You need to be honest with yourself folks.....

Amen!!!!

Like.

Yep, big difference between "it doesn't work" and "it wasn't working for me"

Need to find things that work for us and realize we have to put our efforts into them. It's good to see people are passionate about their various ways of living. Good. Get passionate about it and make it work for you.

Some of those diets work for some people... because some people don't do well with carbs and can eat a low carb diet and lose weight. I do better on a more balanced diet. If I didn't eat carbs, I would get very bored and would stop trying to control my weight at all. I don't think certain diets don't work because everyone is lazy. I think certain diets don't work for some people who are lazy doing anything or don't really want it. Everyone's story is different.

I agree with you to a point. We Do make our own choices and are responsible for the consequences of them. BUT....some of those programs DONT work because they are not healthy. In some of those programs you have to give up fat or carbs or sugar. All of these are part of a healthy diet when eaten in moderation. It's all a balancing act. To lose weight you have to eat healthy and exercise. It's a simple as that. There is no "quick fix". It takes time, courage, and the right mind set to do it and do it right.

AMEN!

I totally agree. I left my excuses at the door when I started this journey and I still don't miss them at all.

I take life one day at a time when it comes to eating and exercising. I enjoy every day and make the best decisions I can at that time. Over or under here or there, the world goes on and if you let yourself make excuses, you're only hurting you.

Well said.

Thank You Thank You....for keeping it real and helping us all remember that Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy!

I agree to you will gain muscle and lose inches if you will just work out 3 to 4 days a week.
Anyboby is able to do that if you make being healthy a priority...

Weight loss is a serious mental game as much as it is physical. You have to really, truly decide to do it; and do if for yourself!

Soooo true!!

DITTO!:flowerforyou:

I believe in just eating normal foods. i hate veggies and won't eat them, I hate baked chicken. yuck. I love fruit so I am learning to eat my normal foods in moderation. I am adding a supplement drink/shake to take over one meal but only because it has added nutrients I won't eat otherwise. If Atkins or whatever works for some people great. But, I think people need to just stick to learning how to eat real foods and not diet foods. And I used to make excuses too like others. It's all a state of mind. Those people just aren't ready to hear they are responsible and no more excuses.

I agree with you....and I'm one of those people you just called out in your post.... I have said in some of my replies that I have tried WW and it didn't work. What I mean to say is that the method of teaching me to eat healthy as a long term change was not satisfied (by my standards and my current needs and goals) by WW Points Plan. It's a good plan! No excuses! and BTW I lost almost 60 pounds in 7 months following the WW diet "in 1986". I was 18 yrs then and about to graduate high school. The difference in the diet plans is that the program taught you to eat nutritiously. Now I feel like WW is about marketing and making money. Back in 1986 you were counselled and advised to eat x # of servings of Protien, vegetables, fruit, glasses of water and there were lists of items you could choose from to satisfy those criteria. I ultimately gained the weight back over several years from laziness, having children, and a major family chrisis that was a trigger for me to start to lose control of my eating. I went back to WW about a year ago because that had worked for me in the past. And this time I brought my 12 year old daughter with me. What I realized is that the Points system currently in use by WW-- simple enough concept to follow -- was too complicated for my daughter to wrap her mind around and too liberal. Yes, she can read that a snack has 2 point and a WW frozen meal has 5 points and she can add up daily points. We figured out points for non WW food items and wrote #'s on packaging. But we weren't feeling like this was a long term commitment. Buying WW everything for 3 people got to be expensive. The kids would eat 3 snacks instead of 1, 6 point meal. They didn't necessarily go over on their "points" but they weren't losing weight either. As a long term strategy to lose weight and keep it off we needed to learn to identify a healthy size portion; we needed to learn to like fresh fruit and vegetables; and to eliminate processed foods from 90% of our regular meal plan. The original WW diet --> protein, vegetables, fruit, water, oil, multivitamin, fiber (among other things) worked and it was a healthy lifestyle. We aren't perfect eaters and probably will never be perfectly clean eaters. The weight isn't melting off of us but we have each lost 20lbs since finding MFP. I'm here to change my life, not just drop a few pounds. And I hope to change the course of my daughter's life now before she spends her best childhood years chasing a number on a scale and being harassed by kids at school. Thanks for you honesty....