So what happened the last time you tried to lose weight?

I'm 20 at the moment, when i was younger 14-19 i had no idea about nutrition or exercise. I would starve and binge . and get no where. When i turned 20 I learned about nutrition and exercise. I got a gym membership. A personal trainer made me a diet plan and a fitness plan which I stuck too and am still sticking to. I started eating 1200 calories a day, I started doing a lot of research and reading about nutrition and weight loss. I made a lot of fitness friends doing the same thing. I've lost 13 kg since June 2011 and am in the process of losing the last 4 kg. Now that I have a lot of knowledge on health and fitness it is easy. I believe its only ever difficult for those who are undereducated in the subject, as I was before.

... i succeeded.

... i succeeded.

I love it, just when I was ready to hear all negative stuff!

I loss weight then I lost my motivation..

The first time was in college and I just cut portions and did a lot of walking and they weight just fell off (ah youth). Then I had my appendix out at the end of college and started a new job. Feeling like my internal organs were going to fall out through the stitches, I stopped exercising and constantly going out to lunch with everyone at the new job was not helping my eating and I ballooned up. Then I tried weight watchers a couple of years later and lost 45 lbs! It was so great. I had never been in that good of shape and I think I got too excited and too carried away. I started to live like I had been born that way and over the next three years put all of it back on plus an additional ten. Now I am trying again. This time I'm trying to lose and get stronger and this time my goal is good health and fitness so I am now on this "diet" for life.

I lost over 10 kgs on low carb. A few years ago, was studying, was stressful. changed around on lots of med and put my 10 kg back on plus 20 more kg in just a few months.

didnt have the right plan and didnt lose. Never had the right diet >>>I was exercising but just wastn losing. Also, i tried the zone,paleo and i gues they werent for me b/c i couldnt stick to it. Also, i wasnt tracking my calories like I am now. and i wasnt working out every single day like i am now. So i wasnt loseing.
Now that being said. I am loseing weight now and have a plan it just clicked. I have to say weight watchers taught me how to choose the right foods w/ out giving up food i love .. i just dont eat it all the darn time or i portion. And also since i work out i can eat more but not over do it.

THe KEY to get to your goal::::: work out and eat more

Last time I tried to lose weight (I am 5'9, I was 18, and I ran track), everyone thought I was crazy because I was 135 lbs trying to get back down to 130 lbs. Yea. I got a lot of yap from everyone about how I was trying to be too "skinny"

Then gained 50 lbs a year later...Everyone thought I was crazy again :laugh:


Now, at 22, I am still trying to lose weight....But this time..... I don't care what people think

Two years agao I started on MFP and at the same rate, quickly lost 30 pounds or more in 3 months.

We moved, for my husbands job, I commuted back to saltspring Island for work and my husbands new job turned into a nightmare. They used him and his truck, putting in hundreds of extra hours and when it came time to pay him out after the year, the boss and his wife went on vacation then came home and declared bankrupsy instead of paying us the $20,000 they owed us.
Unemployed and needing to move it took some time to get another job and location.
During this time, I lost my motivation, I ate for comfort and didn't feel like spending time on myself. Gained the weight back.
Two years later, I am starting over. I am almost 20 down, and want to stay on track.

I ran into my husbands X-boss's wife yesterday. She wanted to know why my husband was not on good terms with her husband. I let her know that we are not bitter, just adjusting after finding ouselves unemployed and broke. Do some people think it's ok to treat their employee's that way? It baffles me. But We are happy and recovering, and have learned to be less trusting.

This is about the 50 millionth time I've tried to lose weight. I tried numerous times in high school, walking for miles all over town and barely eating anything, then I would binge and eat like a week worth of food in one day. I also used be be severely depressed and was an emotional eater too. So I would get mildly optimistic a try again, just for someone to say or do something to knock me back down into my depression.

Once I got out of my depression, big thank-you to my hubby, for helping me though it. I started trying to lose again, I was doing good, but then we got tight on money and I didn't even have grocery money, we ate cheap, sadly healthy isn't cheap. Then about a year or so later I tried again, once we had extra cash again. I ended up just getting comfortable and I happy being chunky.

This time, I'm in my late 20's, I just spend last summer worrying about my dad's health. He had a heart attack, survived but had to have a quadruple bypass surgery. He needed lots of help being cared for after while recovering. Then I started thinking about how diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol issues, heart problems, run in my family. I don't want to follow suit. This is my motivation! I have slipped up lots, but I keep at it and refuse to revert this time around.

I thought I had to starve and give up all of the things that I loved! Learning that that's not true has made all of the difference in the world this time! I know I'll make it!

... i succeeded.

Yay!

I starved myself...and before that I starved myself..and the time before that and bef- well, you get it :P Ive been losing the same 20-30lbs since I was 12. I finally got tired of being hungry and still being fat. I got smart and thought there must be a different way than 1200 cal plus intensive exercise. It sad, I really thought that was how it was done.that's what I heard the modles did after all. Sorry for spelling, on my phone.

Last time I tried to lose weight, I got pregnant and ended up losing 70lbs in my pregnancy and then had her and gained 25.5 back...

A few years ago I did successfully lose about 70 pounds with a healthy diet and exercise, after many failed attempts to lose weight by starving myself. Unfortunately I didn't maintain for very long...maybe about 6 months or so after I reached a weight I was happy with. After that things fell apart for 2 main reasons.

1. I was sooo broke. I couldn't afford good food and my diet consisted mainly of no-name mac and cheese that i bought for 40 cents a box, and also free pizza from various events around campus. Sometimes I actually went to events for the sole purpose of getting food.

2. Stress and lack of time. School got ridiculous, and I also took on extra jobs to try to help solve my financial woes. I basically ended up being busy with either school or work from the time I woke up at 6am till the time I went to bed at....some godawful hour of the morning.

No surprise, the pounds steadily crept back on, until I ended up even heavier than before I started losing the weight in the first place. But this time, nothing is going to stop me! Plus my life is slightly more manageable now than it was before haha.