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HeaveToo 10/04/2008

This thread is probably a build off of my other thread but here we go!

Why isn't it as much fun to loose weight as it was to gain it?! Seriously...It was a lot of fun to eat the icecream and chocolate, but it stucks to work out to loose the weight that you gained from it! Why can't loosing weight be as easy as eating icecream?

No Fair!

deleted_user 10/04/2008

divorce diet..never had to work at it and not gaining it back..i eat like a horse now..guess its still the stress

deleted_user 10/04/2008

Argh!

HeaveToo 10/04/2008

you are lucky...I lost weight at first because I stopped eating from all the stress...when I started to get over that then I started eating too much comfort food. I had to start working out to keep from gaining weight back...

THe stress diet is no fun either! I think I will take the working out diet over the stress diet..both sucks but the working out diet is much healthier!

deleted_user 10/04/2008

I know, I love to chow. But I do exercise and have a lot of self-control.

deleted_user 10/04/2008

Heave - as msde said the divorce diet works wonders, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. In my case I lost 175 lbs overnight. I wouldn't mind getting it back though.

deleted_user 10/04/2008

Everyone keeps mentioning "divorce diet". I am the opposite. When I am stressed and depressed I gain pounds. That's when...2 years ago when I started to be depressed, I gained a lot of weight. Gaining it wasn't "fun".

deleted_user 10/04/2008

I guarantee if I'm having fun I'm going to be in great shape. If I'm doing the activities I love I can eat anything I want and not gain a pound. If you have a sedentary lifestyle then the weights gonna add on quickly.

HeaveToo 10/04/2008

In College I was working out for 5 hours a day, 6 days a week (swim and dive team). Yep...5 hours a day. I still wasn't really thin and I felt, even then, that I was bigger than need be.

Working out can be fun...but if I could loose the same weight eating icecream and cupcakes I would be as skinny as a rail!

deleted_user 10/04/2008

I do not know. I have been on both ends of this spectrum. I gained a ton of weight in 2002, 40 lbs due to being pregnant. In 2004 when the love of my life, my baby daughter passed away when she was 16 months old, I dumped 35 lbs in less than a month. I still do not like eating. The divorce has added so much stress. Money needs to go to food but it also has to go to alot of different places that are gut survival. Some days there is not food. The bills are a mountain. I have to decide, do I get to eat, or do I get to put gas in the car,(I still cannot drive due to epilepsy, but I have to work) or do I figure out how to pay a medical bill, or another bill. I do not want to be sent to collections(again). My EX is responsible for paying alot of this, but of course he lives in LaLa Land, and has done nothing. My tendencies lean towards not eating at all. Go figure.

deleted_user 10/05/2008

i second that, it's not fair.

deleted_user 10/05/2008

mtmmom,,,

I am more like you,, I tend to let my $$$ go for bills instead of food,, if it isn't here, I can't eat it! ;-)

deleted_user 10/05/2008

my problem is that I snack out of boredom. Nothing too much at any given time. Not into cakes or icecream but man the chips and bread are showing their stuff. My downfall; rolls. I could make a dinner out of tasty specialty breads. Especially from Panera Bread! yum!

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