The Fat Thread

[mistyisjafo]

I think my biggest memory growing up especially in my early teens is my mom telling me that "when I was your age I was a size 4". I was never a size 4. In fact I passed size 4 and went straight to 8. My mother was basically critisizing me for being "big". Considering that my mom was 5'2 (I'm 5'5") and was once a size 4 up until her 30s it gave me a complex.

Now looking back I'd be happy to be a size 13 or a size 9. What's amazing to me is that I was a size 9 when I was a Jr in High School!!! I didn't crawl up to the 13 size until I was probably 19 or so. Since then I've crawled up to 18. There isn't an excuse for it and I'll admit laziness. I hate the great outdoors, I hate exercise, I hate lifting weights, I hate walking/running/swimming or any form of exersion but I'm trying to make the effort to do something about it. I'm 37 and I can do it.

Now if someone could just give me a dose of energy...

[MouseWife]

You crack me up. Yeah, I think I was your age when I got 'moving'. And, yes, my mother also always made comments about her size compared to mine and how I must take after my fathers side.

But, the energy thing. It takes energy to make it. That is where I got started. I so much rather enjoyed sitting out in front of my friends house watching the traffic, chatting, enjoying her company. But we realized we'd sit for a couple of hours and get up TIRED. So, we started walking and talking. That was it. I don't think I'd have walked the 'hood alone, at first. Weird to walk around your neighborhood, ya know? We learned which houses had dogs, etc. I eventually was comfortable to walk alone, on the days she couldn't. From there I was getting energy and I gradually did more.

Good luck with it, even if you don't lose a lot of weight, the feeling of having energy will be great. Oh, and also, it helps relieve stress for me.

[Snowflake]

Well, no bones about it, I've been heavy from about age 8 to the present.
When I was doing Atkins, I was working out and saw some results (I believe more from the exercise than Atkins). I stopped Atkins because I did not feel good eating all the meat/cheese and other stuff. Promptly gained back weight.

I've been trying to do something about it but this year has been a total bust.
I joined Curves and promptly injured myself (I should have known better, everyone I know save 1 person joined Curves and injured themselves). to make the long story short, it took 6 months to heal from that injury. When I was in SF, I was rudely awakened to how desperately out of shape I am by the simple fact I was practically incapable of walking around the city I lived in for nearly 20 years. After 5 years here in a car and walking nowhere, I've put on more weight than I'd care to admit.

So I am starting back at the gym here at the office treadmilling and weights. Squeezing in regular mealtimes is a hassle and I need to get a control of that. I do not want to eat late at night since I do not get home until almost 8pm on average (the commute here is horrible, horrible, horrible). So anyway, I'm on an onward and upward trend, I hope. everyone else here is certainly an inspiration and a boon for me to encourage me on in times of Oh dear God don't make me go to the gym despair.

Donna