Fat Girl in Denial & Don't Know Where to Start!

Hello there! When ordering fast food, look at their healthier choices. I am always on the run and have been able to lose 22 lbs since September by just ordering healthier food and working out at least 30 mins a day. After you start seeing results your motivation kicks in full swing. At least it did for me. I work out at least 1 hour a day now and I love it!

the easiest thing to do is to cook more at home. by doing that you control the amounts of salts and sugars and whatever else you are eating

You're in the right place to start. Try to cut out things like fast food and soda, even if it's baby steps. Also, this thread was pretty helpful for me. Check it out.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

Feel free to add me if you like as well.

Ditto!

And join those groups:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/3834-eat-more-to-weigh-less
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/8017-in-place-of-a-road-map

I eat fast food too. It has helped a lot to have this site to track calories. Even healthy options of restaurant or fast food a lot of times have way more calories than you'd think they would.
Track your calories for a few days, and find out how much you're actually eating and then go from there.

Hi Mini, yes as the other post had said, start with baby steps, better food, smaller rationings. You can start slow, just do a little less every day. Movement and exercise is the key. Try to do more every day, you'll begin to see results. It's healthier to lose weight slower and steady to keep it off. Good luck.

Thanks for the tips so far you guys! This is so helpful.

tips are good and all but you will only find success when you take a little advice from here and a little advice from there put it together for what works for you and carry out the plan towards your goals. the hardest part is getting started.



on another note i like my women in your weight class but that is just my preference

Use this site! Log every morsel that enters your mouth. Know what goes in. Acknowledge it.
That's the first step.
For me, that was enough to open my eyes. I realized that I was eating thousands of calories more than I should and I just started by eating LESS of the same foods I usually ate. Then eventually I wanted to eat better... but that honestly came later.
The resources are out there if and when you want to change things up, but just realizing what you're doing now is a huge start. Good luck! If you have a smartphone, you can use the app and scan food barcodes. It's really easy and kind of fun.

You'll find loads of opinions around here about what to eat. I think most people agree veggies are good for you so I give you this:
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/pdf/CDC_5-A-Day.pdf

Don't overcomplicate things. Start out getting your calorie intake down to where it should be. Don't worry about working out if you don't want to do... start first with the basics - calories in. Once you have that down, then move on to the rest.

^ABSOLUTELY

Thank you all! What are some good sites to look for exercises?

Wow. There's quite a few, actually.

I like to point people in this direction: www.bodybuilding.com

They have a whole slew of exercise programs, with videos of how to do all the exercises. In addition, you can look at making your own program, looking at all the exercises. If you don't have money for or access to a gym and/or equipment, they have a bunch of bodyweight exercises you can do that don't cost anything. They also have some that use resistance bands, which are better than nothing and aren't that expensive.

Of course, if you can afford it - a gym membership and at least one time with one of the trainers there is, IMO, the best.

I had a few regrets so these are my timbits of advice:

mfp well guestimate how much you'll need to eat. Don't assume it's dead on accurate, it is not at all. It's not the number that you have to eat to lose weight, you can eat much more then that and still lose weight. It recommended 1200 calories to me and I lost at 1700+exercise cals. If your over weight, the higher your metabolism is, believe it or not. And don't dramatically try to cut calories to begin with if you're likely to fail with a unsustainable amount of food. Don't drastically cut calories if you don't need to. It's harder to stick to and impossible to get in all your proper nutrition while getting enough fat in you to absorb the nutrients. There's no need to feel starved through this.

Eat protein, the mfp recommendations are very low.

Exercise. Regularly. That's something I didn't do until I got to my goal and still felt squishy. You are likely to look a ton better at a heavier weight if you exercise and strength train. The weight you will have on will be muscle and energy...as oppose to squishyness. No need to go by the bmi when you're to fit to qualify for it (BMI's only recommended for sedentary individuals).

Also, exercising to an excessive level, while it pushes your body and endurance levels, doesn't really help weight loss. In fact you're likely to retain water since you will need a lot of energy to repair your muscles and on a calorie deficit that can be rough. No need to exercise for 2 hours of huffy sweat pooring every day. Though I do recommend moving regularly, and occasional several times a week sweat pouring. Though the reality is you don't need exercise to lose weight, you'll just look a heck of a lot better and you'll look better quicker if you do.

Also I know some people who look absolutely incredible at 150 with abs included, and you're not very far away if you go about it the right way.