The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[Karakuri]

Good for you for keeping with it though. You know what you have to do, and just keep pluggin' along and you will get there.

it's a slow process, but i have to do it! i know my body will love me a lot more if i get my weight to a decent level.

[Karakuri]

i cheated last night... i snapped...

my gran has lung and breast cancer. we've known that for a few months now, but now the doctors are telling her she has "months" to live.

she was on a special treatment, but since her heart is weakening they told her she cannot be on it anymore.

it didn't bother me much until later in the evening. i snapped and was desperate for junk and comfort food. so i ate ice cream and chips.

i don't feel guilty about eating the stuff, but i know it was wrong/bad for me.

today i'm back on the diet. i keep failing at it. i'm fine for a couple of days and then BAM i slip off.

i just... there's so much stress, right now, and it's all i can do to keep myself from binge eating.

[bikipatra]

Just take it three hours at a time and think of ways you can reduce stress-walking, reading, watching TV. I don't mean to minimize your pain but sometimes distraction is all we need to regain control. I haven't really spoken about it on the board, but my grandmother almost recently died from congestive heart failure and pneumonia. If she hadn't been flown in from Mexico to Dallas, she most likely would have died. She was on a respirator for a month. She is now in a convalescent home, but still in shaky condition. I know I am powerless over it, but I pray. I do what I can.

[Karakuri]

Well, I'm a failure at this losing weight game.

I've been trying to get back on track for around 1 1/2 years. I've gained back all the weight I had lost and I've been too depressed to actually do it right.

How did I manage before? I have no clue.

Anyway, here's to hoping that it will work this time around. I'm sick and tired of being fat and want this all to just... stop.

So the #20 club is now a lie and needs to be removed.

This whole thing makes me tired. I need a break from life.

[DogMa]

You're not a failure unless you give up (and you're back, so obviously you haven't). You're also not alone; something like 98 percent of dieters gain the weight back.

All you can do is pick yourself up, look at what went wrong, and try again.

So good for you for coming here, and welcome back!!

[cydj21]

Welcome back! Do not be so hard on yourself...if this were easy, we wouldn't all be here working our butts off together. At least you've come to the right place and will have plenty of support.

[Mike]

Hey there. Its okay... life happens. Trust, I'm there. I've been working at this (sometimes more seriously than other times... as you can see). You just need to look at this as a lifestyle change. As Robin said, many people gain the weight back if they look at it as a diet (Dr. Andersen says 85%).
So, if its life that is getting in the way, change the lifestyle. Look at using the products as something you plan to do.. not just use. You know this program works, you see the results of others... yes, we may gfalter, but we don't give up.

You haven't given up, you have simply given in to the fact that you want to make this change. So lets get er done.

[aquarianskye]

Yah, what Mike said. You know enough to come back and try again. I know that sometimes it seems like an 'all or nothing' thing but you can't think like that. So what if you slipped up before. You came back and that's what matters. I'm pretty sure I read it on THIS board somewhere that it's not how many times you fall that count, it's how many times you get back up that really matter.

Just take it 2.5 hours at a time. That's what I STILL do!

[lifelovinaries]

Just take it 2.5 hours at a time. That's what I STILL do!

yup, me too! Welcome back karakuri!

[Karakuri]

Thanks, all, for the support. Goodness knows I need it!

Still frustrating knowing I managed to lose 30lbs and then foolishly gained it all back.

For now, I'm trying to give myself good body image. So what if I'm fat, I still look good. And if I can be ok with that then I can handle being on MF better. So losing isn't such a chore, per se, and a lifestyle (like others here have said.)

[Karakuri]

What a long week it's been.

I have been up and down on MF this past week. Down when over at a friends place for gaming (Cyberpunk. We geek out for it.) and there's food already there. I couldn't be bothered to bring all my stuff with me since it was all very last minute. Ah well, at least I know that I CAN get back on track and that a slight slip won't have me falling too far down that slope.

We were talking about morbid obesity and figured that it would make a very good name for a Norwegian black metal band.

Morbid Obesity!

All of them would be morbidly obese. Yes... It must happen! *grin*

Well, perhaps not.

Anyway, I'm not feeling too bad about myself. Yes, I've slipt up a bunch this week but it's not so bad that I have to hide and cry.

Time to go flake out and read.