Joytriker

Getting on the scale and not believing how much you've lost! Going through your closet and finding clothes you outgrew being too large! Weighing less than your driver's license says you do!

I have just recently been diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure. Ironically I worked hard to drink up to 64 oz of water a day only to be told to restrict my fluids to 48 oz a day and that includes "anything that turns to liquid at room temperature, AND soups! I take Lasix 2 x a day as well as Aldactone 2 x a day. Two…

I needed to see that today! I am 64 and have lso been on every diest imaginable! I've been battling my weight since my second child was born nearly 36 years ago. You are inspirational! My downfall is getting the exercise in. I know it will help my weight loss but I can find every excuse under the sun not to. Last year I…

Try adding a dry drink mix to your water, like Crystal Lite or the generic variety.

I think it helps me to log my food before I actually eat it. If the calories seem too much I can change what I eat. If I don't remember to log after I eat I at least have a record of what I thought I was going to eat. Anything is better than nothing at all, right? Sometimes I plan my dinner and enter everything in the…

I did well on Weight Watchers for about one year. Then they changed the program and I had difficulty re-grouping my habits to eat according to the "new way". I too fell off the wagon and gained 15 pounds of the 35 I had worked so hard to lose:-( I just started on "myfitnesspal" last Saturday and I am very pleased with how…