Looking to lose 100+ pounds... the healthy way!

Hey guys, I would love to add to this. I have been off and on MFP for several years. I lost 95 pounds a couple of years ago and I have slowly gained 40 of it back. I am looking for friends to motivate and support me. I will do the same in return. I have around 150 pounds I want to get rid of. I added several of you, if I missed you please add me. Looking forward to losing with you all. ~Misty

I'd love to join you all, I'm in the UK and lost almost 5 stone in 18 months up to about August last year but since then I've gained it all back and then some I need to get back on track and want to take it slowly and steadily but keep it off. Feel free to add me if you want x

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Super stressful week physically and emotionally (Family stress /sudden loss of pet /yard sale/ilness)- and going back through my diary I noticed a big victory.

Not one day this week did I go over calories!

It was hard with all the stress but I made it somehow.

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. My pets are my babies! And super-dooper congrats on your goal!!! That is not just a success but STUNNING success with all you had on your plate. Keep it up!

Welcome bcedI1982! None of us can do this alone, so hop aboard!

Welcome to all the wonderful new people!! If you are looking for support / motivation you have come to the right place! Feel free to add me if you like!


Last week I kind of let my exercise fall off a bit. I went out and walked more since it got nicer but I need to get back into working on my arms and stuff. So this week I am going to try and alternate between cardio and weights.

What are some goals for everyone else this week?

Hi @3cuttercup and welcome!

It can be hard to start eating right. The best thing you can do is get a food scale and measure your food whenever possible. Also start out with small changes. Cut back our cut out soda. Replace desert at night with fruit or yogurt. Use smaller plates at dinner to trick your mind. Fill half that plate with veggies instead of carbs. Small changes will add up to big changes before you know it.

Also there are some great videos for chair / seated exercises for after your surgery! Check this one out

https://youtube.com/watch?v=86QRDjbrbdk

Hey all, I'd like to join this thread! I have oodles to lose, and for the umpteenth time! Every time I'm doing well and succeeding, I get knocked off track. I don't want that to happen this time. I've lost 20lbs and been working more physical activity into my routine. I'm glad to be involved is such an uplifting source of encouragement.
I just recently (like 3 days ago) decided to cut out my soda addiction. It has been so hard. The headaches and crankiness are awful. My poor family has taken the brunt of it. Even now, I would gladly reach for my Mt.Dew if I had any available. Anyone have any tips on how to get through the withdrawals??
Thanks

I´m also looking to get some new friends in this thread! 21 5 foot 7 or 8 (depending on which nurse you ask at student health...) on a journey from258 to 135ish, and about 30 pounds down. I log regularly but I have an ankle issue from an injury in October that is keeping me from doing what I really want to pursue, which would be getting super amazingly fit through running and heavy lifting. I´m on every day and I would love to find friends that are similarly motivated to provide support I am also studying abroad in Argentina at the moment so I have a pretty interesting diary haha!

Yooooo hoooooo! I'm in need of some fluffy, or once fluffy friends. People that know how depressing this crap can be. People that understand the struggle. The ones that know what its like to try to always keep your jiggles from jiggling. So please please add me, before I succumb to the doughnut that keeps calling my name. (I've named him Charlie) I stabbed him with a fork, but he's still taunting me. ITake it from me, its no fun being bullied by a doughnut!

Welcome everyone! Wow, lots of new folks to make the cheering louder! @uttercup doughnuts can be incredibly pushy, kick that thing into the trash where it can't leap out at you, girl!! Seriously though, the advice to make small changes is the best in the world. Make a small promise to yourself, and when you succeed at it (i.e. - no soda for a week) look yourself in the mirror and say, "I have proven to myself I can do this, and I CAN DO THIS!" then move on to the next little change. They truly DO add up and fast! Make every promise to yourself as important to keep as it would be if you made it to your husband/wife/child, because YOU are the most important person in your world. Without you there would be no "your world". Ok, off my soapbox!! Again, welcome to everyone who has joined. Add me, I just love making friends Oh, and that video is great, @Hippychick

This is a little off-topic, but is anyone scrapbooking or journaling their weigh loss journey? I just found some really great ideas for this and so I started a journal (the paper kind). One of the things that surprised me was how quickly I found not only goals and rewards for pounds loss, but goals I want to meet that focus more on activities and things I've wished for. Like wearing knee high boots that don't squeeze the blood clean out of my calves, buying jeans in a "regular" size store, and tucking in my shirt without a muffin top! lol It's been fun so far. I've also ordered 100 color beads (large ones, like 1/2 in diameter) and two jars. I'm going to move a bead from a jar that says "Pounds to lose" into a jar that says "Pounds lost" every time I lose a pound. It's neat the ideas I found that I think will act as little successes that happen more often and give me visual cues about how well I'm doing. Oh, I also threw a long sheet of painters paper on the wall in my office/make-up station/work out room and I've started writing inspiring quotes and messages on it. Anyway, just wanted to share and hear what other people are doing to keep their inspiration and motivation up.

I put a picture of the bead jars under my profile along with the quotes I am printing in color this week and sticking on my motivational wall... some of them just really tickled me so I thought I'd share

Glad everyone liked the video! I started to use it because my knees are bothering me a bit. They are not used to all the exercise so I am trying to ease them back into it!

@MischelM I love the bead in jars idea!! Such a colorful fun way to keep track of the journey!

@melkithall For beating back the withdrawal of soada (aka the Caffeine) drink lots of water. As @MischelM said adding lemon helps with the taste. This link as a bunch of ideas to add different healthy things or ways to make your water taste yummy.

shape.com/healthy-eating/healthy-drinks/20-tips-make-drinking-water-taste-better/slide/6

Also try going for walks. Adding in activity will help ease the Symptoms and since it is getting nicer out ( I hope is it by you anyway) walking is a great way to get it in. Plus...exercise!

Good Morning, Everyone! I'd love to join this group! I have been on MFP for several years but feel like I am losing the battle against my food addiction. Last year, I lost nearly fifty pounds but the holiday season got the best of me and I gained almost half of it back. I am finally back on track and am working hard to meet my goal weight of 335 by May 1st. Ultimately, I have another 170 lbs. to go. We just booked our summer vacation in August and my biggest fear is that I won't be able to fit the seat on the airplane. I could use all the support, motivation, and words of wisdom I can get (and am more than happy to provided the same in return). Wishing everyone great success on their individual journeys. Please feel free to add me.