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The Weight Loss Starting Line
Congratulations on starting your weight loss journey. Committing to this change will place you on the path to a new body and a healthier lifestyle.
Over the next 30 days, you can expect to:
- Set realistic goals with weight loss advice from the best experts.
- Add healthy foods to your diet.
- Make, and stick to, a fun exercise routine.
- Learn to appreciate your body.
The first step to weight loss is accepting the truth. So dust off that scale and jot down the resulting figure in a journal. Be honest! Also, record your waist, hips, chest, thigh and arm circumference measurements.
Hold on that notebook. In the coming weeks, you'll use it to track your progress and your diet.
DID YOU KNOW? Americans spend more than $33 billion on diet products annually. Unfortunately, 95% of people who are able to lose weight on those diets put it all back on—and more—within five years.
Posted: 11/21/09
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hello, i want lose 15kgs in 2 monts from tomorow, can u help me?? please
well i like too loose a lot of weight . i've see it my self , sumone loose 72lbs in 3 months. Yes strict diet , exercise for 1hour daily increase water intake .
i want to lose 12 kgs in 3 months from today 4th sept., 2009
i want to lose 12 kgs
Hey all.
Glad to hear so many are taking up this challenge. Here are my thoughts: Diets don't really work, all the slim people I know have life long healthy habits rather then a membership with a diet plan. It takes a month to form a habit so hopefully I'll have good habits by the end of this. Most importantly I've found it easier when I'm telling a few people I want to be trimmer and fitter because it makes me more accountable. Does anyone else have any tips?
Good luck to you all, I know that most people can get slimmer!
Everlee - I'm right there with you, I stuff myself to feel good and it always makes me feel bad. I need to find something else to do to make me feel good (reading, writing, SOMETHING!). I need to lose 50 pounds just to get to a semi healthy weight. I'm going to start a daily journal and record my weight and measurements. I hope this sight helps me stay motivated because I've never been able to before.
Well, this seems like a good place to start. I never actually measured myself or recorded stuff in a journal before, although I have read that it is a good idea. So this time I will try it. I feel like a thin person trying to get out of this fat, stagnant body. I am sick and tired of it. I stuff myself with food to feel good and then feel bad. I am so mixed up. I have lost 25 lbs before but gained back more over and over. Stress gets me eating like crazy. This is a big change I need to make because I am not happy with myself.
My beginning walk to thinness.
With the help of God and this web site and the my willingness to carry thru, I feel I can reach my goals, little ones at first. I realize I have to take baby steps first, my first baby step starts right now.
Through the help of God and this web site I can do this.
I look forward to the help I'm going to get from this site :)
I have been restricting sugar for almost 3 months, no diet cokes either, and doing the Fit for Life diet. My husband lost almost 30 lbs in short order, I lost 4. Whoopee. With no sugar or diet cokes, I've just discovered I lost 2 more, a total of 6. Slow but sure! I realize that I am not as active as my husband, so I need to get moving. Yesterday, he cleaned the dust and cobwebs off our exercise equipment. My goal is to exercise 3x/wk to start. Today's the beginning of new habits.
I moved to Hawaii 4 years ago today with the intention that with the more outdoor lifestyle I'd become healthier and lose weight. Four years later, I'm 17 lbs heavier. I now weight 259 lbs and enough is enough. I've strarted today and hope to be at my pre-Hawaii weight of 242lbs by 4th of July. That's my 1st goal.
I started my new and healthy lifestyle on 4-27-09.
Starting again. And again. And again. That is just a fact. I'm desperate to lose this weight because it makes me feel ugly and want to hibernate in my house where no one can see me. My weight is 229 lbs and at 5'5", a 47 year old female, my BMI is 38.4, obese class II. My body fat percentage is 51.6%. My waist to hip ratio is 0.87. My measurements: neck 16" bicep 15" chest 45.5" waist 42.5" hips 49" thigh 28.5" calf 17" That's a lot to swallow, but it's my Starting Line. So here I go.
I am starting again. The repeating the start is what is discouraging to me. My youngest daughter said yesterday when I said I just can't seem to do it "You can do it mom". I am 150 lbs and must lose at least 10 to try to get my cholesterol down so I won't have to start on medicine. This year I developed knee pain, arthritis in one knee is rather bad. I have been going to a physical therapist, but it hasn't helped the pain. I might try an acupuncturist. Walking has always been a joy to me, now it is very difficult. I actually enjoy exercise, but haven't been to the gym in a while. So...I will go to the gym and do what I can and make an appointment with an acupuncturist.
I have to recognize that losing weight is an important thing for me and my family, and therefore, I am NOT taking time away from them when I take time to exercise.
I have to get over the "I'll start it tomorrow" phase. I work a lot and am trying to figure out how to fit working out into my schedule, but I'm just going to have to do it. There is time somewhere.
In the next 30 days, I am going to revamp my whole way of thinking about losing weight. I need to NOT call it a diet and just focus on eatting healthy. I also need to get myself out of the pittie-party and start exercising! I plan to start Yoga. I think the meditation and breathing part of Yoga will help me greatly as well. I say a comment by mariapesin on cutting down on medications. I had not thought about it, (Thank you mariapesin!), but, I too, am going to cut down on the med.'s. I think the hardest part for me will be the mental aspect of just doing it! 2009,...here I come!!!
OK, I have been dieting for about 9 years. Getting fatter with each diet. I took a different approach this year and didn't diet as much as tried to eat right. I also reduced my medication a lot. Including totally eliminating sleeping pills. I lost about 15 lbs. I still have 45 lbs to go to reach my goal weight. I know I need to step it up a bit. So the next 30 days I would like to see myself get down to 165 lbs. That would be another 5 lbs.
Wish me luck!!