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Deceiving Low BMI Hoping to End Decades of Dieting! - Mexico
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Hi Everyone! I am excited to be writing about my...
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Hi Everyone!
I am excited to be writing about my own experience. Like all of you, I have been dieting since I was 14. I was one of those girls that would lay out in the sun with Crisco and Saran Wrap, drinking Tab and hoping to get a tan while " reducing". These were the 70s! I went to Weight Watchers for the first time in that era, learned what a legume was and started my relationship with my Angry Inner Dieter. I have been much heavier than I am now and got down to an early Oprah weight loss of 130 pounds...only to see that number run back into the land of unicorns from wence it came. I am hoping I don't get flack from my fellow sleeves when I'm in Mexico because I am not at a higher BMI. The weight I am now does not represent my experience. I'm nervous about a lot of things. Let's face it, this is a big decision. Yikes!
I am excited to be writing about my own experience. Like all of you, I have been dieting since I was 14. I was one of those girls that would lay out in the sun with Crisco and Saran Wrap, drinking Tab and hoping to get a tan while " reducing". These were the 70s! I went to Weight Watchers for the first time in that era, learned what a legume was and started my relationship with my Angry Inner Dieter. I have been much heavier than I am now and got down to an early Oprah weight loss of 130 pounds...only to see that number run back into the land of unicorns from wence it came. I am hoping I don't get flack from my fellow sleeves when I'm in Mexico because I am not at a higher BMI. The weight I am now does not represent my experience. I'm nervous about a lot of things. Let's face it, this is a big decision. Yikes!
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UPDATED FROM Hayleymillay
9 days pre
Weight Battlefields
*Weight Watchers: probably 5-7 times a member. Reached goal once.
*Body for Life: Muscled up on a ton of fart producing protein drinks while working with a trainer at 5am 3 days a week. Didn't win the $100k and gained it all back plus souvenir pounds.
*Herbalife: Seriously disgusting. Reached goal, bounced back.
*Overeaters Anonymous: had to call my sponsor at 6am every day and tell her what I was going to eat for the day on the "Grey Sheet Diet". How depressing and East German could it be? I became a sugar free gum addict on this one. I felt so conspicuous about the amount of gum I was chewing that I made rounds to different stores to buy my stash. I don't know if anyone else has been a chain chewer, but it's pretty gross. I was in beauty school at the time and had to blame my nasty farts on perm solution.
*What was the one with Balance Bars? This was the one that got me to the unicorn weight of 130. This only happened because I was dating a kind of food [RS bleep].
*3 Cs Diet: I made this up after my first WW failure. It was an insane idea of consuming only Cabbage, Carrots and Coffee. I was probably 15. Needless to say, this was a foul day long experiment that left me prostrate on my bed with a constant natural gas phenomenon. I don't think my sister will ever forget opening my bedroom door. She actually started choking. Sad.
*HCG: I lost 20 pounds in 40 days. It was torture. Of course.
These are the ones I remember right now. It has felt like a war. I am hoping to have a different experience with my body. I'm so tired of fighting and trying to love myself through it all.
*Body for Life: Muscled up on a ton of fart producing protein drinks while working with a trainer at 5am 3 days a week. Didn't win the $100k and gained it all back plus souvenir pounds.
*Herbalife: Seriously disgusting. Reached goal, bounced back.
*Overeaters Anonymous: had to call my sponsor at 6am every day and tell her what I was going to eat for the day on the "Grey Sheet Diet". How depressing and East German could it be? I became a sugar free gum addict on this one. I felt so conspicuous about the amount of gum I was chewing that I made rounds to different stores to buy my stash. I don't know if anyone else has been a chain chewer, but it's pretty gross. I was in beauty school at the time and had to blame my nasty farts on perm solution.
*What was the one with Balance Bars? This was the one that got me to the unicorn weight of 130. This only happened because I was dating a kind of food [RS bleep].
*3 Cs Diet: I made this up after my first WW failure. It was an insane idea of consuming only Cabbage, Carrots and Coffee. I was probably 15. Needless to say, this was a foul day long experiment that left me prostrate on my bed with a constant natural gas phenomenon. I don't think my sister will ever forget opening my bedroom door. She actually started choking. Sad.
*HCG: I lost 20 pounds in 40 days. It was torture. Of course.
These are the ones I remember right now. It has felt like a war. I am hoping to have a different experience with my body. I'm so tired of fighting and trying to love myself through it all.
Replies (9)
June 26, 2016
Everyone's journey is different. I'm sure you will get lots of support in Mexico. Good luck to you on your journey.
June 26, 2016
Very very funny, we r the era of weight obsessed. I remember smoking camel cigarettes and black coffee in my early 20's. I was slim but got dizzy walking one flight of stairs.
June 26, 2016
Love love love this post. Feel the same way and am planning on sx with Ortiz in September. Same boat as you, lifelong diet failure with low BMI. Never hit my goal weight, good luck to you and look forward to seeing your success.
June 26, 2016
I have to add that I think there are as many of us low BMI lifetime dieters as morbidly obese people. It's kinda like being in the middle class, all of the work and non of the breaks. We must stay in touch!
August 10, 2016
omgoodness.... sounds like you really stank it up back then..... lol
5'7' 207lbs , had Sonobello for abdomen and waist but weight relocated to lower half of my body.
i can attest to yo-yo dieting except I would turn into the female version of the incredible hulk, 'you dont want me hangry, you wont like me if im hangry' then literally busting open anything to eat when i tried to restrict myself. I,too,do not look my BMI. I have a dancer's build but my my arthritis prevents me from taking full advantage of it. So Im researching VSG with either OCC or Tijuana Bariatrics. So reading everyone's comments before making final decision.
i do love your comical spin on a very difficult experience such as dieting,but look at it this way; Laughter is the first step to cure pain.....Smile you are actually burning calories
5'7' 207lbs , had Sonobello for abdomen and waist but weight relocated to lower half of my body.
i can attest to yo-yo dieting except I would turn into the female version of the incredible hulk, 'you dont want me hangry, you wont like me if im hangry' then literally busting open anything to eat when i tried to restrict myself. I,too,do not look my BMI. I have a dancer's build but my my arthritis prevents me from taking full advantage of it. So Im researching VSG with either OCC or Tijuana Bariatrics. So reading everyone's comments before making final decision.
i do love your comical spin on a very difficult experience such as dieting,but look at it this way; Laughter is the first step to cure pain.....Smile you are actually burning calories
August 12, 2016
Just goes to show that you can't out exercise a bad diet. (Even if you doubled your most intense level you reached.) This also goes to show there's no better way than eating better food (less /little to no simple carbs), and less food (whatever isn't clean:i.e. whatever isn't lean meats, vegetables and fruit.
UPDATED FROM Hayleymillay
9 days pre
Stats
5'6"
Highest weight: 215
Appointment weight: 197
Projected surgery weight: 187
Current weight: 193
Highest weight: 215
Appointment weight: 197
Projected surgery weight: 187
Current weight: 193
I am 5'6"
High Weight 215
Pre-pre-op diet 197
Surgery date goal weight 187
Current weight 193