Really depressed about my weight

Definitely possible. When you're bigger you tend to lose quickly in the beginning. I agree with @louisepaul16 about going to a doctor and getting checked out, and making goals and celebrating them with non-food gifts.
Track your eating so you can see what you eat, and where you can make changes. Most people on here seem able to eat many things they enjoy by fitting it into their calories, or choose a lifestyle that meets their health needs, such as low carb or gluten free.
Having the support on MFP is extremely helpful for me personally and even just reading the threads gives me ideas and assistance.
You aren't alone, and there is hope when you feel like giving up.

Welcome, and you can definately do it. MFP works and there are thousands of people that post about their weightloss and success. Many have lost over 100 lbs. What do you have to do? Plug your stats into MFP and it will give you a calorie number that you can eat everyday. Buy a digital food scale and weigh and measure everything you eat and drink. Try to stay within your calories everyday. Never give up. Move as much as you can. Good luck.

You're giving yourself 7 months to lose 50 from a start over 300? I think you can achieve that. I've lost nearly 40 from a start under 300 in 13 weeks.

Yeah, definitely possible to lose that much in 7 months.

Here's a link to a description I gave of my first 100 lb lost (I started just under 320 lb). That basically describes the methods I use, if you're interested to see how that could be done.

You can totally do it. Figure out what your motivation is and remember it when times get tough.

Yes !you can do it !! Do it!!!

60 pounds in 7 months can be done. I started mid-January and lost 50 already.
Another positive side-effect: I don't need my blood-pressure medicamentation anymore.

I really recommend meditation.

I know tonnes about food, I like healthy food, I'm not afraid to exercise. I know how to make time to exercise. But I sabotage myself or "forget" or give up 2 or 3 weeks in, whether I lose weight or not.

I started 30 day shred on YouTube, and I lost 6 cm off my waist after only a few days. I then quit.

Why? I really don't know?! I didnt find it particularly hard, I was enjoying it. When I delved deeper and really thought on it, I realised it is my mind that needs help first otherwise I just won't stick to anything. I've not been allowing myself to change subconsciously. Perhaps my brain thinks it's protecting me by staying this way?

Meditation is a great way to learn how to listen to your mind, to strengthen your brain, to relax and to control the thoughts. I used it before to help general low confidence and it was amazing for me, I'd almost say life changing even 10
years later. So I thought I'd look to see if you can use it for weight loss and indeed you can.

There's lots of free apps, I like Buddhify for general daily meditation and stress help. I've just found a 21 day meditation programme for weight problems called the Jon Gabriel method which I'm going to try. I used the 3 day trial for 6 days along with Buddhify, and I do feel like I'm not so obsessed with food. I'm feeling more peace. I've lost 3lbs and 4cm off my waist without "trying" - just listening to my body and making sensible choices most of the time. Literally I've not tried, I've eaten what I wanted but still logged it all. E.g if I want pasta, I have it, but the last few days my brain hasn't desperately wanted a bowl full of it. It's just wanted a handful and I've been happy and full. I've been coming out "naturally" at 1800 cals a day which is 400 more than I'd tried before. So i signed up to the 21 course just yesterday.

I can't recommend that fully yet but I'll post a topic at the end if I find it works for me.

Sorry for blarbing on, it's nice to share as I've just started down this path and I don't have anyone to really tell about it. It's exciting though, I think this has been the missing piece all along?

Natalie

It's possible to lose more than that. I have lost 45 in 4 months, so just WILL YOURSELF TO GREATNESS man!

I'm sorry you don't have support at home, but it doesn't really matter. You are the one that needs to decide to lose weight and do it. It's a slow process--day by day, so you just need to persist and find the best way for you to go forward.

You can do this! Set yourself a couple of achievable goals at first (for example, go for a 30 min walk 3x week, if you drink 3 cans of soda reduce to drink just 1, etc...). Small goals make it more achievable and harder to set yourself up for failure. Once you master those, you can increase your goals...
And like everyone has been saying: Log everything you eat (measure and weight your foods as much as you can, guesstimating will usually render more calories consumed than you think), and log your workouts... try to stay within your allowed calorie consumption every day!!!
And most importantly, remember that you are worth the work!!!!

Dhafer7 wrote: »

Hi I'm new to this app and I like the community

My weight is 310 lbs .
I'm really struggling to lose alot of pounds I just don't know what happens that makes me eventually give up .

I'm 24 years old guy .
Do you think its possible to lose at least 50 lbs by the start of 2017?

I really need some help of any ideas that can help me keep going

Thanks

You need to be honest with yourself and reflect on why you want to lose weight -- that is the only way you'll stay motivated. Because when times get hard, that is what you will have to keep in your mind's eye as a carrot.

Your motives cannot be surperficial nor can they be other people's reasons. Once you have along term/lifetime goal, you'll be ready to make the trek. If not, even if you succeed to some degree, you'll found yourself back here looking for help.

You have to decide you want this and you have to make it happen. No one else can. You have to want to change your life and embrace the challenge of doing so.

Best of luck to you.

Aww you can do it. It takes time but the key is don't give up and take it one day at a time. Being on mfp is a good start if you need help feel free to add me