Watch 200+ lb loser, TV, tonight!!

I saw it and it scares me! I hope my skin doesn't look that bad after I get
to goal....

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"BabyJane Hudson" wrote in message
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Tonight on Extreme Makeover, you will see Pt. 2 of a man who lost over
200 lbs, as he goes through skin removal and see the end results.
Should be Interesting. I forget which Network, but I think it is NBC.
It comes on at 9:00p.m.e.s.t.

BabyJane

Hello BabyJane,

I had to watch my daughter in her choir concert tonight. Thank goodness
for VCR...Yahooooooo. I was so mad when I found out that this was going to
be a 2 part show. I'm so glad for him. He looked real good after they took
off his skin, cut his beard, and gave him some hair color. I watch that
show every week to see the amazing transformations that take place. I'd
like to get on that show myself.

Take care,

Paul
300/243/175
http://community.webshots.com/user/paul76180


"BabyJane Hudson" wrote in message
...
Tonight on Extreme Makeover, you will see Pt. 2 of a man who lost over
200 lbs, as he goes through skin removal and see the end results.
Should be Interesting. I forget which Network, but I think it is NBC.
It comes on at 9:00p.m.e.s.t.

BabyJane

"Paul" wrote in message
...
Hello BabyJane,

I had to watch my daughter in her choir concert tonight. Thank goodness
for VCR...Yahooooooo. I was so mad when I found out that this was going
to
be a 2 part show. I'm so glad for him. He looked real good after they
took
off his skin, cut his beard, and gave him some hair color. I watch that
show every week to see the amazing transformations that take place. I'd
like to get on that show myself.

Take care,

Paul
300/243/175
http://community.webshots.com/user/paul76180

Smokey tried, but never made the cut.


"BabyJane Hudson" wrote in message
...
Tonight on Extreme Makeover, you will see Pt. 2 of a man who lost over
200 lbs, as he goes through skin removal and see the end results.
Should be Interesting. I forget which Network, but I think it is NBC.
It comes on at 9:00p.m.e.s.t.

BabyJane

That scares me tooo..... What about his wife? She was still huge.

"Dally" wrote in message
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Perple Gyrl wrote:
I saw it and it scares me! I hope my skin doesn't look that bad after I
get
to goal....

What scared me was that he had regained 15 pounds practically overnight
and his new tight skin was getting pulled again. He also didn't appear
to be "cured" of his obesity in that he mentioned several times that he
was still a compulsive over-eater: it appeared he was using willpower to
eat a special diet (appeared to be low-carb) and he made it clear he
wouldn't be able to eat moderately of a normal diet.

Dally

Perple Gyrl wrote:
I saw it and it scares me! I hope my skin doesn't look that bad after I get
to goal....

What scared me was that he had regained 15 pounds practically overnight
and his new tight skin was getting pulled again. He also didn't appear
to be "cured" of his obesity in that he mentioned several times that he
was still a compulsive over-eater: it appeared he was using willpower to
eat a special diet (appeared to be low-carb) and he made it clear he
wouldn't be able to eat moderately of a normal diet.

Dally

"Dally" wrote in message
...
Perple Gyrl wrote:
I saw it and it scares me! I hope my skin doesn't look that bad after I
get
to goal....

What scared me was that he had regained 15 pounds practically overnight
and his new tight skin was getting pulled again. He also didn't appear
to be "cured" of his obesity in that he mentioned several times that he
was still a compulsive over-eater: it appeared he was using willpower to
eat a special diet (appeared to be low-carb) and he made it clear he
wouldn't be able to eat moderately of a normal diet.

Dally


I didn't see it because I was watching the 2nd half of the Battlestar
Galatica miniseries (which rocked!) My thought is that obesity like
alcoholism is not something that you get "cured" of. When I lose down to my
goal, healthy weight *I* will still be a recovering fat-person even if I
look thin. I will have to make my "normal" diet be my dieting WOE with only
a little modification. Which is why I firmly believe that a WOE that I
can't follow for the rest of my life won't be a WOE that will get and keep
me at a non-fat weight. I also may have to use willpower every single time
I want to put some food into my mouth to keep from regaining what I've lost
and someday soon (please God I want off this plateau) lose some more.

Tonia

Ignoramus19207 wrote:
In article , That T Woman wrote:

My thought is that obesity like
alcoholism is not something that you get "cured" of. When I lose down to my
goal, healthy weight *I* will still be a recovering fat-person even if I
look thin. I will have to make my "normal" diet be my dieting WOE with only

Same way I look at it. I know that my natural condition is to be fat.

So I have to be diligent and follow a good routine.

I look at the exact same scenario differently. I know I will have to
make sure that I don't eat more calories than I burn for the rest of my
life or I'll get fat again, but that condition is true for every human
on earth. I am at no more risk of weighing 240 again than any other 190
pound woman.

In fact, I'm at LESS risk because I'm now self-aware and know what I
have to do to maintain my body: eat the way I've been training myself to
eat for 18 months and exercise the way I've been training myself to
exercise.

I believe I am cured of over-eating as a way of life simply because my
over-eating was senseless recreation that I'm no longer senseless about.
There wasn't any particular pathology about it. But the person on the
show said something to the effect of, "I'm a compulsive over-eater: put
a pizza in front of me and I'll eat two." That's a kind of sickness
that I believe can be cured. But until it is cured I don't see the
point in having dangerous surgery to remove the excess skin (that he'll
need again as soon as a sweet potato pie wanders into his path.)

Dally

I've thought the same thing in times past when I've lost weight. I thought
that this will be permanent, I won't slip back into bad habits but I do.
Maybe I just cave in too easily to junk food and get too busy to easily find
the time to exercise and when I'm not packing a huge amount of extra pounds
I think it won't matter but before I realize it and come to care again, I'm
fat again and again and again. I'm 45 years old and I've been dieting,
losing and regaining every few years since I was about 13. I hope to stop
the cycle but like an alcoholic can't drink, I'll have to "diet" for the
rest of my life. So my dieting WOE is going to have to be what I can
sustain for the rest of my life. Currently I think I'm managing, this time
unlike when I was working on the problem last year, I have my DH's support.
He's exercising and while he's not really watching what he eats, he doesn't
insisit on pizza meals anymore.

Tonia

"Dally" wrote in message
...
Ignoramus19207 wrote:
In article , That T Woman wrote:

My thought is that obesity like
alcoholism is not something that you get "cured" of. When I lose down
to my
goal, healthy weight *I* will still be a recovering fat-person even if I
look thin. I will have to make my "normal" diet be my dieting WOE with
only

Same way I look at it. I know that my natural condition is to be fat.

So I have to be diligent and follow a good routine.

I look at the exact same scenario differently. I know I will have to
make sure that I don't eat more calories than I burn for the rest of my
life or I'll get fat again, but that condition is true for every human
on earth. I am at no more risk of weighing 240 again than any other 190
pound woman.

In fact, I'm at LESS risk because I'm now self-aware and know what I
have to do to maintain my body: eat the way I've been training myself to
eat for 18 months and exercise the way I've been training myself to
exercise.

I believe I am cured of over-eating as a way of life simply because my
over-eating was senseless recreation that I'm no longer senseless about.
There wasn't any particular pathology about it. But the person on the
show said something to the effect of, "I'm a compulsive over-eater: put
a pizza in front of me and I'll eat two." That's a kind of sickness
that I believe can be cured. But until it is cured I don't see the
point in having dangerous surgery to remove the excess skin (that he'll
need again as soon as a sweet potato pie wanders into his path.)

Dally

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:16:42 -0600, "That T Woman"
wrote:

My thought is that obesity like
alcoholism is not something that you get "cured" of. When I lose down to my
goal, healthy weight *I* will still be a recovering fat-person even if I
look thin. I will have to make my "normal" diet be my dieting WOE with only
a little modification. Which is why I firmly believe that a WOE that I
can't follow for the rest of my life won't be a WOE that will get and keep
me at a non-fat weight. I also may have to use willpower every single time
I want to put some food into my mouth to keep from regaining what I've lost
and someday soon (please God I want off this plateau) lose some more.

Tonia


Tonia, I agree with you but I think of it slightly differently. I
would say that it's overeating we'll never be cured of, rather than
obesity, which is simply the main side effect of overeating.
I always say I'll never be cured of the desire to overeat, but when
I'm doing OK it's just in remission, never cured.
janice