Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
You are so right on the losing it slow thing.
All the other times before that I tried to lose weight always failed for the very reasons that you listed. I would have a huge loss the first few weeks, (I was practically starving myself
), and then the losses would go steady, (I started eating enough
calories to survive again
) and then BAM! it would start going up again (getting discouraged because the weight stopped coming off so fast so went back to old habits
). But not this time. It's weird this time around. I guess you could say that I had an epiphany of sorts. I knew that I was over-weight and that I needed to do something about it but wasn't all that ready too. Then one day I was ready and that is where I started from.
Congrats on you for taking it slow and winning the race as well.
And thanks again for the encouragement!
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Originally Posted by gpucci  Right there really did it for me. That is the healthiest way to lose too. A lot of people (we hav some heavier women at work here) get discouraged.
Last year we had a biggest loser contest which was my catalyst to lose weight. I was at 215lbs!! After the first week I had lost 2lbs, and the heaviest ladies (over 300lbs) lost like 10lbs. I ended up winning the contest, but the women were really letting me have it after the first week. I think some of them started to cheat because they figured they were losing a lot of weight in one week that if they ate such and such this week it would be OK. After about three weeks tehre were women gaining some of that weight they lost back, and I was still "slow and steady 1-3lbs a week) After 10 weeks I had lost 25lbs and was down to 190, and won the competition. The second closest to me was like 7lbs. All the others had gained weight back because they were cheating after that first week thinking they could still lose a ton of weight walking or whatever, than got discourage after he second week they lost nothing.
Stay strong Bell!!! you can do it. The first step is to know it's going to take hard work, and that a healthy weight loss is about 1-3lbs a week.
After my 215 to 170 transformation I have been at somewhat a wall. I hit 170 about Thanksgiving, and since then I am down to 167. I am gettign closer to my natural weight. I am 5'10-5'11 and have a broad skeleton. I think anythign lower than 160 is too skinny for me.
Sorry for posting so much. That last paragraph caught my attention and brought up all sorts of memories  |
