Obesity Support Group

This is awesome, i'm reading all your reasons to loose weight and just about all of them fit with me... I always joke with my skinny friends and tell them... if we ever have another ice age...you're going before me!!! but all in all i think the most important for me is to feel good about myself, i dont want to lose weight so men can love me, are men going to get smarter if i lose weight? Doubt it... I want to do it for myself... I wanted the easy way out, surgery, i went to the dr and guess what... my insurance did not approve it because i dont have any other health issues... ok i'm a health FAT person... so i have almost all the excuses here so i'll just add one more... I DONT WANT TO STRUGGLE WITH A DIET!!! i get tired of just thinking i have to get in a diet...

31. I want to be able to get health insurance.

With the combination of morbid obesity and diabetes...insurance companies want no part of me. That is a scary thing! I can set up an insurance program at work, but that is a huge expense I can hardly afford!

32. I want to lose so I can keep up with other people doing physical things.

I had a dream last night about being with people climbing these really steep stairs and my legs just wouldn't let me keep up! I was getting further and further behind and woke up upset!

I want to be able to wrap just ONE regular bath towel around myself after showering instead of pinning two or more together.

I want to be able to wear my hair any way I want, without trying to hide behind it!

I want to be confident about going to social functions. In June I am going to a function that includes a free dinner cruise that I am turning down because I won't know anyone there. If I weren't fat, I would probably go.

for me -

1. i don't want this illness of pcos anymore
2. i want to be healthy
3 i want to feel good
4 i want to be able to squeeze into smaller clothes, b/c they are really cute lol
5 i want to keep my big booty just round it out some and have a smaller stomcach and waistline lol.
6 lose the flab from my arms
7 be adventurous like lara croft
8 be free of worry about my body
9 try new things
10 have more confidence and control

ok, this is so awesome i haaaave to do it too!

im 19, so alot of these things will sound a little "teen-ish"

1. date
2. be able to go shopping anywhere!
3. travel with more ease....im in europe right now...and we have to walk everywhere and i seriously feel like im gonna die every-time we go out.
4. dance without feeling like...the crazy fat chick.
5.be respected....im tired of people giving me advice on what i should do...it like.."yeah...thanks." but seriously...who are you? what do you know about my life?
6.i want to not feel stupid at the beach...or better yet...in a bathing suit.
7.i want to love myself.
8. i want buy cute lingerie
9.i want to flirt, and not feel like im pretending to be someone else...or feel like im joking around.
10. i want to go to a dressing room and feel like maybe this time ill fit into what i picked out.
11. i dont want to shop at lane bryant!!!!
12.i dont wna to hear this anymore: "your vegan? then why are you so fat?"
13.im tired of dealing with people and there questions about my size.
14.im tired of trying to diet...weight watchers is shit.
15. im tired of eating and double thinking everything becuase of the people around me.
16.im tired of skinny chicks complaining about how "fat" they feel....get a life!

but most of all....

IM TIRED OF ALWAYS HAVING THE SAME DAMN PROBLEM! ITS GETTING SUUUPPPEEEERRR OLD!

i agree with this list as well.

I'm insulin resistant and many of my friends are diabetics who are now in remission due to following the Schwarzbein Principle. http://www.schwarzbeinprinciple.co... Thanks for putting your list up and I'll think about it and add mine later.

In health,
Resilient Woman

Someone mentioned buying cute lingerie... at least I think I remember seeing it on the list. Anyway, I used to shop at www.hipsandcurves.com they have a cute selection of lingerie for plus size women. They even have a good selection of bras and panties too. I ALWAYS have had trouble finding undergarments that fit well.

I say used to shop there because of all the recent weight loss even the smallest size they sell is to big for me. Size start at 1x and go up from there. It's a great site and they ship everything discretely in plain brown boxes. Great great company with amazing customer support. Any issue I ever had (and there weren't many) was always resolved by the end of the business day, if time permitted, by noon on the next business day if need be.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.