Keeping it Simple & Easy = Attainable
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| Wed, 04-11-2007 - 4:26pm |
Hi All,
I beleive anyone that reads this is already making the first step to succes! I found it's not easy getting started. All the excuses and denial can make the mind do funny things.I just didn't want to believe I was so overweight, even as family and freinds begged me to get started gaining my health back.I was most likely over 400 lbs. Even when my 21 yr old son came to me in tears hoping that I wouldn't die before his kids could enjoy there Grampa, I still didn't get it! I watched intevention one night and saw that it was the same as what my family was trying to do and I had all the excuses as the addicts and alcoholics. It was all about me,then a freind came to me and gave me a chance, brought me a picture recently taken of me. I was shocked! She also gave me a way to succeed and lose the weight and get back to a healthy body. It was a challenge to get started as anything is, but now I've started and taken that first step I haven't felt better! I started March 10 and to date have lost 40 lbs, so many things are coming back. Like I walked home from work for the first time in 2 yrs and without pain. I feel so much more energy and vitality. Past all cravings fo sugar, soda drinks and any bad fats. I do crave a good meal and a nice walk or a trip to the gym. I keep it simple and easy the plan is made not to fail like so many diets do. I'm not even on a diet just a good nutritional and body cleanse program. I would like to share my expeirence and learn from yours. I'm inspired by the support of my family and freinds. They have made it impossible to quit! I'm determined anyway and my journey to health and wellness will be lifelong like any body challenge, I'm prepared and trying to create a positive place for people keep their goals alive.
So please send your encouragment and idea's and I will do my best to do the same!
Favorite Quote " Shawshank Redemption--" Get busy Living or get busy Dying
I'm busy Living!
Mark

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hi. MARK... Welcome to our "home"
I started by just making small changes to my eating. like "no seconds" and then i started to watch my portion sizes. like instead of having 2 huge scoops of mashed potatoes i only have 1. I still don't have a "regular exercize schedule" but i'm working at it.
my highest weight was in July 2005 and I was around 342, in the last 2 yrs i've lost 80 pounds.
like the turtle says when racing the rabbit.. "slow and steady, steady and slow thats the way i'll always go"
Sara
342 -- 261.6 -- 200
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Sara
342-300-200
Welcome Mark
Glad you found us. Hope to hear often how you are doing. keep up the good work. as Sara said, slow and steady wins the race. it took me 4 years of plugging along, with ups and downs. Hope you will start to post regularly and we can help you when you need that little extra support
Sue
302/138/160
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Hi Sue,
I am on a mission of health and fitness and now that I have started I know I won't quit or stop till my goals are met! I went to a truck scale to get weighed and somehow the newspaper heard, they phoned me for an inteview and I was front page news. Since then the local TV news came up and did an interview I was on the six and 11 o'clock news and a gym gave me a 4 month pass. Another paper also interviewed me and I was in 2 of their community papers. The first paper has done a follow up just this week. Now all my freinds and the whole community is behind me!
I have no choice and now here with the suppot of the people doing the same thing, I have a great chance at meeting my goal. My goal right now is to be around 275 by the end of June! I can't see why I can't make it! I have the right system and the right support and I hope I have the right fortitude to continue to be committed to my health and to my family so they can have their kids will still have a grampa when that future presents itself,( I have 7 kids yours, mine and ours)
Mark
Busy Living!
Hi Mark,
Welcome. What an added motivation to know the whole town is watching! ;-)Thats great! You will find some great support here as well. You are off to a great start! Sounds like the slow and steady wins out across the board. For me too. I think that is the difference this time around. It needed to be attainable. In the past it is the frustration with what seemed impossible that usually set me off track. My theory this time has been to take this journey in baby steps. Making smaller changes a few at a time and then it just feels like a more natural process. I started out with watching portions and drinking more water. Then I started changing the way I cook and prepare foods. And just making the effort to make healthier choices overall. (more fruits, veggies, whole grains, protines and fiber, etc.) finding some balance at meals so that I am getting what I need and feeling satisfied. Now I am working on getting my butt moving. Literally! It is a challenge for me for so many reasons, but I think It is one component that will make the biggest difference, and that has been missing in past attempts. So I have been walking, (before snow returned to my area) and riding my stationary bike. I have been working on a strength training routine with resistance bands and weights. this part is foreign to me, but I know it is important.
Glad to have you aboard. I love that quote, my problem has always been living for others. It is time I started living for myself!
Betsy
251/224/150
Hi Mark,
Thanks for being so willing to post your story here.
Annie
"We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking."  
Hi Mark, welcome aboard..
I am really interested to learn about the program you're following. If you can tell us a sample day for you (meals & exercise). If I understood you correctly, then your plan is simple, easy, and allowed you to lose 40lbs in a month? And you're aiming at losing another 80lbs by the end of July? Is it a doctor supervised plan. We have a member here losing at a high rate, but she's on a doctor suprvised plan, so I was wondering if it is something similar.
Hi All,
Went to the Doc today and he's all thumbs up, he's doing routine blood work that I'm sure will all be ok! I got on his scale and it actually weighed me. It said 158 kilo's which is converted to 347.8 lbs. Now I'm really excited becauce that was one of my first few goals. When I first started I could'nt find a scale to weigh me, I used a truck scale the first time I was 180 kilo's ( I wasn't sure of the + - of the scale) I finally found a scale that went to 450 lbs at a small Doctors office in town. they had just bought a new one. Then I was 392, what I have to consider my starting weight. Even if I beleive I was over 400 in feb. Now my next goal is to get under 300! Before my world was getting smaller and smaller. I would avoid trips out like the grocery store, not go out to visit family. I was near couch bound and soon to be house bound. I would eat and watch TV all day till my afternoon shift on the school bus. I'm sure I was sleep deprived becauce my snoring and sleep apnea( not diagnosed but the wife would lay awake/in a different room, she couldn't sleep with me there/and hope I would breathe again) I was so tired I had no energy to finish my house. I tried to get the kids to enable me but they were not game.
Now I have so much energy, I haven't slept in the day all month and no coffee. I used to live on coffe 5-6 cups a day for sure! Now only green tea, no coffee and I feel awake and energized. I'll go to the gym later and work for an hour or so then home for sure. (back to work)
My days are like I say pretty simple Am rise @ 630 am take some vitamins/multi,COenzimeQ10,some 3-6-9 Omega fatty acid ( need extra, allergy/resistance to fish-really mad at that I love salmon!)and a glass of water or so. Off to work by 645 and return home by 9am for my first meal. Then to the Gym for an hour lots of water. Return home before noon for my second meal. Back to work @ 230 (split shift)more water and return home by 5:00 to my third meal which I now make my own 5 oz of any meat and veggies and whatever up to around 600 calories. Repeat all week. then on saturday and sunday I do a full body( cellular)cleanse. lots of water no meals but six snacks provided( must have them keeps the hunger away and any chance the body may go into starvation mode and slow down metabolism. Repeat each week. There is also a one ounce drink I take that has all sorts of Vitimins and essentials to keep the body well nourished. Like I say I haven't felt this good in a decade and I can't see why I won't continue losing. It's designed to detox the whole body, and when you have toxins in the body they are surrounded by fat cells, to protect you. When the toxins are released they pull some fat cells with it and leaves the lean mass! Anyways, ranting it's just a nutritioal plan that has a weight loss side effect as the body becomes healthy.
Mark, busy livin'
CONGRATS ON MAKING YOUR FIRST GOAL. THAT MUST FEEL WONDERFUL.
SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE YOUR LIFE UNDER COMPLETE CONTROL NOW. GOOD FOR YOU!!
Angela
Incredible Mark!
Annie
"We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking."  
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