hi everyone - Obesity Message Board

west virginia girl · 08-09-2004, 04:22 AM

I have been reading alot of posts tonight and just like me many others want to know if a certain diet pill or weight loss program works..I think hoping to hear that "its" the amazing weight loss pill everyone dreams about. I just don't think it's ever going to happen. With anything it's going to be good for some people and bad for others. So you just never know. These people who invent these so called miracle pills aren't doing it cause they care about people and how overweight people feel. They want money. I have tried many diet pills which I relize now was very dangerous and nothing worked and nothing is going to work without really being determined to exercise and eat right. I hate to say that and admit that to myself but it's the truth. No pill is going to drop pounds off someone like water but I suppose I'm searching for that one pill for me that will curb my appetite so I won't eat like a cow. I also don't know if the celexa I take contributes to my weight staying the same. Oh it's all so confusing and frustrating! I don't know how to eat right or what to eat for that matter. Believe it or not I don't like alot of food....I'm a junk food junkie and fast food eater

I just don't understand why some people can eat anything and everything and stay thin....It's just not fair. I don't suppose though bitching and gripping will get me anywhere. I just want to get my weight under control before I get any older and develope more health problems that my luck will all be contributed to being overweight.

Christin · 08-09-2004, 08:07 AM

There is no magic pill, you got that right. Oh how I wish there was. I'll share something that came to me this weekend...for years I have been telling myself that I couldn't control my eating, because feeling hungry to me meant feeling "bad". But I am beginning to see the difference between feeling hungry and having a craving. Most of what I have been labeling as hunger has been cravings I think. And the cravings, if I am tough with myself and have a "zero tolerance" policy, they go away! Some days are harder than others, some hours are harder than others, and when I am in the "throws" of a craving, I am angry and frustrated and feel out of control a little. But, it does pass, and I feel really good the next day (or next hour!) after I have gotten over it. Am I making any sense? Anyway, I just realized that as bad as I feel when I am focused on what I am not getting to eat, I feel even worse when I indulge and get stuffed and feel sick.

It certainly is an overwhelming thing to think about completely overhauling how you eat...figuring out the grams of everything, and I am a very picky eater also, and that makes it even harder. I thought at first that I would have to eat the same things all day long since I am so picky, and how could I be happy with that? But then I realized that I eat the same things all day long of junk food! I could (and have!) eaten pizza for every meal of the day, or gone to McD's more than twice in one day! My menu may not be as varied as lots of other people, but I came up with enough healthy foods to make a few menus that I know I can live with.

I really do understand how you feel...I felt exactly the same just a week ago! Keep your chin up, and keep an open mind and do some soul searching...I'll bet you find the motivation and strength that you think you don't have...

west virginia girl · 08-09-2004, 03:32 PM

Hi...Thanks for replying. I think I am in a place in my life where its lose the weight now and start a healthy life style or never do anything about it. I am totally 100% obsessed with food and in the same aspect obsessed with losing weight. I know I eat for comfort and after I eat it or even while I'm eating it I relize it doesn't even taste good to me but I go right ahead. Example: My husband cut up and apple and had some carmel dip, well I tasted one and I just didn't like the taste but ended up eating the rest. I think its just the action of putting the food in my mouth,chewing and swallowing. Right now as I am writing this I am drinking a bottle of water! And thats very hard for me cause I hate water but I'm talking myself though it and its not so bad.
Take Care=)

Christin · 08-09-2004, 03:38 PM

About the water...I found that I drink it a lot faster if I drink out of a sports bottle top thingee...I actually am buying the water by the case where each bottle has that squirty top. Not sure why, but it helps me

west virginia girl · 08-09-2004, 05:29 PM

I'm so glad that is working with the water bottle for you. I can drink it alot better that way also. We can do this and we will.....Just have to keep myself thinking postive.