started half heartily in the summer of 2007 when I was fitted for my sisters wedding and they told me I needed the largest dress they might of had to add material. Really started getting to full force in Sept of 2007, after going to my annual checkup and was the highest I've ever been.
I have losing and gaining my adolescent and adult life. Then on August 28, 2008 I got up early and walked into my first WW meeting. I have doing it ever since. I have a gained a pound here and there but overall I am down 46 pounds and I don't care how long it takes to get where I really want to be because I am NOT going back. I think that is what I was missing the first 20 tiimes I lost weight, I always had a deadline. So I asked myself "If I plan on being this way forever, why do I have a deadline"....
I am very impatient as well and I totally feel your pain. You have just got to look at it from a different perspective.
After reading about all the time we spend doing this I am truely amazed. I could say I started WW August 2008 to may 2009 but in reality, I've had difficulty with food all my life, so 34 years.
And it is interesting that we have deadlines or we have goals of losing some number of pounds by whatever date. Ladies, this is lifelong............Yes I have a goal, to get to my predaughter weight of 130. But I have the rest of my life, to maintain, so it is lifelong. Maybe thinking this way allows me to forgive myself after I fall off the WW wagon and get back on again to lose weight. Buying a snug pair of jeans and not being able to button them also motivated me to get back on the wagon after falling off for about 6 weeks. hugs to every soul
I've lost 31.5 pounds in the last 11 months. Slow, but every day still feels like a success. Over the past 3 months I began running. I've only lost about 3 pounds since that time, but my body is very different. My initial goal is 2.5 pounds away. I am hoping/praying I hit that goal by my year anniversary. But, I've set a new goal to shed an additional 15. That may take me 2 years, but as long as I'm going down -- no matter how slowly -- I'm not going up. That's what I continue to focus on.
I started the couch25K program to begin running five weeks ago. It is an amzing plan.. I this the only thing I have never tried before. I never believed I could run. I walked, did elliptical and aerobics. That really did nothing for me like this running is doing. I am continuing the plans 25 minute walk/run intervals and can do 2 minute sprints(5.4) as of this weekend. I do not run outside, only on the treadmill at the gym(thus far).
I am getting much smaller(down 2 clothing sizes in 5 weeks!), but the scale is not really moving that quickly(10 pounds). I also do 20 minutes of weights 4 times per week after my run. The inches are really falling off though and I feel it more every single day.
I have 60 pounds to lose and I know this method of exercise will help me get there. I also count calories(1600-1700) and track on My Daily Plate. I stick with portion control and eating a morning, afternoon and light evening snack in addition to three meals.
Seriously, I started January 6 to really work on losing weight in a healthy, consistent way. My son just turned 6yo yesterday, so I decided it was finally time to get these last pounds off, once and for all.
In late 2005, I weighed 186.
In January 2009, I weighted 178.
Today, I weigh 160.
I'm hoping to get to 145 by Christmas.
It is a long journey, if you are changing your lifestyle and hope to keep it off. Hang in there. 50# is excellent work!
I haven't been at it to long really. I started in the first couple weeks of March and did my own thing dropped 40 pounds. I got stuck at 320 for awhile so I got more serious and have hit the gym since like the second week of July and lost another 20 maybe more. I still have a long way to go 110 pounds but it will all come off at some point.
Started 11 months ago and have lost 42 lbs. I was hoping it would be faster because I'm getting a little antsy to be at goal, but overall I'm just happy I'm no longer overweight.
I don't think of it as a diet as I do learning to eat better and when I started losing weight.
I started officially losing in 2004 at the weight of 170lbs now 5 years later I'm in the lower 130s. of course there have been plateaus some lasting for weeks, others for months. Whenever I have a setback (big or small) or I get tired of watching what I eat I just remind myself how much closer I am to my goal than I was when I started.
