300lbs loss goal... feeling swamped!

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My goal is different than yours, but I would be happy to be a positive friend if you'd like to friend me!

I've lost 51lbs as you see and i have 140lbs ish to go. Feel free to add me, i'm positive and help as much as i possibly can

I have a lot of mini-goals I want to achieve - I started at 213, so my first goal was to get outta the 200's - CHECK!

My next goal is 192, which represents a loss of 10% from my starting weight. (I could hit this one in 2-4 wks)

Next would be 172, which was the weight where I joined another weight loss program (I lost on that program, but I was miserable and gained it all back plus. It just wasn't sustainable.) For some reason this weight is significant for me.

From there I would like to be under 170 because I will be out of the BMI category of Obese.

Next I will concentrate on 140 to get out of the Overweight category. Then I will see how I feel at that weight, but I think that is a good weight for me to aim for.

I resisted putting my real goal on here, because I thought the entire amount might cause me to lose hope and just give up. At some point, I found it was really working and I knew I could keep this up for the rest of my life, and I did put the actual 73 pounds on there.

I know that doesn't compare to having 300 lbs to lose, but I think the same concept could help. Find some meaningful goals for you along the way. I tell myself that I put the weight on one day at a time, one meal at a time and that is how it has to come off too.

Feel free to add me as a friend. I have found the day-to-day support from my friends here to be marvelous!

Hi, there. I think this is a good question, just a more defined target group, so probably not so quick a response.

I don't have 300 pounds to lose, but certainly half of that, easily. What I do know is that the basics are the same. We're looking at the same process....and that is to make small changes and live them from day-to-day, eat within a calorie budget, not beat ourselves up for not being perfect, move a little more, and take in better quality foods where we can.

The suggestion I would have, for what it's worth, is to set some short-term goals. Okay, you want to lose not quite 300 pounds, and you can, but the things that will keep you encouraged on the road to that are those that will come along the way.

The first pound or ten pounds or twenty-five. The first time you walk a little further. or made a better food choice, or budgeted in something you knew would normally have been an excess. Whatever speaks to you in a good way.

My first short-term goal (since early June) has been to be back in my last pair of jeans before the end of Summer. I actually have lost 30 pounds now, which is so exciting to me, and I just tried the pants on yesterday.....only to realize that I'm going to need a new goal because, while they aren't long-road-trip-ready yet, I could have worn them to go have coffee with my friend yesterday and been comfortable. I am going to hold off until they are road-trip comfortable and the weather cools off. lol

I would encourage you to allow yourself to feel good about the positive changes and small progressions. You can feel good about your good wee start - and you should. Work your program and feel good that you're doing more than you were. You're better off today than you were yesterday - and you did that.

You'll have days where it's harder and you'll have days when you can't believe how easy it was to do the things you laid out for yourself. But it's all just life. Every day is new.

Don't be a Nazi. We who are larger to start with get good results from small changes and it's super encouraging. And there isn't really anything I tell myself I can't have - if it fits within my food budget. If I know I'm going out with friends, I try to save extra calories during the day, have a snack before I go so that I'm not crazy-hungry, and I go. I almost never go over on my calories, but I do a little on occasion (maybe 50 or 100 calories or something).....then one day a week or so ago, I was partying with my friend and ate/drank over 1.000 calories extra! I logged every bit of it....and then I started over the next day. Period. I still lost weight that week, too!

Also, eat your calories. Yes, at or under that number each day is the idea, but not way under. The closer to zero, the better. Fuel yourself, feed your metabolism, don't go around deprived and hungry and miserable. You don't have to.

You're doing great - you got started. Glad to hear from you. And I hope the rest of your day goes better.

You are already more than a third of the way there! Amazing!! You can definitely do this, you've already shown you can. Don't look at it as 188 more pounds (I might be off some there, cannot remember what your exact lost so far number was) but instead look at it as losing just 10 pounds more, and after that, then 10 pounds more, and so on. The work you have done so far is absolutely REMARKABLE!

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Hi there, today is my first day on here I've been goin to the gym everyday and have lost 8 pounds so far,, too bad this isn't the biggest loser and its not coming off that sat, I'm trying to do this healthy. Ie had knee surgery once already to take out my meniscus . Ow my knee cap slides about 3 inches so can't do too much it hit injuring myself more. I've been doing elliptical swimming and weights, would love encouragement and love to give, feel free to add.
Kelly