Sweating

As the sweat drips off my back, I am reflecting: I don't know what I was doing that first day with Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds DVD. I did maybe 15 minutes and felt like my body was gonna split in half. I guess I did overboard on my posture. Well, since then I have renewed my motivation and I can proudly say two days of exercise in the morning. Hip-Hip-Hooray. It feels so good. I have to keep this momentum. Glorious. Im still on the Eliminator. I know there are some concerns with detoxes but I just need to get to the "So what?" stage where I can say, Im hungry and answer myself "so what. you've been through worse". So yesterday was the first day where I stuck to it. Fruit juices and water. All day. And surprisingly enough my energy level wasnt down in the dumps. Here's to day two and temptation, temptation, temptation. Lol. Updates, anyone?

WTG!  All we can do is one day at a time!

Hi Ebony - WTG, Girl! I keep running into that Sansone dvd - I gotta get one to see what the buzz is! It would be a great rainy day thing to do.  I love to walk outside when possible!  As for elimination diets, my comment would be to not overdo it - it might set you up to fail. Obviously, your body will cry for food and it just makes it hard to not snap and go off on things you don't want to go off on! I often think about doing a fruit/veg fast one day a month even as kind of a spiritual thing to just cleanse, and to pray about my nearly-defeated compulsion for food.

Hi Ebony, I know what you are saying about the posture thing.  i think sometimes when we start an exercise program we go all out and don't focus on what is important, and that is just moving and being there.  I tend to lock my knees when do my weight lifting class and that is one way to faint quickly!!! LOL  I have bad knees so I am always conscious of them.   As far as your Eliminator I say go for it.  Nothing that you do in the short term is going to kill you.  I was just discussing this with my SO this morning.  I said that everyone is always so conscious of throwing their body into starvation mode if they don't get enough food at the beginning.  My feeling is that EVERYTHING is going to take off weight at the beginning.  If you drop from 5000 calories a day to 1200 calories a day you HAVE to lose.  At some point are you going to have to reevaluate your program, add in exercise, match calories to output??? Sure!!!!  But at the beginning take advantage of that window.  At the beginning of my journey 2 years ago I went from unimaginable caloric intake to 800 calories a day.  In 12 weeks I had lost 60 pounds.  I took it!!!! I didn't care HOW i did it, whether it was healthy, not healthy, blah blah blah.  After that I started working out, taking vitamins, checking myself, etc.  But at 352 pounds I just wanted to see some weight come off, and not 1.2 pounds a week!!!!   Do what works, you seem to have an amazing attitude about this!!! Good luck!!! Donna

Hi Donna...I'm at that point you were before diet..'"unimaginable caloric intake" lol  I'm at close to 400lbs, (my scale only wieghs to 380, so dont know how close or if i've gone over) I was considering starting atkins on monday, but I was wondering if you could outline your plan for me...you dropped down to 800 calories/day; what exactly did you eat, how much, and when? I imagine you increased your water intake alot, did you start exercising right away, or just focused on the diet? I am all for a big initial loss and like you don't really care how I do it ( I know that sounds terrible, but I need a big start off push. If I start a diet and only lose '1.2 pounds a week' than I quit because it doesn't seem worth it (even if I know any loss is a good one, blah blah blah.  )  Please let me know, I would love it if I could have a big loss the first month or two. My first mini-goal is to be able to weigh myself on my darn bathroom scale- so about -20 pounds. Thanks for your help!!

After not being able to walk because of two very bad knees, I knew that I had hit my rock bottom.  If you read my profile you'll see how I started.  I wanted WLS but my doc said no.  I just didn't want to fight it and end up another 20 or 30 pounds heavier so I just jumped in with both feet and did it.  I focused not on Atkins but on the South Beach Diet approach because I really don't like red meat and I would die if I had to eat it all the time.  I like variety and just the thought of eating only protein made my stomach queasy.  At the beginning it was quite simple.  For breakfast I ate eggs and turkey bacon.  For lunch I had turkey chili and for dinner it was chicken breast and steamed broccoli.  mid-morning snack was a cheese stick.  I also drank at least 100 ounces of water, and still do.  That's about all I ate for 3 months.  I didn't do any exercise until October and I started in July.  I lost 60 pounds in 12 weeks but that put me barely below 300 pounds.  I was excited though and just continued on.  I totally committed myself to doing it, period.  I had to or else I don't know what would have come of me at just 40 years old.  It's a choice, a simple one believe it or not.  To eat or not to eat.  It's fairly easy. good luck and please let me know if you have any questions at all. I'd be more than happy to help you in any way I can!!!!

I have been doing the bariatric "eating lifestyle" since my hubby had surgery 4/17/07. I have lost 15 lbs. Right now I am doing about  60-80 grams protien 20-30 grams carbs (junk carbs) 1300-1500 calories Lots of fresh veggies,  few fruits,  chicken,  turkey,  fish,  seafood(Live in Louisiana)gotta have em. 64-80 oz water and/or sugarfree coolaide Multivitamin mega pack from GNC flaxseed oil calcium w/vitamin d No beef, pork, or veal No rice, pasta, potatoes, bread No sugars whenever possible When I want a snack I have sugarfree popcicles or sugarfree pudding made with calorie countdown milk and 2 scoops of Gladiator shake powder. Or I make a shake with it and add fresh strawberries & blueberries.  Going see my Lupus dr soon and he is going to be so surprised to see the weight loss. Saw him last month and again he said to try and get some of the weight off. Well I have. Yeah Me! I walk every eveing when I get home, about 1/2 to 1 mile. Good Luck, Patience