well Thank You for the encouragement...I have been working my butt off!
I definatly didnt make any life changes before...I guess subcontiously I thought I had become fat immune...
This time I want to know as much as I can...I have spent hours reading calorie info anything I can come across. If knowledge is power Im goin for all I can get! But it is sad to realize how bad the food I have loved is for me.
From what I just read the mexican food I eat once a week is my biggest killer!
I wont be going el ranchito any time soon...
Anyway...I am counting them all and being as honest with myself as I can!
Congratulations on your life changes...I know this is not an easy thing!

Congratulations on the 5 pounds! It's true that this is about life changes.

I think it's good to know that despite loving food that is unhealthy, after a while of eating well, it often happens that we just lose interest in the other stuff. There are a lot of fatty foods I used to salivate over that I have no interest in, or even feel repelled by now. I notice and enjoy traces of sweetness in healthy foods but find some kinds of things that have sugar added just seem sickly. That is a very big change for me!! I don't grieve for my lost enjoyments because they are totally outweighed by all the new ones!

thanx felici...I have really been reading up on the foods Ive been eating and I am feeling very repulsed!!!Knowledge is a great thing! I am considering going vegitarian, but as a true southerner it would be hard to give up fish/seafood! Other than that I am disusted with what I have eaten!


I went to the grocery store and spent too much on organic foods and produce...then I came home and had a little too much of it! lol at least it was a salad but there was lobster and shrimp and dressing on it Anyway my hubby is all for it...what a guy and it will be hard to mess up with only healthy foods and a cycle around!
I burned enough calories for an army of fat me's...My hubby and I made yet another golfish pond this weekend...we used bricks and cement ect. so it was hard work but it sure was worth it! I mixed most of the morter and cement so my arms and back are burning!!!


Tomorrow I plan to weigh again, trying to cut back to once a week or so! I seem to obsessed with the darn thing...

Way to go!!!


That really all sounds terrific!


(Even weighing less often gets easier the more you do it. I weigh once a week but actually forgot one week recently!

However when you're making massive changes like you are, it's only natural to want to see the pay off! Most of us find it causes more trouble than it's worth to weigh frequently though. )

Yeah I really seem to fluxuate alot so I am steering clear of over weighing it gets me depressed...

Life style change is the key word here - it is a life style change - one step at a time - giving up things little by little - it can be done and it is such a sence of accomplishment when you sit back and take notice of all the changes you have slowly made adn how much better you feel and look...

Using the scale can be obsessive - that is for sure - I weight in in the ams and record it here - and after work the first thing I do is weight myself to see where my weight is sitting and then I weigh myself before bed - I know where my weight can flecuate and such and how much I can go up and so on - lol - obession ???

ANyway congrats on your 5 lbs tha tis awesome - I need to start gettin back into Tae Bo - I was thinkin it is a shame i dont have a work out on dvd so I can do it in my room but i remebered I have the lower body boot camp - that i can do in my rooma nd it is alot of floor work so it would be nicr on carpet...anyway Im rambling now

I will add oyut o my subsription list and drop in regularly....I will need to read into your diary more and see what your exercis routine is - I am guessing it is alot of Tae Bo - maybe you can motivate me to start doing it agian ...

Well I gave you rep however i said wat to go instead of way to go and I cant change it I caught it afterwarsd - sorry - lol

Thanx ciderelly...I dont even know what rep power means yet...newb!
I really appreciate you stopping by!I have done tae bo and the cycle for the last 3 days...my hubby said this morning that my legs are looking alot more toned but I am so sore!!!

So it is day one of week two...6 days without soda!!! I have been exersizing at least 3 hours a day, and working in my garden even longer than that. I waited until this morning to stand on the scale again and I couldnt beleive my eyes! 10 pounds in 7 days! can this be right? I lost 10 pounds!!!! I am so happy! But I quit eating meat with the exception of seafood...I have been taking in between 1000 and 1200 calories, mosty raw produce and I also have been keeping track of every single calorie in and out...So its been alot of work but It sure is paying off! I keep going back to the scale to see it was a dream...

help me I am 320 pounds 5'2 help me !!!myspace...sweethazeleyes63......please i need support
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Hi sweettea! I am here for ya! do you have a diary?
I have been following what the more successfull people on here are doing, and its working! This week I counted every single calorie I took in or expended out and with enough exersize I lost 10 pounds in 7 days...You should deffinatly check out some diaries on here. There are alot of success stories...like M2M,t2trucker and wishes(plus many others)...they have got it going on!
My myspace is www.myspace/candi29924 my name is candi not too many of those on there i dought...what was my mother thinking...that hippie!

all of a sudden im a junior member??? what happened?

Looks like your number of posts has pushed you out of the newb group!


Congratulations on the 10 pounds. That is a great start to your weight loss. You deserve to feel very happy and proud!

That is a massive number of hours to be exercising!

The really best thing of all is that you have made up your mind to make permanent ongoing changes to support a healthy you. That's a great gift to yourself and all who care about you now and will care in the future.

One happy week down and many to come!!

I absolutely agree with Felici!
Words of wisdom!

You are ROCKING girl!

Thanx guys I am happy! I think having succeded before(losing 130) and then gained back the 80-85 pounds is actually key this time, I know from experience that the more I sweat overall the better I feel and subsiquently look. And more importantly that there is no end, no days off so to speak. Making the right decisions turns to living the right lifestyle...everyday!
Ever since I was a very small child my weight has determined everything I did or could do or would be willing to do...now that I am 25 I realize how much I missed...especially the confidence issues. This is where it ends, I swear!
This is day 7 with no sodas and I am telling you the skin on my face is so clear! I ususally have red faint dots all over especially when I get hot,I dont know if it was the soda or the junk food, but its gone. And my bloodpressure is down already...even though I quit taking my blood pressure medicine more than a month ago now! I cant wait to go back to the doctor and hear that my blood pressure is normal!
I did one and a half hours on the cycle today and one and half hours of cardio, didnt do much in the garden. But it takes me an hour just to water!
Took in about 1100 calories, two big salads with imitation crab meat and no dressing...and sadley the rest of my calories went to coffee...I gonna keep cuttin back on that coffee!