Extreme Weight Loss

Nerd_on_the_fireline wrote: »

I have not lost 100 but I did lose 40 and keep it off (still off) for 4 years. I ate very clean. Followed the "eat to live, dont live to eat rule" the firat month was hard. Every food I put in my body I asked will this nourish me? Am I really hungry? Will drinking a large glass of ice water help? Stuff like that really helped. I found joy in food preperation. Getting things prepper for my next day and knowing what I would be eating took a lot of the stress out of dieting. I litterally prepared my food "with love" knowing that this is fuel to help my body not slug to slow it down. I can tell you that a life change like this is mostly mental. Once you get your yead in the right place and find what makes your drive hard for what you want it helps a lot. That took about 5 weeks for me to really fall in love with the process. All the best! Hope this helps! Biking is low impact on your knees helped me drop my first 30 so my knees didnt hurt as much and other than that water, water, water!!!!

Patttience wrote: »

I'm not one of your choice friends either but i totally second what nerd has said and applaud you for eating a "whole lot healthier". I see so many diaries on this website where people are still not eating their vegetables, and still eating a lot of processed food. If you want to be slim and healthy in the long term, you need to discover the love of fruit and vegetables and other whole foods and this is best achieved by leaving hyperflavoured foods out of your diet. Making time for cooking is key.

As nerd said, enjoy the process of weightloss. Enjoy your food. Don't kill yourself with exercise because its diet that does it most. And finally, the goal date can be the reason why you fail. Hold your goal loosely but hold firmly to losing weight day after day. And when you reach your goal, know in advance that you can't just stop becuase it will come back quickly if you quit paying attention then.

I make rules for myself. Doable rules. Rules for the longterm. The main one that's worked for me since day 1 is don't buy or prepare the foods that I overeat on and wreck my best intentions - in my case it's sweets of all kinds. I only eat them when other people offer them to me, except when i go away travelling, and at Christmas i make a fancy dessert and eat one serve and get all the temptation of the rest of it away from me by giving it away. I've spelled it out so that you can see that i'm not deprived. A way of reducing the frequency of eating my danger foods without having me hanging out for the treat day, has really worked for me. I replace all this sweet junk with fruit - my sweet tooth is totally satisfied by fruit now. Dried fruit i have to keep very restricted and when i get an emotional crisis or stress i will binge on them so then i ban them from the house. Being terrified of breaking my rules, keeps me on plan. This worked for me quitting cigarettes too over 18 years ago now. I haven't had a cigarette since.