30 down, 20 to go

Congratulations on hitting your goal.

Congrats! What’s your secret?

Hi Gerald man! Open up your profile for friend invites and diary.

That loss is great, keep going.

Me too!!! I just reached my 30lbs loss this morning, 25lbs more to get to healthy BMI. We can do it… yay us!!!!

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EDTake2 wrote: »

Me too!!! I just reached my 30lbs loss this morning, 25lbs more to get to healthy BMI. We can do it… yay us!!!!

Do you have any tips for those of us starting off?

Number one for me was to get my mind to commit 100%. My mind kept excusing all the bad behaviors. it was a battle that I still have once in a while. I had to trick my mind, so that it would stop with the excuses. I did that by:
1) Plan and account for every meal I eat. Calorie counting everything that I put in my mouth, before I eat it. Meaning, even if I am going out, I will look at the menu, calculate the calories and then once there I already know what I am ordering.

2) Doing IF (Intermittent Fasting). I do a 18/6. I eat for 6 hrs throughout the day, and fast for 18. I started with 16/8 (eat for 8hrs, fast for 16). I make sure to eat all my calories (1,300 to 1,500) within my allowed time. IF stops me from overeating. When I was only doing CC, I kept of overeating at dinner. My mind kept rationalizing that eating one more slice, one more plate, or fruits was ok because I was good all day, not that many calories.....IF stopped that because after 6PM I could not eat anymore, no matter how 'little' calories it has, no matter what.

The beginning was hard, because the body was used to eat late at night, that extra plate, but after a week or two, it started to get used to the new system. Now, if I have a late dinner (around 8 or 9 PM), I feel sick and do not get restful sleep. I have been doing this for 3 months, and it is working. I can see myself doing this forever. It has become a way of life.

I am trying to make my muscles more defined, so I have recently started to go to the gym. I do both cardio and weights. it has been 3 weeks now. For cardio, I do Zumba, Swimming, and Eliptic. For weights, I use different machines for different parts. I am not fully committed yet. It's a fight with that mind of mine again, giving me all the excuse...no time to exercise today, need to do this and that, it's too late, it's too early...blah blah blah... but I will find a way to make exercise a regular part of life as well.

Feel free to friend request me. You can see my food diary and hopefully soon, my exercise routine : )