Miranda, what a great idea for a subject, but listing only one? LOL!!!
Yvonne, great input on moderation. I've found that works well for many reasons. One because it allows you to have what you like so that you don't feel deprived. At dinner with my family Saturday night, I halved all the biscuits and ate only one half. I didn't feel like I had to eat the whole thing because it was there on the table, nor did I feel like I couldn't eat any of it.
Monika, you're making me jealous! You are seriously getting it done!
Okay, mine would be consistancy, too. I have the hardest time loosing weight when something breaks my momentum. Plus, I've found these past 3 weeks that eating a salad with chicken at lunch time has made a HUGE difference for me. I think the two together is a wonderful combination. I'm sticking with 8 minutes in the Morning because it's certainly working for me and it's simple to do.
My daughter. Seeing her get bigger every month get's me going to fix better meals and fill my fridge with healthy stuff. She is only nine years old and she already comes home telling me kids say mean things to her. I don't want that. So I need to be a good role model for her. Now if I just could find a way to make her move more. Plus I am very headstrong. If I put my mind to something I can usually pull it off. It just sucks that I have to do this on my own without a friend to go together. The hard part is after a couple of months I loose interest.
Ok ladies... here goes...having lost #159 (49 to go) in about 2 years, I can answer this question easily.
What keeps me going?
1) Remembering what it felt like to NOT fit in a movie theater seat w/out pain. 2) Remembering what it felt like to NOT fit in most restaurant booths. 3) Remembering what it felt like to NOT run with my then-three year old. 4) Remember being too big to fit anything at Lane Bryant (let alone any 'normal' store). 5) Hearing the whispers from strangers. 6) Listening to 'yet another' concerned relative. 7) Losing all sexiness (after having modeled, that was a true heartbreaker). 8) Wondering if I'd wake up in the morning or my heart would explode while I slept... and praying it 'was' while I slept so I didn't have to see the horror on my child's face as his mother died. 9) Raging against the Dr.'s that perscribed the meds that were supposed to 'cure' me... not balloon me.
What keeps me at the gym 4x a week for 1 15 min - 1 1/2 hours a shot? Memories got me there... weekly changes keep me there.
1) I now remember what it feels like to sit anywhere I want. 2) I buy whatever clothes I really LOVE, not just 'what sorta fits if I stretch it out'. However I only am buying a couple of things as I go along (my closet is almost empty except for gym clothes...lol) and I'm buying things that are 'too little' on purpose... it takes about a month for them to fit lately. That's fine with me. 3) I now run, play soccer and ride scooters with my now-8 year old. We're having a blast. 4) I am now, again, enjoying the looks of strangers... nice ones. 5) My relatives now turn to me for inspiration... not armed with judgements. 6) Sexiness is coming back! 7) I no longer worry about dying from being fat. 8) I still rage against the Dr.s. When I brought my weight concerns to the Dr. who first perscribed Prednisone, he said, "well, without it you're going to die... so you'd better get used to being fat". Newsflash, I'm NOT DEAD (took myself off it after 2+ years) and I'm getting 'un-fat'.
I think the key to doing this (at any level and for any reason for the weight) is loving yourself and your potential more than you love the self-pity and chips. I believed in my ability to stop the steriods (and the food choices that followed as I seeped into depressive behaviours and snowballed for years) when I realized if I didn't stand up for myself and my health, no one else was. Sure there are times I don't relish the though of the gym (this morning, in fact) but just cause I don't like it at times, doesn't mean I'm not going to keep that commitment to myself. I deserve to be honest WITH ME.
Seeing results! The thing that made me succeed after the first week was seeing the scale go down! If I can get some sort of improvement each week...even if it's only in a measurment going down slightly...then I will find it easy to stay motivated. I will be SUPER motivated once I get to the point where someone (my husband doesn't count, lol) says "Hey, have you lost weight?". When I *know* that the work is producing results, then I am very gung ho. When I have a doubt that I'm not doing it right, or enough, then I don't hold on long. This is the first time I've really dieted in my life. I've lost weight easily before, after my babies were born. Not this time though. So far this year and a half I have tried eating "all green" foods....(Gilad's method), depriving myself of all desserts or sweets, cutting back on portions, running, ...none of these worked extremely well the first couple of weeks, so I abandoned them. I'm simply counting calories now. It's working so far!
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Miranda, what a great idea for a subject, but listing only one? LOL!!!
Yvonne, great input on moderation. I've found that works well for many reasons. One because it allows you to have what you like so that you don't feel deprived. At dinner with my family Saturday night, I halved all the biscuits and ate only one half. I didn't feel like I had to eat the whole thing because it was there on the table, nor did I feel like I couldn't eat any of it.
Monika, you're making me jealous! You are seriously getting it done!
Okay, mine would be consistancy, too. I have the hardest time loosing weight when something breaks my momentum. Plus, I've found these past 3 weeks that eating a salad with chicken at lunch time has made a HUGE difference for me. I think the two together is a wonderful combination. I'm sticking with 8 minutes in the Morning because it's certainly working for me and it's simple to do.
So share one thing you think contributes or has contributed to your weight loss success:
GUTSICKNESS!!!
My daughter. Seeing her get bigger every month get's me going to fix better meals and fill my fridge with healthy stuff. She is only nine years old and she already comes home telling me kids say mean things to her. I don't want that. So I need to be a good role model for her. Now if I just could find a way to make her move more.
Plus I am very headstrong. If I put my mind to something I can usually pull it off. It just sucks that I have to do this on my own without a friend to go together. The hard part is after a couple of months I loose interest.
Martina
Ok ladies... here goes...having lost #159 (49 to go) in about 2 years, I can answer this question easily.
What keeps me going?
1) Remembering what it felt like to NOT fit in a movie theater seat w/out pain.
2) Remembering what it felt like to NOT fit in most restaurant booths.
3) Remembering what it felt like to NOT run with my then-three year old.
4) Remember being too big to fit anything at Lane Bryant (let alone any 'normal' store).
5) Hearing the whispers from strangers.
6) Listening to 'yet another' concerned relative.
7) Losing all sexiness (after having modeled, that was a true heartbreaker).
8) Wondering if I'd wake up in the morning or my heart would explode while I slept... and praying it 'was' while I slept so I didn't have to see the horror on my child's face as his mother died.
9) Raging against the Dr.'s that perscribed the meds that were supposed to 'cure' me... not balloon me.
What keeps me at the gym 4x a week for 1 15 min - 1 1/2 hours a shot? Memories got me there... weekly changes keep me there.
1) I now remember what it feels like to sit anywhere I want.
2) I buy whatever clothes I really LOVE, not just 'what sorta fits if I stretch it out'. However I only am buying a couple of things as I go along (my closet is almost empty except for gym clothes...lol) and I'm buying things that are 'too little' on purpose... it takes about a month for them to fit lately. That's fine with me.
3) I now run, play soccer and ride scooters with my now-8 year old. We're having a blast.
4) I am now, again, enjoying the looks of strangers... nice ones.
5) My relatives now turn to me for inspiration... not armed with judgements.
6) Sexiness is coming back!
7) I no longer worry about dying from being fat.
8) I still rage against the Dr.s. When I brought my weight concerns to the Dr. who first perscribed Prednisone, he said, "well, without it you're going to die... so you'd better get used to being fat". Newsflash, I'm NOT DEAD (took myself off it after 2+ years) and I'm getting 'un-fat'.
I think the key to doing this (at any level and for any reason for the weight) is loving yourself and your potential more than you love the self-pity and chips. I believed in my ability to stop the steriods (and the food choices that followed as I seeped into depressive behaviours and snowballed for years) when I realized if I didn't stand up for myself and my health, no one else was. Sure there are times I don't relish the though of the gym (this morning, in fact) but just cause I don't like it at times, doesn't mean I'm not going to keep that commitment to myself. I deserve to be honest WITH ME.
Lynn
Bumping this up... ("pump YOU up"? lol). Ok, dorky jokes aside... I want to hear more ideas from more people...
Anyone, anyone... anyone? (Ferris..........).
Lynn
Seeing results! The thing that made me succeed after the first week was seeing the scale go down! If I can get some sort of improvement each week...even if it's only in a measurment going down slightly...then I will find it easy to stay motivated. I will be SUPER motivated once I get to the point where someone (my husband doesn't count, lol) says "Hey, have you lost weight?". When I *know* that the work is producing results, then I am very gung ho. When I have a doubt that I'm not doing it right, or enough, then I don't hold on long. This is the first time I've really dieted in my life. I've lost weight easily before, after my babies were born. Not this time though. So far this year and a half I have tried eating "all green" foods....(Gilad's method), depriving myself of all desserts or sweets, cutting back on portions, running, ...none of these worked extremely well the first couple of weeks, so I abandoned them. I'm simply counting calories now. It's working so far!
Kim
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