I looked at your pic's and you look great...I'm so happy for you...Thank you for your Thread on here...You have probably have helped so many...Thank you again and God Bless

I've been here for about a few hours and have learned so much, I'll try to read everything! Thanks everyone for the tips.

Thank you! Your post was very helpful. This is my first day to this site. I am new to all of this. That calorie counter seems very helpful. But it seems that I cannot eat enough calories in the day which I know can make it difficult to lose weight also. It is around 2:30 in the afternoon and I am at 300 calories.

Hello All,
Donna here. Found this place among all the others, and thought this to be a good one. I gave up smoking 5 weeks ago, after 33 years. Along with that, I gained 20 pounds in the 5 weeks. I am over the withdraw area and now I am working on the weight. So far, I have lost 5.5 lbs. I look at it as every ounce lost, will add up to the pounds not needed. : )

Glad to be aboard.

Hi everyone,

I am new to this site and so far I have to say everything looks great! I look forward to sharing hints and tips in the future :-)

Jess xx

very helpful advice. I'm looking forward to seeing more advice like this.

Hi, i'm new and i have to much to read. I need to lose weight because i have a 3 year old.

Hi,
First time on site, very excited to have a supoort group to fight this fat

Hi I love your avatar... It's so beautiful.. Yes we are all on here for the same thing so yeah we can accomplish all this together..

I'm going to try my best to stick by these rules...
What happens if you go below 1200? I'm just curious. I definitely don't eat less than 1200... I usually end up eating barely any 'real food' calories and end up eating my way in sweets... It's really messed up and I need to do something about it.. I'm worried that I'm going to end up diabetic. b

The aliens will come get you if you go below 1200

Nah, some people do go below, but its advised not too without a doctors advice - eventually your metabolism will slow down to match and you will be starving and not loosing weight much, as soon as you get to your goal you will eat normally and pile on the lbs.
Ideally you should eat your maintaince calories or 500 or so below. This teachers you good eating habits (ie its not a diet) and your body will thank you for it. Use exercise to lop off another 500 calories

I'm new here, and I just wanted to thank everybody for all their comments. I'm looking forward to starting some good exercise and weight loss programs!

and we'll thank you for reading the forum rules and not putting advertising in your signature

Well, I apologize, I thought that links were allowed in the signatures? Anyway, I'm thinking about doing Aerobics with my wife, does anybody else do aerobics and are there usually men in those classes?

Hi everyone,

My name is rene, im 44yo from singapore. Just stumble unpon this forum and would like to get to know more people and share my journey in weightloss....

I believe there are many ways to loose weight but the most effective ones must be those which are sustainable.

Even since i was a kid ( teenage onwards ) i had weight problems. Mainly due to my eating habits. Went to the army and lost quite a bit of weight due to the vigorous physical training. However, after my army days , my weight shot up again and i couldn't control it for years.

My weight then was 100kg. ( im 1.7m tall )

When i was 25, someone told me about protein sparing diet. I knew it was very popular in the west. Being asian , i was a little sceptical but i tried anyway. The package consisted of protein powder, vitamins and other so call health food suppliments.

To my horror,I got even fatter due to the high protein diet which i was taking. I took all that was recommended in the package on top of my usual diet!!!

I was depress and demoralized even though i knew i had to loose those weight. ( i wanted to look good, i was only 25 then ) later, l realise that the slimming package that i bought was suppose to replace my normal meal and im suppose to eat just that!!! ( a little bit of normal food is allow though )

Well...to a food lover like me, this kind of lifestyle is not worth living for....haha.

Then i got innovative and started "designing" my own food group base on high protein and low carbohydrate. This allows me to eat the food i like to eat but of course i had to give up those which are bad for me. ( not difficult if you know how ) With that i can go eating what i like without putting on additional weight. ( believe me, there are many delicious high protein food around ) I also learn about the word ketosis and what it does for my body. With that, i went on to loose more than 10kg in a month and never look back since.

Today, almost 20years later. I am still very much in control of my weight at 75kg. I have not suffered from any of the symtoms many people asscociate with high protein intake. ( we can discuss that later )

I have learn to listen my body and know when i should stop munching on my favourite titbits....there is a correct formula to loss weight but only a practitioner of that formula can assure you success. Anything else is just hot air.

I'll be most willing to share with anyone who is serious about loosing weight without having to excercise yourself to death or go on a strict diet.


cheers,
rene