Could really use some support

Sorry don't have 100lbs to lose but I've lost 30 and am planning on losing another 10! Good luck to you!

Friend request sent!! Smile you can do this!!:flowerforyou:

Friend request on the way. I understand about needing support and hope we can help each other in the long run!

You don't need to lose 100 pounds. You only need to lose 10 pounds, 10 times. You can do it! Feel free to add me as a friend. I'm a former WW member too, occasionally fall off the wagon, and want to lose weight while still enjoying life!

I can relate to you and how you are feeling. This is a huge step and it is great you did write this. Working out may not be easier but I can definitely say it gets easier. You sound like you have a great life and Im sure you are an amazing person. You can do anything you put your mind too and just keep telling yourself that you can do it and youll make it through your workout. I would recommend starting off slow. Do one week by changing one week in your diet and workout and increase the changes as the weeks go so its a gradual change. I notice that works better for me than starting off big and shocking my body. Good luck.

I too have a large amount of weight to lose, but I've got a good start on it....been here around 20 weeks and am down by 46 lbs........already have had many NSVs....I know you can do this.......friend request sent!

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You must learn to forgive yourself and move on, every day if needed. It is a painful cycle . . . fall off wagon, feel guilty, fall further off wagon, feel even worse. Feel ashamed eat some more . . . I have done it all and it was not until I learned to forgive myself, be honest with myself and deal with the issues that caused me to gain weight that I found success. I have lost 36ish pounds over the last year and a half.

^^ THIS!!!!!!!!!

See! Look at all the people who are willing to help you out. Isn't that great! I too had 100 lbs to lose. Actually more like 107 to get down to 140 lbs. At this date I have lost 45 lbs. It helps to log in here everyday and count those calories. If you count the calories as you eat them, you'll be more successful. Please feel free to add me as a friend. I also write some really good blogs!

I feel your discouragement. Been there ... done that diets or workout programs. I have read other peoples motivation stories and how this worked for them or that and when I try it, NOTHING!! happens for me!
I am the same way, the life of the party, I make everyone feel great! But just like you, in the inside I feel horrible. My husband is the same. No one is more beautiful than me, He loves me at any size ... blah blah blah ... He really is wonderful but that is all I hear.
So here I am.
When I meet my husband, I had a rock hard body, fit and healthy. Flash forward not even two years and I went from firm and 150lbs to flabby and 200lbs. When I hit 200, that was it for me!!!! Something had to change. No one believes me when I tell them that I was that weight. Because I am tall I guess I can hide it well, but not so well that I have people asking me if I am pregnant!!!
To tell you what really got me on the right path was God. I know it sounds funny, but truly, He is what is getting me through it. I pray to Him for everything else, and I thought to myself. "I have never asked God to help with my weight" So I did.
I also, Under His guidance so-to-speak, started the Medical Weight Loss program. I just started a week ago. But before I did I started to slowly work out on my own. Right now I am 194.4lbs. Not a huge accomplishment, but I am taking it!!! My clothes are still tight and still a bit flabby, but I feel good!!!!
My goal is to loss 30lbs by mid August. Have a big family reunion type deal in Texas. I want everyone to see me the way I was at my wedding.
So my encouragement to you is this .. Pray ...
Give yourself credit when you lose even just 1lb.
It starts from the inside. (Easier said then done)
WRITE YOUR GOALS OUT!!!! Make small goals and complete them. Once they are complete, make new and bigger goals, complete those and so on!!!!
Do not compare yourself to others and defiantly do not compare others results on the same workouts/shakes or weight loss diets. Everyone is uniquely different!
For example :Body by V - everyone was raving on how good it was. My best friend lost 7lbs in one week, so I bought it from her and tried it ...3 months later .. nothing. Zero!!! I lost nothing!!! I was so frustrated!!!! I made myself stop working out b/c of it. I said "What is the point".
But I got over it and moved on ... 3 months later ... here I am!!! Using this app to keep myself focused, back at my gym for at least 30 min to an hour 4 to 5 days a week. I have Accountability now which I didn't before!

I hope this helps!!!!

Add me as a friend - I'm on my first week

I have been on this site for a few months now and have been learning alot. Like everyone else, we all have our bad days. I have short term goal coming up and really need some support and encouragement from people. My younger brother just got engaged and although there is no date set yet, I am expecting he will get married sometime next spring to fall. That gives me minimum 8 months to trim down and look fabulous for the family pictures. Please feel free to add me as your friend, even though I don't know you. As much support as I need, I am here to help support you in your goals.

Don't be afraid to see your doc about antidepressants. I couldn't do it otherwise. All the support in the world, all the friends, all the good nutrition doesn't matter when my brain chemistry is out of balance.