How I Did NOT Lose 98 pounds
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Thank you for posting. A very refreshing and reenergizing post. Congrats, you look wonderful. :flowerforyou:0
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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. "0
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I love your post. Congrats on your amazing job! You look wonderful.0
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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!0
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This is a great post. Thank you for this!0
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great job! Ty! Way to mainatin you look great! Thats the hardest part!0
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Congratulations, you look amazing!! Nice to hear your story of how to be happy at whatever weight you are. Keep up the good work!0
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You look GREAT!0
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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. xxoo0
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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 inspiration0 -
Great story! Congratulations and thanks for sharing from your personal experience.0
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Awesome words of wisdom! Thanks for sharing!!0
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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.0
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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!0 -
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.0 -
Woow thank you. I never looked at it from that perspective. Thank you :drinker:
Awesome journey. Congrats!!!!0 -
Congratulations on your loss! Great post!!!!!0
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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!0 -
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:0 -
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.0
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AMAZING!!!! And truly inspiring. Congrats on all of your success0
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Awesome post! Great advice, thanks for sharing! And congrats on your progress!!0
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Great job, congrats on your lifestyle change0
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WOW!! Great job and VERY inspirational! Thank you for the advice!0
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bumpity bump to read later0
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Your success shines through your smile!! Congrats0
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freaking awesome and those are the things i do right now. set mini goals and everything so great things to share with people who doesnt know.0
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The Don't(s)1. Lose weight quickly.
The stress of restricting eating, exercising like crazy and worrying about my weight would be too much to bear long-term. Something always happened and I'd ease off, gain weight and give up.
2. Set short term weight goals.
Inevitably I'd miss them and then feel like I was failing. Probably it was just my natural weight fluctuation. But regularly feeling like I was failing left me, at the end, not feeling like the success I was. Without feeling like a success, I had no self-confidence about dealing with the natural difficulties of life and I would start over-eating again.
3. Focus on how much weight I'd lost.
All that did was keep reinforcing my self-image as a fat person. I was a fat person who'd lost weight. This time, I focused on how much I weighed and how good I looked. I threw away my larger clothing and bought new stuff all along the way and really worked at feeling happy with how I looked and felt. I refuse to answer questions about how much I've lost - I just say "a lot."
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.
Each point is so right on!! I am really bad about 2 and 3. I also am bad about focusing too much on how much I STILL have to lose, which again keeps me feeling and treating myself as that unworthy fat person - no matter what the other successes I've had.
Thank you so much for the great post, and incredible inspiration.0 -
Thanks for taking the time to share... and for the links! Your insights are invaluable to me, as I am again starting the journey. Great work!0
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Wow...you did amazing and should be so proud! Thanks for sharing your story!!!0
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