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Plus size women,accepted your size,like me?
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Any plus size women here who have sort of accepted your size?
Are you happy being big?
I'm in my late 30s, always been over weight, but I've now reached a size 24.
I guess I do feel a bit miffed but at the same time I've just accepted it.
I have no desire to lose weight.
I do A LOT of walking at work (9 hour shift) and when I come home all I want to do is collapse =/
How the hell am I meant to 'go for a jog' or do some exercise?
I think I like food too much too. I don't go overboard , Im not a big meat eater, and I don't cover everything in butter or fat.
Any other women ?
Not interested in any fat haters comments , save your breath
Are you happy being big?
I'm in my late 30s, always been over weight, but I've now reached a size 24.
I guess I do feel a bit miffed but at the same time I've just accepted it.
I have no desire to lose weight.
I do A LOT of walking at work (9 hour shift) and when I come home all I want to do is collapse =/
How the hell am I meant to 'go for a jog' or do some exercise?
I think I like food too much too. I don't go overboard , Im not a big meat eater, and I don't cover everything in butter or fat.
Any other women ?
Not interested in any fat haters comments , save your breath
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Im not a fat hater, you can get big and beautiful, but I worry about your health
To them people I say f*** off
I don't believe people can be happy with that aspect even if they don't mind being fat in itself.
I have not accepted it yet, I wish I could, but I hate myself at the minute.
Basically what I'm saying is, if you are happy and healthy then good for you. I found that using MyFitnesspal to log my calories and exercise was a massive eye opener, I was just eating far more than I needed. I have no desire to deprive myself of anything (off for a Chinese and wine this evening) but everything in moderation. Before I had no idea what moderation truly was. Now I do I am happy, and if I stay bigger even with that then so be it Some people are just never going to be slim.
The hardest thing over the years has been witnessing just how much some thin people eat! My very slim best friend from school has a whole extra meal every day, sitting down to a big slice of cake each afternoon to tide her over between her substantial lunch and her two course dinner. It makes me feel like a whiny teenager sometimes, wanting to moan that it's just not FAIR. But I have pretty well stopped doing that now that I have actually lost a couple of friends, who would surely rather be plus size than dead.
This seems a misrepresentation of size 18, unless you are 3 ft tall. I have never found myself hotter than other people, and I have only recently had to halve my hikes from 10 to 5 miles because my knees are a bit knackered; even so, 5 miles is a good walk, and joyful.
I have to say the diet I am doing (purely working out my calories needed in a day and going under it) isn't a misery at all. I have whatever the hell I like, I'm even fitting my chinese and wine into my calories today (admittedly calories to maintain weight not lose it, but it's only one day).
I understand that 'dieting' isn't for everyone and that is fair enough but I do think people try and make it way too hard for themselves a lot of the time by doing things that just are non sustainable and restrictive. Yes, that is a miserable existence.
I think (I promise I will get off the thread after this, and shut up) dieting can make you quite euphoric for a while. There is nothing like that first month on a diet when you lose loads of weight, feel positive and energetic, and get really into cooking those healthy meals.
In my experience, the euphoria gradually gets less and less unti lt tips over into an infinite weariness and even disgust. All around you, all the time, there are people eating nicer things than you. You see someone with some simple treat - a slice of cheese on toast perhaps - and feel sick with longing. Hence the archetypal failing-a-diet meal of cottage cheese on ryvita, green salad, a piece of fruit, and 4 scones with jam and cream followed by an after-dinner treat of self-loathing and revulsion.
I started eating 4 small meals a day and snacked on fruit. I'm 7 stone lighter now and a size 12/14. I'd like to lose another stone but it's getting really hard to shift now but I'm not giving up. These days I can walk and cycle for miles, my blood pressure is normal and I feel fitter and look younger than I did 10yrs ago. I wish I'd got my fat arse into gear sooner, all those wasted fat miserable years I'll never get back.
Anyone who knew me back in my fat days probably assumed I'd accepted my size and was happy with it, we're good at fooling ourselves and other people.
Aside from how I look, it's how I feel and how healthy I am that's more important and I feel miles better. Being so overweight is so uncomfortable and the accompanying lethargy is horribly draining.
OP, take a look in your cupboards and chuck out anything that's too high in fat and sugar. Don't cut your food intake by anything too drastic, make your meals a little smaller and snack on fruit but to even lose a stone will give your energy levels a boost and make you feel so much better. Fill half your plate with either veg or salad for your main meal. Little changes make a big difference to how you feel.
I tend not to worry about a strangers health, especially if they are happy how they are.
Cheers Faithy. I'm not on a diet though, it's a lifestyle change. Diets seem to be short term things that don't seem to work.
A short-term specific diet may make you miserable, but a long-term lifestyle change will probably have the opposite effect.
absolutely!
Agree. A short term solution to a long term goal is never going to work. Big congrats to you on your weightloss, you should be very proud of yourself
Certainly works for me.:D
So the most sensible thing is to lose weight, really, so I'm on a diet. I look at other women my size who look great and envy them, but I just don't suit being this size. If I did, I might be alright with it but probably not.
I'm five foot eight and have been a yo yo dieter since I was twelve years old. I have only been thin three times since then and each of those times was a result of starving myself on a crash diet. I once lost six stone in four months by having nothing but a watered down Slim Fast shake and gallons of Diet Coke every day. I kept it off for three years and then it started creeping back as my life became more settled and happy.
Now I've accepted that I'm just never going to be thin. I'm using My Fitness Pal but I'm just concentrating on not getting any bigger really.
Wonkeydonkey's description of how being on a diet feels is spot on, it's exactly how I get with them. The first month is ace and then it's all downhill from there.