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Feeling Determined
I don't know it all
I don't claim to be a know it all I claim that I am a piece of work in progress or you may call it a skinny girl in progress any way , I want to address a reader who wrote me a email that she could not do the exercises and lose weight because of medical problems caused from her obesity ( I know I hate that word too ) So here goes.
Dear reader , In my experience and we are talking about 38 years of being over weight I have been as high as 299.9 lbs and believe it or not I have weighed as little as 166 lbs before , that is skinny for me by the way and it was around Jr high or high school it has been that long and I really can't remember how old I was or what it felt like .
I am not on a diet I call it a journey , why because I have personally tried every diet known to man that I could afford and they didn't work for me .. I am not saying that they didn't work because for others they might have worked wonderfully for and they are all skinny and superior to me now ..
the road I am on is a life change , I am changing things slowly but surely as I go down this long journey called life .. I lose it and gain it because I am finding what works for me , every once in a while I will try something new and discuss it here but I will always stand on the ground that I am trying it and I am not an expert about it ...
when I weighed 299.9 lbs it was a chore just to get up and get dress and shower I am 5'6 and that is a lot of weight for my body to carry around .. so I started slowly doing things that we have to do in everyday life ... clean ourselves ..
Once getting out of bed and doing those everyday chores got easier I started cleaning house better ,one room at a time , any one can pick up straighten a table but get up and down and scrub that floor or wash your walls if you want a cardio work out .
I met Denise thru our online group and she and I are partners in crime she got me to walking , it was so funny I told her I took care of my elderly parents and I was up and down with them all the time and she said oh really buy a pedometer and we will see how much you step ...
I wore that pedometer and the first day I looked down and saw that I had only walked 400 something steps ... I literally had to get up and walk around my house to reach 500 steps that first day .. ( yes people she called I confessed and she laughed at me .. or with me because we discussed how people think they do more than they really do because their bodies adjust to their activity level .. if you are only used to doing 100 steps a day and you walk 110 you will feel tired if you are used to walking 500 steps a day and you walk 110 you feel like you haven't done anything .. I hope that explains it .
call me country , call unsophisticated but it all boils down to I am a simple girl.. the bigger I am the easier it is to drop big numbers , the more I move no matter what the activity or how long I do it the more I lose, the less I eat the less energy I have to do activities ... see the I because what works for me may or may not work for you , and if it does or doesn't don't mean you are doing it wrong .. all it means is you have to find what works for you and what you can do for the rest of you life , because it is not just about losing the weight it is about keeping it off , or at least that is what it is for me ..
so dear reader don't ever think that you are alone and unable to do anything because together we will find a plan that works for you and hopefully some day I will have the perfect plan that works for me ..
until then lets just take it
One day at a time.
Hugs
Sherry
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You have a good attitude and the right outlook. We love you bunches- D
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Great entry Sherry, you are right, what works for me won't work for you and vise versa. Keep on going girl!!!
Evil
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Sherry, this is so well written and such good advice to that reader. You show such care, compassion and encouragement...you are a wonderful person...you do know that don't you??
xxx
Lisa -
Totally concur! Very good!
7/24/08 12:37 PM
Love u,
Dana