Looking to lose 100+ pounds... the healthy way!

brownfamily5512

Hello I'm 27 and wanting to lose 100 pounds but I am taking baby steps and setting a goal to lose my first 20 by june. But really need some motivation

mispoohbie

Hey guys, I would love to add to this. I have been off and on MFP for several years. I lost 95 pounds a couple of years ago and I have slowly gained 40 of it back. I am looking for friends to motivate and support me. I will do the same in return. I have around 150 pounds I want to get rid of. I added several of you, if I missed you please add me. Looking forward to losing with you all. ~Misty

BillLollar

I need to join this thread...needed to lose 80 pounds. So far I've lost 30 just using my Fitbit and MFP in the last 65 days. I have 50 more to go, so I need the mutual encouragement of this group. My goal weight is 175 which is less than I've EVER weighed since I turned 18 (now 60 years old). Always struggled with weight, but I maintained 195 pounds throughout 4 years of military service, from age of 18 to 22.

helend78

I'd love to join you all, I'm in the UK and lost almost 5 stone in 18 months up to about August last year but since then I've gained it all back and then some I need to get back on track and want to take it slowly and steadily but keep it off. Feel free to add me if you want x

llWishfulShrinkingll

Hello everyone, Im 20 years old weigh 321 pounds I am looking to loose about 175 pounds. I am looking for anyone looking to lose a large amount of weight to help keep me going. I have lost about 65 pounds before but i have gained all that back and more. I am really ready to be serious this time. I am online everyday. Also have instagram @llWishfulShrinkingll I am going to be using it for weight loss motivation and updates. So follow4follow.

Jinx_Mo

ninthnarnian wrote: »

Super stressful week physically and emotionally (Family stress /sudden loss of pet /yard sale/ilness)- and going back through my diary I noticed a big victory.

Not one day this week did I go over calories!

It was hard with all the stress but I made it somehow.

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. My pets are my babies! And super-dooper congrats on your goal!!! That is not just a success but STUNNING success with all you had on your plate. Keep it up!

Jinx_Mo

@marsha6570 My hats off to you for having already done so much. I won't be whining about having to lose 100 lbs. Girl, you've done twice what I am trying to do and you're dedicated to do it again!! You ROCK!

Jinx_Mo

Welcome bcedI1982! None of us can do this alone, so hop aboard!

bcedl1982

MischelM wrote: »

Welcome bcedI1982! None of us can do this alone, so hop aboard!

Thank you MischelM and other MFP members! I appreciate the words of encouragement and the friend requests!

shirayne

Welcome to so many new peeps! We're happy to have you! You are not alone in this fight for health! When I started this thread I never thought I'd find so many supportive people! You have certainly come to the right place because there are some pretty wonderful people here ready to encourage and be encouraged!

If you haven't already added me and I haven't added you, please do so! The more friends I have the better!

@MischelM: A quick thank you for your energy and positive vibes!

Jinx_Mo

shirayne wrote: »

@MischelM: A quick thank you for your energy and positive vibes!

Thanks! I'm sure I won't always be the beaming ray of sunshine, but I am just riding on a cloud of "you go, girl!" ever since I decided to take this journey. I just feel really good about my decision, really positive.

Hippychick5983

Welcome to all the wonderful new people!! If you are looking for support / motivation you have come to the right place! Feel free to add me if you like!


Last week I kind of let my exercise fall off a bit. I went out and walked more since it got nicer but I need to get back into working on my arms and stuff. So this week I am going to try and alternate between cardio and weights.

What are some goals for everyone else this week?

3uttercup

I'm also in the same predicament. I'm 5'1, 250 lbs. I kinda resemble a marshmallow. I need all the help and friends I can get. I'm new here and I can't even seem to get started on a healthy diet. I need to lose about 130 lbs. And I have to have surgery on my foot which will put a cog in ANY normal exercise routine. I'd really appreciate help if you can spare it.

Hippychick5983

Hi @3cuttercup and welcome!

It can be hard to start eating right. The best thing you can do is get a food scale and measure your food whenever possible. Also start out with small changes. Cut back our cut out soda. Replace desert at night with fruit or yogurt. Use smaller plates at dinner to trick your mind. Fill half that plate with veggies instead of carbs. Small changes will add up to big changes before you know it.

Also there are some great videos for chair / seated exercises for after your surgery! Check this one out

https://youtube.com/watch?v=86QRDjbrbdk

3uttercup

Thank you so much for your advice.

melkithall

Hey all, I'd like to join this thread! I have oodles to lose, and for the umpteenth time! Every time I'm doing well and succeeding, I get knocked off track. I don't want that to happen this time. I've lost 20lbs and been working more physical activity into my routine. I'm glad to be involved is such an uplifting source of encouragement.
I just recently (like 3 days ago) decided to cut out my soda addiction. It has been so hard. The headaches and crankiness are awful. My poor family has taken the brunt of it. Even now, I would gladly reach for my Mt.Dew if I had any available. Anyone have any tips on how to get through the withdrawals??
Thanks

treas18bailey

Hi everyone, I would love to join this group I have read through and you are all so supportive and encouraging and i need friends like that here, I need to loose another 80lbs, i lost about 60lbs 4 years ago and just got to ONEderland and immediately started gaining it back. I now want to loose the weight more than ever with a 13 month old little girl i want to be healthy and able to keep up with her and teach her to be healthy and active so she doesnt have to struggle like i have most of my life.

I have been using mfp since February and had made some progress, but the past week has been terrible and full of self sabotage, i actually think in the past week i may have nullified all the work i did up till now-crazy how fast it comes back on!!

Anyway i would love some positive and supportive friends to encourage and support each other through this journey to healthiness. Please anyone feel free to add me as a friend

rainandwood93

I´m also looking to get some new friends in this thread! 21 5 foot 7 or 8 (depending on which nurse you ask at student health...) on a journey from258 to 135ish, and about 30 pounds down. I log regularly but I have an ankle issue from an injury in October that is keeping me from doing what I really want to pursue, which would be getting super amazingly fit through running and heavy lifting. I´m on every day and I would love to find friends that are similarly motivated to provide support I am also studying abroad in Argentina at the moment so I have a pretty interesting diary haha!

shirayne

WOW! Look at all these new friends! Welcome to all of you! We lots of support to offer and some great tips and tricks and we'd love to hear from you as well!

@Hippychick: Thanks for sharing that link for seated exercises!

@3uttercup: I support the advice of making small changes. It's the little things that add to become big things!

3uttercup

Yooooo hoooooo! I'm in need of some fluffy, or once fluffy friends. People that know how depressing this crap can be. People that understand the struggle. The ones that know what its like to try to always keep your jiggles from jiggling. So please please add me, before I succumb to the doughnut that keeps calling my name. (I've named him Charlie) I stabbed him with a fork, but he's still taunting me. ITake it from me, its no fun being bullied by a doughnut!

melkithall

@3uttercup go clean out a closet! That's what I did this afternoon when my kids' Easter candy was starting to call out to me! It worked to, closet is clean and I didn't give in. Good luck

Jinx_Mo

Welcome everyone! Wow, lots of new folks to make the cheering louder! @uttercup doughnuts can be incredibly pushy, kick that thing into the trash where it can't leap out at you, girl!! Seriously though, the advice to make small changes is the best in the world. Make a small promise to yourself, and when you succeed at it (i.e. - no soda for a week) look yourself in the mirror and say, "I have proven to myself I can do this, and I CAN DO THIS!" then move on to the next little change. They truly DO add up and fast! Make every promise to yourself as important to keep as it would be if you made it to your husband/wife/child, because YOU are the most important person in your world. Without you there would be no "your world". Ok, off my soapbox!! Again, welcome to everyone who has joined. Add me, I just love making friends Oh, and that video is great, @Hippychick

Jinx_Mo

melkithall wrote: »

I just recently (like 3 days ago) decided to cut out my soda addiction. It has been so hard. The headaches and crankiness are awful. My poor family has taken the brunt of it. Even now, I would gladly reach for my Mt.Dew if I had any available. Anyone have any tips on how to get through the withdrawals??
Thanks

I don't know if it will work for you the way it did for me, but lemon in my water REALLY seemed to help ease some of the withdrawals from my SERIOUS coke addiction. And here's the great thing, I just gave it up like 3 weeks ago, gave myself the gift of a 10oz. coke this weekend and got THE WORST stomach ache from it. Now I don't crave it at all!

Jinx_Mo

This is a little off-topic, but is anyone scrapbooking or journaling their weigh loss journey? I just found some really great ideas for this and so I started a journal (the paper kind). One of the things that surprised me was how quickly I found not only goals and rewards for pounds loss, but goals I want to meet that focus more on activities and things I've wished for. Like wearing knee high boots that don't squeeze the blood clean out of my calves, buying jeans in a "regular" size store, and tucking in my shirt without a muffin top! lol It's been fun so far. I've also ordered 100 color beads (large ones, like 1/2 in diameter) and two jars. I'm going to move a bead from a jar that says "Pounds to lose" into a jar that says "Pounds lost" every time I lose a pound. It's neat the ideas I found that I think will act as little successes that happen more often and give me visual cues about how well I'm doing. Oh, I also threw a long sheet of painters paper on the wall in my office/make-up station/work out room and I've started writing inspiring quotes and messages on it. Anyway, just wanted to share and hear what other people are doing to keep their inspiration and motivation up.

ninthnarnian

@mischelem
Great Ideas- I think I will start bead jars for myself and my husband. He has been logging everyday also- but I haven't been able to convince him to try the forums yet.

Jinx_Mo

I put a picture of the bead jars under my profile along with the quotes I am printing in color this week and sticking on my motivational wall... some of them just really tickled me so I thought I'd share

want2behappy31

I haven't checked in for a few days so I need to catch up on the comments. I looked for this post on Friday and couldn't find it. Anyway dr. apt showed that I was down 6 pounds from when they saw me in Nov. which is good. I'm down a total of 14 overall. I've been working on getting moving and exercising more. Saturday I was RUNNING with my kids playing tag. I will say that I haven't ran in years like that. It was for over an hour.. Well I lost my wedding ring in the process :-(

Hippychick5983

Glad everyone liked the video! I started to use it because my knees are bothering me a bit. They are not used to all the exercise so I am trying to ease them back into it!

@MischelM I love the bead in jars idea!! Such a colorful fun way to keep track of the journey!

@melkithall For beating back the withdrawal of soada (aka the Caffeine) drink lots of water. As @MischelM said adding lemon helps with the taste. This link as a bunch of ideas to add different healthy things or ways to make your water taste yummy.

shape.com/healthy-eating/healthy-drinks/20-tips-make-drinking-water-taste-better/slide/6

Also try going for walks. Adding in activity will help ease the Symptoms and since it is getting nicer out ( I hope is it by you anyway) walking is a great way to get it in. Plus...exercise!

jambodesign

Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum. I am 43 and I need to loose 165 lbs. I have lost 13.5 pounds in the past 4 weeks. My goal right now is just to stay under the calories each day. I still eat what I like just less of it. I am also walking a few times a week, about 45 min on the treadmill at a speed of 2.5.

SanCan2602

Good Morning, Everyone! I'd love to join this group! I have been on MFP for several years but feel like I am losing the battle against my food addiction. Last year, I lost nearly fifty pounds but the holiday season got the best of me and I gained almost half of it back. I am finally back on track and am working hard to meet my goal weight of 335 by May 1st. Ultimately, I have another 170 lbs. to go. We just booked our summer vacation in August and my biggest fear is that I won't be able to fit the seat on the airplane. I could use all the support, motivation, and words of wisdom I can get (and am more than happy to provided the same in return). Wishing everyone great success on their individual journeys. Please feel free to add me.