Looking for people to help me stay on track! Have 200+ to lose & I'm doing it!!!

I've tried this app so many times but have no friends who use it! I need motivation too!

I need motivation and a friend!!

I have 100+ to lose
I have lost 59 so far
This app is great if you write it all down
I have a sweet treat each night ( normally the same thing )
It will be very hard to cut all sweet things out ( I am type 2 diabetic some times I need sweet things to come out of a hypo )
Find low cal sweet things only have in the amount you need for week and if you eat them all no more rest of week ( it works for me )

I am restarting my quest and have 100 to loose by May of next year... I have a HUGE sweet tooth too!! I will encourage you if you encourage me

The best advice I can give is to start slow, and work with what you know and the resources available to you.

If you work a long (sitting) shift, then drive (sitting) home and proceed to rest while sitting, try incorporating a walk into your workday, or better yet two walks, just ten minutes around the block or around your building. Don't treat it like a chore, treat it like a treat! What I loved to do when I had an office job was find a podcast or audiobook I was interested in and use my walks to listen to that. You can also set up a music playlist for yourself. Get a pedometer and start tracking your walks. You are allowed your breaks, so take them.

Every night, a little bit of planning ahead means you have food at hand that you don't have to stress about or even think about in the moment. You don't need special foods or fancy diet bars or anything, just portion sizes and reasonable foods that hit your macros and calorie goals. I like to make little snack bags with a half a cup of almonds, a few cubes of cheese, or maybe a few pretzel sticks. Some snap peas for crunch, or carrots. If five little meals a day works better for you and keeps you from grabbing the candy, do it. If you have stress-related trigger foods, or foods you know you binge on, the important thing is not to see the food as the enemy or see it as your innate weakness, something that the rest of us are just 'stronger' somehow to resist things. It's not being stronger, it's identifying your stress triggers before they push you to the point of desperation, and it's making the choice to be kind to yourself before you feel out of control. You can have sweets, carbs, cheese, all of it, just not all day, every day. The immediate rush doesn't address the underlying issue of why we crave and binge. I'm not a fan of sweets but put me alone in a room with a wedge of cheese and a baguette and I'll put a hurtin' on that so fast your eyes will spin! When it comes down to it, I just don't allow myself to do that anymore. It's just not worth it.

So just start by tracking everything and being really honest with yourself. Accept that each morning is a new day and that you are not bound by what you did the day before. Treat your life changes as self-care, honoring yourself, being kind to yourself, not as a punishment for bad behaviors of the past. You are giving yourself a gift!

Welcome, Amy. You can do this. The first step is acknowledging what you're doing wrong and the desire to change. The best of luck on your journey to a healthier, stronger YOU!

I started just under a week ago with the same motivation within myself. A determined feeling that this time was the real time, I'm not doing it to lose weight, I'm doing it to get healthy (the weight loss just happens to be part of it). According to the height/weight healthy calculator I need to lose 100+ (49kg), but if I find myself in a good place for myself before then I will maintain rather than lose. I am not looking for a quick fix, I am looking for a life style change, and since heading into it with this mindset, I have found myself more focused on making sure I get at least that walk in every day with my dog, I make sure that I do a set of squats whenever I get up from my chair. I am struggling slightly with the food, I have always been a carb person, I don't eat chocolate or sweets that much, but give me potato (hot chips, roast potato, potato bake), or pasta and I'm like a kid at Christmas. I caved for the first time yesterday when I went to visit my family, they had hot chips for lunch and I sat down with them and I ate.

I'm doing this on my own and it's hard because I have no one here to turn around to me and give me that pep talk, Do you really want to eat that? Is it worth all the effort you put in today with exercising, to just throw it away on that one bit of food? And if it is worth it get your butt back out there and give me 100 jumping jacks!

There are going to be days where we struggle more than others, just don't beat yourself up for it, you are here, you are aware of what needs to be done, it is just a matter of adjusting to the changes.

Best of luck to all!

Hi everyone I have 99 pounds to go. I don't have a sweet tooth but I do have a portion control problem. I try to always keep full so that I don't need to stuff myself at the next meal. I tried doing multiple smaller meals but then I found myself wanting to snack all day. So I switched to just three meals of equal proportion. And now I'm feeling good. If I'm planing to go out to a restaurant for dinner I eat an apple and drink 16 oz of water in the car before I get there. I'm finding that helps me to order a smaller meal or to not stuff myself with bread. The other day I ate dinner at 4:00pm so that when I went to a movie twenty minutes later I didn't feel the need to get popcorn and coke.

My point of all this is whatever your weakness is start doing different things to address it. Take it one step at a time and then little by little the sweets won't be your enemy.

Welcome Amy and everyone else. just want to say congrats one the first step of your journey. Sweets are one of the hardest thing to giving up and that should be one of your goals to ween yourself off of. Second thing is maybe taking a walk at lunchtime instead of eating lunch.. Some people can get away with eating at their desk thru out the day.. That's what I do at lunch.. third thing is to come up with a meal plan for the week and one that you can live with and not cheat on.. Then force yourself to not sit down as soon as you get home.. if you want you can add me as a friend

congratulations in deciding to change your life for the better!!! Add me if you'd like!

It gets easier the more you do it!

good luck on your journey.. i have sent you a friend request..