Hi everybody!



I confess to joining this forum pages away from finishing the book by

Judith Lederman & Larina Kase.



To summarize my story: I was a compulsive over eater from childhood

and became seriously obese in high school and onward.  I did the usual

yo-yo dieting, hot fad diets, etc.



Finally, due to my obesity, I had to have my gallbladder removed over

a year ago.  I went on a vegan/vegetarian diet since for months after

my gallbladder surgery I couldn't handle digesting meat.  Along with

exercise, I dropped 101 lbs in 7 months (FYI: it was not a starvation

diet and my caloric intake was carefully monitored.  I'm just pretty

seriously overweight. I can now eat lean cuts of poultry/game meats.)



I've since spent nearly a decade in therapy resolving many of my

issues surrounding food and weight problems.  In this last major

weight loss of 101 lbs in January of 2008, I reached that goal and

shortly afterward had some necessary elective surgery.



I basically couldn't handle the back-to-back changes and opted to gain

weight again-- with the new understanding that emotionally I needed

time to catch up to the rapid weight-loss/new body image I had of

myself before losing weight again.  (As on several occasions before,

I've dropped a noticeable amount of weight in yo-yo dieting... only to

freak out and promptly gain the weight back when people starting

coming up to me and compliment me on my new appearance.)



In the time I had off from losing weight, I really took the time to

decide from a physiological point of view what exactly was it about

food that was helping to prevent me from losing (and keeping) the

weight off successfully.



I realized after reviewing my family's heavy history of addition and

depression, that I had several foods that I was just simply addicted

to (namely sugar & starchy products).  So I found an eating lifestyle

(from one of the many books out there) that suited me and have been

following it with MUCH less difficulty since cutting out starches &

sugar from my diet.



I also have been losing weight again and am less than 25 lbs from my

original weight loss of 101 lbs from January 2008.  (I will still have

over an additional 60-70 lbs to lose once I hit the 101 lb goalpost

anyway).



I'm excited to read this book and find this forum since I'm a member

of several other online forums (one for my eating lifestyle and

another for support during my process of losing weight.



I've gone through yo-yo dieting and seeing my weight go up/down over

the years.  I've been frustrated by every diet plan's book "fairytale

ending" of being thin and everything is "perfect" with no more weight

struggles once I follow a certain fad diet.



I always wanted to know how a formerly obese girl gets through life as

a thin person once she is ready to sign up for membership in the "thin

club." lol.



I'm happy to find this forum for it finally answers/addresses

questions I've had for years on post-fat-girl days. I still have a lot

more weight to lose but I'm glad to find a forum that I can use as my

body keeps changing and shrinking downward.



Thanks for listening!



Melissa

Hello Newbie and Gang!!



Newbie, reading briefly your story made me freak out with all the

similarities. (compulsive eater from childhood...became obese in

highschool...yoyo dieter since 12 trying everything known to mankind

to go down; good or bad)

to name a few diets i had done previously besides being bulimic

throughout the whole process...atkins, L.A. Weightloss, several

weight loss clinics that would give a prescription for phentermine,

laxatives, the cabbage soup diet (yuck), slimfast.

gosh I can't even remember them all..lol. My heaviest was 240lbs, my

lowest 128lbs. I have been literally every size (from a size 22 to a

size 3)

since I had been trying to lose weight since I was very young, my

whole mentality towards losing weight was WRONG! I had always thought

if I find the magic diet, the magic pill, the magic powder, I would

lose the weight and that would be it! done finish! no more suffering!

Boy was I wrong... in my case it wasn't till I was an adult and

searched for answers that I came to realize this will NEVER end.

It's simple, when people come to me with ridiculous diets, my first

question to them is "Can you do this for the rest of you life?", "Do

you see yourself at 75 eating this way or living this way?"

If the answer is NO, then forget it.



Newbie you asked a question in your last post. This was the

question: "I always wanted to know how a formerly obese girl gets

through life as a thin person once she is ready to sign up for

membership in the "thin club." lol.



Just pondering that question gave me a headache, because there's so

much complexity to it. One I can't cover in one blog or forum or post.

Just the other day there was an ackward situation in my job, that let

me realize who I am when it comes to your question which is "a former

obese person who is thin", I will never be "Just a thin person".



If you guys must know the situation it was with A coworker who was

actually ridiculing and poking fun at another coworker to me for

their weight! Out of all people me! You guys could imagine how weird

the situation was for me. Trying to be polite and passive I just

tried to end the conversation quickly. I was stunned, I felt guilt

for not defending that person knowing at one time I was just as big.

I, like all of you, will always be sensitive when it comes to people

making fun of other people because of their weight. One reason is

because it's morally not right. But for us, it's different we are

more sensitized because we've been there, we've done that. And that

will never go away even if you are a size 3.



It wasn't till I changed my mentality, my lifestyle, my habits,

basically my life. Down to my feelings, that I got it. That's when I

got the VIP gold card membership to the thin club.

It's a membership though thats not easy, one with fine print(hard

work)...lol.



-Tah

p.s. you guys must watch the show "RUBY", you'll fall in love with

her. I saw my first episode yesterday and i'm already hooked.



--- In thinclub@yahoogroups.com, "chavaseye" <chavaseye@...> wrote:

>

> Hi everybody!

>

> I confess to joining this forum pages away from finishing the book

by

> Judith Lederman & Larina Kase.

>

> To summarize my story: I was a compulsive over eater from childhood

> and became seriously obese in high school and onward.  I did the

usual

> yo-yo dieting, hot fad diets, etc.

>

> Finally, due to my obesity, I had to have my gallbladder removed

over

> a year ago.  I went on a vegan/vegetarian diet since for months

after

> my gallbladder surgery I couldn't handle digesting meat.  Along with

> exercise, I dropped 101 lbs in 7 months (FYI: it was not a

starvation

> diet and my caloric intake was carefully monitored.  I'm just pretty

> seriously overweight. I can now eat lean cuts of poultry/game

meats.)

>

> I've since spent nearly a decade in therapy resolving many of my

> issues surrounding food and weight problems.  In this last major

> weight loss of 101 lbs in January of 2008, I reached that goal and

> shortly afterward had some necessary elective surgery.

>

> I basically couldn't handle the back-to-back changes and opted to

gain

> weight again-- with the new understanding that emotionally I needed

> time to catch up to the rapid weight-loss/new body image I had of

> myself before losing weight again.  (As on several occasions before,

> I've dropped a noticeable amount of weight in yo-yo dieting... only

to

> freak out and promptly gain the weight back when people starting

> coming up to me and compliment me on my new appearance.)

>

> In the time I had off from losing weight, I really took the time to

> decide from a physiological point of view what exactly was it about

> food that was helping to prevent me from losing (and keeping) the

> weight off successfully.

>

> I realized after reviewing my family's heavy history of addition and

> depression, that I had several foods that I was just simply addicted

> to (namely sugar & starchy products).  So I found an eating

lifestyle

> (from one of the many books out there) that suited me and have been

> following it with MUCH less difficulty since cutting out starches &

> sugar from my diet.

>

> I also have been losing weight again and am less than 25 lbs from my

> original weight loss of 101 lbs from January 2008.  (I will still

have

> over an additional 60-70 lbs to lose once I hit the 101 lb goalpost

> anyway).

>

> I'm excited to read this book and find this forum since I'm a member

> of several other online forums (one for my eating lifestyle and

> another for support during my process of losing weight.

>

> I've gone through yo-yo dieting and seeing my weight go up/down over

> the years.  I've been frustrated by every diet plan's

book "fairytale

> ending" of being thin and everything is "perfect" with no more

weight

> struggles once I follow a certain fad diet.

>

> I always wanted to know how a formerly obese girl gets through life

as

> a thin person once she is ready to sign up for membership in

the "thin

> club." lol.

>

> I'm happy to find this forum for it finally answers/addresses

> questions I've had for years on post-fat-girl days. I still have a

lot

> more weight to lose but I'm glad to find a forum that I can use as

my

> body keeps changing and shrinking downward.

>

> Thanks for listening!

>

> Melissa

>