Jonslife Member

Thanks for all the kind words everyone! Glad to have so many new MFP Friends!

Heh, Bmoy, I saw your post and it inspired me to make one. I realized that I never really added people over the year i've been here and half of the people from the start are inactive.

I agree with ellie0123 your more likely to stick to it with active people, even subconsciously. Feel free to add me.

Are you on CPAP therapy for your Sleep Apnea? If not that will be one of the biggest factors in your weight loss. Quality sleep plays a huge part in the bodies ability to metabolize and function properly. I too suffer from severe sleep apnea and the difference in my quality of life was dramatic after CPAP. I used to sleep…

I understand how you feel. Food has been part of everything I do. The good part is it is all habitual which means it is something that you can make a point to change. What I really wanted to touch on was the sleep apnea. If you are not on a CPAP device, get on one. It will change your life. You will regain a lot of energy,…

Thank you qtgonewild. I should have added in my original post I suppose that please friend me! I was also wondering how you guys go about supporting each other. Do you do it via the news feed, mainly post on forums, or the groups?

I weigh in on Wen mornings when I see my weight doctor. There was a time when I wouldn't eat or drink or anything before that weigh in date. Then I realized it doesn't matter. The weight difference that having a healthy breakfast and some sort of drink in the morning is not going to make up for a "weak" week. It was just…

I just want to thank everyone who has read my post and taken the time out of their lives to send me words of encouragement, offer support, and share their own stories. I am really blown away by all of the outpouring of emotion from total strangers.

Bridgie101: Thank you for your response. I am right there with you about thinking about food, planning things around food. Hell i'll plan days ahead of time. Trying to find something to replace food with is difficult. Soyum: I do hope that you continue to make suggestions. I don't mean to come off as argumentative, but I…

I think I'd like to try this blogging thing. It's never been something I would have considered, but I don't really have anything left to hide so why not. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Jonslife

Please don't take this the wrong way, I truly do appreciate your input and suggestions, but I Trust Dr. Cheskin with my life. It's drastic, and it's extreme, and it is not something that I would maintain, but it does make the body use its fat reserves. This is life threatening for me, I blew my knee out last year, and the…

Thanks Shadus, Accountability is without a doubt my biggest issue. I told Dr. Cheskin, that he had to verify my weight each week, I am too good at gaming the system, as he calls it, or lying to myself, as I call it. I also make appointments a month in advance, which helps me not avoid going. Finally, I gave him my dad's…

Oh, that's pretty much everything I eat. It's not cheating because I lost weight, or it's ok because it has no carbs. Best way I've found to combat that is putting everything I eat, good or bad, into the food diary. At least you see the calorie count and you hold yourself accountable for what your eating. The longer you do…

Thanks for your post. I actually am surprisingly healthy. My thyroid is fine, and have a resting metabolic rate of around 3400 calories. My BP is borderline pre-hypertension, my insulin levels are good, and my cholesterol while high, will (historically) drop as the weight drops. The program I'm involved in (which I would…

It was a new experience for me. I've done these type of websites in the past, never got involved, never filled out the profile information, let alone post anything like this. I kept seeing the empty profile, and just went to fill it out. Then was like what the heck, i'll go write a post and say hi. Then all of a sudden I…

She has an athletic build. She swam through high school, and coached a swim team through college. She does 5k's and triathlons in the summer. Wet met when I wasn't heavy, but she has never made weight an issue. Even defending me before. She wants me to be around for a long time, and I want to be around with her. I didn't…