anyone here looking to lose or has lost over 100lbs.

Here too with roughly 143 lbs. to lose...started the journey yesterday.

Better food choices for one...lol...always helps, huh? Myfitnesspal has me at about a 1360 calorie diet. My aim is to keep my calorie intake to about 1200 calories/day. As well, I purchased a FitBit (best purchase ever) and really work to get a minimum of 10,000 steps in a day. I do belong to an all women gym but, I prefer to walk outside. I keep my membership for rainy days and hot 'sauna' nights...lol. My hope is that when I hit 200, I will then hire a personal trainer for 1-2 days a week.

I am going to do this...I have to do this...time is wasting!

I have a few tips.
1. Log everything good and bad.
2. Accept the fact that you will have bad days. They key is to forgive yourself on those days and just keep going.
3. Don't worry about motivation. You will lose it at times. Just keep going anyway.
4. Lose weight in a way that is sustainable for the long haul. If you can't see yourself living without an occasional treat, then make room for it in your calories. If you love carbs, don't go low carb.
5. Buy a good food scale if you don't have one. Weigh and measure everything.
6. Sometimes you won't lose. Weight loss is not always linear. Don't let it get you down.
7. Don't do a super low calorie diet. You also don't need to "jump start" your weight loss with a detox or a cleanse.
8. Never ever quit!
Hope this helps.

With no intention of being a negative Nancy, some days you'll want to quit, or will have the urge for a huge food binge - if you do find yourself indulging more than you intended, do NOT let it put you off, just get back on track immediately and shake it off. I have this terrible habit of letting one bad day bring me down and it can take days to get over it, and it's completely unnecessary. Praise yourself for successes, but don't be too hard on yourself if you have a bad day. Good luck!

Louise1583 wrote: »

Praise yourself for successes, but don't be too hard on yourself if you have a bad day. Good luck!

So true!!!

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10041099/2-year-progression-chart-and-pics-132-pounds-lost-and-holding-strong#latest

I started in January last year and have lost 95 lbs so far, so it IS completely possible for you too. I have about another 50 to go before I'm happy, and then I will re-evaluate. Feel free to add me or just browse my food diary if you want, it's open for anyone to look at.

My best piece of advice is to just be consistent and don't ever give up. I have logged every day for nearly a year and you will need that kind of consistency to see results. It won't happen overnight but if you keep at it, this time next year you will be glad that you started today and didn't give up.

My second best piece of advice is to buy a food scale. Buy a food scale before you buy a people scale. It's the most important piece of hardware I have in this lifestyle. I weigh breakfast cereal, my baked potatoes, shredded cheese, frozen foods, popcorn and snacks, etc, etc.... without it, I could not measure a proper serving of many foods. You don't want to over-estimate your portions, but you don't want to gyp yourself either by under-estimating. To this day I STILL cannot eyeball 30g of shredded cheese although I'm getting better

If you're worried about cravings, all I can advise is that it gets better. I don't ever forbid any particular food, but when working within a calorie budget, certain foods just naturally stop being included because I simply can't 'afford' to eat them. Of course I have the odd fast food or junk food, but you'll find yourself loving different things. (I'm SO into baked potatoes right now!)

You only have to look at the train wreck of my christmas vacation in my food diary to see that I'm not perfect, but for a couple of weeks there I relaxed and aimed only to maintain weight. I'm in control, and so are you. I'd say good luck, but it's nothing to do with luck.

BarbB277 wrote: »

Better food choices for one...lol...always helps, huh? Myfitnesspal has me at about a 1360 calorie diet. My aim is to keep my calorie intake to about 1200 calories/day. As well, I purchased a FitBit (best purchase ever) and really work to get a minimum of 10,000 steps in a day. I do belong to an all women gym but, I prefer to walk outside. I keep my membership for rainy days and hot 'sauna' nights...lol. My hope is that when I hit 200, I will then hire a personal trainer for 1-2 days a week.

I am going to do this...I have to do this...time is wasting!

Just my opinion, but I wouldn't lower your calories more than the 1000 deficit (assuming you set your loss to 2 lbs a week) that MFP gives you. It is important to stay well-fed with nutritious food so that you do not get cravings and fall of the wagon. The most important thing is to stick to it; if you commit, you will succeed. If you stick to the 1360 cals the pounds will fall off faster than if you try to do 1200 cals a day and end up cheating a lot.

In 2013 I was about 320 lbs and avoided scales so that weight is a guess. After a year struggling with weight loss, I started tracking on myfitnesspal at 285 lbs in October. My target weight is 197 lbs.

Today I'm 266 lbs! But, I've got quite a way to go yet. The tracking tool has really helped me correlate diet and weight ... and I'm getting much better results now. Even at this rate I'll be at it for quite a while yet. I don't anticipate hitting healthy BMI until early next year (2016) so this is a long-term thing.

Going fast is tempting but it could also be really dangerous so I'm under doctor supervision these days and under doctor's direction I'm at 1500 calories a day with a set of daily nutritional goals to meet. This forces me to eat certain things in carefully measured doses.

My relationship to food is very different now. Food is like a nutritional supplement now ... like a vitamin pill. It's not fun anymore but I am convincing myself it will be worth it.

I lost around 140 lbs. Working on maintaining now. Feel free to add me, I still log everyday.