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white951

Two of my children will be getting married in the next year and I want to look great for the pictures! I have been very depressed about my weight for years. Tired of yo-yo dieting. I want a life change. I need to lose almost 100 lbs. I need motivation and all the help I can get!

DamitJanit

I'm 67 years old and have been overweight for 25 years, with it getting worse each year. I've lost a few times only to gain it back and more. I recently had a friend visit from out of town who is preparing for gastric bypass surgery. As part of her preparation she is on a very strict low cal diet, to make sure she can eat less after the surgery. She kept a food diary and watched what she ate and drank. I was so inspired that I decided it was time to do something. (I had started taking a Green Coffee Bean supplement a few days earlier. Just using this website and seeing the number of calories in many of the things that I used to eat has made me rethink my diet. I have been really watching my intake for less than 2 weeks and have lost 88 pounds. I'm pretty much staying under 1200 calories a day and I'm not hungry. Probably the single biggest thing is my breakfast. I've gone from cinnamon rolls to really tasty breakfast bars that have 90 to 110 calories. I love the Fiber One Cinnamon Coffee Cakes. They are small but take care of hunger until lunch. The thing with any behavior modification is to make up your mind to do it. Seeing the scale go down instead of up is a great motivation. Find things you like that are lower in calories and build around them. You don't want to feel deprived. You can do it...good luck.

hrtunstall

I know if I can do this, you can. Just make sure you log everything & keep at or under the goal MFP sets for you. Also, try to do something physical everyday ( based on what others have said, I only eat back about 1/2 of the calories I earn from exercise & I am averaging about 1.5-2.0 lbs. per week. I have been doing this for 101 days & have lost about 23 lbs. (I didn't start recording my weight until 5 weeks in, don't do that -- I didn't want to know what I weighed starting out ). This is the only thing I have found that is doable for the rest of my life. There are no foods denied. I just have to either make them work within the day or week & decide the size of the portion to satisfy me. You can add me if you like. You sound like you are ready for a change, I understand. My goal is to lose about 50 lbs. & see if I like it there. I don't really know what weight is right for me, yet. I am a 54 yo female & I too will be having daughters get married in the next few years & that is a great motivation for getting healthy & fit. Best of luck to us!

besaro

Read everything. Ignore 90% of what you read. Log everything. 100% . Get a food scale, weigh your foods. 98%. Eat what MFP tells you to eat. Go for a walk. Find foods you like to eat. Think long-term, not fit-in-the-mother-of-the-bride dress.