Lost over 100 pounds!

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Registered: 03-17-2006
Lost over 100 pounds!
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Wed, 06-28-2006 - 3:03pm

I've been going to LA Weight Loss, for the past 10 months. I've now lost a total of 104.4 pounds! I can't believe it! I'm wearing a size 16 now, when I started this diet I was in a size 28 and weighed 320 pounds!

I think what's really helped me is I've taken an attitude of eating as healthy as I can, I choose diet whole wheat bread over white, eat lots of fruits and vegetables a big variety. I try not eat the same foods two days in a row. Stay away from processed foods completely.

I walk half an hour to an hour a day, usually I get it in 15 minute increments, 15 minutes before work, on my breaks at lunch, ect.
I try to do aerobics and jogging and stuff, and I'm usually good for a week but than slack off the next week, back and forth. But I'm very consistent about walking!

Anyway having weighed over 250 pounds by the time I was 14 years old, I can't get over how I look and feel. I'm constantly shocked to see myself in the mirror, or sitting down in a lawn chair and feeling like it's to BIG for me! Instead of worrying about if I'll be able to get out of it I'm squeezed so tight inside it!

Also throughout I've set little goals for myself. I never thought in terms of I'm going to lose 100 pounds! I thought instead. I want to lose 10 pounds by thanksgiving. I want to be under 300 pounds by christmas. I want to fit into a size 22 by valentine's day.

I'm still losing, my next goal is to hit 110 pounds by the 22nd of July, by husband's company Barbeque is than, most of those people haven't seen me since before I started losing weight!

Oh and I give myself lots of rewards, to make up for not being able to reward myself with food. At first I gave myself a weekly reward. If I managed to stick to my diet all week, on friday I would allow myself to go to the mall and spend $20 on a way to expensive bottle of handlotion ($20 WAS at least WHAT I figured I used to spend on candy, ice cream and fast food per week)

Good luck to everyone! Remember it can be done.

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Registered: 03-01-2006
Wed, 07-12-2006 - 11:00pm

What a great success story! Thanks for the inspiration, and for reminding me that it IS a long, hard slog sometimes and we just have to suck it up and do what needs to be done... with expensive cream waiting at the end of the day ;-)

I wish you continued success (I won't say "luck", because you've made your own!), and hope to follow the rest of the story with you...

Misha

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