Healthy Weight Loss

[Zimmeh]

Good Evening Sunshyne,

A co-worker and I were talking yesterday about how she is trying to lose 10lbs to fit into her bridesmaid dress. I showed her a picture of me, from 2004, when I was over 200lbs on a 5'0" frame and she nearly fell over. She asked me why I had lost the weight and I told her, it was because I was fed up with having heart palpitations, problems breathing and being bloated all of the time. It will be five years come January 1st, 2012, that I have had a soda and I was drinking between 3 to 4 20oz bottles of Coke a day, before I went cold turkey; and I feel a helluva lot better today! I have since been able to beat heart disease, I can run up and down stairs until my knee gives out and I can walk almost 3 miles in about 30 minutes. I was telling my co-workers today, that I am shooting to lose another 20lbs by the time of the reunion, so I better get my ass in gear...I am enjoying reading Prevention magazine over the tabloids that my co-workers love to read when it is slow at work. When I start my new job next week, after training, I will have a set schedule so I can plan my workouts appropriately..

My next thing to give up is sweets..Which is going to be hard for me, since that is something I grew up on and is always available at my mom's house...

Yes we can do this and it does take, that first step to do it!

Congratulations to everyone and keep up the good work!!!!

Hugs,

Zimmy

Originally Posted by little_ms_sunshyne

Great Job GT! 6 pounds is a great loss and start!

Matthew ~ Happy to see you checking in. I hear ya when you say it seems tough. There are 2 things I want to tell u. The first being that any journey begins with a single step. Thats all it takes to get you going in the right direction. Second is that I would like to share a small bit of my journey. After being in an abusive 5 year relationship turned marriage, I found myself stepping on a scale and weighing 300 pounds. That was my heaviest ever! My immediate reaction was to eat. When I say eat, I mean I indulged in everything I wanted. My thought process was "fuck it" I had already gone that far and too hard to lose. One night, I was having trouble breathing, my feet were so swollen I couldnt walk, I could barely breathe....I stepped on that scale again. 305...I looked at myself in the mirror and told myself something that changed my life. I said "Today will be the last day of your life that you will weigh 305lbs" Over a year later, I kept my promise. I have lost 50 pounds. Yes I have had moments of weakness, but I maintain. Today, I am still striving to get myself healthy. I am more determined and seeing more results. All it took was a promise to myself and 1 Single Step in the right direction. Lets do this Matthew! We can do it together.

[Zimmeh]

Good Evening Everyone,

I had chicken soft tacos with Spanish rice and black beans on a flour tortilla for dinner tonight. I cooked in diced tomatoes and half of a green bell pepper with the chicken and let that cook with a little bit of taco seasoning while the rice was cooking. I made a small burrito out of the tortilla and I added a little bit of rice, black beans and chicken with a sprinkle of shredded lowfat mozzerella cheese. I had 3/4's of a cup of orange juice, to help with my blood sugar constantly dropping, with dinner and it filled me up...Now I want to go power walking, but I am afraid to, because of my sugar.

I will monitor how I feel and if I feel ok in the morning, I will go power walking then...

I can honestly say, all of the sodas, sweet tea and other sugary drinks is what messed up my blood sugar and they are something that I wish I had never drank...

Zimmy

[Rockinonahigh]

Yes,its the devils incarnete,so far I have only had a couple of diet cokes in the last fue days or what will total the amount of a couple of them..I take a sip hear and there but mostly drink water.No its not easy cause I use to love my diet cokes,I mean thay were diet cokes..werent they??Yesterday i was at the store and wanted something to drinl I reached in the cooler and got a bottle of water insted of the soda that was next to it.One small step at the time.AS for sugar I only occasionaly eat something..I injoy it then am done for a while,I had a huny bun a couple of weeks ago.

[Leigh]

Originally Posted by little_ms_sunshyne

Great Job GT! 6 pounds is a great loss and start!

Matthew ~ Happy to see you checking in. I hear ya when you say it seems tough. There are 2 things I want to tell u. The first being that any journey begins with a single step. Thats all it takes to get you going in the right direction. Second is that I would like to share a small bit of my journey. After being in an abusive 5 year relationship turned marriage, I found myself stepping on a scale and weighing 300 pounds. That was my heaviest ever! My immediate reaction was to eat. When I say eat, I mean I indulged in everything I wanted. My thought process was "fuck it" I had already gone that far and too hard to lose. One night, I was having trouble breathing, my feet were so swollen I couldnt walk, I could barely breathe....I stepped on that scale again. 305...I looked at myself in the mirror and told myself something that changed my life. I said "Today will be the last day of your life that you will weigh 305lbs" Over a year later, I kept my promise. I have lost 50 pounds. Yes I have had moments of weakness, but I maintain. Today, I am still striving to get myself healthy. I am more determined and seeing more results. All it took was a promise to myself and 1 Single Step in the right direction. Lets do this Matthew! We can do it together.

I think My very first order of business is to say that you, Sunshyne, have been a great inspiration to Me since I came into this thread and you never cease to amaze Me. To think that you were once 305 lbs really blows Me away, but since I am 374lbs its not too far off that mark but its much closer to 400lbs .......... a fact that I am not proud of but now its just a matter of really trying to lose this weight and take control of My life. I am kind of in an abusive relationship Myself right now but its not a romantic one; it has to do with My father and his emotional as well as mental abuse that I've dealt with for almost 18 years. He never fails to pick at Me about My weight and My eating habits yet he supports them and makes sure that certain things are in the house like he is sabotaging Me. He knows that I don't have the greatest willpower and when he sees that I've given in, he will either roll his eyes or smirk cuz he knows that I can be weak sometimes.

I'm slowly getting stronger one step at a time ........... the emotional ups and downs are not easy, but I'm getting there!!!!

Originally Posted by ZimmygLrL

Good Evening Sunshyne,

A co-worker and I were talking yesterday about how she is trying to lose 10lbs to fit into her bridesmaid dress. I showed her a picture of me, from 2004, when I was over 200lbs on a 5'0" frame and she nearly fell over. She asked me why I had lost the weight and I told her, it was because I was fed up with having heart palpitations, problems breathing and being bloated all of the time. It will be five years come January 1st, 2012, that I have had a soda and I was drinking between 3 to 4 20oz bottles of Coke a day, before I went cold turkey; and I feel a helluva lot better today! I have since been able to beat heart disease, I can run up and down stairs until my knee gives out and I can walk almost 3 miles in about 30 minutes. I was telling my co-workers today, that I am shooting to lose another 20lbs by the time of the reunion, so I better get my ass in gear...I am enjoying reading Prevention magazine over the tabloids that my co-workers love to read when it is slow at work. When I start my new job next week, after training, I will have a set schedule so I can plan my workouts appropriately..

My next thing to give up is sweets..Which is going to be hard for me, since that is something I grew up on and is always available at my mom's house...

Yes we can do this and it does take, that first step to do it!

Congratulations to everyone and keep up the good work!!!!

Hugs,

Zimmy

I'm very proud of you Zimmy, you've come a long way in many ways over the last few years that we've known each other and I know that your gonna go many places honey

Originally Posted by Rockinonahigh

Yes,its the devils incarnete,so far I have only had a couple of diet cokes in the last fue days or what will total the amount of a couple of them..I take a sip hear and there but mostly drink water.No its not easy cause I use to love my diet cokes,I mean thay were diet cokes..werent they??Yesterday i was at the store and wanted something to drinl I reached in the cooler and got a bottle of water insted of the soda that was next to it.One small step at the time.AS for sugar I only occasionaly eat something..I injoy it then am done for a while,I had a huny bun a couple of weeks ago.

I know that I'm going to have a very hard time getting off of the pop and I doubt I will be able to quit cold turkey but if I slowly cut down then I know I will be more successful ............. thats a big thing for Me :-)

[Wryly]

Matthew - I am also a huge Pepsi drinker. Most days I can stay at 1 can or a 710ml bottle. But other days I'll have 2 or 3 cans or even 2 or 3 bottles of the stuff. It just depends on what I am doing.
I know that quite often I drink the stuff without even realizing what I am doing - - sort of from habit, you know? Having pizza? Well, I must have some Pepsi with it then. Same with chicken wings, or nachos or other fast foods.
If I'm having a Subway sandwich I have to have a bag of chips (not the Baked kind, either!), too.
One thing I have noticed this past year, though. That sometimes I can't actually taste the Pepsi. I know I'm drinking a carbonated drink but it doesn't "taste right." When that happens I'll sort of delay when I'll have a Pepsi - - I'll have ice water or ice tea with lunch instead. Then I'll try wait until later in the afternoon to have Pepsi. Usually I can hold out until I get the withdrawal headache.

But if you are serious about wanting to kick the Pepsi (or any soda drink, for that matter) you can try what I did last year. When you get really sick with a cold just don't drink Pepsi. Drink watered down juice or water with a slice of lemon or hot tea with lemon or honey. Then you blame the Pepsi "withdrawal headache" on being sick. When you start to feel better you won't even miss the Pepsi - - at least I didn't. I managed to stay off the stuff for almost 6 months. Now I find it is easier to put off drinking it or even avoid it altogether for a couple days.
However, I am currently still drinking the stuff - just not as much as I used to. And I alternate - for every can I drink I must drink a couple glasses of water. If I drink a 710ml bottle then I have a litre of water.
At first I hated drinking water too. But I find that in the summer it is the best thing for me.

[Tcountry]

....MY new favorite snack...the walmart brand (great value) 90 calorie Strawberry Cereal Bar...yum
I am usually a chocolate person but these are great!

[dixie]

My usual breakfast donut (I know, I know) has been replaced by bran cereal. *sigh*

I'm also beginning to enjoy the new cardio with weights routine that I'm doing but it really makes ya sore...lol