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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former fat girl, bigger than you, honestly I can say you are wasting your time at this point if you are going because you think you will lose weight.

Put all your energy right now into changing your eating habits. Once you get under 200 lbs, then add in exercise.[/quote]

This is dumb advice.  You can do both.  Exercise makes you feel better and increases your self esteem.

And when I see a "fat girl" at the gym, I normally don't think anything.  But if do happen to notice I think good for her!  People who workout regularly are generally very happy to see others incorporate exercise into their lives.[/quote]

[b]It's dumb advice for someone who needs to lose 25 lbs or so. But when a person needs to lose 100 lbs +, it's not dumb advice.  At 240 lbs, the amount of energy one can expend at the gym is not nearly enough to make a dent in weight loss.  After a few weeks, a person gets discouraged becase there is not much change and that leads to a vicious overeating cycle.  Believe me, no one gets to 240 without binge eating.  The PP who put up the stats are correct and I agree - change what you eat first. [/b]

As far as noticing the "fat girl" at the gym. I used to believe that too, that no one would notice but now that I am no longer the fat girl well I can at least be honest and say that yeah I do notice and friends make a lot of snide remarks about them to me  now that I am no longer fat so it's just not me that notices.

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Exercise is so important for many things, but it doesn't help with weight loss. Weight maintenance, sure, but not loss.[/quote]

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