Has anybody started at 300lbs+ ?

i went from 350 to 130, and i started the summer before my freshman year of college.



stay away from the "college life" traditions and cook your own food.

Have a look at some of the success stories threads, quite a lot of people started over 300lbs and have made some really inspring changes. Keep at it you can do it, it takes time for us all, but stick in there!

ETA heres one from today for you! http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1133100-half-the-woman-i-used-to-be-300-to-140-s-with-pics

Check out my friend Kat's post (1yoyoKat). Here is a link. It is an awesome story.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1133100-half-the-woman-i-used-to-be-300-to-140-s-with-pics

Shay,

Welcome and good luck on your journey. My name is Kim and I started out at 387 lbs a little over a year ago. I currently am at 307 lbs. I have done it with constantly logging all my food and exercise. Use your log faithfully, log everything! That is an important key, if you don't log it you are only lying to yourself. Use the log as a tool to help you not only stay on track but also where you may have slipped or not done as well as you could have.

For the first 60 lbs I was at 1800 calories, I have now reduced my calories to 1650 and have talked with a nutritionist and she admit that I not lower it anymore. I do not eat my exercise calories back, some do. I feel that I have lots of room with my calorie goal to add in things with plenty of variety and still have the ability to eat out making sensible choices.

If you find you are hungry eat more protein, if it is in-between meals, eat 1 oz cheese or a piece of turkey lunch meat or even a tablespoon of peanut butter.

Currently I use a recumbent stepper machine that I try to use 5-6 days a week for an hour and do strength training 2-3 days a week for approx. 50 minutes.

You are welcome to add me as a friend if you would like, my profile is kdaughertyfp.

321 Starting again today. It is not an easy road by far, but we know we need to do it.

Hey there. I just wanted to say, even if you're depressed go to the gym. Just keep telling yourself to keep moving. It doesn't matter how fast or how slow. Just get up on a treadmill and walk!!! That's how I've been going to the gym. Right now I'm all ugh when it comes to thinking about going to the gym and it may seem like it'll take forever for me to get to where I want to be but just keep it moving. The more you go to the gym the less you'll think about wanting to eat!

Yep... I started @ 385. Lost 70-ish but after some stressful circumstances I gained some back.
Getting back to working towards my goal.
Sometimes I get depressed or mad at myself, but I have to remember to KEEP ON KEEPING ON.
We CAN do this!!!

Hi, I just wanted to offer some encouragement. I started out at just under 307 pounds in mid June and have now lost 40 pounds. I too have a long way to go but I just wanted to tell you it IS possible and agree with what others have said... it will NOT come off overnight. I too get impatient when I think of how far I have to go, but then I reflect that since I graduated high school almost 15 years ago I have done little and very inconsistently to take care of myself. I have not chosen health for myself.

Once I finally was ready to face reality, and start investing in myself by eating healthier and exercising as well as journaling through the process to sort out the emotions (deep ones!) that go with gaining almost 180 pounds in those 15 years, once I decided I was WORTH taking care of and changing for... I kept telling myself "Every long journey begins with a single step." It's the accumulation of a hundred choices you make throughout your day, day after day, week after week, but it will add up, it will make a difference. I take more pleasure and pride now in consistently making good choices and the HOPE I finally have that I CAN make positive changes, than I do in the pounds I have lost (although that is wonderful too).

It is tough to exercise being a larger person, but I promise you will feel better and you will have more energy as time goes on. Even with the first 10 pounds I lost and a month of exercising 5-6 days a week, I noticed a significant increase in energy. Just being able to move more easily is fantastic. Anytime you feel slow and out of shape, just remember- you are lapping everyone on the couch!

One final thought... you are about 10 years younger than me I think (I will turn 33 in January). I "wasted"/"lost" my 20s to poor health, poor choices, weight gain, and hating myself, and being stuck in total denial about my health. Thankfully I have a wonderful supportive husband who has stood by me lovingly the whole time, but it has been hard on him seeing me hate myself and harm myself by not choosing health. If you start now and stick with it, in 2 years you could be at a healthy weight. You have your whole life ahead of you! Don't lose any more time, or cut more years off the end of your life either, to poor health. YOU ARE WORTH IT!!!

Good luck to you and many blessings! Feel free to message me.

Erin

hi and welcome .. i started this summer at 160kg =352lbs and now weigh 129kg =284lb, ive only been member here for few weeks but you can find support here. remember to log everything that you put in your mouth .. grins ..edible only lol and remember this is not a diet but the start of a new life .. good luck with your studies and your road to better health journey..
feel free to add x

Started @ 560lbs. in May 2009 and have spent the last year in maintenance @ 248-250lbs. at some point I am going to make a push down to 225-230lbs. Best advice I can give is make the changes in your life that you can most adhere to for long term sustainability. You can not get discouraged easily or you will fail.. Set backs WILL happen and you must just learn from them and move on. Take each day one day at a time and do everything that you can to be as successful as you can so that when you lay your head on your pillow, you have no regrets, get a good nights sleep and get up and do it all over again tomorrow... I was never in a hurry to lose the weight, I set a goal to lose 1 to 2 lbs. a week and stuck to that goal for 3 years and lost 312 pounds... You can do it too, you just have to want it bad enough.... Best of Luck

Feel free to add me. I started at 330 now im 266.

Yep, you can do it 345-210 over 4 years or so and aiming for 190, this below is what worked for me and revelations through stumbling blocks ive had in my slow but steadyish mostly downward trend lol.

Set goals, ralistic goals, mini goals. post em or write them down so you can hold yourself accountable. Most importantly adjust them as needed. Celebrate the successes and move past the missed goals (celebration doesnt have to be with food lol). challenge someone else with a weigh off or similar to stay accountable. when i started out from 345 i was aiming for 320, then under 300, then 280, then 250, next was 220, now is 190. for me its been 4 years or more of small gains but i am now at a point that eating right and in moderation is easier. I still have to think about it and fight the urge to over indulge at times but i normally can manage it now. sure i still have bad days or sometimes weeks depending on life but you gotta do what you gotta do lol.

you are human, its normal to run into road blocks, mentally it is hard. I am convinced that over eating is just a socially acceptable addiction. I use to (still do sometimes) eat when i am stressed. the more stressed the more i eat. Food is a social thing, it gets you together with friends and family and it makes you feel good, or the association of those good feelings etc. If you stumble get back up. Its obviously better to not overeat but if you do one day get right back on the horse and don't use birthdays, holidays etc as a reason to let things slip... yes it sucks but the saying that you sometimes see on here, "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" will eventually hold meaning for you. I am far from skinny but as good as my favourite foods taste in moderation they certainly dont give me the satisfaction that feeling better physically and mentally does.

No mater what you see hear read or believe its simple (for most, yes i am sure there are some with medical issues etc but not most) TOTAL CALORIE DEFICIT BETWEEN WHAT YOU PUT IN AND WHAT YOUR BODY NEEDS AND BURNS DAILY IS WHAT WORKS. If you eat less than your body needs you will lose weigh, if you eat more than your body needs you will gain weight. you can eat what ever you want, any thing at all and you will lose weigh it just all has to be in moderation and total less in calories than what your body needs.

relating to above its not WHAT you eat its HOW MUCH you eat. you could gain weight eating all health food and you could lose weight eating only cheese cake and big macs. Would it be "healthy" no but you could do it.

To start dont worry about the macro nutrients etc, sure later if you really want go for it but to start out dont overwhelm yourself. really all that matters is calories as long as you are eating a semi balanced diet.

its not about a diet, its about a life style change. take your time, accurately determine your body's caloric needs, eat what the app suggests. Find low cal foods and drinks that will help you feel full, dill pickles, pickled hot peppers, water, black tea, black coffee, the all hated diet pop (sure it may or may not be bad for you but if you can lose weight using it for you, the benefit of losing weight is better for you than not losing weight as that is proven.(for clarification that weight loss is better for you than not losing weight part is proven)... words straight from my dr) .

If you exercise make sure that you don't let your net calories drop to low, this may mean eating back some or all of your exercise calories.

Be real with yourself and realistic with the data you enter regarding how many calories, portion sizes amount exercised, activity level etc. garbage data in equals garbage results out.

I lost a fair bit before MFP but its been much easier with it.

good luck

My name is Shay and I weigh approximately 325lbs. I'm 5'7 and I'm a junior in college. My whole teenage experience was next to crappy because I've always been heavy. I've tried dieting and working out but I get depressed and don't want to go with what I've previously set for myself. As of Thursday I have been on an 1800 calorie a day regime , I've been to the gym once but my legs hurt so bad because I haven't works out in so long , but I plan on going back tomorrow. Is there anybody who had started at my weight and has made significant change? Do you guys mind posting pics ? Giving me some advice ? I'm just so impatient but I know that I won't lose it in one day. I just really want to change. Ugh I just don't want to give up on myself anymore. Kind words of wisdom anyone ? Also if anyone attends Penn State UP and wants to work out together I'm totally down

Hey there. I started on October 1, 2012 at 347.2 lbs. I'm down to ~190 currently.

Great advice Erin...........Good luck Shay, You Can do it!