Topic : 100 pounds to loose and just getting started - AGAIN!

I know how you feel. I stepped on the scale a little over a month ago and could not believe my eyes that the darn thing read 290 lbs. My first instinct was to throw the scale out the window and go sit on my couch and have a nice pity eating session but thankfully I chose to do something about it instead. I'm down to 272.4 this morning with a goal to see the 60's by the end of this month. My eventual goal is to get down to 170 lbs but that mountain sounds too high to climb so I'm setting smaller goals in the meantime that I can reach in a month or two. I haven't tried weight watchers (probably the only diet I haven't tried) but recently finished reading Dr Phil's book and found it to be quite helpful. I'm trying to incorporate small steps in my daily life such as replacing the junk food with healthier alternatives and walking at least a mile a day. So far, so good! I know we can do it...one day at a time, one step at a time. Each and every day that goes by I'm feeling stronger and more confident that this will be the time that I finally do it for good. You can do this....every journey begins with one small step. Have a great weekend!  

   

Liz  

Liz, 

Thank You for your reply! For the first time every I feel like I have company. No one in my family has a problem and to tell the truth, I have started and quit so many diets they never know when I am serious. Heck, I never know when I am serious, Heck, Heck, every day I wake I think about loosing weight. 

Any way, I will take the Dr. Phil book out (which I read) and the CD's (which I listened to) and give it the good old try once again. 

I am writing down every thing I eat. My new week started Thursday.  My daughter is making a lot of cookies these days, end of school year approaching and both Thursday evening and Friday evening I went off my diet with cookies and milk. With a little luck, I can use the rest of my ''weekly points" and still be within my points for the week but if I binge tonight.....I have wrecked the week. 

Any advice? I will ask her to hide them...but my husband has his favorite cookies in the freezer and he says the rest of the family should be able to have a cookie once in a while, just because I can not control myself, they should not suffer. I know he is right. 

Well, I'm going to water aerobics at 10:00am. 

Maybe just because we talked about the cookies, I will "fight them off" tonight. 

Thanks Again Liz and good luck to you too. 

Patti 

Hello all, 

I will admit I don't know a lot about computers and message boards but I am clueless as how to answer a post or how to have a dialog with some one. 

Is any one brave enough to help me? 

Thanks, 

Patti 

Patti,  

   

I'm struggling trying to avoid my favorite weakness foods also. For me its salty snacks, fried junk and mexican food....especially mexican food! Instead of avoiding them all together and feeling deprived I've tried to limit my intake which has been working pretty well. For example, I used to sit down at night watching tv with a bag of chips and before I knew it the bag was almost depleted. Now I either try to reach for something thats healthier like carrots or occasionally indulge myself with a few chips but not straight out of the bag. I'll put a few on a plate where I know I'm only going to have a certain portion size and thats it. For my mexican food fix I'm allowing myself one trip a week to taco bell but instead of feasting on all the extremely fattening stuff I'm ordering two tacos fresco style which isn't great but its also not horrible. It satisfys my craving but doesn't put my over the edge. Balancing that out with healthy eating the rest of the time seems to work so far. I know its a struggle daily to do this and its hard but the end result will be worth it. Thats great that you are going to water aerobics. We used to have a pool at our old house and I did that with a friend several times a week which i think really helped me maintain a decent weight for a long time. Keep up the good work! I bought a stationary bike today which I'm going to start using to supplement walking and playing tennis for exercise. I hope this helps a little. Good luck fighting off the cookies but don't kick yourself if you take a nibble on one! I've gotta run for now.....  

   

Liz  

  

I don't know why I am writing. In fact, as I write I feel like crying. I just feel like such a loser. I feel so ashame, I haven't worn short in I don't remember hhow many years. I love to swim, but I wouldn't be caught dead in a bathing suit. I have no self-esteem. My one dream in life was to have my own house. Of course I had to seperate from my husband to do it. So the day was finally here. It was August of 2002. The same day of my signing I found out I had breast cancer. I got my house just in time.  After I don't know how many surgeries, chemo and radiation, I had a place of my own to be sick  in. I could come home from work and take off my wig and prosthesis and not have to worry about anybody seeing me. Now I am not only way over weight, I feel like a freak. I guess that's why I can't seem to get motivates. I know my weight is not my only problem. I just don't know where to start. I  feel like such a mess.  

  

I don't know why I am writing. In fact, as I write I feel like crying. I just feel like such a loser. I feel so ashame, I haven't worn short in I don't remember hhow many years. I love to swim, but I wouldn't be caught dead in a bathing suit. I have no self-esteem. My one dream in life was to have my own house. Of course I had to seperate from my husband to do it. So the day was finally here. It was August of 2002. The same day of my signing I found out I had breast cancer. I got my house just in time. After I don't know how many surgeries, chemo and radiation, I had a place of my own to be sick  in. I could come home from work and take off my wig and prosthesis and not have to worry about anybody seeing me. Now I am not only way over weight, I feel like a freak. I guess that's why I can't seem to get motivates. I know my weight is not my only problem. I just don't know where to start. I  feel like such a mess.  

i just started two weeks ago.  I really need to lose at least 100 lbs. I am a single mother and work full time and am very depressed with my wieght i think about it every day. I just started curves and have been into it for two weeks. Ive lost 11 lbs so far so hopefully i can keep goin.

Hey all, I am a 25 year old woman who is tipping the scales at 270 pounds. I have always been larger but not this large. I have in the last year put on nearly 50 pounds. I have tried everything. Weightwatchers, LAweightloss, Atkins.. and nothing really seems to work. I have an erratic schedule... I work nights. go to school fulltime days.. I am hoping to gain some sort of encouragement from you all on here..

Hey all, I am a 25 year old woman who is tipping the scales at 270 pounds. I have always been larger but not this large. I have in the last year put on nearly 50 pounds. I have tried everything. Weightwatchers, LAweightloss, Atkins.. and nothing really seems to work. I have an erratic schedule... I work nights. go to school fulltime days.. I am hoping to gain some sort of encouragement from you all on here..

i have also tried so many times and to what be let down again and again......but the one thing a friend of mine has made sure i never forget is to always keep try'n that god want put more on you than you can handle...but sometimes i do wonder....iam also 5'4" ,33 yrs old, and weight 211lbs....nothing seems to work. always keep your head up high ,have remember that no one is any better than you are.....you can do it..i know it probably means as much to you as it does me but we have to stay strong.......take care...