1hot_tomato.....
Yup, I'm counting calories. I eat about 1200 a day and walk for at least an hour a day. I try to use my [device of torture] exercise bike 3 times a week and do weights/cardio exercise the other 4. And I'll tell ya what - Yoda was a smart fella. Even though we don't like it, we all
know what it takes to lose the weight. It's hard but ya just gotta
do it!
fannie~annie.....
There are a few things that keep me motivated. The first and most important is all the encouragement I get from people here and in my every day life. Especially when someone says I've inspired them. See, I was always the timid, fat girl who tried to stay as invisible as possible. Now I have people asking me how they can do this too and I run into to them on my daily walks and they say to me, "I'm doing it!" It almost makes me wanna cry. That
I made someone feel they could better themselves. It's wonderful! As for stuffing my face - Ohhhh I do indeed! In fact when I do I way OVERdo it. For instance, on the 1st, after my weigh in, I had my fav meal from my fav mexican restaurant. I ate so much I felt like I was gonna explode. Yesterday was a hamburger, fries, stuffed jalapinios and a strawberry shake. I hadn't splurged for 20 days and went a little overboard this time, lol. The thing I've learned is that I CAN splurge, just not often. But now I've gotta be a good girl for a good long while to make up for my indecent eating, lol
Feeling better also helps keep me motivated. I couldn't even walk half a block to check my mail before but now I can walk for miles without blinking an eyelash. I can even
run! Also it's kinda fun for me to see the scales go down. It gives me a thrill when they drop to the next "10" - from the 190's to 180's to 170's, etc. I dunno what I'm gonna do when there's no more weight to lose, lol. Oh and clothes! Being able to buy anything I want and feel good wearing it! Up until a few months ago buying clothes wasn't fun it was simply neccesary and embarrassing. Has anyone else ever felt like falling through the floor when the checkout girl, a size zero, picked up your size 28 jeans to scan them and nearly toppled over from the sheer weight of them?!? That's an exaggeration of course but not much of one, lol. I hated that and pretty much wore the same clothes until they fell apart in strings.
KandiceA.....
Everyone says that, lol. STOP already! One of my best friends said some very unkind words (jokingly) when my waist got smaller than hers. As for taping 66 inches of paper together, I was thinking about that yesterday! I'm 5'2. I've lost 4 more inches than I am tall!
melmcc99.....
I do feel good about myself and it's an odd feeling, I have to admit, because it's a
new feeling. I never much liked myself and pretty much always thought I was (literally) a big, fat nothing. Certainly that's what I was always told by everyone. But now I DO like me. I have an opinion of myself and I think I'm funny and nice and well, likeable. It isn't because of my body size that I have more confidence, it's because I stopped hiding from life and drowning myself in beef supreme gorditas!
As for what I'm doing it's pretty simple, as I said above - I eat about 1200 calories a day (give or take 100) and walk every day. Use my exercise bike and weights and do cardio exercise 4 days a week. I don't go to a gym or anything, I just use my little 5 pound Wal-Mart weights and watch Everybody loves Raymomd whole I try to elimnate my bat wings and do crunches
The best piece of advice I can think to give you is
DON'T GIVE UP! Sometimes it's really slow and hard and frustrating. My biggest obstacle in the past was knowing how long it was gonna take. But this time I thought, "Ya know, time goes by so fast and it's gonna go wether I'm eating chicken breast or pizza so I might as well eat the chicken and be thinner at the end of the road" and sure enough, it's been 8 months in what seems like no time at all and I've lost 110 pounds.
Also I'd like to tell everyone that it gets easier. At first it seems aweful but that's just because you're used to eating whatever you want and I'd be willing to bet that 80% of the people here are emotional eaters which makes it even harder to give up your comfort (food). But it really, truly gets easier. At this point for the most part I just eat what I know I'm supposed to eat and it's not a big deal. The best part about this is that I know I can maintain eating this new way when I get to my goal weight. It's a good, good feeling!
To everyone else.....
Thanks so much for your kind words. They mean more than all the size 14's in the world
Update. 110 pounds lost! Pic and stats.
