Throwing in the towel

[APanthesilia]

Welcome! Glad you're here and can't wait to see your progress!

[BigRunner]

Welcome and Congrats.

Starting is the hardest part. You're well on your way.

RichF

[HellOnWheels]

WOW, thanks for the warm welcome, everybody!

Moral support goes an awful long way... especially when one of my roommates, a BBW-lover who thinks I'm committing a crime against humanity by trying to lose weight, left Cadbury chocolate eggs out on the kitchen counter as bait. .

That said... today he asked how long I'd been at it, and when I asked why, he ran his fingers along his cheekbones and replied, "it already shows here." YAY!!

[Porcelain]

Hey! Welcome! Watch out for that scale because some days you may show a gain if you weigh every day. I don't know about you but that makes me kinda cry. Be sure to measure though with both measuring tape and with some clothes you want to get into. Because you will be eating better and working out, you will gain weight through both muscle mass and bond density but that fluffy fat will be going away so it may not show on the scale but in your measurements.

You should join some of the challenges! I am in the six week exercise challege because I hate exercising but this makes me accountable and I have done a lot better. I used to try to do too much too fast on the treadmill and other exercises but I would always give up eventually because I dreaded doing it. Now I say to myself "I can do 15 minutes" and before I know it, throughout the day, I have done a lot.

Good luck with everything and if you feel down, read around on the board as it will surely lift your spirits!

[4myself4mykids]

**** on Wheels-you can do this even with his sabotaging techniques! LOL, I deal with this every day of my life even before resuming this WOL as I am diabetic and DH's favorite thing to do is stop by the store and pick up ice cream, cookies, cakes, candy and walk around the house handing everyone one....yesterday when I left for the grocery I asked if there was anything special he wanted and he said no....i go to the store, buy fresh meat/veggies and a few treats for the kids that have never tempted me-pretzels, fruit snacks, etc. and when I come home he has the freezer filled with 4 boxes of french toast sticks, 2 pancakes, Sara Lee or Pepperidge Farm cake, popsicles and 2 frozen pizzas and on the table is 2 bags of chips, Little Debbie brownies and M & M's. His excuse was that when I asked him it got him to thinking about food and he decided to run to the SavALot and get some stuff......LOL, I proceeded to unpack the freezer, put it all in bags and made him take it to the freezer downstairs and told him he could put it down there or throw it away but that I wasn't looking at it everytime I had to put ice in my water!!!!!!!! He does it just to )(*@#$()*@#) me off!!!!!!! He needs to lose 90#'s himself according to the insurance company, but he doesn't like anyone telling him what to do so he retaliates by doing the opposite whether it hurts him or not. I've tried the teaching the kids by example, but that doesn't work for him either....

Anyway, sorry so long, just wanted to tell you we can do this!!!

[UrbanShaman]

Good for you! One of my friend is the same way. No weight problem himself and for some reason feels threatened because I want to lose weight. He's like " But you won't be Tim if you're thin." Argh! BUt that's not going to stop me. I, like the original poster want to be healthy, and no cadbury planting well meaning people that like us fluffy are gonna stop us.

[IrishIrish]

YEAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Oh.2.B.Fit]

WELCOME to
and CONGRATS on the weight loss so far sweetie