Why I’m at where I’m at
I’ve always struggled with my weight. It’s always been a series of ups and downs, i’m sure like everyone else. As a kid, I was a normal weight until I was around 10 years old or so. Then I grew a belly. Still not horribly overweight, but the beginning.
Junior High. Was slightly overweight, got a cold and didn’t eat for about a week and lost about 18 lbs. I guess that was my first “Diet”
I was about 170-180lbs, going into Freshman year of High school, and I thought that was overweight. Being as naive as I was, I just stopped eating. Only having 1-2 Rice cakes per day along with a couple of bottles of Diet 7-up. Lifted weights twice a day and ran 1-2 miles per day. Got down to 135, which was entirely too low. But I felt great… for a while.
All through High School I Fluctuated between 155-190. Sometimes up, sometimes down. After high school, my weight gradually went up to 255 by 2003 when I was 25 years old. I ate healthier averaging 1200 cals per day and exercising and somehow got back down to 185 which was great.
But here I am again. Seems like a neverending cycle. At the end of 2007 I was 258.
Between Dec 31st, and mid march I lost 28lbs. But over the last 2 months I gained back to 238.
I pray that this time I can stick with it for good.
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Hi There,
I wish I had some terrific advice for you - but I don’t….
My weight gain has been a gradual gain over 15 years, not up and down like yours - but - we’re all in this together!
Dont’ try to lose too much too fast, it can’t be good for you.
Keep your chin up and come here for support! We’ll be rooting for you!
:o)
have a great and healthy day
Up until your age, I never was above about 270. My average during that time was probably about 230-240.
My weight fluctuated exactly the way you describe yours. My favorite “diet” during that time consisted of eating all the oranges I wanted. Period. I was exercising a lot as well and lost about 50 lbs in 4-1/2 months. That was my lowest weight. But it all came back and then some.
What I’m finally starting to realize is that the change I need to make is to the way I live everyday. Eat the way you can eat for the rest of your life. I can’t live forever on oranges OR rice cakes.
I’m starting to understand WHY I eat, because most of the time it isn’t because I’m hungry. Figure that out and I think I’ll understand why I cycle back and forth.
Good luck in your quest.
We have all had the insane diets that work for a short amount of time and then we crash. I have played the up and down game for over 10 years since I had my boys…there is no easy quick fix as you know…it is tons and tons of hard work and determination. This website is great we are all here to help support each other through this journey…I love it here because the support comes on your best days when you are so proud of yourself and on the worse days when you need to start over and be picked up out of a slump. We are all here to help you acheive that new healthy you.
Hey welcome to buddyslim, first and foremost. Second on the list, thanks for sharing your story with us, it helps when we get to know others. We kinda start seeing past our own BS so to speak. I know I cant fool some of my closer buddies into pretending Im ok when Im not. They also celebrate my ups. Welcome welcome welcome
I’ll tell you something. You never fail until you stop trying. You are here, that’s the first step. I’ll tell you something else: if you stick with buddyslim, commit yourself to it, it WILL work, and the weight WILL stay off. There’s something about this place that works. You’ve already taken your first steps! Stay strong, remember that we’re here, and that we’ve ALL been where you are in some respect. You can do this, and we can help!
Hey bro - I have the worst memory alive I think - Lyssa tells me that all the time. I always think of you thin
I love ya for your determination - if we all lose (me you lyssa and keri) who is gonna gain to keep the weight balance in the universe LOL….I like your cysling challenge - if only I had a bike 
Lara where oh where did your bike go? I never thought of Steve as big either…He was the skinny one of us! You can do it, Steve, I know you can….I think it is our love of processed food….I really need to stop eating that crap. I know you can do anything you can put your mind to, you always do…
I think people misunderstood when I started messages with “Hi. My name is Kevin and I’m fat.” So I stopped it. I tend to think of it as kind of the same thing as being an alcoholic or anything else. It’s a part of you and your life no matter how small you get. It’s a sneaky bugger too! Gotta keep an eye on it.
Just imagine the situation you’d be in if you hadn’t been fighting the good fight all of these years? Trust me 300 goes by just as easy as 200 does.
You’ve done it before. You know what you’re doing! I’m sure were gonna be seeing a whooole lot less of you around here. =)
Keep working at it and start thinking that this time it WILL be different. Change your attitude. Change your life.
You can do it!!!