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Been a long time
Since I have been to this group. I used to be here all the time and
believe it or not I lost 70 pounds but....... a variety of things happened, including an injury and all the weight is back. Some days I can't believed it happened other days I KNOW how it happened but I am back and I am trying again. I do miss all the people that used to post here but I have noticed that amongst the Spam andd advertisments there are a few people posting. If anyone knows of any other websites or support sites please let me know by posting them. I am going to need all the help, advice and encouragement I can get. Thanks |
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Been a long time
On Jun 11, 3:10*pm, DestinyintheDark wrote:
Since I have been to this group. I used to be here all the time and believe it or not I lost 70 pounds but....... a variety of things happened, including an injury and all the weight is back. Some days I can't believed it happened other days I KNOW how it happened but I am back and I am trying again. *I do miss all the people that used to post here but I have noticed that amongst the Spam andd advertisments there are a few people posting. If anyone knows of any other websites or support sites please let me know by posting them. I am going to need all the help, advice and encouragement I can get. *Thanks Yes, most of us have been there and done that...lost weight, then regained it. The thing is, you have to change your lifestyle and make the commitment to not only lose the weight, but do the maintenance. In other words, you need to diet all the rest of your life. There are lots of pitfalls, but if you already lost the weight once, you know how to do that. Then, you need to modify the weight-loss diet just slightly, but you can you need to be ever-vigilent. If you stop exercising, start overeating, stop checking your weight, these are 3 cardinal signs that you are yo-yoing and will head back up. Next thing you know, your clothes don't fit right and you are heavy again. I have done that many times...until 4 years ago now, when I finally made that lifestyle change. For me it was a combination of things...retirement, changing to vegetarianism, although neither one of these is necessary of course. What is necessary is the decision...a firm, no cheating commitment to never gain weight again. That involves knowing exactly how many calories you can have and sticking with that....for me, that meant NEVER overeating..not for Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, etc. I eat exactly 2025 calories everyday, monitor my weight, exercise 6X a week and simply will not allow myself to gain even a single pound. Lots of people disagree with the NEVER overeating idea, but all I can say is that since overeating is the problem, we all look for any and all ways to try and get by with overeating even if it is just once. Problem is...it is never just once. Once becomes twice, twice becomes more and the next thing you know. For we who have an eating problem, overeating even once is like cheating on your spouse "just once". You will go on to do it over and over...then feel like crap because you know you screwed up. Just don't allow yourself to cheat...ever! That's what worked for me and it is my advice. Being sick could be certainly be a problem, and I am never sick, but if I were, I would compensate by eating even less if I couldn't work out. No excuses for being fat. dkw |
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Been a long time
On Jun 11, 5:41*pm, " wrote:
On Jun 11, 3:10*pm, DestinyintheDark wrote: Since I have been to this group. I used to be here all the time and believe it or not I lost 70 pounds but....... a variety of things happened, including an injury and all the weight is back. Some days I can't believed it happened other days I KNOW how it happened but I am back and I am trying again. *I do miss all the people that used to post here but I have noticed that amongst the Spam andd advertisments there are a few people posting. If anyone knows of any other websites or support sites please let me know by posting them. I am going to need all the help, advice and encouragement I can get. *Thanks Yes, most of us have been there and done that...lost weight, then regained it. The thing is, you have to change your lifestyle and make the commitment to not only lose the weight, but do the maintenance. In other words, you need to diet all the rest of your life. There are lots of pitfalls, but if you already lost the weight once, you know how to do that. Then, you need to modify the weight-loss diet just slightly, but you can you need to be ever-vigilent. If you stop exercising, start overeating, stop checking your weight, these are 3 cardinal signs that you are yo-yoing and will head back up. Next thing you know, your clothes don't fit right and you are heavy again. I have done that many times...until 4 years ago now, when I finally made that lifestyle change. For me it was a combination of things...retirement, changing to vegetarianism, although neither one of these is necessary of course. What is necessary is the decision...a firm, no cheating commitment to never gain weight again. That involves knowing exactly how many calories you can have and sticking with that....for me, that meant NEVER overeating..not for Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, etc. I eat exactly 2025 calories everyday, monitor my weight, exercise 6X a week and simply will not allow myself to gain even a single pound. Lots of people disagree with the NEVER overeating idea, but all I can say is that since overeating is the problem, we all look for any and all ways to try and get by with overeating even if it is just once. Problem is...it is never just once. Once becomes twice, twice becomes more and the next thing you know. For we who have an eating problem, overeating even once is like cheating on your spouse "just once". You will go on to do it over and over...then feel like crap because you know you screwed up. Just don't allow yourself to cheat...ever! That's what worked for me and it is my advice. Being sick could be certainly be a problem, and I am never sick, but if I were, I would compensate by eating even less if I couldn't work out. No excuses for being fat. dkw Thanks for your reply---almost everyone that I know that lost weight and kept it off HAD to change their lifestyles forever! I wasn't ready to be not fat mentally-- totally unprepared for the attention of the opposite sex. Learning more all the time about changing my life! |
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