Weight loss thread

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everyone has issues with food. You're not special. Just because you call it "issues" or "battles" doesn't mean it's different than how any one else feels. But you can continue to give away all of your power to food, if you want.
I just think it's lame, and you're boring me. I've been hearing about it for...2 years? From you? The exact same gripe? Exactly the same? And seemingly, you're just getting bigger. I don't care about you getting bigger, I just care that you "talk" about it incessantly in the same exact way without ever doing anything. God, I just hope you lose the fricking weight with Weight Watchers, and learn how to eat healthfully for life, and I don't have to hear about how hard losing weight is, and how hard eating right is, and how you have special "circumstances" and "food issues" and "problems" or whatever. And every time you pass up a donut, and how hard it was. And how you could never stop eating this or that or the other that would make a difference, you'd rather not stop, and keep complaining, seemingly. It's like you revel in having these problems, instead of taking steps to solve them, despite repeated support, advice, and information.
I eat hamburgers and chips and candy and whatever - difference is, when I do, I don't wonder why I don't lose weight, or complain that it's all so impossible, and that I have "issues". Over and over and over. I just acknowlege that I like hamburgers, but they are bad for me, but I just ate one anyway. There doesn't have to be this big miasma surrounding it, a big "Woe is me, I, like the rest of the world, like hamburgers! Oh, forsooth, what shall I do??? *sob*"

I mean, Carrie weighed 200 lbs or something, but didn't talk about it all day, and whine. Then, she got some good advice about changing her diet, and exercising, and whatnot. And so she did it. And we get to hear about her success, and it's great. Simple as that. She doesn't talk all day every day about how hard it is, or how she didn't eat candy all week, and how she's so down on herself, blah blah blah blah for two years.

I'm sure many people will disagree with what I've said, and that's fine, I'm not those people, and this is how I feel. Obviously, I also wish you luck in your endeavours, wish you really wanting what you say you want, or if you don't want it enough, quit beating yourself up (and me, by proxy) about it.