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Heavenseventeen
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 Posted: 29 September 2006 09:51 pm
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For me it's:

Being tired of wearing unfashionable big clothes.:cow:

Not getting any male attention.:nono:

Being too self-conscious.:dizzy:

Hating shopping for clothes.:sad:

My thighs rubbing together whenever I wear long skirts.:crying:

 

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 Posted: 30 September 2006 01:25 am
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Hi heavenseventeen welcome to the forum :smile: i think what started me wanting to lose weight is being to self concious, and feeling fat all the time :sad:

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 Posted: 1 October 2006 10:07 pm
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Not being able to go upstairs without getting out of breath

All my friends in size eight jeans or smaller, while I'm in 14s

Eating so much, and feeling like a pig :pig: at church dinners and stuff

and that whole thing where my doctor told me I needed to...

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 Posted: 11 October 2006 03:59 am
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feeling self conscious and out of control....

i'm a binge eater, and have been for 3 years now. i want to stop, and i want to stop now!

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 Posted: 14 October 2006 05:57 pm
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I've been trying to loose weight for years nowhopefully I'll be sucsessful this time. my excersise will be pretty limited for a month though because I fractured my wrist and have to wear a cast for 2-3 weeks and then wait a week before doing any sports again, so for now step aeoribs baby!!!:cool:

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 Posted: 15 October 2006 07:40 pm
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kitkat wrote: I've been trying to loose weight for years nowhopefully I'll be sucsessful this time. my excersise will be pretty limited for a month though because I fractured my wrist and have to wear a cast for 2-3 weeks and then wait a week before doing any sports again, so for now step aeoribs baby!!!:cool:

Get better soon!:cool:

I admire you. I've tried step aerobics once, and I found it soooo hard to remember:shock:. I'll try again soon, so maybe it'll get easier:confused:.

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 Posted: 20 October 2006 12:09 am
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Oh, some of it was realizing the calories in what I was eating too. When i noticed I cup have two cups of applesauce for the same amount of calories as one little candy bar...when I realized that a quarter pounder meal (my old "usual" at McDonalds) had about enough calories for a whole DAY...

...yeah, that made me stop and think.



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 Posted: 21 October 2006 11:33 pm
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What made me start is exactly what you said Heavenseventeen! except for the last one, I just hated beign the biggest one in my class! I am only 13 years old and I weighed 161lbs! I hated it. Then my oldest sister started to loose weight, and that kinda started me! Well now I am happy to say that i weigh 150 1/2 lbs! Eveyone is very proud of me espacilly being 13 and loosing that much weight! I also started 4-h last year and that helped me become more active, also working with horses has helped!

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 Posted: 21 October 2006 11:34 pm
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Now I am not the biggest one in my class! But I know I will neber become the skinnyist but that doesn't bother me!

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 Posted: 21 October 2006 11:43 pm
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Platinum wrote: I am only 13 years old and I weighed 161lbs! I hated it. Then my oldest sister started to loose weight, and that kinda started me! Well now I am happy to say that i weigh 150 1/2 lbs! Eveyone is very proud of me espacilly being 13 and loosing that much weight!
WELL DONE!:grin:

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 Posted: 25 October 2006 12:42 am
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Thanks Heaven seventeen! It's kinda hard though cuz my mom just did loads of baking! But I had pumkin pie yesterday, So I am going to wait to have some!!:yum:

 

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 Posted: 26 October 2006 06:35 am
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I was motivated to lose weight because I wanted to stop hating myself & being so depressed :nono:all the time. I did lose weight about 15 lbs & I can say that life is easier now because I'm not that afraid to go out anymore:cool:. I still have 10 or more pounds to lose so that people won't look so :pig:down in me anymore. And I know I will be very proud of myself.:tongue:

Peace.:wink:

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 Posted: 26 October 2006 03:45 pm
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fireflyreb wrote: I was motivated to lose weight because I wanted to stop hating myself & being so depressed :nono:all the time. I did lose weight about 15 lbs & I can say that life is easier now because I'm not that afraid to go out anymore:cool:. I still have 10 or more pounds to lose so that people won't look so :pig:down in me anymore. And I know I will be very proud of myself.:tongue:

Peace.:wink:

Wow, almost twenty gone! I don't think the world is ready for all of us slim, toned sexy people coming out of nowhere...it's gonna be fab!:cool:

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 Posted: 26 October 2006 11:39 pm
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LOL HS.

Welcome to the forum fireflyerb! Congrats on so much weight lost already! Sounds like you are already doing great!

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 Posted: 27 October 2006 11:13 am
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hey! thanks :grin:

Even I, couldnt believe I could lose all that weight, in less than 2 months.:shock:

I agree with Heavenseventeen :wink:. Let's show them. We can do it! and we are no less than them.

Peace.:dog:

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 Posted: 29 October 2006 07:44 pm
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Congrats to fireflyreb for losing the weight! You must show some real dedication.

For me, it's kind of hard to explain. I'm the type of person who doesn't like to carry around things that aren't necessary. Why have a large, bothersome purse when my keys fit fine in my pocket? And then I don't have to worry about the purse and have it constantly in my way... I feel the same about carrying all this extra fat. When I want to run so0mewhere, just for fun, or maybe for safety, I feel like I have to hold myself together. Like all this extra fat around my chest and such is holding me back, getting in the way. And I just... want it gone.

Also, about a month ago, I couldn't fit a good pair of jeans around my thighs. That's when I really was like, "That's it, I'm #%@&!!" And found this place.

Heavenseventeen made a lot of good points I can relate to as well.

-Kelly.

 

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 Posted: 31 October 2006 12:38 am
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JoyfullyNumb wrote: Congrats to fireflyreb for losing the weight! You must show some real dedication.

For me, it's kind of hard to explain. I'm the type of person who doesn't like to carry around things that aren't necessary. Why have a large, bothersome purse when my keys fit fine in my pocket? And then I don't have to worry about the purse and have it constantly in my way... I feel the same about carrying all this extra fat. When I want to run so0mewhere, just for fun, or maybe for safety, I feel like I have to hold myself together. Like all this extra fat around my chest and such is holding me back, getting in the way. And I just... want it gone.

Also, about a month ago, I couldn't fit a good pair of jeans around my thighs. That's when I really was like, "That's it, I'm #%@&!!" And found this place.

Heavenseventeen made a lot of good points I can relate to as well.

-Kelly.

 


Congrats to you too for taking that step to making that important change. I NEVER felt comfortable running in front of people in the street either. Everytime I ran with my dog and saw someone, I'd slow to a walk. The last time though, I didn't give a..hoot. The men across the street probably thought I was loony. 

I was starting to get fed up with buying larger and larger size clothes too. I can't wait to wear clothes that really show off my new toned body. Whether I like it or not, the most fashionable clothes are in slimmer sizes. I don't want a size 0, but I'd love maybe a size 8/10 or 12. Right now I'm at 14/16, but I even fit into a size 10 on top and I was jumping around in the changing room like a maniac :tongue:.

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 Posted: 31 October 2006 02:38 am
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I SO know what you mean. I tried jogging in the mornings, but I couldn't take all the stares I was getting from people in their cars! Can you say paranoia?  But good for you for not giving a hoot! Lol. I wish I had the self confidence to do that, but I still don't , not quite yet.

And, yeah, I always feel so unattractive, even in cute clothes! I have a ... pretty big chest size and that makes it near impossible to look good in cute t-shirts and even jackets and forget about tank-tops in the summer! Fashion isn't a big deal to me, but I feel like even just casual meant-for-comfort clothes make me look ridiculous.

There I go, rambling on, haha. Congrats on the size 10 shirt! And, hey jumping around like a maniac is way funner than being dissapointed in  that dreaded place the changing room. Haha, good for you.

-Kelly.

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 Posted: 5 November 2006 11:30 pm
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I agree changing rooms are rather unflattering, unglamorous places (and I was jumping around when I fit in size 10s too :tongue:

Happy dance:

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 Posted: 28 November 2006 05:08 am
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I'm incredibly self conscious. I don't like to stand out, but being the tallest girl in my school and not that attractice, I get a lot of stares. I hate it.

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Welcome to :cph: lin! (hope you don't mind that abbreviation :smile:

I'm sorry you are self conscious. I guess I kind fo am too, but not about my appearance...hmm...i guess it's more like paranoia. Whenever I'm in a group of people, and like a couple are talking about, separately...I'm like, I wonder if they are talking about me? What I'm wearing? Something I did? Oh no...

Well, anyway, welcome to the forum! Hope you post bunches!

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 Posted: 28 November 2006 10:22 pm
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clarinetgurl wrote:
I'm sorry you are self conscious. I guess I kind fo am too, but not about my appearance...hmm...i guess it's more like paranoia. Whenever I'm in a group of people, and like a couple are talking about, separately...I'm like, I wonder if they are talking about me? What I'm wearing? Something I did? Oh no...


Cosign! I feel unattractive too. You look in the mirror, and feel like you look odd. Yet everyone feels this way, sometimes, you DO fit in. :smile:

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Thanks for the welcome.


That is a good point Heaven that most people feel like there is that one physical characteristic that they are conscious of and it is normal to feel like that. Hoping to be part of the minority then :yum:.

I'd love to look in the mirror and not be able to do that, to be happy with the way I look and to be happy with who I am. Does take a lot of work, and I underestimate that sometimes, yet I always try to not be discouraged and continue.

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linwearfeiniel wrote: I'd love to look in the mirror and not be able to do that, to be happy with the way I look and to be happy with who I am. Does take a lot of work, and I underestimate that sometimes, yet I always try to not be discouraged and continue.


Me too! I see my favourite celebs like Beyonce in pictures, glowing and looking stunning, and I have to remind myself she is pretty in real life but not stunning like that. If I had make-up artists and people dressing me, my mum making custom clothes for my shape, etc, I'd probably look fabulous too.:cool:

Hopefully later this year I'll look fabulous anyway...:smile:

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Screw make-up artists :yum:


And we'll be so much better.

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Hi everyone, I've already finished losing weight, and I feel great about it. I was searching for information on health and nutrition stuff, and I found this site. Looked cool, so I decided to check it out. :P Well, I don't really know what motivated me to lose weight, to be honest. I never really cared about my appearance before, but I guess one day I just started to care, so I was like, "Yeah, I think I'ma lose some weight now.." Haha, yeah, and I'd say I did pretty well. This website really seems cool, though. I think I'm gonna check back here more often.

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Hi Sporks!

Welcome to CPH. it definitely is a pretty cool site.

So, how much weight did lose? How much do you weigh now? (If you don't mind my asking). How did you lose it? How long did it take? You should post in "Success Stories". Oh, and what grade are you in?

Well, anyway, welcome to the teen forum!

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I'm currently at 105 lbs, lost 30 by swimming two hours a day after school. It took five months, and I'm in 8th grade.

Thanks for the welcome, I'm glad to be here.

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SporksAreCool wrote: I'm currently at 105 lbs, lost 30 by swimming two hours a day after school. It took five months, and I'm in 8th grade.

Thanks for the welcome, I'm glad to be here.

CONGRATS!!:fish:

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Thanks! Haha, awesome fish.

What about everyone else? What are your weights/goals/ages/anything else?

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For me. When I was younger I was always heavier than most of my peers. Starting in grade 5 I'd gain 10lbs every year. In grade 8 I was 150lbs. I was so lythargic and couldn't even jog half a block. I ate awful food. I'm in grade 10 now and weigh 130lbs. So I guess I lost 20lbs in 6 months. Anyways I still need to loose more.

 
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Wow, two hours in the pool is hard work! I wish I had access to a pool.

I am currently between 137 and 140, depending on the time of day and whatnot.

Oh, and welcome to the forum, ray!

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ray wrote: For me. When I was younger I was always heavier than most of my peers.  So I guess I lost 20lbs in 6 months. Anyways I still need to loose more.

 
:snail: A work in progress
 


CONGRATS to you too! We're all going to look even more fabulous than we do now!:cool:

"What are your weights/goals/ages/anything else?"

Starting weight: 200lbs in April 2006

Current weight: 186lbs In December 2006

Goal weight: 132lbs sometime next year, hopefully before September (start university/college)

I'm 17yrs old. Been overweight since birth.

 

 

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WOW! Fourteen pounds, you are doing so great Heaven17!

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Wow, congratulations to everyone! I agree with Heaven, pretty soon this forum will be full of fabulous-looking people! :tongue:

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clarinetgurl wrote: WOW! Fourteen pounds, you are doing so great Heaven17!

clarinetgurl:music:


I just read what you said and I was wondering: Has she been sipping Christmas whiskey or something, I've lost 30lbs, not fourteen and then I look up and see 186lbs-That darn Heaven!:nono:

It's wrong:dizzy:---I meant to put 171lbs, not 186lbs. Hopefully it's less now, but today it was 170. I'm hoping for 169/168 soon so I can be closer to being "overweight" instead of "obese".:grin:

I never thought I'd be excited to be classed as overweight...:skull:

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Wow...even better! :tongue:

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Haha, yeah, 30 is way better than 14! You're doing really well, keep up the good work!

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I am new here, like a few minutes new. I found this site through google, just trying to find a place with people more my age.

I am nineteen, 5'8, and I weigh 270 lbs. My heaviest was 335 lbs. about two years ago. I lost to 307 lbs. in those two years, and on August 25th I had lapband surgery. So far I have lost 37 lbs. with only one fill. My goal is 175 lbs., and at the rate I am going, by the time I graduate highschool (December of 07) I should be there.

What sparked my actual weight loss is my constant need for change. I couldn't care less about how I look or what people think of me. I just have the random need to change. That and I wanted to get rid of my high blood pressure and not die at the age of fourty from a heart attack.

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APublicDisaster wrote: That and I wanted to get rid of my high blood pressure and not die at the age of fourty from a heart attack.

 

HI APD (do you care if I shorten your nickname to that? Hope not!)

Welcome to the site! There are lots of people here of all different ages, so it should be the perfect place for you.

Wow, you have lost a lot of weight already. Wow. Since the lapband, do you just eat smaller amounts because of your smaller appetite, or did you cut out junk food, or exercise?

LOL, I like your reasons for wanting to lose weight, above.

Well, I hope you stick around and post more! We're pretty friendly and chatty here in the teen forum.

Welcome to :cph:!


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I have been riding for about 8 years and always was the heaviest in the class but it never really bothered me because the horses I rode were bigger built ( 1000-1300lbs 17hh-17.3hh) But I finally got my own horse a 2 y/o paintXdraft cross who sadly probably isn't a draft cross but probably a Qh or arab cross which basically means.....she's not getting much bigger then her 15.3hh and right now she is about 850lbs ( she's only 2) soo... yeah time to loose the protective chub!

Also I recently got out of a relationship with my first love and all that junk(almost a year togather).So i'm on the rebound! lol and I don't know where you guys are at but finding a guy who interested in any girl above size 2  around here is like finding a needle in a haystack..in the dark....

I have been on weight watchers and I stuck with it for awhile but I just get bored. Honestly I'll do it for about a week then ka-poot boredom sets in and it's all over. I have problems staying motivated.lol

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I know what you mean about guys. Not about horses...lol...but I can pretend :smile: It is so frustrating that people have to be so into looks...

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Well, I never ate much for junkfood anyway. I did drink soda, but I cut out everything but Sprite over a year ago. I only drink one a week, so that helps.

I eat about a cup of food three times a day, sometimes less. I cannot eat much in the morning, which is fine with me, I am not much of a breakfast person anyway.

I have started doing pilates again, and hopefully I will get my weights and stuff back before I move.

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APublicDisaster wrote: I have started doing pilates again, and hopefully I will get my weights and stuff back before I move.


I enjoyed pilates at first, but then I got bored so I do it every so often to streeeeetch those muscles so I can get longer legs so they don't look dumpy. I LOVE the meditation at the end of one of my videos- the first time I did it, I laughed and thought it was stupid, but then I tried and found it sooooo relaxing...

 

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I've always been generally sticky -- I was in gymnastics for 8 years of my life (four times a week for two hours each) and I quit three years ago.  Since then I've slowly been gaining weight... at first I kind of liked the curves, but in the last three months it's just been weight gain around my stomach and thighs.

What really got me into weight loss was that I knew that if I keep on eating whatever I want and not excersizing, that I'm going to end up only getting more depressed and overweight.

I'm also really paranoid about how other people view me... and not to mention that all of my friends have desireable bodies.  I feel really fat and ugly when I'm with them (even though they never bring up my rising weight and treat me the same as always) and I'm the only one who is currently single.

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chiefy wrote: I'm also really paranoid about how other people view me... and not to mention that all of my friends have desireable bodies.  I feel really fat and ugly when I'm with them (even though they never bring up my rising weight and treat me the same as always) and I'm the only one who is currently single.

Ugh, comparing myself to other people is the WORST. I'm not overweight (anymore), but I always feel really fat when I'm at school or hanging out with friends because all the other girls my age are tiny.

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 Posted: 28 January 2007 10:28 pm
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I am very worried about how people see me too. Even though I have only had my over weightedness pointed out to me a couple of times, I am always afraid people are talking about me. Or about my clothes. Or my hair. Or whatever. I think I'm pretty self-concious. Well, I guess not around my friends. My good friends. I know they love me for who I am. But other people...

clar:music:

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ng clarinetgurl wrote: I am very worried about how people see me too. Even though I have only had my over weightedness pointed out to me a couple of times
clar:music:


Me too. :crying:

-At school this girl called me "fat girl slim" as they sang me happy birthday. It stung, but I forced myself to laugh. :nono:

-The son of one of my mum's friends was speaking in Dutch telling his mum I was too fat to fit into her swimming costume. My mum told him: "You don't even know my daughter's size." She laughed, but trust me my family were....cheesed off....I can't wait for that idiot to see me now- ha! I'll remember his smug face the next time I'm struggling during a workout, or too unmotivated to work out.:angry:

-I was running to jump over a pole during Physical education at school, and this girl pushed her friend out of the way as I was running; like she was in danger of getting squashed or something. That hurt too, and I hated her after that.:chewing:

-The last time I can remember is when a boy called me fat last year. Didn't hurt at all:shock:, because finally I thought: No more:sad:. And here I am...:cool:




I just wish I'd used the "hate" and disappointments to lose the weight sooner in my life. Oh well,  life goes and EVERYTHING happens for a reason. That's my belief.:smile:

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 Posted: 5 February 2007 09:48 pm
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Well, I'd always wanted to lose weight..since I was in elementary school.  My friends were always the tiny cheerleaders and athletic volleyball players, and I was the one going to see them, sitting in the stands.  I was the one watching them pick out clothes in Abercrombie while I held up shirts just wishing I could one day wear it.  But I never had real motivation.

Then I found out I was accepted to be a foreign exchange student (I'm in Germany since August until this June).  I knew the stereotype..Americans are fat and Europeans are skinny :P Well, I didn't want to stick out and be thought of as even MORE gross than I was in the US.  It was like magic at that point.  I had a real motivation.  I went from 200 lbs to 166...I think that's what I weighed in the 6th grade.  I would get lots of compliments and that drove me to work harder.  Then I got here and I was still overweight at 166..and I still felt fat.  Plus, the food and alcohol was so good (namely the chocolate) that my weight increased to between 187-191 at New Years.  It was frightening how close I was to that.  I kept imagining myself getting off that plane in June.  What did I want people's first thoughts to be?  'Oh, she ballooned again in Germany!'  NO WAY.  So I decided at New Years I was going to go home the weight I came, 166.  Now I'm already at 176, and have decided to push it to another level.  I want to lose even more before I leave so that when I get back off that airplane, I'll here 'WOW you look great!' :)

I hate to say it, but I'm really driven by both my feelings AND by other people's perceptions of me.  But being a teenager I guess that's natural.

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 Posted: 5 February 2007 10:27 pm
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takingitoff0807 wrote: Well, I'd always wanted to lose weight..since I was in elementary school.  My friends were always the tiny cheerleaders and athletic volleyball players, and I was the one going to see them, sitting in the stands.  I was the one watching them pick out clothes in Abercrombie while I held up shirts just wishing I could one day wear it.  But I never had real motivation.

Then I found out I was accepted to be a foreign exchange student (I'm in Germany since August until this June).  I knew the stereotype..Americans are fat and Europeans are skinny :P Well, I didn't want to stick out and be thought of as even MORE gross than I was in the US.  It was like magic at that point.  I had a real motivation.  I went from 200 lbs to 166...I think that's what I weighed in the 6th grade.  I would get lots of compliments and that drove me to work harder.  Then I got here and I was still overweight at 166..and I still felt fat.  Plus, the food and alcohol was so good (namely the chocolate) that my weight increased to between 187-191 at New Years.  It was frightening how close I was to that.  I kept imagining myself getting off that plane in June.  What did I want people's first thoughts to be?  'Oh, she ballooned again in Germany!'  NO WAY.  So I decided at New Years I was going to go home the weight I came, 166.  Now I'm already at 176, and have decided to push it to another level.  I want to lose even more before I leave so that when I get back off that airplane, I'll here 'WOW you look great!' :)

I hate to say it, but I'm really driven by both my feelings AND by other people's perceptions of me.  But being a teenager I guess that's natural.

You're doing so great. At least you didn't just sit and regret putting the weight back on, you took a stand and have done brilliantly coming from 191lbs to 176lbs again.


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