For months, I've been gaining and gaining. I'm far past what I used to me. I gained 66lbs since I stopped last year in may! That's jaw-dropping. I gain weight fast. The only good side to it is that I lose it fast also. Yesterday I decided I was going to start again from step one which is simply walking my dog with no set limitations and goals except to just walk. Often I do it for a day and then stop, but today I took another walk. I think I'm feeling more confident in losing weight again. My fiancee, though I love him, doesn't always think before he opens his mouth. I put on his shirt and he says damn I to lose weight if u can wear my shirts. He tried taking it back, but it's kind of hurt my feelings. It did motivate me though. I don't know how many rounds I've done in trying to lose weight, but maybe this time it will be my victory. What was the first steps you guys took?

My first step was replacing all the bad food in my house and then going to the park with my fiance for an hour long walk. I had stepped on a scale the night wrote for the first time in months and it said I gained 20lbs and I was where I never thought I'd be... I kinda lost it, and that night grocery shopped for new food. I also picked up some resistance bands. that was a week ago now and I'm still doing good. haven't been able to go to the park due to rain - but I bought some more resistance tubes and hand weights and I've used them every night in my living room for 30 min - 1hr. fiancé is doing it with me which is very helpful (he's a stick, but he wants to gain muscle and get in shape). He helps me with my stretches and keeps me going when it hurts. I've lost 6lbs since I started you can do it !! maybe your fiancé woul like to get in shape with you ? it's been a huge help for me even though our goals are different.

Eating less, then changing what I ate. If I had it to do over I would start with going to whole foods/paleo and then worrying about quantity.

I think the first step I did last time was getting rid of the sweets because that's my weakness. Aly, you had a good suggestion of throwing out the junk in my kitchen. Because I hate wasting money I never did that before, but my life is more important. I think I will do just that

Reality set in for me when I couldn't continue donating blood because of my high blood pressure, probably from my weight. I'd like to look skinny, but at the moment, my motivation is my health and nothing more, really. Losing weight has a lot to do with your mental perception. Just stay optimistic and if you think you can do it, you certainly will be able to!

One thing that I've started doing is whenever I feel bored and kinda crave eating something, I chew a piece of gum instead of getting a snack, which helps a ton. A piece of gum is only like 5 calories while a snack size snickers bar is around 90 calories. Not worth it for me!

For a few years I had been trying to put pressure on my mother to quit smoking. It was shortening her life, I said. It was also unattractive, smelled funny and was hurting the people she cared about most. Then I realized - all of those arguments could be used against my eating habits.

My very first step was banishing soda from my diet. Overnight I went from 2-3 glasses a day to nothing. I stalled there for a little while, but after a few months figured if I could change like that I could change it in other ways too.

I started with writing down everything I was eating so that I actually saw how many calories I was eating and where they were all coming from, and committed to getting some form of exercise at least twice a week (I'm now up to five times a week).

Seeing a nutritionist really helps me a lot as well. She helps me to understand what I should be eating, and how to eat so that I don't feel deprived all the time. She's also someone that I'm accountable to which is huge for me. Being accountable only to myself is pretty much a joke! My health insurance covers these visits. If you don't have insurance or coverage, having a weight loss buddy could also help!

my first step was to pick a diet plan and stick with it. For me it's calorie counting. Then I stopped the candy bar and no more cokes! So far I've been sticking with it for 3 weeks now! Longest I've ever gone!

I started with reducing my portion sizes and just finding ways to move more. Thats it. No gym, I still ate what I wanted, just less of it. In a span of around 5 months I dropped 70 pounds just by making those two changes

Drink lots of water because it will fill you up Keep poping in on this forum because it seems to keep alot of people motivated Myself included. Good luck on starting your weight loss.

i gained weight because i liked to bake...and also eat, alot, of everything LOL...im a sweets eater and a quantity eater...i'd rather eat a TON of something rather than just a small bite of something rich...

last march i was getting even heavier than normal (have never been skinny EVER) and decided on a whim to test my blood sugar at home...it was registering in the prediabetic level on a consistent basis...i decided to do something about it

i began re-learning to eat low carb (which i had done before years ago) and began dropping weight...i began spacing my meals/snacks and not eating late at night...i slowly lost weight throughout that spring and summer...weight loss slowed over the summer and i began to get SUPER bored of low carb...

that summer i switched to calorie counting with an emphasis on low sugar choices...weight slowly dropped off...i began adding exercise to my routines, with bike riding and some weights at home...it didnt really help but i knew i wasnt pushing my body hard enough

last september i took the plunge and enrolled in a gym...which has a one-year commitment required, meaning they charge my card for a year regardless of whether or not i actually show up at the gym LOL....which is what i needed...im far too cheap to waste the money and not to go the gym...i began trying to run...and slowly but surely worked my way up to actual running...the weight is still slowly coming off and my body is looking much better since ive been running

its now almost april, 6 months since i started at the gym...im at my lowest weight ever, in the 190s, and have built up alot of endurance and strength from the running...

strangely enough im still committed to my efforts...however slowly it takes...ive never been committed to weight loss for this long...and ive never maintained my lowest weight for this long either (3 months)...i still log my food every single day and have for an entire year

I started with prayer because I knew I needed divine help to help me take control of my life.....I had to tell myself that I was in control of me and what goes in my mouth....Then I got a picture in my mind of what I wanted to look like. When I thought of demolishing a bag of chips, I kept that picture in my mind, the prayer in my heart and my new theme in my mouth....I AM IN CONTROL OF ME.

I had worked out for 4 months and only lost 4-6 lbs. I didn't expect it to be easy but I figured it had to be easier than that so I logged my calories and realized that I had increased my calorie intake just enough to offset my gym efforts. That when I started keeping track of everything I ate and every calorie I burn.

my wake-up call was my doctor telling me that before i'm 50, which is to say, less than 5yrs from now, i will be in a wheelchair, in a coma, or in a coffin if i didn't lose weight A...S...A...frikkin....P.

if the overload doesn't take my right hip out entirely from rapidly-onset osteo, then the hypertension will fry my kidneys or give me a stroke leaving me potentially in a coma or dead.

and of course there's always the diabetes to look forward to recurring - i've had it twice, once gestational and once weight-related T2, you think i'd've woken up long since, eh?

I think I'm going to stick to 3 rules for myself to get started in addition to exercise: 1. stop eating by 7pm. 2. eat every 3 or 4 hours and 3. choose water most days. I am a huge sweet tea fan. I always get sweet tea. Anyone who takes me out knows to get me sweet tea. But I never looked at how much calories was actually in it.