nannybubbles

understand completely... i used to feel better having lost a few pounds and felt the job was done... which is hilarious!! every morning now i ask myself the question ... fatter or thinner? if the answer is thinner, as it always is, i drag my sorry *kitten* out of bed and stomp down to the beach ... and in this weather it…

you know what.?.. well done... you have managed to get people apologising for asking advice on eating... on a support forum for healthy living.... and you know what else? we all need help from time to time... certainly everybody here... and you know what else? i started by making it all up as i went along.... joined mfp on…

It's coming up to a year from when I started... some time in April or May, I can't exactly remember... probably because I felt so low and expected to give up as I have so many times before!! To follow my now usual route and reach the seafront it entails zigzagging down steps along the cliff face...I remember waddling along…

A lovely friend that I hadn't seen since before I started, visited for a catch up and when I opened the door she started crying! and as we were hugging she was shaking like a leaf saying: OMG ! OMG !

i just posted this to answer some one else, but it ties in with what u are all saying... i started at 314 and at only 5' 3" i looked like a bowling ball... now i'm 205, looking like a slightly smaller bowling ball! ) with ONEderland my next goal... but being stuck, tired and a little frustrated, this is how it started…

hi.. so sorry to hear you're not feeling your best... i am no expert, but i am very old!! so i have been there .. done that and got so many T shirts you wouldn't believe and i am happy to tell you how i feel about it.... i do agree with previous comments too about low calories not always doing the trick... i found just…

i sometimes just put my earphones in and just make it up as i go along to my playlist.... not a pretty sight but you should see me when Uprising - Muse comes on.... marching and swinging the old hips...rocking on the spot, punching the air, even my face has a work out with attitude... a cross between the SAS, Shakira,…

I found I couldn't actually do it!! Not because I feel bad, but I have only in the last few weeks, conciously, felt any confidence whatsoever.... still a long way to go (just over 100lbs down and maybe 50 - 60lbs left to go?) but I have recently been in new company of reaaalllly attractive people and I felt fine, but…

Congratulations... keep it up.... so jealous of your profession!!!

It IS a really big deal...or rather a smaller big deal??? Well done!

You had a lovely smile before, but just look at it now... you were doing it for the camera, but now you just can't help yourself !!!! Well done on all your hard work... worth every drop of sweat... huge congratulations.

I have 4 sons and can totally relate to your story.... I tried diets so many times and failed.... I have now lost over 100lbs BUT... I am 57 and the best support I can give you is DO IT NOW....don't wait as long as I did because quite frankly it is such a waste.... I am really glad I am doing it now, but wish I had done it…

Huuuuge congrats to the original poster! I thought I would try running because I absolutely love walking, at pace now .... but I too hated it so thought I'd stick to walking... I am doing the color run in a couple of weeks time, while on holiday in the states and I am sooo looking forward to it ... in my case it will be…

A lovely warm bath has always been my personal pick me up and now, because I displace so much less water, I can have it deeper so there is a lot more water than there is me and it feels fantastic !

Can't stop laughing... I love it!

I hate my bingo wings but I have come to the conclusion that the skin was all there before just full of vile fat.... so which is better?and like you, I don't mind any of it... inconsequential price to pay for all the good things. Just want to add that your effort and achievement is really worth flagging up... 170lbs down…

thanks for taking the time to help.... i had no idea even how many so that's really useful... at least i can pretend to look as if I know what I am doing! this is going to sound like such a dumb question, but the machines with handles, are they cross trainers ... a bit like holding ski poles? and looking at your profile I…

A pea who is thoroughly ashamed of himself.

Well done... if you are honest with yourself, any day that ends around target is a great day! I don't know if this helps, but I tend to fill my food diary out for the whole day after I have had my breakfast... I think about what I have in or what I fancy enough to go out to get, then plan it all in.... that way I don't…

many congrats..... my new daughter in law has signed me up to do the 5k color run while i am staying with them and i can't wait... i intend to have my t -shirt / shorts and trainers framed because this time last year i couldn't even walk 150 metres !

hiya... i reached 100lbs gone and now my scales have refused to play ball for the last couple of weeks ... then over the weekend I felt so much thinner !... almost all of a sudden and now my scales show a couple more gone... all the research and facts and figures still don't seem to fully understand how incredible the…

Me too... and for anyone daunted when starting out at walking etc I just read this and loved it. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everyone on the couch!

.. and lo! it was opened unto him... hi there.. no problem just think people will find it boring actually as i am a very repetitive eater.... i have fads of things i like and pretty much repeat till i think of something else... when i first started out learning about my eating, i realised that portion control was my…

Craig... you just made an old lady swear out loud!!! and it was a real bad one! CONGRATULATIONS!! I hope you like yourself becasue you are going to have to live with yourself a whole lot longer now!! Seriously well done.

Hi Cass... I'm not sure how to post pics here, so I have changed my profile photo, I hope u can see it..... I walk DOWN to the beach (I live on the Isle of Wight) pretty much every morning so, of course it means that my walk home is all UP... I walk up this hill every day now, because I WANT to be healthier (and…

hi all... i am an ex couch potato....102lbs gone which i didn't ever feel would be possible, but another ??? not really sure... 60lbs??? to go....today i feel sooooo good that i have realised that anything is possible now... i might even run for prime minister of GB !! happy to add anyone and if i can encourage or support…

Hi there... I just wanted to reply to let you know that it makes perfect sense.... I can completely relate to this... I am bigger and older than you, and please don't get me wrong either, I am loving it... getting my life back, but I am finding it is at least as much an emotional experience as it is a physical one ... Good…

[/quote] Holy Hell! if Only... I wish this were an option sadly, I don't think it will be but you have given me some hope. [/quote] Just want you to know that i saw your profile that you have done an incredible job.... respect!

hi from me on the isle of wight too...