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| Thu, 01-20-2005 - 4:52pm |
I have been thinking about joining your board for a while, but it is time for me to get off my considerable backside and loose some weight. I am 23, and my school is doing "The Biggest Loser." When I weighed in, I nearly fainted. I am 5'4" and weigh 294. Anyone else out there been in the same boat I am in and have some good advice? I have started working out, but I can't seem to get my eating under control the way I used to. I actually avoided the freshman 15 in college because I lived on grilled chicken and salads, but now I crave fast food and fried things, and I'm not satisfied unless I am stuffed, not just full. I'm so looking forward to having a support group both here at school and online to help me loose the weight!
Thanks in advance--blossom

I am on my third week of weight loss. I weigh 238 and I am 5'8". I work in a job where I have to eat breakfast before I get to work and I have a designated lunch schedule that allows me so much time for lunch at work. Working in a school, you may have a schedule like this. If so, it is much easier to be good for the first two meals of the day. Take advantage of this. Make your breakfast and your lunch the most regimented. This way, you have more room to be flexible at dinner time and on the weekends. Don't fix foods that make you feel deprived or hungry. Especially at dinner time or on the weekend. This is one reason I chose a low fat-low calorie food approach. I don't worry about carbs at all. I didn't want to be tired or hungry or feel deprived. By doing this, I have been able to have foods that fill me up and make me feel satisfied. I eat lots of vegetables and low fat foods and treats. Example-slim fast candy bars, white rice, salsa, jelapenos (spelling?), fat free bologna sandwiches with white bread and fat free cheese, steamed fish, fat free grilled cheese sandwiches. I have just gotten started, but I am losing about two pounds a week. I drink around 6 eight ounce glasses of water a day and walk 30 minutes a day. On Valentine's Day, I plan to eat sugar free candy that you can buy from drug stores that are packaged just like regular candy. I aim for 30 grams of fat a day and less than 2000 calories. I may modify it as time goes by.
What might help you is to eat just before you feel you are stuffed. Then gradually work your way to stopping with a small amount of hunger pains. The kind that makes you feel satisfied, but not all out full.
Since you are having a hard time pulling away from fast food, pull away all together, gradually pull off of it, or choose the healthiest selection. I have a weakness with eating out. Not fast food, but restaurants. I had to stop cold turkey for a while. I will work it back in when I have my appetite and rountine established. Do what will make you the most successful. I personally think that putting on the breaks on everything is often too much at once. My first week, I didn't exercise. I then added it into my schedule. Good luck to you!
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I am just a young girl in need of some
ok sorry had to get that out I have been the youngest one here forever it seems lol
but yea Im in the same boat as you I am also 23 Im 5'4 and now weight 229 pounds when I joined here in Oct i was at 245.
I want to welcome you and join ya to come have some fun with us this is a great place to vent or brag
Good Luck
I know you can do it
Heidi
Hey! And welcome to the boards!
Well if you're stuck on fast foods...you need to watch that documentary where this guys decides to eat nothing but McDonalds for 30 days....I cured me right up! I will try and get the name of the DVD for you this evening when my son comes home...
We watched it last night....that stuff almost killed him...he had liver damage from it!
But like my friend ILikeMovies said....water, protions, and exercise is the key to losing weight. Don't try to kill yourself by eating 3 oz of this or that....teach your self how to limit the amount of food intake on a timed schedule...
What I mean is, this week serve your self half of what you normally eat....eat slow and stop when you are full...within the next week and a half or two week period try and cut that amount by half again.
I can't remember how long it takes to shrink your stomach down BUT it does shrink down. But what ever number of days that is...you should use that marker to down size the amount of food intake.
Sugar free sodas will slow down weight loss, however, the up side is that in 2 weeks your taste buds will forget how a soda tastes. Someone on this board said this...you can look for that post.
Verbal and site motivation are great helpers in losing weight...So try the ideas given here. Post credos on your bathroom mirrors and refrig.
Enough rambling, you've come to the right place.
Sussie_Q
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