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I have been sober for over 15 years however I have gained 100 lbs. I am over 50 years old and I was pregnant 3 times, quit smoking and have a stressed life with Autistic child and abusive mother. I may be bipolar from all the stress in life and being a reformed drug addict. Is there something I can or should be taking to control my weight gain and depression together? Thanks for all your honest and knowledgable answers.

i hate my body. i hate everything about it. i hate it that i have huge boobs and a huge butt. yea my bf loves it but i cant feel comfortable wearing nothing. what the hell do i do?!

i come to my senses that i need to lose weight i constantly look at pictures with thin bodies but its like that doesnt stop me from binge eating. eating more than i should just because its good.

my mom is brazilian she cooks every.single.day. and everyday its something delicious and i have to eat it. were a big family so i cant jsut tell her to stop cooking i have 3 older brothers for God’s sake. how can i just stop and get the courage to start working out so by this summer ill have a rockin body?

im 140 lbs and 5’4 so i KNOW that by this summer i can achieve 120. i know i can everyone tells me 20 lbs is easy. so why cant i do it?

I just hate myself right now i need help. how can i get encouragement.

Long story short : I used to be overweight. I lost 35 pounds. But after cutting my calories drastically I got a huge sweet tooth and lost control around sweets. I finally finished the last pint ice cream we bought, tonight and I am ABSOLUTELY not buying anymore, or anymore sweets for that matter. Plus, I’ve been over-eating lately because when I get home I binge on snacks and I’m not hungry for dinner but my mom makes me eat anyway.

I am not sure exactly of how much I gained but I’m sure I have, right? It’s not really THAT noticable but it bothers me. If I’ve gained anything, how long will it take to get it all off again?

I try to run 1-2 miles every day or at least 5x a week. (except when I have binges, because I feel too sick to even move afterward) Plus I usually eat anywhere from 900-1,700 calories. Would I need to cut my calories too? Or just eat healthy and exercise? How long would it take if I cut calories AND exercised vs. just exercise? What would YOU do, if you were me?

Thanks for any helps / tips! ;)
I’m reporting the next little fvcker who gives me one of those “If you wanna lose weight fast, click this link” answers…

Sorry, they are really starting to p!ss me off.

I’m like 155 pounds and 5’5″. And its hard to get motivation and the time to go out there and run. Cause I want to train for the sports I’m taking next year by becoming more agile and having more endurance. And what can I do to target the problem areas? (from stomach down to ankles). I’m getting a bit chubby on my stomach and my butt is huge! Its one of the things of being black (lol) but still.. what else can I do other than running to lose weight? Like can you give me a work out schedule for the week? cause I dont know how much in the week i should be working out. and what time is the best to work out, and how to eliminate cravings (its probably how i gained a lot of those extra pounds, ugh) and find time inbetween my busy life to do this stuff?

any extra tips on how to be healthier are good as well. I’m only 15 so i dont have a say on what my mom buys for food. like we dont even have a lot of snacks and we rarely ever eat out (like less than 10 times in a year do we either go to a restaurant or order food like pizza, chinese, etc. i love sushi and other japanese foods but its expensive and my mom doesn’t really like that some is raw but its amazing) so sometimes i feel so.. sugar deprived. then i go on a binge and eat something “special” she buys like.. binging on hot cocoa powder and adding extra sugar to tea and stuff. its pathetic but idk.. like i feel that other people who have grown up with all this junk food in their house are used to it, so they dont get as excited as i do when we FINALLY have it. i hate that. i mean i love eating fruits and stuff (my mom buys plenty) and i dont exactly want her to buy junk food but how can i just stop the binging? like when im going shopping i tend to end up buying candies and stuff just cause of the cravings. and i even end up wasting my money on school lunch (I always get a sub, fries and chocolate milk when I do) because my mom doesnt buy the stuff they put in subs.. like those special cheeses and meats that my mom says isn’t good for you cause they are processed. i know that but they just taste soo good and while i can make a sandwich at home (tuna, avocado, or pb&j usually) like the other is so appetizing and i make a snap decision and get it. and i end up eating the whole meal down to the last fry when other people.. some dont even finish their meals. i guess cause i’ve been brought up to fiinish the food on my plate and since its rare to get that food and its my own money i dont want it to be a waste. like it got to the point where i took money from my mom just to get lunch since i didnt have 2 bucks, and felt so guilty and didnt want to bloat like i do by eating too much of the school lunch that i got a pack of gum & a giant cheese pretzel at first. yeah i seriously need help.

I mean my calves are pretty muscular as are my arms too. I have no idea why I have arm muscles.. like people ask me if I exercise them when I dont.. I’ve just always had them.. as far back as I can remember having defined muscles was when i was 4 or 5 – why is that?

anyways, thanks ALOT for reading all of this, and by answering you can really help me in life. i want to be healthier and feel better about myself from not only losing the weight but by training for next year so that i can be even better than i was last year, and for putting an end to silly binges. Any other tips you have on the topic, PLEASE SHARE! Ones that have worked for you.. other people too. Once again, thanks! =]
what counts as a multivitamin? I mean we have those flinstones things.. lol are they the same thing?

and if i shouldnt eat things from a box, does that mean i shouldn’t eat things like pasta or rice? how do i control myself when my mom makes those foods.. cause pasta is very addicting and sometimes i end up eating more than i need.

are eggs good for breakfast too? and pancakes? what are some other good things to have for breakfast other than cereal? cause i’ll make oatmeal but i dont wanna eat it EVERY day. and how do i stop from putting too much sugar in my oatmeal? about how much should i put in it anyways? (sugar i mean)

how much should i eat when i eat 3 meals a day? is that better than eating 5 small meals so i dont snack inbetween? and if the 5 small meals are better, what times in the day should i have them?

I just don’t understand it! I 15 and right in puberty but I just don’t understand why I can’t drop 15 pounds. I’m not fat, but I’m a little chubby and I want to lose it! Mostly for soccer, but also because I want to feel good. It’s not that I don’t exercise because I exercise almost EVERYDAY! It’s not that I don’t eat healthy either because I do! I literally just have a healthy breakfast, a nice lunch, a snack like an apple or yogurt or fiber one bar when I get home from school then dinner. I don’t binge and I really don’t overeat. My mom’s a chef and we know all about bad foods and we eat low or no fat stuff, tons of fruits and veggies and meat. So why can’t I lose weight? I used to be really heavy and dropped 25 pounds. Could it just be with puberty and the fact that I already lost a great sum of weight that my body is not ready to release anymore? What do you think?

I’m a 15 year old girl, 5’5″ and about 165 pounds. I have muscle too but there’s also fat like in the rest of my body I want to get rid of. I’ve just been gaining wait.. since last year I’ve been like “Okay, I’m going to stop binge eating and start running for 1 hour everyday” but then I end up binge eating and then hoping to go running soon.. making excuses and stuff. Its so annoying. I really want to be around 110 pounds, though, and don’t need comments on if you don’t think its a good weight or whatever, I just want to know how.

I dont want to go anorexic/bulemic cause it sounds gross and its unhealthy. I dont know how to eat better as like I eat what my parents make. We rarely ever eat out but from now on I’m never buying lunch from school again. But like my family makes traditional African (Cameroonian) foods and being in America i see like other sugary things and it makes me want to eat that stuff but we don’t really have that stuff in my house so i subsitute this with eating sugar, like putting sugar on my corn flakes or cheerios, or binge eating whenever we get more sugary stuff which makes my mom not like to buy stuff like that cause of the binge eating. its so annoying. like i do it with ice cream or nutella.. im like ‘this is the last time’ but i just keep doing it. i’ve been doing it since i dont know, i was like 9 or 10? but its gotten worse each year. it wasnt like this when I was in England when I was younger and skinny. Stupid American portions. But like in lunch when we get so much food, i’ve been taught to finish whats on my plate so its weird to like throw food away.. especially since I dont want to waste money. For that reason I’m not buying lunch anymore.

I think my problem is snacks. Like we dont really have snacks other than fruits so often i get bored with eating them or when fruits are finished i end up binging on something sugary or something. my mom says snacks arent really important but i think a variety of healthy snacks will. i need examples so i can tell my mom to buy them. like as healthy as possible.. my mom just bought nutrigrain bars and im worried at my impulsiveness if I’m going to binge on those. So what are a variety of cheap healthy snacks we could get regularly?

And is there a website with very healthy recipes for food, or like recipes like on that new show “Cook yourself thin” where like it reduces the calories? If i have to help my mom cook to get skinnier I’ll try! and then i’ll learn how to cook better so its a win win, lol

And finally, EXERCISES! would it be a good idea to run for 1 hour before school and/or after school, or 30 mins before and/after school to reach my goal in my goal time? would running just solve all my problems? i feel its more effective than riding my bicycle.. cause i dont have great stamina and am often embarassed during gym class when we run cause i end up being the slowest cause i cant keep up the tempo. i mean its not like im not athletic. I play volleyball but im off season and unfortunately my parents wouldnt let me do club vball this year so basically my exercise has been like about 20 mins of gym class. but are there other ways to target my problem areas.. which are pretty much everywhere cause everywhere gets fat? its like all around my body, ugh. Like put a website with these exercises and how to do them, or really describe it and stuff. I need a work out plan then if running alone won’t solve it. Like a basic outline of how to manage my time with that and how long i should spend doing things..

I need motivation! I dont have an ipod which really sucks but I have to make do with that. I really want to reach my goal but how to just.. get out there? What do you do or what tips do you know about how to just go and exercise? I know it will get easier overtime but how to just start it? I really want to be skinny cause I’m moving to a new town and I wanna get new clothes that will look good on me. I dont like going shopping now because I’m not at my ideal weight yet. But at the same time, I need new clothes. I rarely get to go shopping for clothes (this school year I’ve gone like twice in total) which makes it worse.. I like want to only buy things when i really like how i look. I mean I’m pretty but I can be like a lot prettier if I was skinnier definately. It would really help my self esteem, too.

So basically i need a work out plan & eating plan (w/ recipes for very healthy meals and healthy snack ideas on websites) and tips in general too.

Thanks a lot!!!

I am 5’3″ and around 200lbs. I know I need to make a serious change in my life . I have a treadmill at home and just starting this week I have gotten back on it and am doing 30 mins, 1.5 miles a day. Right now being so out of shape this is about all I can do. I dont want to push myself too much for the fear that Ill get frustrated and quit but know that I will have to up the workout and add more to it. I am an emotional eater who tends to binge and being a stay at home mom I have plenty of time for that but am trying very hard to watch my proportions and eat less junk and such. With what I have said do you think I am off to a decent start, enough to see even a little difference in a few weeks??? As I am building my endurance what are things here I home that I can do to further my success? And how can I keep myself moving forward and not give up. Also I like to have a few drinks on the weekend, with this ruin the work I have done through the week???

Whenever i try to diet i end up binge eating like CRAZY at night cause I feel so hungry. My body is making me more depressed and im already really down which causes me to eat more. I’m 5’8″ and about 159, i really want to get down to about 125 by Feb. and i cant join a gym cause my mom made me quit my membership and i cant do diet pills because im 16, PLEASE HELP!

I’m trying to lose weight.. but I live with my mother. My mother refuses to by healthy foods and then waves them infront of my face when she knows I’m trying to lose. I have no self control so when it comes to this, I binge. I binge a lot around my mom, too, since she’s more overweight than I am. She eats whatever she wants and blows up like a balloon.

I can’t control myself around food, so the only way I feel I can lose weight is if it isn’t around me at all.

How can I control myself around her food..?

MEAN ANSWERS WILL BE REPORTED

Ok so my mom went to the ER today due to appendicitis so i was there half the day. I was following my eating plan up until 3pm when this happened. I tried eating meal replacement bars but then i came home around 10 and i just went for the cream puffs, mini bagels with almond butter and jelly and 2 bowls of cereal. I havent eaten this much for a long time and i do feel a little weird. I was thinking on eating just protein for the next 3 days but i dunno if that’s healthy. Im just afraid of gaining a lot, but i can see why i overate. Any tips, help?
jordan: i did eat a lot, 4 mini bagels with at least 3tblsp of almond butter and 3 tblsp of jelly, 9 mini cream puffs (lotta fat and carbs) and 2 small bowl cereals! Quantity may not be “a lot” (right….) but they’re packed with sat fat and carbs!

Why can’t she get her stomach staple just like Star Jones did?

Why she still need to lose weight? Why she won’t retired
from Playboy?

Why Stern ordered all of those prescription drugs for her?

How come Anna won’t go to the Drug Rehab or something?

How come Anna won’t protect her daughter from her evil mother, and allow Stern to take care of her daughter,
what kind of mother is that, to leave her vulnerable daughter
alone in the wicked world?

I know she is upset with her son’s death, but he was a grown man, he can look after himself in Heaven, why she wanna
go to Heaven with him and left her baby daughter here?

I just don’t understand this at all.

My mom is about 100 lbs over weight, and every year she just keeps getting bigger. She was only 50 lbs overweight when I was much younger. Any, she always talks about how much she needs to lose weight, and she always says she’s dieting, but she only gets bigger. She has some bad habits:

She will binge at night and then say “oh, it’s ok because I won’t have that much tomorrow”, so she skips breakfast and lunch.

She is always eating toast with jelly and says “I can have jelly, it’s not bad”

She thinks is ok to have krispy kreme, maybe once a week, because it’s only once a week.

She has protein drinks for breakfast, and says, “oh 8 grams of sugar is nothing!”

She thinks she can have deserts because it’s only “once”. But I think that someone that much overweight should never have them at all.

She down plays every time she does something wrong. How can I help her????

And after all this, she has pain in her feet and back, that is debilitating. She’s 65 years old.
I’m not overweight, and I don’t even eat sweets, AT ALL! EVER! I don’t feel like I want them now that I never have them.
Some of yall have suggested walking with her, and I think that’s a great idea, but she can’t walk because of the pain in her feet and back (due to being overweight)

okay sooo. I HAVE a problem..and it’s so weird because I never used to eat like this until I made myself try to stay away from food..after that I just started eating things like crazy Once I ate a whole loaf of cinnamon bread. I was full, but I just kept eating. I also binge on peanutbutter and jelly . I tell myself i’ll only have one slice and then I just eat like 6 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

WELL today my dumb stupid aye es es ate 3 tubes of ritz crackers. 28 crackers in each tube. 5 whole wheat ritz crackers is 70 calories. I DID MAJOR DAMAGE. yeah..but this is the only thing i ate today and it will be THE ONLY THING I EAT FOR TODAY BECAUSE I REFUSE TO GAIN WEIGHT. im 18 5’6 and 130 pounds. people tell me I look like im 115 or 120..I guess it’s because im active and have muscle, but im trying to lose 30 pounds and I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT IF I KEEP BINGING LIKE THIS. I need to know how to stop because even when i try to take my mind off the food by doing stuff, I still think about it. and i don’t want to be fat and if i keep doing this..I will be.

how can I stop–and i can’t stop buying ritz because my mom always buys them for herself..and I just end up eating her stuff.

My mother is in a nursing home with dementia and won’t be back. My husband and I moved in with him to try and get him caught up but he is in thousands of dollars in debt. He has two pending foreclosures on the house and there is a lien on it from the state. He is telling everyone that its my fault he is losing the house when all he does is drink and do crack everyday. My husband and I both have full time jobs. Is it wrong to feel that I need to worry about where my husband and I are going and NOT my brother who could care less about us?

Ok I know this may sound weird but I am about 6’0 and I weigh about 196 and morjority of my weight is fat! I can see I have some muscle as in my arms and in my calfs but when you get to my hips, stomach and back area I am big! From the age 16 and up I have been a junk fun addict and I don’t know how to curb the addiction… I go like a week with out junk but then I binge and I mean hard! How do I train myself not to eat junk anymore? Is there something I can eat or do that will burn the years of fat off? I can’t fast because I am a anemic so I will pass out if I tried but I really need some soulutions because my 25th birthday is coming up and I would really like to start this birthday off right!! Also genetically I am not meant to be fat my mom is quite alethic and my father is skinny so please help!! *only serious replies please* Thanks!
Oh another I wanted to add is that I don’t eat alot… but what I do eat is junk…. typical day for me would be 6 chix nuggets, turkey sandwich and then like a candy bar and granola bar!

I am particularly interested in daughters but would like to understand also what it’s like for boys-men to lost their moms to alcohol. Guess I’ve been struggling with the loss for the last 12 years…and not just the loss, but how I lost her. Sometimes I feel alone in this experience, but I know there are others out there who have suffered similarly. Anyway, would appreciate hearing from you. No cruel responses or jokes please.

My mother is in a nursing home with dementia and won’t be back. My husband and I moved in with him to try and get him caught up but he is in thousands of dollars in debt. He has two pending foreclosures on the house and there is a lien on it from the state. He is telling everyone that its my fault he is losing the house when all he does is drink and do crack everyday. My husband and I both have full time jobs. Is it wrong to feel that I need to worry about where my husband and I are going and NOT my brother who could care less about us?