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I am currently trying to lose 63 pounds. I have been eating only three times a day for the past week and I only drink water and I run for 30 every day. I just want to know if i am starting the wrong way. My bf gave me this advice to help build my dicipline. I am aware of what is said about eating 5-6 small meals a day. I think I know what I have to do, but i am still usure. My goal is to lose from 1.5 to 2 pounds a week. What do you all think is the best thing for me to do? I don't want to waste any time. This is the summer and I want to take advantage of the extra time on my hands.
 
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Hi everyone. Not sure what to write. I'm in Florida and it's hot. I guess I should sit outside in the sauna and sweat off the weight!
 
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Hey I'm new here...just been looking around at different forums and trying to figure out how to navigate my way around!
 
I'm going public with my weight loss goals.

Hi, my name is Vince and I'm 57 and I need to lose about 60 pounds.

I'm breaking it into 20 pound chunks of weight loss every 30 days.
30 days might be pushing it but I'll start with that.

I'm going to blog everyday with what I do and what works.

I use an elliptical machine at home everyday for about 30 minutes.
I will go up to 45 minutes soon. Kind of boring, I find it easier to watch videos then listen to music.
A couple sets of push ups, arm circles, upper body tubing exercises and I swing a weighted golf club.
I'm also a private pitching coach and I throw long toss just about every day with my students (thus the arm circles and tube exercises).

For an appetite suppressant I'm using Caralluma Burn. I like it much better then prescription diet pills from my doctor. A couple of those each day do the trick. I take one at about 8 am or so then I take another around 3 pm.

I also bought a month of Nutrisystem. The idea of food prepackaged in the right calorie range appealed to me. It costs a few bucks but I would spend more going shopping and buying all the crap. Pull out the meal, nuke it and I'm set. The only drawback I see is you have to add the fresh veggies and fruit. I just stay out of the potato chip aisle when I'm shopping.
The meals are set up to eat 4 or 5 per day. I think it makes a lot of sense.

Ill take all of the support I can get. Follow me along at
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I just started it, might take a day or 2 to start working.


Vince
 
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I don't know if you are on birth control but a side effect of some forms of birth control causes you to hold on to extra fat. Other than that, I would say be patient. Give yourself at least 12 months to lose all the weight. It's a lifestyle change. Another thing you could do is cut out all the processed food and buy things like fruit, salads, lean meats etc. There's lots of healthy and sustainable ways to lose weight and stay slim,it just depends on what your preference is.

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I am currently trying to lose 63 pounds. I have been eating only three times a day for the past week and I only drink water and I run for 30 every day. I just want to know if i am starting the wrong way. My bf gave me this advice to help build my dicipline. I am aware of what is said about eating 5-6 small meals a day. I think I know what I have to do, but i am still usure. My goal is to lose from 1.5 to 2 pounds a week. What do you all think is the best thing for me to do? I don't want to waste any time. This is the summer and I want to take advantage of the extra time on my hands.
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Hi, I learned from a new diet program that I started a few weeks ago to start using dumbells while exercising and it has really helped me to lose weight that I've never been able to lose before on other diets. Of course I'm also following their nutrition program which is also helping me lose the weight. I started off with using 5 pound dumbells.
 
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I don't know if you are on birth control but a side effect of some forms of birth control causes you to hold on to extra fat. Other than that, I would say be patient. Give yourself at least 12 months to lose all the weight. It's a lifestyle change. Another thing you could do is cut out all the processed food and buy things like fruit, salads, lean meats etc. There's lots of healthy and sustainable ways to lose weight and stay slim,it just depends on what your preference is.
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Actually thats untrue. The only thing birth control has ever done is SLIGHTLY lower your metabolism and make some people more peckish.

You get fat from eating too much, not exercising and not being healthy, not from birth control.
 
Time to get serious

I weighed myself today and have never weighed this much. I fooled myself thinking I was doing well. The numbers don't lie. I don't want to make excuses but after 50 years of age....it gets hard. Any advice from fellow fifty+ members would be appreciated. I think this is a good time to get it going. The weather is great for any exercising activity and all the produce available can only help. Come on you cheerleaders! Pump me up!
 
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Hello All,

My name is Frannie I live in Des Moines Iowa and I have horrible eatting habits love fatting fast food the greasier the better. McDonalds breakfast is my favorite sausage egg and cheese mcmuffin. I love PIZZA, french fries, pasta. I'm just starting my diet yesterday. I have to wait til tomorrow to weigh myself unfortuantly. I stopped smoking one month ago. Put on some weight but I have tons of weight to loss even before I stopped smoking. Quitting smoking has made me more motivated to loss weight be more healthy. I feel better since quitting smoking and I know I'll tons better if I get this weight off I'm starting out with a low goal of losing 13 pounds in 13 weeks. I need to loss around 60 pounds in total. Start small always works better for me 60 is to big of a # for me to think of 13 pounds makes me feel good about that I can do that. I'm on here looking for ideas and inspiration and support in my effort to loss weight. i joined a forum to help quit smoking so I figured a forum to loss weight and be more healthy was a good idea also.
So hello All good luck to all on lossing weight.

Frannie
 
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Hello All,

My name is Frannie I live in Des Moines Iowa and I have horrible eatting habits love fatting fast food the greasier the better. McDonalds breakfast is my favorite sausage egg and cheese mcmuffin. I love PIZZA, french fries, pasta. I'm just starting my diet yesterday. I have to wait til tomorrow to weigh myself unfortuantly. I stopped smoking one month ago. Put on some weight but I have tons of weight to loss even before I stopped smoking. Quitting smoking has made me more motivated to loss weight be more healthy. I feel better since quitting smoking and I know I'll tons better if I get this weight off I'm starting out with a low goal of losing 13 pounds in 13 weeks. I need to loss around 60 pounds in total. Start small always works better for me 60 is to big of a # for me to think of 13 pounds makes me feel good about that I can do that. I'm on here looking for ideas and inspiration and support in my effort to loss weight. i joined a forum to help quit smoking so I figured a forum to loss weight and be more healthy was a good idea also.
So hello All good luck to all on lossing weight.

Frannie
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Hi first off I would like to congraulate you for quit smoking that is good for you and as far as losing weight..
I don't like to think of it as being on a diet, think of it a total lifestyle change in your eating habits and exercise and stuff like that.

First off I have been working on losing weight since last October not on here but in general and started at 188 and am down to 164 right taken me that long to lose 24 lbs..I am not much on the exercise so when I do it consist of walking alot. Love to walk. I also put myself of 1200 calories a day give or take a few, sometimes go under and sometimes 100 over but in that vicinity anyway.. I drink at least 90 ozs of water each day, have given up alcohol during the week and may have a couple about every 2 weeks. I have my largest meal at Breakfast, then a Snack, then Lunch, Snack, Dinner. One of the things I do is chart each meal and calories down so I can stay within my margin of calories and then if I gain I can go back and see where I might of gone wrong. Journal every bite you take and exercise for day and water intake.
So I pretty much eat like a King for Breakfast, A Queen for Lunch and a Pauper for Dinner. Lot of times have Fiber One Ceral fof Dinner. and sometimes when have a yogurt put ground up flaxseed for fiber. so for me it is getting easier as I did a lifestyle change and not eating like I use to. The fries and sweets and alcohol..Don't get me wrong I still have all those but for a treat maybe once a month and if don't want don't eat them. You can's deprive yoursef of your favorites just learn when and how much to eat them. Hope this helps you some. my blood pressure has come down on its own and my feet don't hurt like use too, and most of all my clothing size has dropped from 16 to 12 almost a 10 working on that yet.
 
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Congrats on losing 24 pounds that is awesome!!! Thanks for advice also. I'm also eatting 5 times a day and breakfast is just more protein than the rest of my day it helps with not being hungry the rest of the day and trying to stay away from bread. I'll keep you updated on my progress and you do the same.

Frannie
 
Good advice-I'm new here and needed it.

I'm new here. Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions. I came here because I know that I have to change inside. Gastric Stapling and Bypass did not work for me. But the good news is that I am down to a weight that I can manage to lose the excess if I change my ways. I'm here to do that. I got some pretty good tools during the surgeries and found some here, and others reinforced who I am.

I hope this works for me so I can feel better about myself. I have wonderful plans for the second half of my life!

Thanks to you all who posted here.


XOXO

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