Just hit 200lbs down

Your progress is wonderful, congratulations! I was just complaining about needing to log every day, and what a chore it is, meanwhile, my weight is creeping up! So told my advisor that I would be going back to the logging. Then I read your post, and it seems essential to your success...you have inspired me to get back to the log!

Dear Tezofalltrades. I am not your mother but please let me tell you that I am very proud of you. I don't know you but what you have accomplished is stunning. Thank you for your honesty and your hard work. I am morbidly obese and I have lost 25 pounds so far (weighed in 2 days ago).
I got a health scare in September, my doctor gave me a speech. My glucose to high, I am prediabetic (exactly at 5.7 A1C) my blood pressure was too high 150-94 that day, my cholesterol (the bad is too high) and my weight was over 350 pounds (with clothes). I am older (turned 61 today) and I had to buy myself a mobility scooter not so long ago when my husband had to stay in the hospital for surgery. The long hallways were too much. I am huffing and puffing wherever I go, I can't bend down and I need a grabbing tool to pick stuff up.

I don't know what happened that day, but something clicked. I went home and looked at the meds I was already taking. (I have a chronic pain disease an autoimmune disorder). Two more pills or three, that's the last thing I wanted. A diabetic pill or injections. No, I don't want this.
I gained a lot of weight over the last ten years. I am on a pain regimen that includes Prednisone (Steroids) which makes you hungrier and you gain weight like there is no tomorrow.

You know what I am talking about, don't you? You gain weight, then you move less. You continue to eat too much and wrong, you gain more weight and then you stop moving altogether.

I feel like walking on cloud nine for days now. I will have lost 30 pounds soon. I hope I will make it under 300 by Christmas and if not, then I know it will be in January.

But that's not enough, I have 100 more to lose and then some. Is this even possible?

And then there came your post, right at the time when I needed you the most. I needed to read about your success, I needed to feel proud of you. You just showed me that it is very possible as long as I stay disciplined and focused.

Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I would be honored if we somehow could stay in contact. I was thinking about forming a group, or a challenge "Determined Ladies on a Mission" where we can share and update our journeys.

I am not on a diet, I have just changed my lifestyle. I eat between 1,400 and 1,600 calories a day. No diets, no gimmick, no weight loss miracle drug. I am gluten-free and dairy-free for health reasons and it has done wonders for me. I am not on a high-protein diet, but eat what I like, just different. I am completely sugar-free (added sugar now for over two months. Even my birthday cake today was gluten-free and made with stevia, it was sensational. I weigh and log everything.

If you have hoped to inspire some, you have done exactly that. I will bookmark your post and I will read it again and again, especially on days when I have doubts (I know there will be some.)

Keep on going! You are amazing.