Karen:

Keep waffling. This is a thread about losing weight, right? And we've lost weight, so we share information.

I have a comment about the healthy snacks at home thing. It never applied in my house. I was overweight when I married, stayed overweight until I was around 55 or so. And all my married life, I snacked at night. I ate the sweet stuff. Now I have a 26 year old son who has never eaten a piece of candy in his life. He was chubby as an 11 year old but not from candy or cake. Probably from Pizza. Never saw him pick up a potato chip, or a piece of chocolate. He still doesn't eat candy or chocolate. At age 18, he wanted to go into the army (that never materialized). He went down to the recruitment center, aced all the exams and then they weighed him. He weighed 210 and was 5 feet 8. Then the army guy said "oh we have another criteria to consider. Neck to waist ratio. So they measured his neck and measured his waist. I said "why", and he said 'well you can have a 5 foot 10 body builder who is built like Arnold Shwartzenegger and on paper, he's obese, but his neck and waist ratio is off the charts, so he's not fat, so we accept them.

They told my son to go on Stacker 2. They said 'we put all the guys on this and they lose weight. My son then went out and bought Stacker 2 and lost 40 lbs. By the time this happenend, he no longer wanted to join anything.

He has ultimately left home, been diagnosed with Aspergers, does not work, lives in a virtual world on his computer, and more importantly, now weighs 250 lbs. He still does not eat any chocolate or candy. He lives on microwave breakfasts, lunch and dinner. He will not cook. They used to have him on mood disorder meds (which put on weight), so I can only imagine that this is why he now weighs 250. He is no longer on those meds, he is on wellbutrin and Armour. He had an underactive thyroid. But even the thyroid medicine has not changed his weight.

I was always under the impression that when one has a thyroid problem (his thyroid reading was 10), and they put you on Armour or Synthroid, well, you lose weight. I guess in his case, this is not to be.

Anyway, they say that a picture is worth a thousand words.

I have read where if a person weighs 400 lbs, they should take a photo of themselves in the nude. And then put it on the refrigerator.

Now can you imagine (even if one lives alone), putting a nude photo of oneself on the fridge.

I coudln't do this if someone paid me.

And certainly not, if I lived with a man. Wouldn't want to scare him to death. lol

Melody