On a Mission!!!

45lbs in 8 months! That's outsanding!!

Okayyy, I think I've found my mentor!! *hands off everyone!* :laugh: :laugh:

Apart from your excericse which was dancing and walking (right?) did you follow any workout videos? And, what was your eating plan like?

Sorry about the question overload :bigsmile:

:laugh: :laugh: I LOVED the "hands off everyone" line! :laugh: Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. Usually I'm on here all the time, but had a bit of a crisis yesturday afternoon and had to deal with that, so I never got back on till now. (My next door neighbor, and older widow, slipped in her driveway and my husband and I had to take her to the hospital. We were there a LONG time, but, finally got to bring her home. She's got 7 stitches in her head, lots of bruising on her face, and a badly broken wrist.) She's tough though, so she'll be ok, I'll just keep checking up on her!
I never did any work out videos. Just my dancing to my oldies, jogging with the Wii, and walking in the good weather, which I don't think is EVER going to come again! :grumble: :noway: :laugh:
As far as an eating plan goes, I pretty much ate mostly the same things, day in, day out. To most, that might sound boring and awful, but, to me, it meant being in control, and eating stuff that I liked that was FILLING too! So for breakfast most mornings, I eat the 1 minute cooking Quaker Oats oatmeal, and I put frozen blueberries in it. It REALLY fills me up, for hours and hours! :happy: I TRIED to eat salads for lunches, but I'm not a real salad lover, and salads to me mean "dieting", which is a swear to me! :laugh: (Whenever I hear the word diet, I cringe, always have, always will! The reason MFP has worked for me is that they told me that it was a "lifestyle change", and it really is! When I first heard that, I thought "YA, SURE it is!". But then I kept plugging away, and I discovered that it IS!) Dieting to me means being deprived of all the "good stuff" out there. But with MFP, I learned that I CAN
Don't know what happened, there I was, typing away, and all of a sudden it posted!
Anyway, as I was saying, I hated being deprived, and that's why diets didn't work. But I did have stuff with MFP, I just learned to "work for what I wanted" through exercise to up my numbers, and better food choices MOST of the time!
So now, on to lunches. Mostly for lunch during the work week, I have 2 pieces of light oatmeal bread, which is 35 cals. each, with a light layer of mayo, and sliced chicken. (I buy the day old whole chickens they sell at the deli.) I also have Lays Light chips, which are between 70 and 80 calories for like 20 chips. It's filling, and I don't feel like I'm "dieting"!
I eat an orange or an apple, and also a Quaker Oats variety pack 90 calorie bar for snacks.
For supper I usually have some sort of meat and potatoes or rice. Just normal suppers for the most part, but I try to watch my portion size. I also use I can't believe it's not butter spray, which to me tastes just great! And then I try to have enough numbers left to have a snack later on. I am SUCH an icecream lover, and I was sooooooo thrilled when I discovered Edy's slow churned, no sugar added cookie dough icecream. I can't tell it from the "real thing"!
On the weekends I sometimes have Smart Balance peanut butter with a little jam on a piece of my 35 calorie bread. I also like to have air popped popping corn with the I can't believe it's not butter spray.
So there you have it, that's pretty much my usual meals, except when I occasionally splurge and have some "good stuff"! (and once in awhile I'm REALLY, REALLY bad! Especially between Thanksgiving and Christmas! I gained 5 pounds, but, last week I lost 2 of it, and I'm hoping I'll have lost more when I weigh in on "Fat Tuessay" as I call it! )
The main thing for you to do is to find out what fills you up, but is ok for you number wise, get some exercise, and drink lots of water, and you'll be a "loser" too.