Trying to do this to last

Fochizzy

So my freshman year of college I was 145lbs and 5'9" I am now 205ish pounds. Never really sure how I gained the weight but I don't like it. I know that 145lbs was super skinny for me (you could see my hip bone). But it was easy, I ate whatever I wanted and didn't gain weight back then. I have been going to the gym pretty well for the last 5 months averaging 3-4 times a week with a few bad weeks here and there. I have not really lost any weights, not surprising since weight-loss involves checking your diet. So now to the calorie counting. I got engaged last week YAY! ^_^ I am hoping to wear my Grandmother's wedding dress for which I need to be a size 12, last time I was a size 12 I was 160lbs. Therefore here is the goal. I have a year to do this, it is a two year engagement and in 1 year if I have not lost the weight I need to take my measurements and have my Daddy start sewing me a wedding dress since it will take him a year (yes my Daddy sews :-D). Now to the reasonable part, everytime I really tried to lose weight I botched it up. I think it was because I was trying to lose too much too fast. So instead of 2lbs a week I am going for 1lb. My fiance is going to help me pay for a Personal Trainer to try and bump it up to 4-5 times exercising a week. I am goaling a net of 1600. which means on days I work out I get 2100 to eat. Once again should be reasonable. Even if it is less satisfying, it is possible 52 weeks in a year 45lbs to lose. I am trying to be real about this. Anybody else doing something different this time around?

FaugHorn

I gained weight after my wedding (fast) and needed to backtrack and keep it in check before it got out of hand. My metabolish has certainly changed from when I was in college and could eat anything I wanted to! Course over a decade will do that...

Fochizzy

Lol, yeah hopefully I will not gain weight after the wedding. I hope to look my best at my wedding and look better throughout our marriage than I did when he fell for me

milaxx

So my freshman year of college I was 145lbs and 5'9" I am now 205ish pounds. Never really sure how I gained the weight but I don't like it. I know that 145lbs was super skinny for me (you could see my hip bone). But it was easy, I ate whatever I wanted and didn't gain weight back then. I have been going to the gym pretty well for the last 5 months averaging 3-4 times a week with a few bad weeks here and there. I have not really lost any weights, not surprising since weight-loss involves checking your diet. So now to the calorie counting. I got engaged last week YAY! ^_^ I am hoping to wear my Grandmother's wedding dress for which I need to be a size 12, last time I was a size 12 I was 160lbs. Therefore here is the goal. I have a year to do this, it is a two year engagement and in 1 year if I have not lost the weight I need to take my measurements and have my Daddy start sewing me a wedding dress since it will take him a year (yes my Daddy sews :-D). Now to the reasonable part, everytime I really tried to lose weight I botched it up. I think it was because I was trying to lose too much too fast. So instead of 2lbs a week I am going for 1lb. My fiance is going to help me pay for a Personal Trainer to try and bump it up to 4-5 times exercising a week. I am goaling a net of 1600. which means on days I work out I get 2100 to eat. Once again should be reasonable. Even if it is less satisfying, it is possible 52 weeks in a year 45lbs to lose. I am trying to be real about this. Anybody else doing something different this time around?

I am . I went back to eating how I was raised. When I was a kid we ate food. mac n cheese was made with noodles, eggs & cheese (3 kinds!) and never came out of a blue box. Cakes were made from scratch Even the biscuits we had on Sunday breakfast we made from scratch. I wasn't allowed soda and juice was for breakfast or maybe lunch. We didn't drink kool-aid and to this day I still have never had a HUG drink. So when I decided to get healthy i talked to a naturalpath. She recommend cutting out refined sugars and flours. She also suggested I cut out or limit gluten and dairy.I limit soy because I am a cancer survivor and just want to be cause with processed soy. I guess for me eating clean is pretty easy because of that. I hope to eat the way I am eating now for the rest of my life.

kfitz10103

Its kind of bizarre how alike we are. I am 5'9" and I was 253 at my highest. I was down to 148 in high school, but I was borderline anorexic. I would go look at myself in the mirror if I thought I was hungry and would convince myself I shouldn't eat. I sure looked goo though. I lost about 40lbs right before my wedding thru the Atkins diet and got down to 178. I then gained it all back within maybe 2 years. This time i am doing the low cal thing. I do not even look at the fat, just the calories, protein and fiber. I am with you on the wedding dress. I used to ask my husband if we could renew our vows and he said only if I could get back into my wedding dress. (I'll admit I spent a small fortune on it and he agreed to foot the whole bill if I could recycle it.) I say stick with the low cal and exercise and watch the weight go. I am sure you can do it b/c you sound really motivated. Congrats on your engagement!

Fochizzy

It's great that your family had such a good diet. My family did not really. We did not eat atrociously just not fabulously. I was NOT a fast food family, but we were all super picky eaters but try as they might my folks couldn't get us to fix it. I was a vegetarian till I was 15 because I simply hated meat. Clean eating definately has its perks but my route is closer to @kfitz10103, if what I am eating is in my calories is pretty much ok, PROVIDED I get enough protein, fiber and no/very little trans fat. Processed food I definately do, frozen lunches are my bff.