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My meal plan only gives me 12 meals a week. I eat breakfast in my room, then lunch and dinner whenever I have a break. I really have no choice but to wait. I mean, I've been fat for 11 years. The thinnest I was during that time was 143 pounds (I'm 5"3) and I was still fat. I'm now 100 pounds heavier and I hate it. >.<



^This.

Was diagnosed as pre-diabetic a few years ago, went on Jenny Craig, and dropped from 320lbs to 264lbs. Then was hit by a car while cycling, and couldn't continue.

Recently (June), was hit by the desire to get back in the game.
320lbs/145.15kg in Feb
302.5lbs/137.5kg - 7/22/2010
271.4lbs/123.2kg - 9/14/2010

Regime:
cut down to one soda (any size) per day (was easily able to drink over a gallon over 24hrs)
making better choices for meals (often skipping desserts/treats)
Running w/the Wii Fit's program for 1/2hr/day (about 6.3miles
Riding bicycle everywhere.
Reading/Praying/Church also play a role.

The issue is that the good routes are all a really long walk. I hate just to walk to walk, I need a reason to do it somewhere to go... most of the time a library or a place to read (away from my parents, but having a bench and a table) or a certain park...

What is a pedometer?

In 11 weeks the end of 2009 I lost 33 pounds. Than I lost an extra 10 pounds earlier this month but now I am stuck on the same weight for 6 months now. So I hope to loose another 40 pounds. My total weight loss I want about 80 pounds maybe 90. It depends. I am total a "average" weight for me is 165 to 185. So I don't want to be too skinny just healthy.

I’ve Lost 82 lbs

Here is what I did.
Stop eating so much sugar ( high fructose corn syrup) switch to honey to wean your self off all of the sugar.
No more diet soda. ( if you need a drink water is the best) Aspartame is a poison it will kill you.
Try to eat more natural i.e. Fruits, Veggie’s, no dairy if it can be avoided (I still eat cheese every now and then) little to no meat.
Try to only eat 50% of your daily Value of fats. If you feel like you need more eat more nuts.

What helps me is to think of a cave man.

He would forage for food. And mostly eat fruits, veggies, nuts and root type veggies.

Before all of this technology man hardly ever would eat meat. It took a lot of energy to kill an animal.

And some one once told me.
“the difference between Dead people and Alive people is movement, so if you want to be alive start moving.” it’s a race, death is right behind you, if you walk, it will take longer to catch up, if you run even longer.

Start out slow.

Check your weight EVERY DAY to stay motivated!! !
But remember due to the way the human body works you will gain and loose weight all day long. Try weighing your self multiple times a day to learn how you body reacts to the food your eating. (mine can jump 10 lbs a day) So don’t get discouraged if your weight is up one day because it will be down the next.

Get to know your body, Take care of it and it will take care of you.
Oh yeah and It's not a DIET!! !! !! !! ! your trying to be HEALTHIER.

And most important give your self a day off. Choose one, I like Saturday because I’m usually with my family. Then and I can eat any thing I want!

Um, checking my weight constantly makes me feel worse. Especially when I retain water weight and my number goes up. I'm banned from using the scale at my house. I'd only check once a week and I felt like it wasn't helping. I became obsessed with the number. If I gained three pounds even though I was eating well and exercising all week, I felt like I didn't accomplish anything.

No, it's a diet, there's no sugar-coating it. The people who "try to be healthier" are always just wanting to look better and are sacrificing what they want to do it. The people who are already hot eat whatever they want and look at me funny when I refuse to eat wings with them. Lucky people with a high metabolism. D:

It's better to just use one meal a week to get your cravings in. If you're eating bad ALL day, you'll lose all the progress you have made during the week. I only eat one dessert that's not a fruit in a week and I still feel like I'm not making any good progress. Stupid college food. >.<

A pedometer is a little device that you can use to keep track of how many steps you take. I used to think it was a device used to determine who's a pedophile. XD

What's been working for me is to a) avoid sugar like the plague (except as noted below) b) avoid carbs like the plauge (except as noted below) c) I've been avoiding all drinks except water and sparkling water (be sure it doesn't have too much sodium), and drinking a ton of these (1 oz a day for every 2 lbs body weight at least is my goal) - I'm not sure why diet soda / artificial sweetner is bad for diet (though i certainly can understand why its bad for you in the long run, just I'm not sure how it would negatively impact your weight) d) try to avoid sodium as much as possible - makes you retain water. What I have been eating - lots of fruit - grapefruit, apples, grapes, cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, grilled chicken, steamed veggies, nonfat Riccotta cheese (very high ratio of protein to calories, like 10 g protein for 50 calories), occasionally some ground turkey or turkey burgers, occasional slice of lowfat cheese, occasional slice of Ezekial bread. Not cheating though is tough. I don't weigh myself, just watch my wasteline. Not making as much progress as I was but I have to admit have cheated a little bit more - those 1/2 day a week cheatings (when I still tried to follow the above rules as much as possible, just having something small that's good) have started turning in to maybe twice a week.

Sometimes I just don't know if I even want to keep going - I made a lot of progress and while I haven't quite reached my goal in terms of my appearance, I feel more and more like its impossible and I really just want to maintain myself where I am now, and am thinking that means eating well maybe 80% of the time and eating what I want just a little bit more often and keeping up the exercising that I've been doing. But it would be so easy to just go back and eat whatever I want for a week or so its hard to keep myself disciplined.

I've lost 9 pounds since late August

Checking your weight every day is not a good idea. Your weight changes and goes up and down every day. So It's better to check your weight once a week in the morning same time every week and same day every week. Sometimes others check it once a month but once a day isn't a good idea.

sorry

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sorry

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sorry

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SORRY

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Thanks for the list of symptoms with artificial sweeteners. I'm sure in sufficient concentrations over a long enough period of time, any artificial sweetener could cause just about any bad thing you can think of. Yet nowhere in that list do I see anything that indicates it will prevent or hinder weight loss, so again, purely from the standpoint of dieting to lose weight, I don't see how artificial sweetener will prevent that.

Yes, to lose weight lots of water helps. Basically the liver has two functions - back up the kidneys and metabolize (consume) fat. Your kidneys work best when there's lots of water. If you don't drink enough, your liver is busy doing what your kidneys should be doing instead of metabolizing fat. That's why lots of water is important to dieting.

And yes, people's weights fluctuate from day to day, even while overall their weight is trending downwards or upwards. Plus typical bathroom scales (at least digital ones) aren't that accurate, can be affected by things like temperature etc. So for those reason I don't think its productive to weigh yourself every day.

Diet soda contain Aspartame which is a substance that slows down your metabolism greatly. On your list there, it even says "gradual weight gain." So one diet soda every once in a while is okay but I wouldn't drink it all the time. I'm more of a water, tea and juice person.