lose 200lbs in less then a year ?

That's 4 lbs a week. They do it on 'Biggest Loser' and gastric bypass patients do it, but if you still have a gall bladder you might want to halve that loss to 2 lbs per week or whatever is recommended by your doctor. Do consider being under a doctor's care during the process. A healthy Mediterranean, DASH, or plant based diet is now recommended by the American College of Cardiology and by the ADA. I do Mediterranean and record everything here in MFP to make sure I'm not overdoing. I also walk into the gym 3 days a week for circuit and walk before breakfast every morning and on my work breaks.

Keep going buddy!!

All the love and support from Dallas, TX!

Hey BJ if you got the scale I use it's digital. Let it call out your weight and look straight ahead and stand still. You will get different readings for all the reasons people said. Weigh once when you wake up after going to the bathroom and before dressing in heavy clothing. It may be different then the doctors but it's a tool to help you know your going in the right direction. Your body automically retains fluids over the course of the day so weighing later you will weigh more but it's not true pounds. If you don't want it to call out step off the amount stays for a few seconds so you can look down. Mine I put on a hard floor no carpet or rugs. Sometimes it gets moved around and even that can make it weight different. Let it turn off, pick it up and set it down then turn it on. It will reset itself.

I don't know about you BJ but at 487 I couldn't really walk much more than 50 steps or truly exercise. But remember I'm a pretty old woman and you look like a young guy! If standing and walking is hard do this you will get a lot from it and I got this of MFP from another person. I dancercized from September to June with online videos but I stayed sitting down. The arms can do you good burning calories and getting your heart up. Eventually I started to stand and while I never could do the foot moves do to bad mobility it helped and pushed me to where I could go to the gym where there were recumbant bikes and lots of support. I use The Fitness Marshall videos online, he is free and he i really entertaining so it's not so boring.

I know you really shouldn't weigh but once a week but I needed confirmation I was doing something right. I weighed daily and I am NOT telling you to do this. However if you do it and obsessive like me then use this program. Everytime I stalled or didn't get the results I wanted I thought I was done forever. This program let me see exactly how your body fluctuates and gives you a better guage if your going down or if the upturn is real of just that days stress and water on your body.

Hope some of this helps. I wish you all the luck a person can give and I'm from Indiana.

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bjcrewe wrote: »

I do as much as i can in a run of a day and try to push to do a bit more every day seems i can do a little bit more most days.

This is the amazing human body. I am always so pleased with how quickly things improve if I stick to it.

bjcrewe wrote: »

I do as much as i can in a run of a day and try to push to do a bit more every day seems i can do a little bit more most days.

Of course! Small improvements daily snowball into great progress!

bjcrewe wrote: »

I do as much as i can in a run of a day and try to push to do a bit more every day seems i can do a little bit more most days.

That's how you do it.

Small changes = dramatic impact over time.

Big changes = short lived and rarely amount to long term improvements.

I'm sorry for the loss of your brother's cat. The are part of the family. Three of my babies (I had six(!) cats) died in an 18 month time span. I felt like I never stopped crying. Your family has my sincere sympathy.

If you must eat your feelings, limit it to only today, and log it as best as you can. One day won't do much damage, but it is easy to fall back into old patterns, especially when grief is involved.

bjcrewe wrote: »

To day is a bit of a bad day ... this year really but today is not a good one my bothers cat died to day the cat dint really like me but that's is a different story its sad to see a family member go (yes a pet is part of them family).

I'm sorry to hear that. I believe pets are family as well and it is hard when they pass. My condolences to you and your family. I'm sure that kitty lived a happy and fulfilled life. ❤