Does anyone know a proven way to reduce the weight?
Please help me…..this is killing me!!!
Jassey,
I'm new here and I can tell you that I weighed 308 pounds and today I got on the scale at 256 pounds. That's 52 pounds now in about 7 months. I've got about 60 to take off yet, a little more.
So that's what you want to do, right? Take it off? I can give you a few tips.
Most people who lose large amounts of weight have a few things in common.
First off it has to do with motivation. People tend to finally hit bottom like a drug addict that wakes up one day and says this is it,I'm going to get help and get off drugs. I wont go any lower. So you have to have that moment when you finally realize that you must lose weight. You can no longer be ashamed of yourself. You want to be around for Children, Grand Children. You don't want to have all the diseases that obesity can bring on. Something has to trigger you to "hit bottom".
Secondly, most people that take weight off and keep it off control portions. You can call it calories, but they take control of how much food they eat and how many calories they are thus consuming. In the end you must use more calories than you eat.
Thirdly, it usually involves increased exercise.
Now, you can lose weight simply by controlling portions but that leaves out the motivational aspect and exercise. Usually it takes all three. When I get up every day I have to tell myself to "be good". I keep a weight diary by the bathroom scale and every day I record the date and my weight before breakfast. I know exactly where I am, I can look back over a period of a few weeks and see my progression. and more importantly, first thing in the morning I step on that scale and I'm reminded that I'm in a battle to lose weight and today is just another day that I have to be good.
I saw a nutritionist who taught me how to eat healthy, correct portions, how to read food labels, and she set up a plan for me based on calories. So she did the calorie work and all I have to do is keep following my meal plan. The nutritionist was what I needed. To know that every four weeks for several months I would stand before her, on a scale, and she would know if I had followed the diet or not. So in the beginning, she helped me with motivation.
I have come to the conclusion that to get it off then keep it off...I must change the way I think about life. I must accept the fact that without control I will become an obese pig. I have come to believe that every single day I must eat healthy food, control my portions, exercise, and remind myself daily why I'm going to do that. Control, motivation, exercise. It's that or going back to being the obese slob that I was. I don't ever want to go back. I'm going to change the way I think and change it until the day I die. Which hopefully is now further out because I'm doing the right things.
That's how I'm doing it. As of today I've taken 52 pounds off and I have 66 pounds to go. Can I do it? At 308 when I needed to lose 118 pounds I would have told you it's impossible and I probably can't do it. But now, with 66 pounds to go, I'm saying don't bet against me. I'm going to get there one meal at a time, one snack at a time, one pound at a time.
Today I'm going to get up on my Schwinn recumbent exercise bike and spend 30 minutes peddling against resistance. I'm going to do this because the human body requires exercise and I'm finished with being 308 pounds.
You CAN do it, of course you can. Are you ready to do it? Most fat people don't want to be fat, but they aren't ready to work it off. They need to find some motivation and maybe some help. Doctor, nutritionist, health club weight loss program, something to assist.