40lbs since June 2!

tifanietiberio

As of this morning, I am down 40lbs since June 2, 2011. I am beyond excited. I would probably like to lose about 50-60 more. If I can lose 20 more by my birthday in October, I will be over the moon.

My doctor is like BEYOND excited. He said if it were a test, I would get an A+

I just added before and after pics to my profile if you want to take a look. It's nothing exciting, just the worst I ever been to this morning.

I want to thank everyone on MFP for the encouragement and support- it means a lot to have a place to vent and cheer each other on!

corierose1212

wowo great job and nice looking puppy too..

geoblue

What a great job! You are doing something right, can you share your plan?

EdensMummy

Wow, that's amazing! How have you been able to lose all that weight so fast?

Keep up the good work!

PanteraGirl

Thats fantastic!!!! Whats your secret Keep up the great work!!!!

mrmanmeat

Congrats.

Don't get discouraged if the weight doesn't come off as fast in the future weeks. Just gotta keep going on

theprettyone1010

congratulations! that's awesome!

tifanietiberio

My secret is really that I decided I was sick to death of being miserable about the way I looked and felt all the time and I made some really drastic changes.

I had been laid off for over a year and I gained a lot of weight and was eating just ridiculous amounts of food, so I think it is coming off really fast bc I was SO terrible prior.

The first 15lbs came off super quick, and once I saw some success- I got really into it. It was about 2 weeks after I started limiting my food that I found MFP and that changed everything. It made me very aware of what I was eating and I felt like I could trust it to have almost anything in the database, so that left guess work out for me.

Once I realized that all of the other stuff was just noise that had distracted me my whole adult life with dieting- no-carbs diets, fad diets, crazy exercise regimens( the things that never worked), I was able to realize the basic science of weight loss- I had to take in less than I burned. Bottom line. I got the BMR from this site, set my daily calorie limit to 1,200 and went from there.

I eat about 1,000 calories a day (I know I should be eating 1,200- but I just eat when I am hungry and a lot of times I don't make it over 1,000) and very low fat, low carb. Most days I do a luna bar or special k bar in the morning, a lean cuisine for lunch, a lean pocket for dinner with the occassional skinny cow ice cream or candy when needed. I know it isn't the healthiest plan in the world, but I take a bunch of vitamins to make-up for the lack of veggies.

Once I getted adjusted to my work schedule and it isn't 15 million degrees outside every day, I will start working out again and obviously adjust my calories accordingly.

Also,I got an amazing job 3 weeks ago, so I think the added burning of calories from walking around the office helps.

I know that the weight loss will eventually slow and that's when I will need to get into more fresh veggies and less frozen, pre-packaged meals. But for right now, for me, this works and I really don't want for anything more. Which is a big deal bc I thought I would never be able to not eat fried foods or pastry.

That's really all I have to report. Thank you all for being the best cheering squad!

tifanietiberio

I am going to try to get the before and after in here:

The first pic is just ridiculous on so many levels, the second is from this morning!


beforeafter by tifanietiberio, on Flickr

danalyn918

You have just given me the BOOST I needed to do this thing and do it right! Congrats and thank you!

srk143

wow...well done......its a dream loss...keep up the good work..hope the rest falls of this easily