I would love to hear your SUCCESS STORIES?!


Question: I would love to hear your SUCCESS STORIES?
I would love to listen to everyone's weight loss success stories.

Please do tell :-)...I'm all ears

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well mines a bit long, i hope you dont mind:)

it started out with my family mocking me for being ""slightly"" chubby. i mean i ate ALOT. i must have eaten about 3000 calories a day on average. but i was like 12 years old.
anyways they mocked me and laughed at me, and lowered all my selfconfidence. what did i do? i ate more and more and more. soon i wa sabout 5'4ISH and 140 pounds. i was what i called- FAT.

of course they continued to mock me. their world revolved around FOOD. FOOOODd.
then my mom bough me a treadmil and started to tell me what to eat. did i treadmil? sure. i burned about 150 calories a day.did i listen about the food? no. i continued to scarf down my pasta with cheese and cream sauce.

the one day-- summer was coming up. the summer of last year actually. then it HIT me. i had to lose weight.

i started to diet, scraping along, baisically doing whatever i could do. i was burning about 500 calories a day, and eating normally- HEALTHY and i wasnt the slightest bit hungry.
soon i was in shape for the summer (5'5, 117 pounds), i was ready for that bikini. but the sECOND i stepped onto the beach-- i realized that my body wasnt as great as i thought it was. i had already adopted a healthy lifestyle-- so i wasnt about to destroy my body again.

soon i memorized EVERYTHING- (which i highly DONT recommend you doing, ill explain why in my story) i memorized the calories in every food, the vitamins, the fat, the protein the carbs!! i had eveyrthing down. then i learned every tip about excercising, what excercise does what-- i became obssessed with my weight.

i still am, nothing i could do about it. at the young age of 14 (about 2 weeks after my birthday) i started to count all my calories. of course this was not a good idea, as a kid i shouldnt have done that. i really did harm my health. i did.

i dont know what happened really-- i just started eating-- less. eating worse. iw as living on about 1000 calories a day-- in counting. eventually it snapped, that i wasnt getting enough nutrients in the day, and started to eat more. i raised it to 1700 and felt good about it. and now i just dont count anymore. becaue NOW i believe in balance.

i excercised, toned up (at one point i started sprinting which built up WAY to much muscle, so i had to stop) and im still toning up. i am now 5'7, 112 pounds. yeah i dont weight much-- i admit it:) but im proud of my body, and so should everyone else.

you know that your the first person to ever hear my complete story? i was always very cosed about this, but it feels good to know someone is listening and learning fomr my misteaks. dont count your calories and DONT become obseesed. dont freak out over calories. TRY TO HAVE BALANCE< learn fomr my misteaks. hold you head up-- your beautiful in every way. your gorgoes-- you need to see that. i tell that to everyone who asks: HOW DO YOU STAY SO THIN?? HOW DO YOU HAVE SUCH A GREAT BODY?? i tell them its nothing but loving yourself, and hard hard work.

WHEWW!! that ran pretty long!!
its also hard to believe that in this verymonth-- i started my diet, a year ago.

did you know im 14 now?? yeah, pretty messed up.

good luck hun, whatever your goals may be:)



OK:

Brief backstory. I was a good athlete in high school, played several sports, was district champion in the 500 m freestyle swim. I continued to live an active life in my 20s, with triathlons, lots of team sports. Then I got married, settled down and started working like crazy on my career, grad school with two little kids to support. I started eating fast food all the time and never exercising at all. Went from 205 lean pounds on my wedding day at age 29 to 268 fat out of shape lbs at age 40.

I decided I had to make a big change, but I didn't want to lose weight in an extreme way, I wanted to build a permanent, sustainable lifestyle that will last my the rest of my life. So I decided to start with one healthy thing, focus completely on that, and when that healthy thing was an established habit, I would make another healthy change, and continue until I was living in a healthy way.

I also decided that I wasn't just going to deprive myself. For every unhealthy thing taken away, I was going to add in one healthy habit.

I started with drinking 2-3 liters of water a day. This almost eliminated my soda drinking, since I was never thirsty. That's all the change I made for the first two months. And I dropped about 10 lbs in those two months. Not huge, but a good start, and I had broken the soda habit and started a habit that continues with me to this day. Drinking enough water is now an automatic activity for me.

Then I started walking for 30 minutes a day after dinner, and limiting myself to an 1.5 hours of TV a day instead of the usual 3 or so I would watch on any night that I didn't have something else going on. This meant I had to start going to the library to get books to read, or looking for places to go to spend my leisure time, and being more active in general. I also started walking those 30 minutes each night after dinner with my wife, which we found more enjoyable than sitting together watching TV.

I won't bore you with the entire story, but I made change after change, and lost weight pretty gradually but steadily. There was a time when I backslid for a month or two, but recovered and kept going. I'm not losing weight as fast as I was before because I"ve gotten pretty close to my original healthy body weight, but I've lost a total of 58 lbs since I bottomed out at 268 lbs. I lose maybe a pound every month or two while continuing to live a healthy lifestyle, and I have to say that it's been fairly painless process, and I feel really great.

The bad habits I've dropped: soda, deep fried foods, eating too much bread, watching too much TV, too much internet usage, eating late at night, probably some others that I've forgotten.

The good habits I've picked up: eating mostly from the three healthiest food groups, which are lean meat, vegetables, and whole grains; finding ten healthy dinner recipes that I really like and rotating through them about every two weeks; eating a small dinner and saving food for lunch the next day instead of going out to a restaurant to eat; eating my biggest meal at noon because that's when the body's metabolism is the highest; always looking for new healthy foods to try to incorporate in my meals; exercise 5 times a week, including weight lifting; going for a leisurely walk after dinner; drink a glass of water every morning as soon as I wake up and continue drinking water through the day; preparing a snack of sliced raw vegetables to eat in the morning; eating all food before 7 pm; read for at least a half hour before bed; sleep by 10 pm and up by 6 pm; acquiring a taste for plain yogurt with a little bit of honey and using it as a healthy snack.

That's my story. I'm so glad I've done all this, and I don't mind that it's taken longer than some people would want when they start losing weight. The main thing is that these things are permanent things I like. These days I can barely drink 10 oz of soda without feeling a bit sick. If I don't exercise, I feel deprived and eager to get back into my exercise routine. I haven't done any crazy diets because I wanted to "lose 30 lbs fast", I don't care about fast, I care more that the fat goes off and stays off. I'd rather it be a pound a month that goes off and stays off instead of yoyoing around.



I lost 75 pounds in a year. First 20 pounds over three months by exercising a bit more and just not pigging out. Then after a few more months I got really serious, ate like a gastric bypass patient and got exercise every day with weights and running and biking and lost another 55 pounds over the course of 4 months. Got down to my exact goal weight, right in the healthy range on the BMI chart.
It's been easy to maintain now that I've made a habit of eating healthy and getting regular exercise.
It was really hard and took lots of discipline to lose it. But now I just weigh myself once a week and make minor adjustments as needed (believe it or not, now I sometimes accidently lose a pound or two some weeks and have to try to eat more).




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