success story!!!! how much have you lost?

Started on MFP last September at 210, I had lost 10 pounds in the 5 months prior to that...and another 10 was still off from my previous high of 230. Since joining MFP I have lost 56 additional pounds taking my total in the last year 1/2 to 66 and 76 from my high.

I started on June 18 at 196 and am currently down to 174, almost my half way mark!!! I have really been watching what I eat, trying to primarily eat natural foods (lean meat, fruit, vegetables) and limit the processed foods. I go for a walk every day, recently have began to attempt jogging. I did start the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred when I started this, but then had a couple of injuries so had to give it up for awhile. I plan on restarting that today or tomorrow. Good luck!!!

I let go of all sweets, candy, sodas, pastas, restaurants, drink lots of water, exercise for an hour 6 days a week, and replace my breakfast with protein shakes. I have lost 58 lbs...


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Started about April 1, lost 5 lbs. before finding MFP about May 1. Have lost 20 more pounds since MFP. Just following an adjusted diabetic eating plan. In trying to cut carbs and processed sugars, the weight is just coming off - roughly 7 pounds/ mo., but tons of inches lost - roughly 9" around my middle! First time I've spent more time paying attention to WHAT I put in my mouth rather than trying to lose weight. MFP has been a true life saver!! And have added various exercising.

hi people, i just need some encouragement.
please tell me what you have been doing to lose the weight and how long did it take? and how many lb or kg did you lose?
thanks for reading

I've been counting my calories, and exercising 5-6 days a week. I've been at it since the end of April and have lost 50 pounds so far.

i hurt hurt my back in a bad way the begging of the year. in april i was weighing in at just over 295 lbs. i had a huge wake up call in my life with this injury, so i had to kick my butt into gear with some help from a friend, i started my path to get lighter,
i do a lot of heavy work and needed a strong back, so i said to myself , how fast and how much can you lose before the year ends.. i started my challenge on the 1st may weighing 289lbs with a different calorie tracking site, found out there measurement and counts are way off. so started on MFP , and with the help of the MFP and really realizing how much it helps to weigh and count every single calorie, i have just past 50 lbs lost and got 19 to go to reach my goal.. i feel better my back does not bother me as much, and i feel so much happier .
sw 289 (1st may)
cw 239
gw 220 lbs

I started on May 1st 2011

starting weight 213 pounds and as of this morning I am down to 185pounds ( my offical weigh in is Tuesday so my ticker will not get changed until then).

I gave up pop other can a single serving size on rare ocasions ( before starting this I was drinking a 12 pack or more of regular soda each day)

I have started to exercise ( I get in 45-60min each day of cardio and 2-3days a week of strength training)

Started watching my sodium as that was my real weak area and eatting out less


so as of this morning thats 28pounds lost since May 1st of this year. This is also the first time I have ever tried to loose weight so I`m very happy with how its going so far ( oh and I`ve gone from a tight size 16 jeans to a size 12 currently ) and I`m 5foot 5inches pear shape with average frame

I started last July and have lost 62 pounds. That's living realistically and flowing with the ups and downs of life. Thanks to MFP and all the friends I've made here.....the support is AMAZING!!! Good luck....you can do it!!!

54 pounds in 110 days. I eat less and exercise.

I try to eat 1/2 of what I used to.

Example: I will have 2 slices of pizza instead of 4. The heavier the food item the less of it I will eat. I also cut down on snacks. I run or walk 10 miles a week.

Hi - I started at 5'4.... 215... I started the last day of Feb (of this year 2011) today is Aug 7th and I have lost 51 LBS!


(and yes I am still 5'4 )

Last Christmas, I found that my favorite suit no longer fit and I had to scramble to find a substitute. The scale stared back at me in accusatory fashion and it was time to face facts. At 206lbs and 5'10", the suit was plainly not shrinking, as I had handily explained away the snugness the year before...

That very next week, I began to gently scale back calories in the least painful ways I could. I don't get along well with feeling deprived. Skipping snacks and eating slightly smaller portions over the coming weeks began to have have the desired effect, albeit VERY slowly. The scale began to reverse it's course, a fraction of a pound at a time.

Eventually, last March or so, I tripped across MFP and began to track what I was eating. Just seeing it "on paper" really worked for me. I could SEE immediate consequences for what I consumed. Once I was watching that, it was a bit of a game to sneak a little exercise in, here and there, not enough to resent it, but enough to see the scale speed up the decline I had been seeing.

I was hooked. Eventually that bit extra walking turned into walking just to walk. Then to some running. Then to time on the elliptical machine. Finally to where I am now, with 40 minutes of cardio five days a week, plus 20 minutes of mixed weight training. On weekends, I run. Sometimes it's just five miles Saturday, then five miles on Sunday. Other weekends, it's seven or eight miles on Saturday and a half-marathon or better on Sunday, just for good measure.

I have slowed down my weight loss pace with the amount of muscle I am building, but once my BMI was back on the scale, it became a challenge to improve my body fat ratio. Sometime in the next month or two or so, I will hit my final goal, which will have me in the green and healthy range for every metric I am aware of. At that mark, I will have lost 1/4 of my total body weight.

My doctor was speechless when he saw me and just kept stammering about how much healthier I am now, in every metric HE has. BP is now very healthy, blood sugar is normal, cholesterol is waaaay down, pulse is steady at just over half what it was...

All very good signs. Even better, I sleep well, I feel better and I feel strong and healthy. I plan to gain back a few pounds as I add muscle, but I will continue to keep the body fat at the athletic end of the scale this time. I watch what I eat, but avoid feeling deprived of anything I want. This is a marathon, not a sprint and I can stop and smell the roses along the way without losing sight of the goal.

Who knew, the journey of a thousand miles really does begin with a single step. Go figure.

I've lost about 25lbs since January. I started out mainly with just walking. I got to where I was walking between 5-10 miles per day. Then I started running in place, because I lived in a small apartment in a very unsafe neighborhood and my roommate wouldn't go running with me. Now that I'm back in my parents' house, I do the elliptical all of the time. I do a ton of cardio. I just started Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred the other day.

I started on losing weight in april of 2010 lost 31 pounds,and then in August 2010 I upped my calories a bit to maintain while I had some stuff going on.Started back up in January of this year all in all now ive lost 59 pounds.I started out in april of 2010 going to the gym 6 days a week cutting soda and eating 1200 calories a day.I would do cardio for 1 hour atleast everyday.In January I started weight training.

This is me at 230 pounds


and this is me at 185 ive since lost 15 more pounds





I also every 10 or 15 pounds lost stop and mantaine for a month or so,i think its really helped me not having any lose skin

I'm 7 weeks into my weight loss journey and have lost 17lbs so far. I've been counting my calories, limiting my carbs and exercising 3-4 days a week. Good luck!