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[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]

Dumbest advice in this thread. [/quote]

You think it's dumb because you have never been morbidly obese.

Giving advice when you have never been there is like giving advice to parents about parenting when you never parented.

Losing weight when you are that severely overweight is much different then when you are looking to lose 10 or 20 lbs.

At 240 lbs, if a person loses 20 lbs, they are still really fat, close to 80 lbs or more overweight depending on height. Imagine how many times you have heard thin people say they are struggling to lose 20 lbs and how long takes. Now imagine having to do that struggle 4 times over. It's very, very tough and the best thing to do to ensure long term success is to focus on changing eating habits and gain success there first.

Do you realize that to maintain a weight of 240 lbs one is likely consuming anywhere from 2800 - 3000+ calories a day and that a plan like WW calls for a calorie count of anywhere from 1200 -1800 calories a day. Imagine for yourself if you slashed your normal calories in half. How much energy would you have for the gym if you are also struggling with being hungry and feeling the effects of less calories? Couple that with the fact that getting to morbid obesity almost always involves some element of emotional overeating.

This is how I finally lost weight myself.  I put all my energy into changing my eating habits until I got under 200 lbs.  Five years out, I have maintained a 140 lbs weight loss.

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