The Wonderful Wizard of POBO!!!
Hi everyone!  Long time no… nothing… really. I am back at the lake and back on program.
The dreaded weigh in took place this morning as early as I could face it.  I now weigh 423.2 lbs.  Yeah… I gained 25 lbs over the summer.  Yanno what though?  I’ll take it. Honestly, [...]

Well, not really. What you want to do is to eat more often. This is the first thing that my trainer told me when we first started out (the second thing was to drink between 70-100 ounces of water every day). See, what happens is that when we go into a starvation cycle, that is, [...]

I am the official POBO Fail Whale.
It seems like this summer has just been one crisis after another, one stressor after another, one more reason for me to NOT do what I’m supposed to be doing for my health and my weight.  First, I was in too much pain to be able to focus on [...]

Everyone can do a Triathalon!

SLWB – that’s me.  Try as I might, gaining weight and then keeping it on is a long-term up, down, up, down, up, down… similar to the other bloggers here but possibly in reverse.
About 18 months ago, I weighed myself on scales at a friend’s place.  I was 54 kilograms.  I knew for me that [...]

well, on payday (last thursday) i was going to go to Trader Joe’s or at least to Von’s and buy some healthy snack foods, because i work in one of those foody places. we don’t make food, we just have a lot of it around. i never bring and rarely buy lunch, i just go [...]

As a fat person, who mostly hangs out with thin people, I find that they can be the most destructive part of my diet motivation, and my workout motivation.
First of all, all my friends ever want to do is go eat, or go drink, or watch a movie while eating and drinking.  Why does every [...]

yes, i’m fat. but i’m not a fat girl, not in my mind. throughout my life since approximately age 13, i’ve gained and lost at least a thousand pounds (well, i’m guessing, but probably). it doesn’t matter that i was probably closer to fat than thin most of these last 35 years, to me fat [...]

Hiya!  I’m Wendy. You know, the FAT girl.  I’ve been “the fat girl” for forever,so it seems, or at least since my parents split up, 25  years ago. The thing was, I didn’t FEEL fat- I have an amazing husband, two great kids, and I was/am always shocked when I look into a full length [...]

My life seems to have this huge… tangled… net… that surrounds my heart.  Depression is a part of my life.  It seems inexorably tied to my obesity.
The crucial question when trying to unravel this twisted knot is which came first, weight issues or depression issues?
I have had a weight problem for most of my [...]