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POSTED BY: jasper on Feb 19, 2010 [ QUOTE ]


This group may be my salvation.

Hello I am Jasper, I am overweight and have heart trouble, I have been told to lose the weight repeatedly all my life and no matter what I do nothing seems to change. I am depressed and have no motivation to exercise. I can barely get out of bed most days. Nothing interests me and because I am bored and unhappy I eat. I am a big lover of fatty foods not sweets . I eat Chips, Cheezles,  Twisties, etc and now and again drink a fair bit of cordials.

Please if anyone can help with some tips ( apart from sewing my mouth shut) then I am listening.

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POSTED BY: pixieflower on Feb 19, 2010 [ QUOTE ]


Hi Jasper, you have to know you are not alone! Sometimes little steps help, I try to atleast scoop as much energy as I can and dance around a room (thats excerise), go for a short walk, eat a salad with little things I like on it, try to buy smaller packages so I dont eat so much. Little things help! You have to believe in yourself and say damn it I am worth living and I want to live more. Surprisly it helped me alot. I have more energy to do those little things. I might not have lost alot of weight but it is getting easier for me to find the energy to do the little things to help. I might be on the bottom step but I am working to go to the top to become healthly and lose weight before my wedding. And I believe you can do it to jasper but you just have to try for yourself and do the little steps that will help you later on so you can work out and excerise and get out of bed and lose weight so you can be healthy.

Hope this helped! Good Luck and Dont Give Up On Yourself!

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POSTED BY: goodhurt on Feb 19, 2010 [ QUOTE ]


Hi Jasper,

  I have depression and I have a weight problem too. I have been able to lose weight using a food diary. Over 30 lbs .At first I started writing down everything I ate. Then, I started using an online food journal. It made it a lot easier to keep track of what I was eating and how many calories I was taking in. There are free online food diaries. Just google , online food diary. I use a pay site. http://www.myfooddiary.com/main.asp. I find it easy and convenient, It cost 9 bucks a month. Try one of the free ones and see if you like it. Here are some links to a couple of free ones.  Good luck Greg

http://www.fitday.com/fitness/ProfileSignUp.html

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http://www.online-food-diary.com/





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POSTED BY: shelly23279 on Feb 19, 2010 [ QUOTE ]


 Hello I so understand how you feel. I am also overweight and my husband walked out on me and his kids left us with nothing but heart break so now loneliness is a big part of my life. Like you said in your profile i seem to have no one till they need something. I,m so sorry you are feeling down but hang in there and never give up. Have you tried some of the new meds they now have for weight loss I take two kinds and they have helped me alot and if your health allows try doing some martial arts at home Me and My kids were in Tae Kwon Do for 2 years.  and with going at my own pace {thank god for a great sensei he allowed me to work slower because of my health} but i managed to lose 100 lbs but when we lost our school another thing my husband took away we had to keep training at home and there is alot of online instruction. if you can just do 30 min a day thats what i started at it might help. but If you need to talk any time feel free to give me a holler and i pray you feel better just hang in there you have friends here.





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POSTED BY: pillowtalk on Mar 10, 2010 [ QUOTE ]


Because of my health, i went from being active and lively, to slowly gaining weight on steroids (dr. prescribed) then i just quit taking them - figured i  would rather not be fat because fat people don't get listened to by drs. - I'm now out of the obese catagory they put me in and have found that depression is great for weight loss.  I don't want to get out of bed to eat - too tired.  So Since September i think i've lost 47 pounds which is great considering the only movement i has is to go to bathroom or shower or type.  I get real hot at night like there is a furnace in my body even though i keep my room at 62 degrees - i sweat and toss and turn - maybe that is the exercise.  Now that i have that weight loss, i check the scale every day - and even if it's a half pound i praise God - anything will do for me.  But i only eat a cracker or two when i take my medicines and limit myself to one coke a day - i used to drink 4 - i rarely finish them now.  Depression makes you lose interest in food - whereas i think i used to eat out of depression.  I will lose my weight - and i won't be looked down upon by a doctor ever again - it's their 14 prescriptions that have messed me up emotionally and physically anyway in my opinion - all i did was go there and say i was tired and had headaches - now i have a list of diagnosis from numerous specialists and a primary care physician who could not give a shi* about me - and no one makes eye contact with me but my daughter (who is in college) and my teenage son only makes eye contact with me because i force him.  My husband tells me i'm not fat - he says you were fat last year - this year - your chubby - i don't want to even ever here chubby again.  I want to hear dang girl you need to eat something.... and then, even then - i hope i don't.





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