150 pounds to lose......HELP!!!!!!

I have 130 to lose, I started this a couple of years ago and now I'm back. Good luck to you, if you'd like we can be "pals" and motivate each other. :happy:

Set your major goal ( to lose 150 Pounds ) and a HEAP of mini goals.

Clothes sizes top and bottom
exercise goals. Finish a quarter/half/mile walk then beat the time.
bmi goals
weight loss in 5/10/20/50/100 pound chunks
weight loss in 5/10/20/50 kilogram chunks ( The more goals the merrier )
take every measurement and track them. Set goals around these.

Remove negative people from your life.

Learn to love vegetables if you don't already.

Find and exercise you love. With 150 pounds to lose I would suggest you don't race into exercise. Your body tells you once it needs to get moving. You will have so much energy as the weight drops it needs to go somewhere.

Drink a heap of water, you can't hear this one to much.

If you have a partner, get them onboard you either do part or all of it with your or become your fan club

Keep a look out for smells/situations that trigger overeating or poor eating decisions . I found I had a few of these I was never away of.

Good luck. Feel free to add me as a friend if you want some moral support.

I have a hundred pounds to loose. and like you I am starting over. The main thing for me is trying this, this time after a emergency C-sections. I had tried to work out too early and hurt myself more and pushed back my trying to get back to exercising and now I have a fear of hurting myself (been 8.5 months now) and I have grown accustomed of being lazy after work. I'll help you stay on board if you help me.

I second the mini goals thing. Break it down, make it manageable and achievable so you can feel proud, rather than thinking about what you still have to lose. For me, it was to get into pre pregnancy dresses, then jeans, then jeans from years ago. If I'd aimed for the size 8s immediately I'd have found it harder.

I don't know if you exercise, but if you do, find something you enjoy. Maybe see if one of your friends will go to the gym/classes with you. If you're meeting someone there, you're less likely to make an excuse not to go.

Stock up on healthy snacks and don't keep junk in the house.

Good luck

Hi there,
I had lots to lose & still do - I have PCOS & Thyroid issues - so may be a little different me for you, however i find, the more we have to lose, the more we get that consistent hungry feeling alllllllllllllllll day.
My current solution?
I plan the whole day on MFP (under all the correct categories) and then let myself eat when i feel hungry - or graze all day - but only on what I have already plugged in. I find you are grazing on healthier more filling foods then - rather than getting the munchies - eating a handful of chips - putting it into MFP & going "oh no! I cant eat anything else for the rest of the day!!!"
Its also much easier to have a bite of a pre-made sandwich at the door to the fridge and put it back - than to stop at one handful of chips (No idea why - just seems to be the way :P)

Over-all - try not to make it a weightloss experience - try to make it a Health gaining experience. Learn about your foods - what they contain, why they are good for you & what they do to your insides - Its far easier to fill up on more sensible chioces when you know whats going on in your insides. Make this something for the rest of your life - Or you will always be waiting for the day you hit goal weight, so you can have a whole cake and eat it too... You will also be less discouraged (hopefully) if there is no scale shift, but you feel healthier

I need help, too!! I have 150 pounds to lose as well! I'm scared, excited, and hopeful!!

MFP has worked for me.

My Tools:

1.Digital scale
2. digital food scale
3. Heart Rate Monitor.

My Rules: (Copied and Pasted from SideSteel's post...he said it succinctly and I thought..."Why re-invent the wheel?")

1. Eat the appropriate caloric (and macronutrient) intake for your goals and track intake accurately. I think eating mostly nutrient dense and whole foods while still allowing some "treats" is a reasonable starting point/guideline.
2. Exercise regularly. Do something you enjoy or at worst case choose the least objectionable activity. Ideally you should include some form of resistance based training as a part of your program.
3. Get adequate rest/sleep.
4. Establish metrics and use them appropriately.
5. Repeat.

Good luck to you! You can do it!
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#goteammfp

I've lost a little over 150 lbs over the past 2 years, and can offer the following suggestions:
1) Find what works for YOU. Published diets, what worked for your best friend, or what worked for me may or may not work for you.
2) Set reasonable short term goals (i.e. 1-2 lbs a week).
3) Set reasonable exercise goals. I started with 5 minutes a day on the treadmill. Now I'm riding 100-200 miles a week on my bike. That didn't happen overnight, but the biggest thing was doing SOMETHING every single day.
4) Obviously, since you're hear, you know that food/exercise/weight tracking is a great tool. Stick with it.
5) I liked the suggestion about "kryptonite foods". I only gave up a couple of things, but I got them out of my house and office and tried to avoid being around them long enough that the temptation lowered.
6) Hang in there and don't get discourtaged. It gets easier.

Pre-logging helped me immensely. I'd even do two or three days in advance, which was motivation to plan for and shop for healthy meals.

You have already started just by being here. The number one thing to remember is that this is a journey not a race. This is not a diet its a life style change. Its about getting fit and healthy one day at a time. 1-2 pounds a week. That is only reducing your calorie intake by 750 calories a day than you take in. You can do this! I will keep an eye on you!

Although the number right now seems overwhelming, it is doable. Like many posts before have stated, you have to take it one day at a time and most importantly you need to do what works for you, even if you don't know what that is at this point. When I started I had 180lbs to lose and I was not sure what worked for me, but gradually I learned that taking it in chunks, month by month and resting (taking up to a week off working out) helped me get refocused and rejuvenated. There are a lot of resources both here and on the internet so just take a deep breath, put one foot in front of the other and never give up.

I just signed up to do a DietBet with Blogilates (seriously, an awesome site if you haven't checked it out before). It's a pretty sweet deal, and it's motivating me to continue moving back towards a healthy lifestyle. Different people are motivated by different things. It's important to figure out what motivates you. Feel free to add me as a friend, and we can motivate each other!

Set mini goals and mini rewards. I had/have mini goals with rewards set every 5lbs, and my rewards were things like one new decorated coffee mug (I collect a certain type of them...), lessons on a new sport (I tried pole dancing) or a movie night with your favorite movie, candles, healthy snacks etc. Just be sure to also set goals that aren't weight-oriented, such as losing a certain amount of inches, running 5/10/20 minutes/mails/kilometers, whatever works for how you're planning to do this.

My favorite mini goal has two steps: first, plan the dinner menu for the whole week, and then stick to the plan without changing it (I've never experienced mine changing for the healthier, only worse).

Find someone outside of family but face-to-face who can do this with you, in addition to having friends and accountability partners online through MFP. I am fortunate enough to have a good friend who I meet weekdays in the morning. It is a little early for me, but fits his schedule, so I make it work. Knowing that someone is going to be there means a lot in that it makes it more difficult to hit the SNOOZE button and go back to sleep.

Log everything and do it through the day, rather than by memory. If you have the APP on your phone, that is going to help a lot on the go. Be honest in the logging, even when you have eaten or drank something that you shouldn't have done. This will help the next time around so that you might make better choices.

Outline the week ahead for both food and exercise. I find most of my bad choices are a result of not planning. The plans can change as schedule/work/kids/life changes, but have a plan.

I find it best to limit or avoid WHITES: white rice, white bread, white potatoes, white sour cream, pastas, white salad dressings.
Instead, I use brown rice, whole grain wheat or oat bread, sweet potatoes (which are actually much more flavorful than white potatoes), whole grain pastas, Greek non-fat yogurt, and oil-based salad dressings, or even balsamic vinegar and oil.
Cheese is one of my many downfalls, so I have limited those as well. Sometimes, though, it is okay and maybe even better to just give in to the desire to eat it, but eat it in much smaller amounts.

Stop eating out so much. Whether it is fast food, or dine-in food, it will be loaded with the things that make losing weight harder to do: unnecessary and excessive amounts of salt, fat, sugar and empty calories. When you do eat out, see if you can find the nutrition information that most chains and franchises publish on their websites beforehand. Also, MFP has a ton of this info in its app so search there ahead of time.

Cooking at home is a great way to bring a family together and make better food choices. My wife works out after work, so I go home and cook a dinner to plan for it to be ready for her. On nights I have to cover meetings or sports events for work, she does the same for me. This does not always work out, but taking the time and making the effort makes it happen more often than not.

When you go to the grocery store, stick to the outer aisles of the fresh produce and meats. By not picking up canned goods, prepared goods and frozen meals/pizzas, etc., you may find in the long run that you can actually save money.

Here is a quick 30-minute meal idea that I have found to be a wonderful dinner:

Salmon (I prefer the coho to farm-raised)
Grainy, brown mustard coated on top and black pepper
Brown rice
Roasted brussels sprouts (fresh brussel sprouts, cut in half and drizzled with olive oil and then roasted in the pan at about 400)
Cook the salmon and brussel sprouts for about the same time and temp, checking on them at 10 minutes and again at 15 minutes.
You can buy quick cooking brown rice or Texmati brand, which cooks faster than the 45 minutes the label says, at least on my stove.
Add a dessert of fresh strawberries, blueberries and blackberries with a little bit of non-fat Greek yogurt.
You will spend (depending on local prices) about $25 to feed four to five people. Cheaper than KFC and maybe even McDs. And much better for you, too.


And hummus can be a great healthful snack with raw veggies to dip.