I'm Kathy. I'm 53, toward the upper end of the age distribution here. I have had a weight problem most of my life. No children, just cats, so there's no baby weight excuse for me. A genetic predisposition and a lot of denial, but that's about it.
I'm 5'7", and have a fairly large frame, so I can carry more weight without looking too bad. Of course, that means that even when I weighed 125 (high school), I wore size 11 or 13, and thought I was fat. What I wouldn't give.....
Back in spring, 2002 I got very sick, and lost 50 pounds in about two months. After major surgery, the weight just zoomed back, plus another 10, putting me perilously close to 300.
I lost 16 by myself, and another 35 at WW. I was doing 10 week sessions at work, and regained all but 13 of the 35. I had developed an incisional hernia as a result of the surgery and the regained weight, so even when I was losing a fair amound of weight, my pants were getting tighter, and I looked worse in them. Tends to lead to a what's the use mindset. I'm in a catch 22 because there's no point repairing the hernia until I'm at a stable weight, and this isn't it.
I finally realized that it was how I felt that mattered, not how I looked. And I felt better when I was really following WW. I started up again in late February, and I'm down 8.6 so far. (That includes a week in Orlando, with ice cream from Ghirardellis and onion rings from the Orlando Ale House.) But I need help to sustain good eating habits and to develop some exercise habits - especially when I stand sideways and look in the mirror.
I just weighed in a little while ago, and was down 1.4 pounds for the week. My first report.
Kathy
I'm 5'7", and have a fairly large frame, so I can carry more weight without looking too bad. Of course, that means that even when I weighed 125 (high school), I wore size 11 or 13, and thought I was fat. What I wouldn't give.....
Back in spring, 2002 I got very sick, and lost 50 pounds in about two months. After major surgery, the weight just zoomed back, plus another 10, putting me perilously close to 300.
I lost 16 by myself, and another 35 at WW. I was doing 10 week sessions at work, and regained all but 13 of the 35. I had developed an incisional hernia as a result of the surgery and the regained weight, so even when I was losing a fair amound of weight, my pants were getting tighter, and I looked worse in them. Tends to lead to a what's the use mindset. I'm in a catch 22 because there's no point repairing the hernia until I'm at a stable weight, and this isn't it.
I finally realized that it was how I felt that mattered, not how I looked. And I felt better when I was really following WW. I started up again in late February, and I'm down 8.6 so far. (That includes a week in Orlando, with ice cream from Ghirardellis and onion rings from the Orlando Ale House.) But I need help to sustain good eating habits and to develop some exercise habits - especially when I stand sideways and look in the mirror.
I just weighed in a little while ago, and was down 1.4 pounds for the week. My first report.
Kathy