Welcome to the new over 100 to lose club!

Howdy guys and gals!  I'm taking over this club, not because i think i have all the answers (i so know i don't) but because i'm super pumped up right now and motivated to help those people out there who have a lot of weight to lose.  we need a place that's more than a "can i join" place.. we need a place to talk about issues related to being this overweight.. 

Who here needs to lose over 100 pounds? Who needs to lose over 150 pounds? Or more?

I did! I did! And yes.. i did!

A small amount of background on me for those of you who don't know: i am a binge eater. I have had a problem with emotional eating, hidden eating, over eating, eating with a hang nail, eating because i have split ends.. you name it i stuffed my emotions down with the greasiest, nastiest food i could find!

Why did i do that (you might ask)? Because of many many different reasons.. frankly i think it was because this is how i was taught from a young age, this is how we handle stress and emotions. I learned that it's not proper to talk about your feelings.. or god forbid, express your emotions! You have to shove them down with a piece of cake and a smile!

Anyway.. onto the reason for this post.

If you are out there and need to lose a lot of weight.. just like i've got to.. i think we need to have a place where we can discuss these issues with each other and try and work through them together. Because, let's face it, people who are morbidly obese (yes.. i hate that word too) have uniquely different issues to work through and deal with than the average person.

Losing weight, for people who have this much to lose, have to deal with so much more than the formulas to figure out how much to eat.. and exercising. It's more complex than that. We have to deal with years and years of poor eating habits that have to be unlearned, we have to deal with the emotional torment of just being this size, we have to deal with the harsh looks and comments from strangers or from loved ones, we have to deal with our emotions for the first time in our life because we aren't shoving them down our throats anymore..

this is the hardest thing ANYONE has to deal with.. but, from my experience, things are different for us bigguns. :)

also, for those of you who don't know me very well.. (because i've kinda been in hiding and not posting much and there are so many new people out there) i started out in january weighing 324 pounds. I now weigh 232.5.. i have lost 91.5 pounds so far. I am not telling you guys this to get kudos.. i got those yesterday. I'm telling you guys this because i want anyone out there who is struggling with knowing they have, what seems to be, an insurmountable amount of weight to lose, that there is hope.. it IS possible.. you CAN do it.. but it's hard.. and you will hurt.. i know this because i've been there.. i've done it.. and i'm still dealing with it.

so.. come on in and share your stories.. i want to hear them and i want us to support each other until we are all at our goal weight!

do you find you butt dance more now than ever.. my butt is getting really bony and uncomfortable.. even in a squishy chair!   and it hurts!

Hi all!

I just joined yesterday, and I'm reading through the boards, and all anyone talks about is losing 15 and 20 lbs!  Can I join your club? I "only" have 77 pounds to lose, but it's closer to 100 than it is to 50... :)~

I also think that people who have more to lose are a lot more supportive of each other than people with less, and I really really need that support!

Are we? I thought we were supportive, period? I don't mind, personally :)

oh sure!  you're right 77 is closer to 100 than 50!  but be warned.. we are crazy!  *crosses eyes*  :) 

welcome aboard.. tell us your story.. :)

*waves weird-o flag*

(I thought I was the only one getting a sore butt, then I saw finewines post and now this!:))

welcome :)

Oh yes, my butt gets sore easier too :p Not so much padding as before :p Never realized how much this chair sucked until this month! :D

oh?  i missed finewine's post.. ohh.. finewine's posting about his booty?  hmmm.. damn!  i'm married!  *sigh*  :)

but seriously.. my butt always hurts.. i only sit to type (which is alot of the time) but then i'm running around the house.. because if i sit for too long it aches..

Thank you!  I just set up my profile (finally figured out how) but...

Before my pregnancy, I was a size 7/8, 135 lbs, 5'6".

During my pregnancy, I gained 50 pounds!  I lost 20 when I delivered, and within 3 months, I was over my delivery weight! I figured "Oh, it's just baby weight; it'll go away".

Well the magic weight removal fairy skipped my house.  My son just turned 10, and I'm even heavier.

I've tried to lose so many times - get all "in gear" and excited - only to over do it and binge. I'm tired of the binging and the disappointment and the failure.

This time, I'm serious and committed and I hope I make new friends to help!!!

We've been known to help, occasionally, when pleased ;)

cool.. it's great you made it here.. and are so motivated.. motivation means so much!  

*goes to check out profile*

pregnancy, for me, was another accidental weight loss tool. I was (according to the doc, not my scale) 280 when I got pregnant..lost 15...gained 15, had a baby and lost 30.

you'd think I'd have been smart enough to try to keep it off *shakes head at self*  :D

hey garnet & o1darcie!  glad to be on this journey with everyone!

LOL - I still have plenty of padding on my rear.  *starts dancing* I've got a big butt and I cannot lie.......  I never sing any farther that that in that song....

Any other songs about big butts that are better than that one?  :D

How about Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls", nomore?

Fat Bottomed Girls, you make the rockin' world go round!

Fat bottomed girls is the best!!

Question from the new girl - how do I get a picture into my profile?!?  I keep getting an error that the px size is exceeded (not too sure what that means....).

you have to resize your picture to smaller before you upload it.. :)  

you need to re-size yer pic to make it smaller, use your image editor :) (if that helps at all)

o1darcie1o   YAY!!! you got a picture!!  :)

how funny.. darcie (spelled that way too) is my sisters name!  :)  i've only ever met darcy's.. or d'arcy.. never a darcie.. :)  cool..

of course her name is normal compared to mine.. :)

I've never met anyone with it spelled that way either!  I've met only one other Darcie, and it was Darci.

How did you get your pictures in your profile to be so crisp & clear. Mine looks terrible if you zoom in on it!  I want to try doing a picture diary like you did - I definitely need the visual progress.

well.. my pictures would actually  be better (i had tons in my profile) but the server with my gallery on it died.. so i have to have the gallery set up again and upload 6 months of picutres..

the ones in my pictures profile are actually reduced from a huge format.. i use picasa and reduce the image from there..

how are you doing it?