I am new- and this aint gonna be easy!

I'm right there with you. Working out is not my thing and it just makes me wanna run outside to smoke within 5 minutes. But I push through and do it regardless.

Just take everything one step at a time. I'd still do what you're doing at first, but try to fit the pop and butter and other goodies within your calorie goal. The less of those things you eat the more real food you will get to eat and you will start seeing that as a positive. I'd try to quit smoking if you wanted to after you make some successful changes to other aspects of your life cuz if you do that cold turkey now you will go crazy Good luck!!

I smoke, working out makes me mean, I like pop and butter on everything- I have 91 pounds to lose and I'm looking for some weight loss 'buddies'. Wish me luck everybody.

do you smoke the fun stuff or the cancer stuff?

I smoke, working out makes me mean, I like pop and butter on everything- I have 91 pounds to lose and I'm looking for some weight loss 'buddies'. Wish me luck everybody.

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be careful on this website you will find a lot of mentally ill and extremely insecure people and anytime you feel good about yourself they will try to knock you down. it's annoying. I think of them like the chubby little mushrooms in Mario, and just keep it movin. As for the rest of us we are cool. Smoking is going to get in your way when you try to lose weight. It's hard to exercise when you don't have any lung capacity. I smoked for 20 years. Took me 18 days to quit.

50% of the battle is honestly logging your food. If you will log everything you eat, even if you blow your calories every day, you will at least be aware of the choices you are making. Eventually, you will make better choices- when you are ready to, and it will seem like less of a chore. Also, I would make sure you have your goals set to 1 pound a week. I tried for a year to lose 2 pounds a week, and it is just too much added stress and food guilt. Also, if I were you, I wouldn't even worry about exercising right now. You can't out train a bad diet, and weight loss is 80% diet. Get one figured out and then just try to move more. Walk around the mall, park further away, etc. Getting 10,000 steps a day makes a huge difference.

Keep your head moving in a forward direction. Being stubborn will help if you use it in a positive. Hang in there. It just 92#. You can do it! Loose the pop and soda and the weight will come right off!!!

Lol, thanks for the troll warning (I know they lurk everywhere) 18 days to quit? did you do it cold turkey?

I smoked for 15 years. Tried a few times to quit and failed horribly. One day five years ago I said enough was enough. Used the patch for a month and had a supply of twizzlers and dum dum suckers with me at all times. I will tell you quitting the smokes was MUCH easier than losing weight...

You got a friend in me.

I enlisted in the Army when I was smoker; talk about mean! Thankfully, I quit about 7 years ago. You can add me if you would like!

I smoked up until January 2011. Quitting was one of the hardest things I have ever done. Losing weight and keeping it off is definitely right up there on the challenging list but I have done a few things that has made it feel different this time around. First off, I've proven time and time again that I can lose 20 lbs on some fad diet or by being super strict but I also proved just as quickly that I could put it, plus a few more, right back on as soon as I stopped the fad. Secondly, I used to always start the newest fad on a Monday and never worked out. Well, for me,I decided that if I was truly dedicated to change then I need to do it all the way around.
I started using the My Fitness Pal ( love it) on a wednesday instead of a monday and I log everything....and I mean everything. Not putting it down doesn't mean I didn't eat it. If I happen to go over one day then I learn to make better choices. I joined Planet Fitness on a Wednesday and after the two weeks it took for me to gear myself up to actually go, I have been 100% dedicated since early November. I started slow and set small goals and I am seeing slow but steady success. My only advice is that if you are truly committed to change then you will be successful. Eat what you want within your calories and don't deprive yourself but be honest about it. Good luck and congrats on this positive decision.

I like your icon.

Lol, thanks for the troll warning (I know they lurk everywhere) 18 days to quit? did you do it cold turkey?

Other then smoking more funny stuff, I also used the low dose patch, not the strong one like they say to. and I didn't put it on until I couldn't stand nikking anymore. and then I would try to go whole days without the patch. now Im not on a patch, gum or anything. I don't even barely smoke the funny stuff, unless im havin a bad day and dont feel like exercising then i do my TOKE-WALK-JAM THING. Some soldier told me it takes 18 days to quit any addiction. I think he's right. Or at least I told myself that. Went 18 days without a smoke and VOILA GONE!!! now i can walk in 711 and laugh at the price of cigarettes, and smile that I'm not going to blow money on them anymore!!!!

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF QUITTING IS TO NEVER BUY THEM!!!!!! THEN EVERY TIME YOU NEED ONE YOU HAVE TO BUM IT LIKE A BUM. OR PICK THEM UP OFF HE GROUND AND WONDER IF THE LAST PERSON WHO DROPPED IT THERE HAD HEPATITIS OR TD. WELL THAT WORKED FOR ME.

Hope I could help. And the most lovely thing about this website there is always someone awake at any given time up and struggling just like you,and sometimes they are really inspiring when you see people who lost 200 pounds, JUST AMAZING, make me feel guilty about my little 50 I want to lose.

That makes a huge difference. Like you aren't trying to change your life alone. THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS are also trying to do the same thing.

It's kind of like AA only usually without the religious crap, although every once in awhile someone will try to throw it in, like the crazy lady who told me that the I shouldn't bee a vegan because The Bible says God put animals here for us to eat.

I just love having a place to go where people have my same struggle and I never feel alone. I also get great low calorie ideas from a lot of these recipe posts that I never would have thought of in a MILLION years that are SO simple.

Good luck. and if you have an off day the next day you get a clean slate:) Not much in life gives you a clean slate the next day:)

Nothing that is worth it , is ever easy! Would be happy to help motivate you! Feel free to add me.

You can certainly add me.....just take little steps at a time and be kind to yourself!!!!