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[My Peanuts]

Robilee, I'm sorry that you feel that way. I'll tell you what started working for me; it was not trying to do it all at once. I started with just the gym but I didn't change my eating habits at all. Once I started feeling good from just the exercise, I naturally started to watch what I ate. I don't have the best diet still, but I feel good and that makes it all worth it.

Maybe walking the dogs every night. You should try getting into the mind set that it's for them and not for you. Walk Katie first and come back and switch to Tori. You'll be walking twice as much. I do that with my guys. I'll walk two and then come back and switch for the other two.

I know your dogs motivate you, so use that motivation to your advantage. I know people that have lost a lot more weight than you need to just from walking.

[christa]

I am so happy to hear that everyone is doing so well with their weight loss!!!

Cataholic, sounds like a GREAT start and I'm sure you'll be sheding the pounds in no time!

CalliesMom, I wouldn't worry about that "pound or two" . . . a pound or two fluctuation is pretty normal. But almost 30 pounds since September is great! Keep up the workouts and try to eat better . . . sounds like you're doing fantastic!!!

Lori, I KNOW you've got guns, girly! Yours are probably bigger than mine by now! I've been doing arm day with my hubby lately though, so I may be able to beat you at an arm wrestling match before it's over with! LOL . . . I'm having a tough time with my tris . . . that's why I'm working out with him. I've got granny flab, LOL . . . so he's putting me through the wringer, trying to catch my tris up with my bis. Guess I've been neglecting them.

Ally Cat's Mommy . . . I haven't had a baby, but I know that it's hard to loose that baby weight, so congrats for doing that, and then some!

Me . . . as of today, I've lost 50 pounds since Feb of 04. 30 of that has just been since this past Christmas. I went from wearing a size XL or 14, really "needing" a 16 . . . I refused to shop in the Plus Sizes, which is what changed my life . . . and now I can wear a 7/8, Smalls and even XS!!! Hubby and I both eat super healthy and work out every day. I lift weights & do cardio every day . . . It's become a part of my life. A great part because I just can't imagine not being in this healthy body now. All of the hard work & sacrifice has really paid off.

I would like to see more people on this board become more health conscious! I hope that seeing this thread will inspire people to quit eating junk & start eating healthy. Start walking & exercising. Be aware of their bodies.

And I hope that we can continue to motivate each other. It's not a question of vanity . . . it's a question of good health.

[jazzcat]

Christa - you are down to 7/8 - WOW!!! You go girl!!!

Johanna - with the week or two you have ahead of you I bet you will see some major weight loss!

Calliesmom, Ally Cat's Mom and My Peanuts - that is great - Keep it up! I think I need to see if I can get a sponsor for weight loss - awesome idea!

RobiLee - I was very much like you before I started this. I don't call it a diet, it's just a healthy lifestyle. Last year in April I decided to try on a swimsuit and I just died when the size 22 was too tight and I saw what I looked like. I refused to go up a size and vowed in that dressing room to make a change. I went straight to the grocery section of Target and started buying salad and healthy foods. That night I told Richard we were going to lose weight and he said great let's go for a walk. That started it. We started walkingevery night. As the weight began to come off I added swimming laps and by the end of summer I was up to 100 laps a day. When we closed the pool in Sept. we joined the YMCA.

The big thing has been exercise but I also "cheat" when I need to. I LOVE ice cream and we go to my favorite place and get a big ole fat waffle cone about once a month plus I have a pizza about once a month. We eat lots of grilled chicken and veggies and we try to stick to whole grains and wheat.

I don't know if any of this helps but know you aren't alone and that it can be done. Just 14 months ago I was 78 pounds heavier, on a water pill for blood pressure and on cholesteral meds. Now I don't have to take any meds and I feel like a different person. I hate to exercise but I know it's making the difference so I do it.

Don't get me wrong about my "guns" I still have Opera Arms on the back side. I'm a good candidate for excess skin removal surgery.

[christa]

Don't get me wrong about my "guns" I still have Opera Arms on the back side. I'm a good candidate for excess skin removal surgery.

That's a funny new way to put it . . . never heard that before. I just call mine granny flab but that may not be fair to grannies!

[carole]

Robilee i understand completely how you feel right now, i have been there many times on and off in my life, and i am at a stalemate myself right now, i lost 9 kgs last year and wanted to loose another 10 this year, my usual pattern is loose summer, gain it all back over winter and then some, this year i have gained a couple of kilos only and for me that is a real plus, but summer will be here before i know it and again i will be stuck at this weight, i so want to shed it too, and feel just like you at the moment.

I am a binge eater , and that can last anything from one day to one month, depending on my frame of mind and what is going on in my life,i am waiting for that click in my head right now as well, i have started doing my WW programme today and i hope to get on track with it at last and just start loosing again, instead of lasting until afternoon and then blowing it again.

Robilee DON'T give up on yourself, it can be done believe me, and i know how much you want this, try thinking positive thoughts from now on and remember that food might taste nice for the moment but that is it really, think of how wonderful you will feel when you do loose and much healthier too,honestly that extra piece of cake or whatever is not worth it, we are just denying ourselves happiness, that is how i see it for myself anyhow,and why oh why do we do that, for me loosing the weight would simply turn my whole life around , i know that so well, but yet i struggle continually as you do, i believe it is a food addiction and one has to learn different strategies to cope with it, as food is always in our life and has to be, so it is much harder to deal with than a lot of other addictions for that simple fact alone.

I hope you can join me to success in weight loss, i have achieved it many times, but want it to be permanent for the rest of my life,no more yoe-yoe dieting,i dare you Robilee join me .i know your despair and feel it to, but together we can beat this we really can, here for you anytime.