[blindeyes]

So I was here months and months ago and instead of losing weight I managed to pack on some pounds. I was 258lbs. I always swore to myself I would NEVER allow myself to be 250 pounds. Here I was OVER 250lbs. I wanted to just throw myself off a building, but how embarrassing if everyone around just thought my fall was an earthquake. I started to analyze my process for weight loss only to realize I keep making the same decisions leading to the same results. My biggest fail comes from over weighing myself. I would weigh myself daily sometimes even after every meal or every work out. If I didn't constantly see that weight drop I would feel like a failure and that I would never get anywhere and just give up. My NEW plan this time around is to take things in baby steps instead of trying to do everything all at once. My first step was to give up soda, I couldn't believe how much more I ate when drinking soda compared to water or milk. My next step is to stop piecing throughout the day. Only to eat at meal times. I can't tell you how shocked I was when I realized how much I was eating in any given day because of simply piecing all day. It doesn't seem like you eat a lot because you only eat a little here and there but WOW does it add up. The step after that is to lower how much I eat at each meal, because I know I over eat to compensate for all the piecing I haven't done all day. Then I will start eating healthier. I have already started cutting back on my fast food intake. Hopefully I can fully stop with the fast food, it's awful for you. Then I plan to add in working out. I may take weeks or months to get to each step but I want to hit each step and manage it before moving on. I also have set myself to only allow myself ONE weigh in a week. Also I use to set long goals and this time I plan to set short goals. My first goal is to get back to 220lbs where I was for the longest time and then I will worry about going lower. I think if I hit some goals it will help to reach the next and the next until I get to where I want to be. So far I am down to 249lbs. I am glad to see my number fall under that horribly 250 mark, but I still have a long way to go the first five to ten pounds are always the easiest for me to lose it's everything after that, that will be the main struggle. I am glad to have found 3 fat chicks because it's inspirational to help get me back on the saddle again. Hopefully changing how I go about losing weight will give me the different results I need. Wish me luck!

[ANTICAKECHICK]

I am in the same boat! I swore I would never weigh as much as my mother who weighted 350# growing up. When I stepped on the scale and realized I weighed 346, I decided that day enough was enough. I've tried losing weight before but same thing, every time I would fall or eat something I shouldn't or skip a workout that was it. I was a failure who would never be thin or fit and I would eat a whole cake. it is hard to admit that. But, I KNOW my struggles. I started with 30 days. If I could commit to being "good" 80% of the time for 30 days, and bad for 20, then I could do it full time. And here it is less than 6 weeks later, I am down 20# and learning things I never realized before. Like, when I ate at a restaurant last week for the first time in a month, I was so bloated the next day and sick at my stomach- all the "bad" things I used to eat all the time made me sick, I just thought it was normal. Now I know how good I can feel eating clean and exercising- even running!!! and I know that eating those things makes me feel puny and gross on the inside. It is still baby steps. If I plan ahead, and grab just what I know I should eat and nothing else, I'm good for the day. I started with diet soda and once I got past the withdrawals, I was so ok! Then fast food had to go. Then restaurant food. Then high fat red meat... baby steps. That's the ticket!!!! Good luck!!!

[Michelle Friday]

I love your plans! that's basically what I've been doing as well. Good health
to us all!

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