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MarlaVSings

Hello all,

I'm new to this board as a member but have been lurking for the last 2-3 months. I have tried many different programs to lose weight, I have been on Weight Watchers more times than I care to count at this point. I lost 55lbs the first time I started WW but regained it and have not been successful on it since (must have quit and re-joined about 10 times). As far as my battles with weight, up to my mid-twenties I was very normal sized gal, not skinny but not fat either. I worked a physical job and never had a problem losing 10-15 pounds if I have put it on. Then I started nursing school and quit my very physical job and went straight to a sedentary lifestyle of a student filled with stress eating, busy schedules, and using that as an excuse not to exercise. By graduation, I had blown up to more than I had ever weighed in my life and felt extremely unhealthy.

A couple years into my nursing career I decided it was time to start focusing on myself again and hired a personal trainer, who I would see 2-3x/week for 3 months and was very successful in losing weight and getting fit. I lost 45lbs and was in the best shape I had ever been in my life - first time I had ever seen muscles on myself.

Then personal circumstances hit me, I was to be laid off my job, but was offered an alternative position that was a far commute from my home and was a desk job. I had to make many quick adjustments to my life and due to stress I put my health and exercise on the back burner. I picked up old habits and had gained back all the weight I had lost.

In the last few months I had tried a few eating plans and was also a member of a crossfit gym. Nothing has helped. I even resorted to trying 2 different weight loss pills but stopped very quickly because I knew they were both just a quick fix. I don't want quick fixes - I want to do this the same way I did it the first time - diet, exercise, discipline, and patience. As tough of a blow as it is to the ego, I still feel the desire to keep trying until I succeed, but I cannot seem to find the same level of discipline I used to have. It's very hard starting over again... to remember how healthy and happy I was with the way I looked and now to see myself back to my unhealthy ways, but I am going to keep trying. I hope to meet people on the same boat as myself, to continue to feel inspired by the success of some of the people I have seen on this site, and to find the motivation and discipline I know I am capable of.

tottie06

Hello all,

I'm new to this board as a member but have been lurking for the last 2-3 months. I have tried many different programs to lose weight, I have been on Weight Watchers more times than I care to count at this point. I lost 55lbs the first time I started WW but regained it and have not been successful on it since (must have quit and re-joined about 10 times). As far as my battles with weight, up to my mid-twenties I was very normal sized gal, not skinny but not fat either. I worked a physical job and never had a problem losing 10-15 pounds if I have put it on. Then I started nursing school and quit my very physical job and went straight to a sedentary lifestyle of a student filled with stress eating, busy schedules, and using that as an excuse not to exercise. By graduation, I had blown up to more than I had ever weighed in my life and felt extremely unhealthy.

A couple years into my nursing career I decided it was time to start focusing on myself again and hired a personal trainer, who I would see 2-3x/week for 3 months and was very successful in losing weight and getting fit. I lost 45lbs and was in the best shape I had ever been in my life - first time I had ever seen muscles on myself.

Then personal circumstances hit me, I was to be laid off my job, but was offered an alternative position that was a far commute from my home and was a desk job. I had to make many quick adjustments to my life and due to stress I put my health and exercise on the back burner. I picked up old habits and had gained back all the weight I had lost.

In the last few months I had tried a few eating plans and was also a member of a crossfit gym. Nothing has helped. I even resorted to trying 2 different weight loss pills but stopped very quickly because I knew they were both just a quick fix. I don't want quick fixes - I want to do this the same way I did it the first time - diet, exercise, discipline, and patience. As tough of a blow as it is to the ego, I still feel the desire to keep trying until I succeed, but I cannot seem to find the same level of discipline I used to have. It's very hard starting over again... to remember how healthy and happy I was with the way I looked and now to see myself back to my unhealthy ways, but I am going to keep trying. I hope to meet people on the same boat as myself, to continue to feel inspired by the success of some of the people I have seen on this site, and to find the motivation and discipline I know I am capable of.

Request sent!! I am active here and love the results I am getting, along with the new habits I am forming. Anyone can add me!

miss_glamorous

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