bbbridget & sheri-I weighed over 50 more pounds when moving to OR in 2001 than I do now. What got me started losing weight was a kidney failure in 2005 !! Couldn't keep food down! Kept ignoring the symptoms since I wanted to lose weight anyway. Lost over 20 pounds by the time I was out of the hospital. Luckily I didn't have to go on dialysis or anything. Shortly after I got home we got a treadmill and I used it, practically every day. Lost another 30 pounds through exercise and more careful eating and (lately) cutting back booze since then. For some reason the topiramate had the opposite effect on me than on others. The best formula I have found is the one the doctor's preach (and I am not a big fan of doctors and their needles!!), eat right and the right foods, exercise regularly, and (this is mine) don't get hit by a truck crossing the highway!
It's hard for me not to want to be perfect. That's the way I am. I hate the lines of getting older (I'll be 60 this year), I don't want to look like those ladies I see in the market that look like they're 60 although they're really probably 50 or 55. Can't predict the year when I'll stop coloring my hair but it won't be anytime soon!
We all want to feel and look good, right? Part of feeling good is not being zonked half the time. 2009 for me was such a waste (a lot of it anyway). 2010 and the end of 2009 has begun a whole lot better. Not perfect -- I stumble sometimes, but I don't stay down there for days like I used to.
Sorry for the long post. We can all achieve our goals. I am confident. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but one of these days. :h
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