What was your first attempt at weigtloss?

When I was 8, I tried a "bread and water" diet--not quite sure how I came up with that. After that didn't work, I moved on to trying not to eat sweets, then trying not to eat at all.....turns out I'm not good at deliberate starvation, LOL. Then came the teen years and the Dexatrim, mini thins, and various other pills, all of which worked to control my appetite, and all of which made me feel completely wigged out (racing heart, racing thoughts, etc). Late teens/early 20's was the grapefruit diet, Mayo Clinic diet, cabbage soup diet.....ugh. Each approach met with some degree of success temporarily, but then I'd go off it because it wasn't sustainable or I felt like crap, and the weight would come back.

My first attempt was when I was about 13... I just did a lot of crunches because I saw it work for my sister. I always gave up. Then i tried atkins shortly after 'cause my parents were on it. I cried when I ordered a chicken sandwich from Jack in the Box, couldn't eat the bread, and was still really hungry.

My first REAL attempt was when I was 17. I'd gained about 30 lbs from summer to winter and I decided to just be balanced about it. I walked about 2 miles everyday, did some strength exercises from Shape.com (I even made an exercise binder of exercises to incorporate - still have it and plan on expounding on it now that I need to re-do my routine!) along with eating a protein and green veggie at lunch and dinner. I started at about 175-178 and got down to about 145 so I ended up losing what I'd originally gained but I can't remember how long I kept it off... I know after at least 2 hours/day of exercising and barely eating at all last summer due to no finances or job, I got down to 150 but was still "thick".

I'd always had excess weight but never knew what to do about it. When I was 20 I went to the doctor for my birth control renewal and they told me I had gained so much weight they might have to increase the dosage. I started drinking slimfast and hydroxycut, trying to eat as little as possible. I made it through quite a few days on just 2 slimfasts. It was incredibly unhealthy and I felt weak and tired all the time. I never gained the weight back, not all of it anyway, but I would never do that again.

I tried hydroxycut about 4 years ago. Yeah that lasted about 2 days because I had so much energy that I couldn't even get a good nights sleep!

When I was a pre-teen/ teenager my mom enrolled me in the Formu3 program. It was a combination of weigh loss shakes (meal replacements) and well balanced meals. Long story short I was so damn hungry I drank the shakes with my meals. I have been batteling the buldge for a while now.

After I truned 21 and started going to bars.:drinker: :blushing: Then after my son and daughter were born. Both times I had a fairly easy time. Since being in my 30's I've yo-yo'd a couple of times and I'm commited to this being the LAST time I lose weight....no more yo-yoing!

well i was always a little chubby, but playing softball helped me stay in shape in my adolescent years. When i went into highschool, i got a growth spurt and lost all of my baby weight and got down from 175 to 125. After that i would go on fasts eating nothing but fat free cottage cheese and only drinking water for about a week or so when i felt bloated or fat. After highschool i gained a lot of weight - ballooned up to 253lbs. In 2008 i decided to take back my life and lost 50 pounds, now I'm struggling to lose the other 50. I do remember my dad putting me on the treadmill every night though but as soon as he wasnt looking, i would jump off. That didnt last at all.

My mother's first attempt to put me on a diet was the Grapefruit Diet. Didn't work because I wasn't cooperating. I was 11. I weighed 135 lb.

At 13 I logically decided that food was the problem, so I just didn't have any. I drank water for 21 days. No food at all. I lost 35 pounds. I had to give up when I started feeling dizzy (because I forgot about salt). Nobody at home noticed that I wasn't eating. I think they noticed I lost weight, but nobody was concerned. Or, more likely, the parents had their own problems and weren't focussed on mine.

That is so messed up, and I don't think it would've happened if I hadn't been so bullied at school about my weight. Stupid thing is that I really wasn't that overweight, but children are really cruel sometimes.

Mirii