I would like to find mutual support here from others like me with over 40lbs to loose

Hi,

I suddenly find that I need to loose weight, I have put it off for ages because I needed to eat more after loosing a child and it was that or drink or something else. And now I find 4 years on that I have gained a lot of weight. I still miss my daughter so much and still find it hard to cope but her sister needs me to be around and I have to stay healthy for her sake. I would say that generally I am a happy person but sometimes we need a little help to get over things and in my case it was and still is food.

Thanks Liz

You can count me in! I started this journey back in March, but have maintained, rather than lost the additional weight. I started at 170, went down to 157, back to 160 and have stayed here for 3 months. Looking to lose those 40 pounds to get to my goal of 120, wow how hot would I be? LOL...anyhow, I am 30, married, a full time teacher and grad student so time is mimimum...I only have time to study and well, off to work I go. So getting back on the band-wagon would be great.

You sound a very, very busy person.  I teach too and I know what you mean about time. I have such good intentions but I live life in a hurry as well. I am 181 and have never been so heavy and I don't like it a bit. I teach fashion/textiles to 17/18 year olds which takes a lot of energy and I always seem to need snacks to keep me going all day.  However I am determined to loose weight before we go off for the Christmas vacation, - as it is only 7 weeks or so I was thinking that if I could loose 14Ibs by then  it would be great. I like calorie counting but I have just come back from an evening out and it is impossible to calculate the nibbles.

You sound a very, very busy person.  I teach too and I know what you mean about time. I have such good intentions but I live life in a hurry as well. I am 181 and have never been so heavy and I don't like it a bit. I teach fashion/textiles to 17/18 year olds which takes a lot of energy and I always seem to need snacks to keep me going all day.  However I am determined to loose weight before we go off for the Christmas vacation, - as it is only 7 weeks or so I was thinking that if I could loose 14Ibs by then  it would be great. I like calorie counting but I have just come back from an evening out and it is impossible to calculate the nibbles.

You sound a very, very busy person.  I teach too and I know what you mean about time. I have such good intentions but I live life in a hurry as well. I am 181 and have never been so heavy and I don't like it a bit. I teach fashion/textiles to 17/18 year olds which takes a lot of energy and I always seem to need snacks to keep me going all day.  However I am determined to loose weight before we go off for the Christmas vacation, - as it is only 7 weeks or so I was thinking that if I could loose 14Ibs by then  it would be great. I like calorie counting but I have just come back from an evening out and it is impossible to calculate the nibbles.

hi lovelygirl, im so sorry for your loss. I cant even imagine what you are going thru. I would like to offer my weightloss support, for i have almost 40 more lbs to lose also. Im 5'8 and currently 182. Down from my highest (while not 9 months preg) of 206. I joined cc at 199 and have found counting my calories to be a very easy and effective. I think your goal of 14lbs by christmas break is very attainable. Im shooting for about 20 more by then.

Hi Ladies,

First, Lovely, let me say, I'm sorry for your loss as well. I definitely cannot imagine what losing a child must be like. It's good that you are concentrating on the gifts you still have in life and are wanting to get healthy for your other child.

Like you, I've used food to cope. I've been doing it my whole life. I actually have memories of being about three or four years old and eating those little chocolate donuts with my mom as she cried about one thing or another. She had a lot to cry about. Eversince I was small, I've used food as a coping mechanism to help me get through a pretty turbulent childhood, adolescence and finally young adulthood.

Beside that, I truly love food. My mom was also an amazing cook, who worked in New Orleans for a few years. She cultivated in me, from a very young age, a taste for rich and exotic flavors.

All that being said, I'm 5'4 and 211 lbs. My all time high (I was going through a major depression) was 258. I started to do yoga and to eat more healthfully and the first 20 pounds came off without calorie counting. This summer, I got a bike and started riding everywhere as my means of transportation. I noticed a little weight loss and for the first time in my life, started to get serious about being healthy. Now, I really enjoy working out. I don't always look forward to doing it, but I almost never regret it once I've done it. Eating healthfully (most of the time started to follow).

I've lost 25 pounds and 4 pants sizes since July. (Goal # 1 was to be a size 14. Now, i am). I feel AWESOME. I look pretty decent too. I want to be 199 pounds by January 1. I feel this is an attainable goal. It would be great to lose even a little more than that.

Anyway, I would love work with you guys to meet my mini goal of reaching the so called "One-derland" by the new year.

Hello everyone,

I've tried sending messages but apparently I can't do that until I've added friends. Is that right?.

Anyway just to say thanks to all of you for your support and kind messages.

It will be lovely to loose this weight and might even be a fresh start for me, who knows. I think that everyone has done really well so far and I have lost my first 2Ibs. Yeh!.

Better not get too excited though, - there's still twelve to go.

Hi Lovely girl and others,

I had a bad Midweek, which i'm starting to realize may have something to do with PMS (my periods are still slightly irregular), but I kicked myself in the ass on Friday morning and still came out 2 lbs down. 9 to go by the end of the year. I have a feeling that my last tuesday/wed/thurs will catch up with me this week, though...I have a hard time believing I'm completely off the hook. I drank too much one night then I ate something from this place called fat sandwich company. They put fries on every sandwich. Fries are my kryptonite. And then, I felt bad, so I binged the next day too. And all of the junk made me feel lazy. BUT friday, I woke up, worked out, made baked boneless skinless chicken breast with spinach and potatoes for lunch (just a few potatoes) and went to work. When I came home, I did cardio kick boxing for 20 minutes, 10 minutes of yoga and then 60 cycle kicks, 30 pushups and 10 leg lifts (core exercise).

Back on track! And down 2 lbs!!!

Hi.,

I am having a break with my daughter in Cornwall, England.

My downfall are Cappucinos particularly when the weather is cold and damp as it is at the moment but I have managed to drop 4.5lbs since beginning my programme, so that's cool.

Also I do feel overwhelmed sometimes by the though of loosing so much wieght, but a friend of mine recently lost over 50Ibs in 6 months and she looks unrecognisable, - so young and slim, she's my inspiration at the moment. Mind you it took droping a negative husband to do it.  

We just shared a brownie with

Hi,

I would love to be a part of this!! 

I am 5' 7" and have always been a size 2 with no effort.   I could eat a horse and maintain weight.  I didn't even have to work out.  However, I had to start taking medication for several reasons and the side effects of 3 of them is weight-gain.  I slowly crept from 120 to 130 then 150.  I began to fall apart seeing my body change into a form like I'd never seen it.  I became depressed and turned to food for comfort.  I decided that since I have to take this medicine and since I have no control over the side effect of weight-gain, I might as well just dig in.

I was 150 lbs in 2004.  This is 2008 and at the start of the year I peaked at 200 lbs.  It was difficult.  I had never gone past 120 lbs my whole life no matter what I did or ate, and here it was that I was staring at my body in the mirror at 200.  I realized that if I ever wanted to lose weight, I actually had to do something about it.  I couldn't eat whatever I wanted anymore.  I also realized that I had to work out.  It was a very difficult realization to come to, so for a long time I did nothing about the weight.  I was in denial: I thought that I would just lose weight naturally, but that was not the case.

So I started working out and changing the way I ate, and it has been a blessing.  Gaining weight has forced me to eat right and to exeercise.  I am now 183 lbs. and I hope to leave the 180s zone by the end of this month.  I am not consistent at all though.  I procrastinate on the working out, and I cheat on the diet.  It is a blessing of sorts, because if I can do what I have to do to lose this weight - diet and exercise - then I will be a more disciplined person.  I would have proven to myself that if I put my mind to ANYTHING I can and WILL accomplish it.  I would be a person of my word; a person that says she will workout and eat right, and that actually does it!  Right now I am not that person.

So I guess this weight gain is going to make me a better person.  You see, to attain this weight-loss I have to:

• exercise regularly
• eat right regularly
• not cheat
• and I have to keep doing so even when I don't feel like it
• and I cannot stop until my goals are attained

A person that can achieve that is a disciplined, consistent, and healthy person.  That is who I want to be.

So I have 53 to 63 lbs. to lose and I need support really BAD!!!  For starters, why can't I just work out???  I keep procrastinating and I have every excuse in the book as to why I con't work out when I am supposed to.  So I have a far way to go before I becime the disciplined person I want to be, but this is a journey, and as much as I never thought that I would have to struggle with weight loss, I am so grateful for this because this journey is teaching me a lot about who I am.

I look forward to continuing this journey with you all!

- Yari 

Hi, lovely girl.. I would love to be part of this group.. I am 20 years old... Around january I used to weight 185 pounds but after a bad break up I lost around 20 pounds but by july i was around 17o.. Now i moved to miami and i have been working out 4 days a week... Now i weight 153 punds but my ideal weight is 120.. I have never weight less that 150 but I hope that with my excercise and counting calories I would get there.. By the end of this month I hope to be 140..

Liz, I'm so sorry for your loss.  I have the utmost respect for you wanting to take care of yourself to be there for your daughter.

I actually have well over 40 lb to lose, but I'd still like to be your "buddy" in this new lifestyle!  I estimate my weight at around 200 (have not weighed in months b/c all the number does is discourage me about how far I have to go).  I am 5' 3" and my goal is 120, a weight I maintained with ease before having my first child.  Since then it's been a constant yoyo from about 180-200.  I hope to reach my goal in Sept 2009 by losing 2lb per week thru diet and exercise, the healthy and slow/steady way.  It's disheartening at times to think how far you have to go, but I've only been at it a little over 2 weeks so I'm trying to go easy on myself!

Maggie