Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an intergral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on it's evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Weight loss, subject isn't easy for me to ask for help or advice. If you have successfully lost weight and especially in the top level of obese category, I'd love to hear what helped you and any tips. I've been overweight most of my life, even childhood started around fourth grade. I had a great weight loss summer between 8th & 9th grade. Swim team practice was the key, went from size 15 to 8. It was such a drastic change I heard guys who were in my class since 3rd grade saying, who it the new girl🤣 I kinda milked that attention. By my senior year I was a 12, too much partying and late night snacking. The brief time i was at college I brought home extra weight instead of an education. After having baby i never lost the weight. A couple times in the last thirty years i've gotten way down but still obese. Once on my own, I lost so much weight the overweight women I knew, only saw at annual community Christmas party, were asking what i did to loose it.
Over the past twenty years even with pain I could garden, go to theme park vacation and for a week all day. I was independent a rarely asked my husband for help with anything. Could stand and walk (shop, etc) for 5 - 6 hours even with chronic pain. Fast Forward to plandemic two factors made me gain fifty pounds in a little over a year. Became sedentary due to pain so bad I could barley put weight on my foot. After that healed for over a year had extreme hip pain when walking, sitting & in bed. I'm not very bright at seeing the writing on the wall. Second reason is eating my feelings by eating. (I believe from stress of the past three years.)
I've done a lot of soul searching and praying over the last two months. Around the middle of January I started changing eating and cooking. I'm in a very new category of fat. In the past six months I've developed (lipoma)fat bulges every where. I could them removed but don't want surgery or deal with doctor propaganda. I'd rather loose weight and they disappear. Itonically my brother who has been worse than with weight has a few lipomas. He'll take the easy path, surgery. Honestly I never knew fat could expand with lumps/bumps jutting out from the arm. The doctor wants me to take weight loss RX. I've worked hard to get off pain drugs and don't want one with bad side effects. Also don't want weight loss survey, I know several people that have gained all the weight back. Apologies for the lenght. If this isn't appropriate for her "Admin" I'll delete post Thanks🙂
Losing weight isn’t hard, there’s literally no secret to doing it. It’s calories in vs calories out. Take a walk and eat a salad. Everything else is just an excuse.