How I Did NOT Lose 98 pounds

anneerick

Thank you for posting. A very refreshing and reenergizing post. Congrats, you look wonderful. :flowerforyou:

Susan_Rae_1

This got me the most... "From Day One, my goal has been to not gain the weight back. I've yo-yo'd all my life and I just didn't want to go through all this effort to gain all the weight back yet again. "

casnic25

I love your post. Congrats on your amazing job! You look wonderful.

pkw58

Excellent post, inspirational to me... I don't want to regain what I lost this time around.. My goal that on August 14, 2013, I can say the same!

midcoast_mommy

This is a great post. Thank you for this!

TaraFTMVA

great job! Ty! Way to mainatin you look great! Thats the hardest part!

gaylynn35

Congratulations, you look amazing!! Nice to hear your story of how to be happy at whatever weight you are. Keep up the good work!

jakidb

You look GREAT!

michelleshere

What a wonderful inspiration you are! I love your way of focusing on the now, being positive in the present and enjoying life everyday. I hope I can employ your methods and see the joy in eating correctly, exercising for my mind and loving who I am now, not who I was or will be. xxoo

SairahRose

4. Dream about how happy I'd be when I reached my goal weight.

It's weird but you have to learn how to be happy. Just being at your goal weight doesn't automatically make you feel happy - at least not for long. The compliments stop, the thrill of losing weight stops, the ordinary trials and tribulations of life continue and sooner or later something goes wrong in your life. If you haven't learned how to be happy through all those, then you won't be. This time, I focused on being happy at whatever weight I was because I focused on enjoying my food, enjoying my exercise and enjoying how I looked and felt each and every day. Now I have the habit of being happy and I know how to get through the lows of life.

To sum it all up, my motto is: Work on Today, Let Tomorrow Worry About Itself.

This.. This is the most important thing I had to realise on my second go round. If I wasn't happy now, then I'll never be happy no matter what weight I am.

Congrats loads on your journey! You've done so well, and it's a brilliant inspiration

bamadwl

Great story! Congratulations and thanks for sharing from your personal experience.

debobrien1

Awesome words of wisdom! Thanks for sharing!!

dobielover1

The part about not setting small weight loss goals is so true for me...in the past, I have gotten frustrated many times and stopped working at it because I didn't his a magic number by a magic date.

skulcherry

You are so right on every point and your 1 year of keeping the weight off just proves your points. Loosing weight isn't just a number on the scale it is a change of mind. The mental state has to change along with the physical or you will just gain the weight back. Many times you even gain more because you feel like a failure and eat that much more.

I have learned that while loosing weight you have to learn to love and be happy with who you are. Be proud of each accomplishment no matter how small you think it is. It could be anything from passing on desert to taking the stairs instead of the elevator. These seam small but if you make these types of decisions every day you will be creating habits that are going to change you both mentally and physically.

Mountains are easier to climb one step at a time!

Akimajuktuq

To the OP: thank you for that!

I opened your post thinking I was going to see a bunch of "don't eat this" advice, that usually goes against what works for me. Surprise, you gave awesome advice that is applicable to EVERYONE. I think I need to copy your words and paste them on my bathroom mirror. I've driven myself into being fat with unhappiness and poor self-esteem. You've given me more motivation to not worry about the weight and try to like myself a little more right NOW.

FitPhysique

Woow thank you. I never looked at it from that perspective. Thank you :drinker:

Awesome journey. Congrats!!!!

raeleek

Congratulations on your loss! Great post!!!!!

needamulligan

You are SO right! As a fellow serial yo-yo dieter, I think that all of my previous weight loss attempts were framed by your excellent points! ...not anymore!

Congrats on your success! Here's to your final weight loss success and here's to today!

montana_girl

As someone who has also lost "a lot" weight, I couldn't agree more! Especially with #1.

Great post... and you look awesome! Congrats on keeping the weight off... that in itself is a huge accomplishment! :drinker:

hillbillyannie

Don't take this the wrong way but you look like mother and daughter in these pictures. It amazes me how when we lose weight we usually look alot younger and definitely more happy. Most people look so sad in their before pictures. Congratulations! I know I'm much happier at 100 pounds lighter now.