Losing weight....

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Okay, I'm a chunky person. I've always been a chunky person, I probably always will be a chunky person.... I just want to be less chunky lol Okay, being serious now, I've struggled with my weight all of my life, I was an over weight child/teen, and now I'm an over weight young adult. One of my big problems is I'm an emotional eater. I get bored and I munch on chips, I get upset and I snack on a cookie, I get mad and I write in my diary (how that fits in there I dunno lol). Fact is, I'm an emotional eater and I find myself eating and I don't ever realise that I'm doing it. For example: Yesterday at work I was so pissed at a customer (he was being really rude to me in a very mean way), and I just picked up a bag of chips and started eating them without even knowing it. When I finally caught myself I felt so sick with myself. How can I lose weight and feel better about myself? I'm tired of being the qoute unqoute "fat kid" and I'm tired of people going "you're not fat, you're just fluffy" What can I do? And don't say "just put down the cream puffs chuby" because I'm tired of hearing that too (besides, what's a damn cream puff?!?!?)

Well this week I have been working on what I eat and what I drink, and I'm slowly but surly adding exercise into my lifestyle, but it's hard. If I don't have support I give up. I've been made fun of all my life because of this, and I don't want to be made fun of anymore. It's hard.

Yeah it is very hard to do. I stuck with it and i fel better. You just have to fight those cravings of your old self. We will help you out all we can, but it has to come from you. Just dig deep and you can do it. Just keep working on it and keep us posted! :grin:

Yeah it has been hard. Now i need to hit the weights and convert the final bit of fat into muscle.

you get what i mean. I need to replace it. Bad choice in words. I have been around weightlifting long enough to know that.

Lol, I heard that coming from you before I read it.

Thanks for your support guys ^^ One thing that's making me want to lose weight is my mum. She's lost over 35 pounds and I know that if she can do it, so can I. I'm kind of sore this morning because I was exersicing(ms?) with my sister lastnight (we do it at night because we work during the day), and this morning I felt so good. Tomorrow I'm going to start walking. You're right, if I'm going to lose weight and feel better about myself, I need to start small, so I'm aiming at losing 15 pounds. If I can lose that, then I'll bump it up. Wish me luck ^^

What do you weight, if you don't mind me asking? !5lbs could either be a lot or a little.

What did I say?

oh i just had a brain fart. lol. I know what i meant just did not express it.

I'm sure more people would work out if it did!!!!

Well lets just say I weigh alot, I'm fluffy. ^_^ 15 wouldn't really be alot for me, but it's a begining. Last year I lost between 35 and 40 pounds, but I gained almost all of it back =( It was a bad year this year lol

yeah. Always start with a goal. Reach that goal and you will feel better about yourself and you will want to accomplish more of that because it feels good.

How can you gain 40lbs in 2 months?

eating bad, not much activity. It is easier than you think. If you have a slow metabolism it can be gained back real fast.

Did you know that your metabolism is largely affected by your activity level. Greater activity, especially at a young age, boosts your overall metabolism through out your life because that's the way you've raised your body to be. If you cut out exercise though, your metabolism is definitely slower than when you're active.

Who said I gained it in 2 months?!?! That is not how it happened at all. I said I lost about 40 pounds last year, I should have explained more. I lost that weight between September of 2003 and Febuary of 2004, and then I went through a really bad break up and I slowly started gaining my weight back, so I basically gained about 30 pounds back in 10 months, not 2 months. I had a every depressing year =( But I'm working on losing that again and losing even more.

Hi... I know exactly what you are going through. I used to weigh quite a bit, all through childhood, and high school. When I first really commited myself to losing weight, I took diet suplements (they contained ephedra, which is pretty much illegal everywhere now), while also running and doing whatever it takes to lose weight. I drank only water and ate low fat meals ( I still ate alot, but just smaller meals all day long...like 6 small meals a day). Im pretty sure alot of the weight was lost because of those pills I took though. My weight loss was really rapid, and I am sure very unhealthy. I was asked by a number of people if I was sick or had an eating disorder. I decided to stop taking the pills as a result, and slow things down a bit. It was really strange how obsessed with the scale, and looking in the mirror became, but I just felt like I wasnt losing weight. I think a part of this was that I just had extra skin hanging, and I didnt feel refined at all. So, the reason I am telling you all of this, is that now, I have gained probably half of the weight back (3 years later), but I feel that I am healthy. I ride my bike to college every day (actively don't use a car on purpose), walk if I cant ride my bike, and just find some sort of outdoor activity to take part in. Even if you dont think you are losing weight by doing these things, you are at least getting your body into a healthier state, which in turn can result in a loss of body fat etc. I too eat when I am bored, and dont even think about it. It really does kind of suck, but thats just how it works. What I recomend is making sure you eat a decent breakfast, and use that energy throughout the day doing whatever. It might make you hungry quickly, but that means that your metabolism is starting to kickstart itself. Just be sure to stay active all day, and try not to eat before bedtime...thats the worst. Hope this all can help.

i used to b chubby then i got rid of all my junk food In reply to: what's a damn cream puff?!?!? its a yummy piece of bread(or sumthing like that) with yummy stuff inside