pennoxford Member

You can absolutely do it! Just give up your chips, sugary drinks and candy, add some exercise, knock out enough calories and you'll be there in plenty of time for your trip. If you haven't visited the website losertown , it motivates me when I can see my possibilities with restricting calories and makes me not want to…

Yes, less food=less gas! Also, my eyes have changed and clothes in bigger sizes than I’m currently wearing look giant...and it may be a size too large that I would have thought looked like a child’s pants when I was larger. My wrinkles are awful, too! Still happy to be smaller and working like crazy to keep going now. I’m…

I guess that’s it, because it doesn’t make sense in any other way. It’s just so strange to see people unhappy about my happiness—I don’t get it and yet I guess it’s a natural reaction.

Way to go!!! You’ve come so far and good for you!!!

Isn’t that strange?? People who are supportive generally and love me will look at me and not say a word. Some will say something mean about my clothes or shoes, and skip over the 80 pound loss. My favorite is the diet lecture from people who are fatter than I am—my diet is unsustainable or unhealthy, etc.. Why aren’t they…

Down 80.3 today...2 years of trying.

That sounds exactly like it!! I hate it!

Way to go!! You look great!!

Constantly needing new clothes. I pull my jeans out of the dryer and don’t know who they belong to. They’re now the smallest pants in a house full of teenage boys and grown men. I’m so thankful and determined to get to -100. I was so fat, and now I’m about to averageish. It’s a great feeling!

I never knew how hard chairs are—my butt hurts all the time, and I keep somehow sitting on my own buttcheeks wrong? I keep having to stand up and sit down again to keep it from hurting. Gross!!!

Oh wow wow wow!!!!! Way to go and what an inspiration!! I’m so happy for you and can’t even imagine how much better you feel!

Thank you all! Yes, I’m lucky to have such a sweet supporter that he jumped in with me when he didn’t have a lot to lose. Now he’s so glad he did!

Thanks you guys! I experienced the low carb rebound last thanksgiving and then it just didn’t work when I tried it again. I went to CICO only, eating little bits of healthy food when hungry only, and that finally started my loss again. I think the number of calories in low carb diets just were too much for me, and low…

I have PCOS and lost weight and exercised to have 3 kids. The weight gain and PCOS is a self-fueling cycle of harder to lose/gain fat/fat produces estrogen/estrogen grows cysts instead of releasing eggs from ovaries and around and around it goes. Losing some weight helped me dramatically and babies 2 and 3 were not…

Thank you so much! I feel younger too, except for my new wrinkles!

Thank you! You can do it! It’s amazing what a difference it makes in your whole body!

Wow!! You look great! Keep it up!

I’m going for 15 pounds by mid-December when my friend comes to visit. She hasn’t seen me for about 20 pounds, so 35 off would be a huge victory and put me down 83 total. Exercise required!

I can sit in all sorts of strange, folded up positions, and it’s fascinating for some reason. I sit in my office chair with my feet on it and knees on the armrests. I don’t know why it’s fun but it is. Also, my butt hurts all the time when I sit, I’m cold, and I don’t freak out when I have to sit next to someone and worry…

Thank you!!! You’re too kind.

Thanks!! They’re pretty awesome and totally supportive. They have my genes and two of them are now slimmer also. The third is skinny so far, lucky kid!!

Totally real! I don’t think people even know they’re doing it, and then my reaction was to sit down and shut up. It was a vicious cycle, and I have to remember now not to be too loud and obnoxious. I fail frequently.

Aww...thank you!! That’s very sweet.

Lowcarber49, I started low carb, less than 20g/day and then was around 49g with 1200 calories. Now I just eat tiny bits of what I want and try to stay under 1200. If I cheat, I fast from Saturday night to Monday at lunch. It’s not hard after you’re used to eating almost nothing.

Oh shoot!! That does it!! She’s beautiful, and I would just like to look like her grandmother!

Thank you all!! I’m about 5’8” tall, and I guess my best tip is to put yourself first for a while and stop eating garbage and get up and move. I have tried to lose weight forever, and always got back in the vicious cycle of eating/feeling bad about it/eating more because it didn’t matter. Now it really matters and can set…

Thank you!! Have a successful week!!

Good for you!! My best advice is to find a way to put yourself first and realize that you’re totally worth the effort. Find another way to fill the empty spot that food occupies, and just realize that you can never eat the way you do now again. I did low carb, then low cal/low carb, and now low calorie and exercise. When…

Thank you all!! You’re too kind!

Thank you...the before is awful, but keeps me motivated for sure!