Who else needs to lose 40-50 pounds?

Hello! I'm working on at least 35-40 and see where that gets me. Feel free to add. Once you start tracking your frozen meals you might find they are very high in sodium. Just something to watch out for.

Edit: Meant to add I also started at 183...

Hi
I am in the same boat, need to drop 45 lbs! Went from 300 with my 5th child down to 246, still got a long way to go. I'm new here also, so please feel free to add me!
Thanks

I weigh more now than I did with either one of my pregnancies. I have 3 twenty year reunions coming up and am not looking forward to seeing anyone in this shape. I want to feel better. I hope I can be committed to reporting.

For as much as we don't like to cook. Prepacked food is really bad for our health. It is not meant to be a diet fast food.
Just as someone as already said you will soon discover ing one of the items these are high in sodium, they also have lots of preservatives.
I hope as the weight starts coming off you will find that you will want to prepare meals and feel really good.

Right here. We can do it! Its not going to be a "diet" this time but a committed lifestyle change. It doesn't have to be punishment, just learning new ways of living. It feels like I'm always at one extreme with my weight and have gone from 105 to 205 in the last ten years. Time to get real about things.

I have another 40 pounds to lose. I'm confident I'll meet my goal. Here to provide support to y'all from Austin, TX.

Hello! I'm working on at least 35-40 and see where that gets me. Feel free to add. Once you start tracking your frozen meals you might find they are very high in sodium. Just something to watch out for.

Edit: Meant to add I also started at 183...

Almost exactly what I was going to say! I'm in the same boat of 30-40lbs so feel free to add. It's a process but if we stick with it, we can make it happen! And good for you with the extra veggies and salads.

A word on the frozen meals. They're great when you're in a rush but I find myself hungry and thirsty after not long after eating them. Remember that it may make you retain water so you may lose more slowly than you had expected initially.

Yep!! I am currently 255lbs; trying to get down to 200, or less, depending on what my body looks like at 200. I'm a 6'1" male with a large frame. I don't want to be skinny, I also don't want to be Arnold S. I just want to look good and feel good. But am glad to say that I started my Journey 6 months ago.

I actually started it 7 years ago, but you know, one thing led to another and I quit. That one thing was Sarcoidosis. It's a pain in the butt autoimmune disease which had me taking large doses of Prednisone for years. I watched what I had spent years working for go down the drain in months. Basically, I started losing weight, working out; not really eating right, but better than I was, and I got down to 268; I know, huge, but in decent shape. Suddenly, I didn't feel so good; my chest was hurting, my joints were killing me. I thought I had over trained, so I took it easy. But this Sarcoidosis didn't. I stopped working out. Doctors couldn't tell me why I was feeling pain all over my body; they thought I was faking something. But the weight kept creeping up and creeping up all the way up to 336lbs. One 4th of July, we had a nice celebration, BBQ, alcohol and smoking, which I don't do unless I'm drunk. Well, I think the smoking was the key to getting the diagnosis, because the flare-up that I had in the following days almost killed me. I end up in the hospital because I couldn't eat anymore without vomiting. So finally we ended up getting this diagnosis of Sarcoidosis (I swore I was dying of some kind of cancer because I had no clue what this was at that time). (2007). I started actually losing weight. I got down to 288 before they started giving me these high doses of steroids. My weight then ballooned out of control. Not only that but I became totally depressed. I ate, slept and went to work, which is a desk job. I ate all the time. Got myself back up to 356lbs.

So, there I was on Facebook and I was looking for other depressed people with Sarcoidosis so that I can share my depression and hopelessness with them. I found it, joined them and complained with them and felt sorry for myself. I accepted the excuse of it's impossible because of Sarcoidosis and Prednisone. My mind was set that eventually I would be bed-ridden. What saved me is that my church started the Daniel Fast. This is basically a 21 day strict Vegan Diet based on Daniel's fasting in the Bible. Guess what? I never felt better in my life. I swear my health jumped up 200%. So the Daniel Fast gave me so much information just because I started searching for edible options. Basically, I got educated, and I am still educating myself. While I eat meats and pizza and other things I enjoy, I have stopped over doing it and I made a life style change. My joints started feeling better, so I can run and exersize and play with my kids.

Because it's not a diet but a lifestyle change I can enjoy myself if I eat pizza or cake on some days. It used to be that when I messedd up, it was over and I would convince myself that it was okay to just over eat and quit eating right. Now when I eat something sugery or fattening, I move forward with my normal lifestlye and don't revert back.

I workout (Cardio and weight training) 6 days a week. On my rest days I do a little Yoga (sometimes).

I supplement natural smoothies for breakfast usually right after my workout (Spinach, Kale, Berries, Almond Milk, and Muscle Milk Protein, all mixed)

Most everything that I use is natural. I have almost completely given up processed foods; if I eat something processed, I make sure that it has some form of grain (Crackers, chips, cookies) but for the most part, I try to avoid them; but don't kill myself if I fail.


Alright; now that I've gotten that story out of the way; I would like to find out if anyone has any tricks to getting that extra 50lbs that I have been stuck at for a bit off.

Hi, a fellow redhead checking in to say I need to lose at least 50 lbs. I just started MFP this week. I am 4'11 and weigh 200lbs. I never in my life thought I would be this heavy. Time to get it together and do something positive before my health is affected. I'm sending good luck to everyone starting on this journey..

Looking to drop around 80 and I`m in it to win it so to speak! I will get there!

My goal is to get down to 15% Body Fat. That should be around 60 lbs from where I started (@ 237), but weight is not the important thing. Losing 12% Body Fat is the important thing

Feel free to add me...

I'm looking to lose around 50 pounds. Feel free to add me if you'd like!

I need to loose 90lbs.

I am aiming to lose about 55-60 pounds, but considering how much success I've had in the past (not much) I'd love to even lose 40 or 50.

Hi, I am one you also...I need to loose at least 50lbs to get to a normal weight. I am 49 year old woman who weighs 10 lbs more than I ever did while pregant! This past year, I passed the two buck mark plus ten more--which my brain cannot seem to even fathom--but this has caused me to shift from complaining about it into action!
I started this on Feb 1st and I want to reach a more normal range around 170lbs by my 50th birthday in October, and continue onward to my desired weight until it is reached.
i am commited to using MFP daily and slowly introducing more excerise until I reach my goal of being in better shape at 50 than previous years. I believe I can do it with a strong circle of support like you all. thanks. Please add me to your circle of support. :flowerforyou: