day. That was 23 years ago. The weight just kept creeping on. My doc was always yelling at me.
"Mona you have to lose weight". One day I walked into her office and of course I knew I had not lost , I had gained. I got on the scale and it read 200 lbs. She almost screamed
"You weigh 200 lbs!!" "Look at me I am jumping up and down and am red in the face, YOU MUST LOSE WEIGHT". She told me eat a big breakfast, eggs, toast, cereal. Then have a salad for lunch and a very light dinner . Cup of soup. Yeah right , a package of cup a soup for dinner. I left her office never to return. As a matter of fact I did not go to another doctor for years. Not until I found one that was also overweight , and would not hound me about mine.
Of course the scale continued to rise. I never saw myself for how I really was. I would think, you don't look so bad. I am still pretty. I was in denial.
I was lucky as I was approaching 300 lbs. on a petite 5'3" frame, I never experienced any real health problems. I had about given up hope that there would ever be a possiblity of me losing weight, getting healthy, or reaching my goal.
Atkins has given me that hope. I will reach my goal. Of that I have no doubt. I hope to see 200 by Christmas.

276/216/150

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