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August 23, 2005, 6:41 am PDT

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i guess i'm not tired enough of it. i'm 5'7" tall and 320 lbs. i'm miserable and mad at myself. i had a membership to fitness club but that went bad. i had a job that i got off work early enough to meet my  brother at the club. i got down to 280 from 329. i was feeling better. really proud of myself. i lost that job, ( it was seasonal) and my new job made it hard to get to the club. now my member-ship has expired and i'm getting fat again. it took me 6 months to lose 49 pounds and about a month to put it back on.  i get up at 3:30 a.m. so i can start work at 5:00 a.m. i work till 5:00 p.m. usually. i do'nt feel like working out but i know i need to. i just can't seem to make myself do it. my brother has a new girlfriend also so he's out of the picture. i rarely seem him. were really not that close any- way. he's no support. he can eat whatever he wants and never gain a pound. for him when it comes to working out he could take it or leave it. he does'nt really need it. i do'nt have many friends so i'm on my own. i do'nt make friends easily because i have a hard time trusting people. it takes a long time for me to trust somebody. i'm not very outgoing. and it seems like when i was thinner it was easier to make contact with people. when your fat it's like nobody wants to get near you, like it's going to rub off on them. i've always battled my weight but not obese, just fat. i'm a bad procrastinator also. i bought dr. phils weight loss book but i can't seem to find time to read it. i'm not much on reading. i've bought a couple other weight loss books also, but i need to read them too. i have several self-help books, but again i need to read them. there's not enough time in the day. i need somebody to do this with me, but that's just not going to happen. i'll have to go it alone which is how it's been for me for 13 years now. this should be easy. i should be used to this.
At 320 lb. you definitely have unique challenges that those who have only 20, 30 or 50 lb. to lose cannot possibly identify with. I started the WLC at 360 lb. and many in our support group started at higher than that. What we all have in common is the need to lose 200 lb. or more (some a little less, as in your case). But the need to lose large amounts like that mean that it will take over a year (maybe more than 2 years for some of us) to get to our goal weight. Many of us also have health problems that restrict our exercise abilities (I did not say we couldn't exercise, just that it's restricted or limited) and we have a greater chance to sustain injury if we don't go at it sensibly and slow-and-steady. Sometimes we tend to get enthusiastic and over-do it, causing injury. If you're interested in joining our special support group, please come to the message board titled "200 or More pounds to lose".

 www.drphil.com/messageboard/topic/209/


We'd be glad to have you join us so we can help each other along the journey. We share tips, advice, caring, recipes and an occasional pat on the back or kick in the seat, depending on what we need that day. We are all familiar with the isolation that comes from carrying that much excess weight--we are all "going it alone" so to speak, but we all have formed this special family-type bond on our message board. We'd like to help you too and we'd like you to join in helping us. Together WE CAN DO IT!!

I hope to see you on the board--have a great day!

Cherie

 


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