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Hi everyone. I am Cathy. I am desperate to lose weight. It is consuming my life. I have 5 very active teenagers and we are always at some activity. I am so sick of being the fat mom! Someone recently told me that I obviously wasn't too sick of it if I wasn't willing to do something about it. Maybe they were right. So, now I am taking that first step. I've done every fad diet imaginable and some that weren't good enough to even be a fad. I can't do this alone. I am hoping that this site will help keep me motivated and accountable. I am 5'3" and weigh 180 pounds. I am not healthy, not happy, and am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Thanks ahead of time for all the help and support that any of you can give to me. I hope to do the same for y'all. I had bulimia for 14 years and stopped purging 10 years ago. I can't seem to stop the bingeing and have put on 70 pounds. It's time to learn how to control food instead of food controlling me. It's time to eat to live instead of living to eat. I know I can do it because I truly am fed up. I am excited to begin.
Hello and welcome! You can totally do this. Positive thinking! "I am not 'the fat mom', I am my kids mom, and I am going to do everything I can to be healthy and happy! Woot!"
Was doing good until today. I was down 4 pounds. Now, back up a pound and a half. I know it fluctuates, but I am obsessed with the scale! I weigh myself at least 5 times a day. Any pointers on how NOT to do that? It's driving me crazy. I tried to throw it out, but I went out the next day and bought a new one. I'm not ready to go without one completely.
Hi and welcome...WOW...5 teenagers...geeesh...I have one preteen and a toddler and those two drive me bonkers, I couldnt imagine 5 teenagers...
This is a great place...Im sure you will find all you need here, it has been great for me, I havent lost much weight but the support is remarkable and if I hadnt come I wouldnt have lost what I already have...
Im always the fat mom but ya know, I am also always the only single mom and the youngest mom...so who cares, they are just all labels...My daughters dont look at me as being fat, I am me...
ANyway, good luck to you...this is one of the best things you could do to work towards your goal...
Oh and the scale thing...I am on my like everytime I am in the washroom...I dont read much into it though, I actually find it amazing how much my weight flexuates through out the day it is amazing...step on it all you want but dont become obsessed by it...set a weigh in day for yourself...and only care about the weight it says on that day...
Last edited by twolilangels; November 12th, 2006 at 12:04 AM.
I saw your thread and we're the same height and weight! I started 11-6 and lost 3.6 kilo's in 6 days.
Try standing on the scale only mornings and evenings. Not during the day. Not at all is too much in the beginning, as is 5 times a day!
I thinks its just brains on zero and do it! For yourself! as a gift!
There is a club here called FSD (Friday Scale Day). They only weigh themselves once a week to stop the obsession with the scale. They might be able to help.
Hi Gang, I'm new, just joined today. Been fat for the last 8 years now and every year has been "the year" that the weight was coming off, but this time it's gotta happen. Before I hit 40!
Last edited by michi; November 14th, 2006 at 04:51 AM.
Welcome Michi! I, too, would like to lose the weight before hitting the big 4-0!
I guess we're on the right track being on here. Good luck. We can do this!!
Hi Cathy,
I can totally relate to you. I remember when my kids were growing up, I used to feel that all the other moms looked down their noses at me. I live in a fairly affluent school district where three fourths of the moms were married to dr's and lawyers and went to the gym four hours a day. I was a working mom, and between raising the kids, taking care of the house, working, and caring for my mom who was dying of cancer, I didn't have time to do the gym thing and take care of me. Before I knew it, my kids were grown up and it really didn't matter anymore what the other moms thought. I'm especially close to my daughter and I asked her one day when we were planning her wedding if she was ever embarassed by me. She looked me right in the eyes and said "Mom, I wouldn't have had you any other way, cause I always knew you loved me." We hugged and I cried. Your kids love you. The inner you. If you need to lose the weight to be healthy, do it. If you just want to do it for yourself, do it. But you have to love yourself first. The rest of those moms just don't count. And anyhow, once your kids grow up, you'll find that a lot of those moms have kids that are a bigger embarassment than you ever were to your kids. Love them, enjoy them, and most of all spend time with them. We'll all be here for you.
Tired of being the fat mom 
hi Mom 
I started 11-6 and lost 3.6 kilo's in 6 days. 
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