Morbidly Obese and looking for support and help

Reasonable calorie deficit, log your food accurately and honestly. Learn portion control, moderation, and patience. Find an activity you enjoy doing. Because it needs to be repeated have patience. You don't have to cut out any food groups, you can eat what you always have just less of it. Any changes you think of making, make sure you ask yourself... if it's something you can do forever, if it's not rethink the change. Also, don't try to be perfect go for consistent. 80% good choice and don't worry about the other 20%

Read these they will help:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide?hl=logging+step+guide

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1235566-so-you-re-new-here?hl=so+you're+new+here

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

Good luck

you can add me i went to the doctors last week and they weighted me and told me i was morbidly obese so i have about 56lbs to loose about the doctors said 4 stone that wouldn't have been so dishearting if i hadn't been working hard and lost 3 stone isn already

Here's some advice from someone who was in your position:

1) Log Accurately. Even if you don't log it, your body still knows you ate it.

2) It doesn't happen overnight. Be patient and it'll disappear.

3) If you fail on one day, write it off, get back on the wagon tomorrow. Don't do the whole "well this whole week is a write off"

4) Find things you like that are within your calories goals and it makes it much easier.

5) There is no shame in walking being your only form of exercise. Took me months before I was comfortable running and even now I have to wear an ankle brace because of the pressure my weight put on my joints.

Good luck.

+1

I will also add just start with small changes. Don't overwhelm yourself. I started by changing one thing at a time, first was calorie intake, then adding exercise, then switching my diet to not so many processed foods. I picked one thing at a time until it became a habit and something I naturally started doing. Then once I was comfortable I moved to the next. For exercise I could barely walk 5 minutes at my heaviest without my back and knees hurting and being in pain so that is where I started. I spent the whole first year of my journey walking. I started with 5 minutes and over the next year built up to an hour and increased pace. This can be done I promise you. It is going to take a lot of motivation and want on your end but it can be done Remember anytime you have a bad meal its a bad meal don't let the next one be or sabotage your whole day because you had one bad meal. Make the best you can of the rest of the day and start fresh tomorrow. As long as you never give up or never walk away you will never fail. Best of luck on your journey

I drive out into the middles of nowhere to walk i walked with a stick for a long time i still do on my bad days I even have one in my classroom for emergencies its hard not to feel judged but walkers are really nice i mean really really nice they all say hello and mostly are 60+ so like to see people out and about

Hi!

You've been given some great advice already and the links provided really are worth reading.

Just take it one day at a time, don't slash your calories drastically.
Make small doable changes.
Don't stress about not being able to exercise much yet, that will come gradually in time and you don't need to exercise to lose weight. Right now all you need to do to start with is calculate your TDEE (see the sexy pants guide in the links provided) and make a sensible deduction from that.....small steps at the start will pay off big time in the long run.

So often people rush in, slash their calories to nothing, exercise like a mad thing, then wonder why after a month, their weighloss has stalled, they feel like death, their hair and nails are falling apart and because they hardly eat anything they can't cut their calories or increase their exercise so they give up.
Please don't be another one of those.

Be patient, be kind to yourself and the results will come.

Take a look at my profile and if you'd like to add me just drop me a message.

everyone has already given you such great advice already but feel free to add me on here. I log in daily and keep an open diary and don't worry what anyone else thinks, this is your journey. stick the positive people on here and ignore the immature ones.

Add me, please! I'll try my best to give you encouragement!

Here's some advice from someone who was in your position:

1) Log Accurately. Even if you don't log it, your body still knows you ate it.

2) It doesn't happen overnight. Be patient and it'll disappear.

3) If you fail on one day, write it off, get back on the wagon tomorrow. Don't do the whole "well this whole week is a write off"

4) Find things you like that are within your calories goals and it makes it much easier.

5) There is no shame in walking being your only form of exercise. Took me months before I was comfortable running and even now I have to wear an ankle brace because of the pressure my weight put on my joints.

Good luck.

This man knows what he's talking about....if you listen to this great advice from a person with an amazing success story, then like him, you will be walking yourself into much happier and healthier future :flowerforyou:

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i started off morbidly obese and now im obese. i lost the majority of my weight so far from not going to the gym. i'd say weight loss is 90% diet, 10% exercise, so just do what you can exercise-wise . i say just majorly focus on sticking to a diet plan that suits you rather than worrying about being in pain from exercise if thats an issue for you .

i didnt join a gym until this year, before that i lost heaps of weight just going for walks, did yoga from youtube videos, and i bought a couple of weights and gave my best shot at jillian michaels 30 day shred workouts which are also on youtube. it is possible to get fit on a budget