icestorm12132008

you go tell them to suck it keep blogging sister and keep loosing

you go tell them to suck it keep blogging sister and keep loosing

I'd ask your doctor if they do clothing swaps or if they can put you in touch with someone who might be "around" your size. You can also try salvation army or saver's thrift. You might be suprized at what you might find. Just keep in mind that you are transitioning to the new you, so these clothes won't be permanant. Try to get pants that you know can be belted or tailored as you loose. If you are good at sewing sometimes picking a pattern or two and some fabric you like will yield good results. I can't sew but my husband does. It was worth it for us to invest in a good singer machine and some dress/top patterns at the fabric store(go when they have sales). The hardest part is finding fabric that you like. If you are good at it a dress or top might take a weekend or two, or in my husbands case a month. It saved us considerable money when you consider that if you are still "plus size" and are shrinking out of the spicialty shop you are still going to have to spend fifty bucks or more ona top only to shrink out of it? It might be cheaper to sew yourown, and fill in with thrift store jeans and such until goal size /weight is mett. --icestorm

I was exzactly as you said as a girl "big boned". And it is true my bone structure for a female is on the larger size. I also have an endocrine disorder called PCOS. I've had it my whole life according to the Reproductive Endocrinologist who dinagnosed me at 28 years of age with the disorder when my husband and I went to boston ivf for a diagnostic as to why we where having trouble with conception.
My relationship with food before the diagnosis was an awful one. When i was her age that is when the trouble started, no matter what I ate it was never enough and I was always hungery dispite eating healthy meals. I also at twelve started my cycle and things just went south from there. I gained weight dispite diet exercise and eating healthy meals. Part of it is the blood suggar spikes that are happening within the body if these go un controlled the weight gain for her is never going to cease.
Can you talk to her about how she feels when she eats, for me when I don't eat after a very long time say waking in the am I don't get a hungery signal and I feel sick to my stomach. But when i do finally eat that is where the ravenous hunger would start and from breakefast till dinner it semed the hunger never went away. unchecked high suggars can lead to cardiac problems and even blindness and problems with cirrculation and limb loss. Does she have an incidence of type II diabetis in her family? Did her mom have gestational diabetis while pregnant with any of her offspring? Also is she developing male hair growth(the legs will show dark hair first it hten progresses to the armpits and unfortunately the face and other areas are often covered with hair).
The pcos can also lead to dysufunctional and painful periods due to fibroid formation within the uterus.
I can understand your concern for your step daughter. She may want some help but might be to intemidated by her mom's poor reflection of you as a step parent. Can you talk to your spouse about it and just say you are worried for your s. daughter's health? I know this is a hard time for her as a teen and she might not realize it now but you are only trying to help her.

I'm a frequent scale hopper too.
IT's so hard to break the habit of weigh in mentality especially if you have done weight Watchers's for a long time. You can live and die by the number on that scale.
I actually try to only weigh in on my scale now only twice a week on Sundays and and wednesday's to see how i'm doing. But I only record Monday's weight and only my doctors' scale counts as the offical log of how i'm doing. but i do use the weekly weigh in when i'm not going to the MD to guage how i'm doing as far as working out and the nutrtion part of things. I think i will be a slave to the scale forever.

For many if you are not properly hydrated prior to eating, it won't matter how much you chew you might get stuck on meat and protien.
meat that is dry won't do well so make sure to cook in a method that won't dry the meat out. use a crock pot if you can. Or if you bake or roast let the meat stand for fifteen min or so before you carve it so all the jucies don't run out of it when you cut into it.
take small bites and chew it till it's mush.

I think why bariactric surgery is still underutalized, is due to the insurance companies, not wanting to shell out for the surgeries, and making it very difficult for some patients who desperately need the surgery to obtain.
I hope that more insurance companies ease up on their restrictions to help more of the obesse out there. I think the majority of those who look into Lapband have tried everything else and realize that lifestyle changes have to be made permenately for continued sucess.

yes a food scale is a good idea. you use it to put the cooked food on your plate to make sure it all totals 8oz. or a cup

So i take it some of his insicurites are comming out as you thin down?
is he maybe insecure about something within himself(is he a bit heavier then when you two where younger?). Maybe you should ask him what is truly eating at him and tell him that you won't get mad or upset but you just want to know what is bothering him and causing him to try to sabotage your efforts.