We have been pleasantly surprised by the incredible response to iChange and the opportunity for our counselors to meet so many people who struggle with both the emotional and physical pain of weight gain. The pain is extreme for many of our members. I’ve lost track of the number of times our counselors have told us about meeting a new iChange member who, due to her weight, simply does not want to leave home to go to the grocery store, let alone visit a gym or a nutritionist. We hope that our online counseling services can help all those people get started on a program from the privacy of home. One of our goals is to help each individual, working from home with one of our nutritionists or dietitians, achieve a weight and a comfort level that makes it fun to leave the house again.
I’ve already started to lose weight and feel like I’m learning things that someone should have taught me a long time ago. I needed someone to point out that I was actually starving myself and was conditioning my body to hold onto weight. I have a long way to go but it really feels like a good path.
When I’m out in public I only need to see the expression on someone’s face to know what I look like. At home I can avoid the mirrors, which helps me not feel so bad about myself, but now I’ve closed myself off so that Facebook is my only real social connection to the outside world, if you can even call it that.
It has been such a relief to be able to find someone who can actually help. I am over 300 pounds and I am sick of feeling miserable. Thank you Katie!