Sharing some success

What a great collection of inspirational stories here! Motivation to the max.

In September of 2013, on my sons 19th birthday, I looked in the mirror and asked myself..."how much longer are you going to go on looking like this?"

I decided that his birthday was as good a place as any to start dieting and losing weight. I am 57 years old and 5' 10" tall. I weighed 227 lbs and my doctor had been hounding me for several years to lose some weight.

I asked some friends for a doable diet. I didn't want some thing that would cause me to drop a lot of weight but not be reasonable for me to keep going after the weight was gone. I got a load of conflicting advice, and some whacky suggestions.

I cut out all sodas, and eliminated fast foods first thing. A month in I had lost 10 pounds. But I still needed a plan. One of my online friends recommended this place to me and I checked it out. I'm so glad I did.

My Fitness Plan gave me a workable plan that allowed me to enter the foods I was eating and see the calories adding up. But more importantly it allowed me to plan a days meals and take some snacks into consideration. The most useful thing to me was the huge food database. I could pick up some off-brand Himalayan Snapper-Cod fried in duck oils from the Dollar General store and the stuff would be in the database!

So here we are three months (14 weeks actually) later and I am down 30 pounds.My clothes no longer fit me, and I am not going to buy new ones just yet because I have 20 more pounds to lose.The staff here at work comment everyday. In fact, at the last staff meeting I had to speak and as I was walking to the front of the room someone yelled "You look fantastic!" and the entire staff gave me a round of applause. THAT felt great!

I know that I don't really look fantastic....yet! But I do look way better than I used to. And I feel better as well. My wife is very supportive and the kids are helping me out as well.

I honestly feel that the program here was/is a primary reason for my success. I could not have done this without checking in everyday and logging my food.

Thank you MFP. Here's to the New Year and another 20 pounds gone!