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How Making CHOICES Has Helped Me Lose Over 80 pounds.
After losing so much weight, I’ve had to buy new things and I often find myself trying on dresses, jeans and shirts, dress slacks and blouses. High heels. When I get dressed, I examine myself from all angles. I am very pleased. I am wearing wedges and a wrap dress. How very cute I am. Then I go out into the world and face…
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Calling IBD/IBS/Motility Disorders Sufferers
Hello. I invite everyone who suffers from a digestive disorder to come together and support each other. It is hard enough to deal with food when you are food-obsessed, but when you are suddenly unable to eat anything that you love and are forced to deal with food in ways you've never imagined, it can be overwhelming. If…
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The Motivation to Really Change
I’ve been thinking about why so many people ask for help motivating themselves and how my own “motivation” fits into my weight loss success. I read a lot of posts by women looking for motivation. There are entire threads devoted to this topic. I also read posts from folks looking for “accountability buddies.” They want…
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Success? Or Self-Sabotage?
A MFP friend wrote me today asking for advice about her birthday party. Here is what I told her— When I have a party, I pretty much know I'm going to overindulge. And I don't do anything special to prepare. I do not “work out” for an extra three hours every day the week before. I do not believe in “banking” calories. Doing…
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Wake Up! The True Cost of FATSICK
I want to share with you the hard lessons, the hard truth of obesity. There is a cost to fatness. There is a price that you may pay if you get fat and stay fat and then by an heroic effort lose all that fat. While it is possible that you will be one of the lucky ones who bounces right back from a 100 lb loss with six pack…
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Need a Handle on Maintaining
First Question-- So, I'm ready to maintain, for now. I have a range, but in MFP, as far as I can tell, there is no setting for the fluctuations. Every time I gain a bit I have to go back in and adjust my goals so that I'm not maintaining the higher weight. Do you guys do this, or do you set a custom goal to maintain and…
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How Making Real Changes Led to My 87 Pound Loss
In March 2015, when I began MFP, I weighed 270 lbs. I am 5' 5.5" tall. I was 50 years old. I was the fattest I’d ever been but I did not think that I was ugly or gross or hideous. I mostly thought I was the Cat’s Meow. I took photos of myself all the time and fiddled with them and posted them on Facebook and on my website.…
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Making Room For Sweets!
I made a HUGE connection today. My counselor has told me several times to just make sweets a part of my food plan, but that seemed like a failure somehow. Lately I've been obsessed with Pop Tarts, that kind of awful obsessing that makes you miserable. So today I added sweets to my diary--one of my meals is blocked off for…
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Don't Set Yourself Up To Fail
Why does everyone want to lose weight so quickly, esp. when most of us have heard how unhealthy this is? And most of us have heard that weight lost rapidly is regained even more rapidly? I consistently read posts from women who set their calories at 1,200 when they could be eating 1,800 to lose weight. Or 1,500. Or 1,600.…
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On Difficulty and Hutzpah (or Improved Binging and What a Good Boyfriend a Donut Makes)
On again, off again. On again. Off. Off. Off. On again. Following a food plan, finding my way past binging and binging and obsessing and despairing and by turns feeling entirely equal to the situation, to eating on a saucer or spooning my ice cream into tiny bowl, to gladly eating my Weight Watchers Lite Jalapeno Cheese…
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Sugar is my BFF. Learning to LOVE Food, Even Sugar.
Last week was a hard one—lots of food shame and guilt bubbling up to the surface. Yesterday, I went in for counseling with a head swirling with angry/sad thoughts—bad food thoughts, food shame thoughts, self-loathing thoughts. But what happened during the session surprised me. My therapist, after some discussion, said, “So…
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Overeating and Still Losing Weight?
Anybody else overeat, a LOT, and still lose weight? I don't overeat all the time, but I do go over goal often, usually by 200-300 calories. I recently realized that I have been overestimating/"cushioning" on certain foods that I eat often, like butter. I also realized after I posted my success story the other day that I…
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Sedentary or Lightly Active?
When I started MFP, I set myself at "sedentary" because I moved very little. Now, a year later, I am getting in 10K steps 3-4 days a week. Some weeks I get 10K every day. Some days I go over. And since I have a Polar Loop, I have an activity goal, not just a step goal, and sometimes I hit my activity goal even if I don't…
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Lose 79 lbs and You May Start DANCING!
And Then She Started Moving When I was fat and sweaty. When I was tired and sluggish. When I began to have serious health issues. When I looked in the mirror at my feet. At my ankles. At my middle, my blubbery middle. When I did everything possible to make just ONE trip up the stairs with my food and drinks and purse and…
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FITBIT Question
I know lots of you use Fitbit and I am thinking about getting a Fitbit, but I have a question. Can you customize the messages, i.e., have the device say, "you did a great job," even if you only reach, say, 5,000 steps. Also, can I set my own goals, as in, 5,000 is a good day, 8,000 is a very good day, 10,000 + is an…
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67 Lbs Lost! How My Fitness Pal Has Helped Me Change My Life
To Everyone Who's In This With Me-- I started My Fitness Pal on March 13, 2015. When I began the program, I had to admit to myself, for the first time really, that I am a person who must record everything she eats for the rest of her life. My weight loss and my weight management program/food plan will always be one of…
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The Terrible Tragedy of Tooting Your Own Horn
No Resolutions. I wrote my little success story. People commented on my success story. Then headlong into + 800 calories over goal over and over days in a row so many of them, give me another cookie give me it now or I will snatch yours from your mouth down the long slide wax paper under my butt headlong falling into sugar…
