meloncube01
Junior Member

I'm sorry about all the posts, but apparently what i typed was too long and they decided not to tell me until AFTER i was done :P sooooo start from teh bottom and read upward.....my name's Bernadette by the way :P

e "this is god, telling me: bernadette, here's who you should talk to, here's who you should make buddy buddy with" I figure we both need help, i have some great advice i can bring to the table because I saw my mom lose 60 lbs and she has a lot of information to offer, i just need someone to make me feel guilty when I do something wrong, when I eat that 250 calorie cupcake or 150 calorie bag of chips (neither of which eliminate hunger), and I was hoping it could be you. If this weirds you out, u can just be like, "no go away" or u dont even have to respond at all, I'd understand. But i just figured that, if anything, i could offer you a story you could somewhat relate to. It's a good feeling to know that you're not the only one out there with a situation of being a teen and overweight. Media can make you feel isolated. But like i said, ur not alone.

It seems like she's doing it more to be sexy, I'm doing it because I want to be healthy. ya know? I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't look 245 pounds, I've actually got a decent amount of muscle (look at me, makin excuses again). anywho, after watching miss congeniality and thinking what i thought, I decided, if i can't really rely on my best friend to be my weight loss buddy, i need to find one. I need an accountability buddy. I googled "Weight loss forums" and i found this page. I saw ur post. And i read it. When i read your age and weight, i was lik

. No matter how much I tried I would fluctuate, and it seemed that for every pound I lost, I would gain 2 more. It was quite the regressive process. I graduated this year, I'm 18 years old. In January, I decided (yet again) that I was going to lose weight. I weighed 253 lbs. I managed to get myself down to 240 but I got hit wicked hard with school/graduating/this senior mastery project thing. I put my weight loss on hold, for the rest of teh school year basically. So now I sit here, talking to you, weighing 245ish pounds (I'm afraid of the scale) making a proposal. I was just watching Miss Congeniality and I thought "God I would love to have Sandra Bullock's body" (she's like, my idol actress) and although I've had my best friend here trying to lose weight with me, I've realized that because she IS smaller then me, it doesnt quite mean as much to her.

Hey, I read your post about needing to lose weight. I have my own story to share with you, I find that it's pretty "coincidental" that I've read your post (although I'm not one for coincidences)

As far as your story goes about being 16 and 210 pounds, I hear ya....I wasn't the smallest child but I wasn't the largest either. I was relatively athletic, I played soccer, basketball, any sport I could weasel into. But, around the time 6th grade hit, I became less active (i went to a catholic school and played on their teams but....let's just say they were slackers) after 8th grade, i was 15 years old and weighing in close to 200 lbs. When I went to high school I can't even begin to tell you how many times I would tell myself "ok, I'm gonna do it, this is it, I'm gonna lose weight." I grew sick of myself, fed up, i was tired of being overweight