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watergirl · 05-19-2005, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Baron Patrick

Kim - I'm curious, our parents grew up during the depression - did they raise you to eat everything on your plate? Eat everything or you get no dessert?

I still can't go near beef liver without gagging. Head cheese - don't go there! (We visited grandma when she was making some, was boiling the head outside). Oh geez, I just remembered mom was raised on buttermilk as well. I look at it as concentrated choloresterol! (yep, she grew up in the country).

Mom came from a big family. My grandfather was a big man, so is one of my uncles. She learned to cook large meals, and carried over when my brother and I were growing up. My brother is in good shape with his weight, however, I won the "fat gene."

My parents are gone now, same with my grandparents. Mom died of heart failure. Besides the smoking, and emphazema, I'm sure the stress of gaining/losing had a significant impact as well.

I'm so proud for you - hitting the centruy mark!

Baron, In case I haven't said it yet, it's really nice to have you here!

I was raised to eat everything on my plate. I try with everything I have not to pass that on to my children. I do have them finish their veggies - everything else I'll let go, but not without reflection. I wonder, will I ever not?

Buttermilk - oh my gosh, yes, my Mom was huge on that.
She grew up with coffee and bread for breakfast. My Mom grew up on a farm too in Illinois.

Beef liver and onions - how funny! My Mom used to cook that at least once a week and I really liked it when she made it in the pressure cooker. I stopped eating that and all other filter meats when I found how bad they were for you. We used to broil chicken hearts and gizzards for football snacks. OMG!

Everyone was lucky in my family to get the fat gene. We've all struggled. My Mom, go figure, she's 4'11 and weighs between 110 - 120. She works at it though. She was a Weight Watcher consultant for years. Mom keeps Dad in shape, they have seriously changed their bad food choices for the better through education. Unfortunate for the girls, my sister and I, their education came too late for us to benefit.

I'm sorry to hear that your Mom is gone. I'm sure she's looking down and is so very proud of you and where you're at and what a wonderful caring Man you've become.

Thanks for the support!

NelleBelle50 · 05-19-2005, 09:50 AM

I've been pretty conservative on my weight loss tries. I hit a point in my early twenties where it didn't seem worth it to pay money to not loose anything and feel like a failure even though I was trying so hard.....but here goes....

Age 13 - Mom made me go on Weight Watchers. Have no clue if I lost anything

Age 15 - Mom made me go to a "fat camp" experience in an outpatien thospital setting - Whoo-hoo!! (no weight loss that I know of)

Age 17 - Weight watchers again, lost maybe 20-25 lbs

Age 23 - Was diagnosed w/type II diabetes, freaked out and was scared to death, followed the diabetic diet closely and excersiced like a mad woman. Lost about 30 lbs.

Age 24 - got a social life, stopped excersicing as much, still didn't eat much but gained all and more back.

Age 30 - Holy cow, I'm 30.....

I ate like a good little diabetic and started a successful walking program that lasted about five months. Felt really great, didn't really loose any weight.

Age 31 - Diabetes, High blood pressure, high cholesteral, family history of heart problems, WLS is probably a good idea, have my first appt. 5/26/05...

There seems to be a re-curring mom issue. Let's not tell them, though, okay? They were doing it because they loved us.

kristyann · 05-19-2005, 10:22 AM

I hear that one. Everytime I turned around my mother was telling me, "you know Kristy, you'vs gained a lot of weight, you really need to go on a diet". Then I would because it hurt so bad to hear that from my mother. I would start dieting and if I cheated even just a little she would say, "never gonna lose weight like that". Anytime I wore anything that didn't hide the fat, which was almost always because I have a lot to hid, she would say "you look really fat in that you shouldn't wear it". At some point there is a line to how honest and brutely honest you should be to someone. I love my mother to death, don't get me wrong, but maybe she should have just looked in the mirror and say those things to herself, she was on the heavier side, and then she would have understood why I cried a lot.

kristyann · 05-19-2005, 10:27 AM

I'm sorry, I know I just went way off base with that rant, I am just having some major issues with my mom and her delicate ways of putting things. Love her dearly, just can't quite understand her sometimes. Now that I finally am doing something about it, she is not quite sure if she agrees with it all. I know that she is just scared that something will happen to me, but if I don't my odds of living a full and happy life are a lot slimmer.

Baron Patrick · 05-19-2005, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by kristyann

I'm sorry, I know I just went way off base with that rant, I am just having some major issues with my mom and her delicate ways of putting things. Love her dearly, just can't quite understand her sometimes. Now that I finally am doing something about it, she is not quite sure if she agrees with it all. I know that she is just scared that something will happen to me, but if I don't my odds of living a full and happy life are a lot slimmer.

Kristy -

I'ts okay. Let the rant out. It's part of the emotional baggage, emotional weight we all need to lose and eliminate from our lives. Weight loss is so much more than physical, something naturally thin people simply can't understand.

We've all been pretty beat up emotionally, and we need to let them out if they are going to finally heal. I held in and burried the fact I was molested when I was 11. I never told my parents, and I just came to terms with it 10 years ago, and I'm now 47. A long time to hold something that destructive in you.

Remember, you don't need your mom's permission, and you don't really need her to understand it. Just tell her all you need right now is her love and support.

Don't forget, you have your biggest "family" here, and we all love ya!

kristyann · 05-19-2005, 11:17 AM

Thanks Baron, it's nice to finally be talking to people that truly understand how I feel and what it is like to be "on the heavier side", that's how I like to descibe it, LOL, not everyone agrees with my terminology though, LOL.

Baron Patrick · 05-19-2005, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by watergirl

Baron, In case I haven't said it yet, it's really nice to have you here!

I was raised to eat everything on my plate. I try with everything I have not to pass that on to my children. I do have them finish their veggies - everything else I'll let go, but not without reflection. I wonder, will I ever not?

chicken hearts and gizzards. OMG!

Thank you, everyone has been wonderful in their welcoming me. I hope to be "hanging around" for quite a while.

I've done my best with our son. My wife is from the Philippines - 5"4' and 125 lbs. Our son inherited my size and I'm really trying to work with him on his weight. He's glad I'm going for the surgery, and I hope this will be a BIG life lesson for him to take care of himself. Thank God he doesn't smoke, do drugs or any of that junk.

Chicken hearts and gizzards.

Hmmm, mom used to roll them in flour, brown them, then let them steam with rice - oh boy that was one of my favorites! My wife will make it for me once in a while.

It's funny how our lives can be so different, but have so much in common!

Jeanie · 05-19-2005, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by watergirl

46 - Weight loss surgery. So far as of this morning lost 100 pounds! I've got 6 pounds to go until I hit goal. To say I was skeptical, is a gross understatement.

WLS is the best thing I've ever done for myself. I am a changed person, I'm healthy, I'm happy, I am a participant in life!

I wish you all much success in your journey! Believe me, if I can do it, so can you.

Kim you never said anything. CONGRATS on 100 ponds gone. You rock. Hey now that we've both lost 100 pounds there will be more room in the bed in Vegas!

twokids · 05-19-2005, 01:13 PM

I would be glad to hear what you are doing with your son. My daughter has too been blessed with the "big" gene. I am the mother we are all bashing and want my daughter to grow up differently than all of us.

Since my surgery, we only have healthy snacks in the house, my cooking is sooo much different than it was before surgery and my 4 year old is still heavy. She now weighs 75 pounds. She goes on every walk with me, she rides her bike, and plays like any other 4 year old.

Any advise on how to combat childhood obesity would be greatful.

watergirl · 05-19-2005, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeanie

Kim you never said anything. CONGRATS on 100 ponds gone. You rock. Hey now that we've both lost 100 pounds there will be more room in the bed in Vegas!

I just found out this morning when I got on the scale and it read 151.4. Usually I weight myself every Friday, for some reason, I weighed myself this morning.

More room in bed for Vegas

, but from what you've told me, I should be sleeping alone!