5 months of living my new life style
Yesterday marked my 5 month anniversary of eating healthy and exercising. I am very pleased wtih the results to date I hae lost 62.8 pounds. I can't wait until I hit my goal and see if that's where I will be staying or if I will decide to loose a bit more. I think my next mini goal is going to be to get to 179 that will be when I am out of the obese category and into overweight, this will be a big milestone for me. My weight the last few weeks has been a lot of up and down I'm hoping though before long it will level out and start going down again. This past week was a good week though I lost 2.2 pounds which was the most I had lost in quite a while so I'm thrilled with those numbers.
Johnita
Johnita
Non Surgery - (HW/CW/GW) - - 247/173/150(first major goal)
Keep it going, I love to read and gain inspiration from people who are embracing a healthier and more active lifestyle! 
Non-op----288/196/175(Hw/Cw/Gw)
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on 9/13/09 9:48 pm - Rochester, NY
on 9/13/09 9:48 pm - Rochester, NY
Johnita...you truly inspire me. (and believe me, I need inspiration at this point)!! 62.8lb in 5 months is incredible. I went back to read your posts to see what "magic" diet you were on and realize you have reduced calories and increased exercise....SURPRISE.....nothing new or magic about it. It all comes down to that, doesn't it?
What's truly inspirational is that you are making these healthy choices each day and your results must be great motivation to reach your goal. What triggered that change? What made you decide one day to kick it all into gear and make it work? Any of us who have fought this weight battle knows that combination works, but what has made it possible for you to successfully initiate it and maintain your determination? Hope you don't mind my asking, and maybe you don't even know the answer, but I'm interested.
Thanks, and keep up the good work....Sherrie
What's truly inspirational is that you are making these healthy choices each day and your results must be great motivation to reach your goal. What triggered that change? What made you decide one day to kick it all into gear and make it work? Any of us who have fought this weight battle knows that combination works, but what has made it possible for you to successfully initiate it and maintain your determination? Hope you don't mind my asking, and maybe you don't even know the answer, but I'm interested.
Thanks, and keep up the good work....Sherrie
Thanks so much everyone for all your kind words. It has been so nice to be successful at my weight loss journey it keeps giving me the motivation to keep going and to reach my goal.
What triggered me to decide I had to do something about my weight was honestly when I went to the beach this year and looking at the pictures once I was home I was shocked that I had allowed myself to gain almost all of the weight I had lost 2 yrs previous back. I was so upset and disappointed with myself, plus doing simple things were starting to get hard I was finding myself huffing and puffing doing something as simple as walking at the store. I knew I had to take action and this time I had to not go on a diet I had to make a lifestyle change and it had to be something that I could stick with. Diets I believe fail because once we hit our goal weight we go back to eating the way we did before the diet and you just can't do that and keep weight off. So this time I have not elimated anything from my diet, if I want to eat something I allow myself to eat it I only control portions and exercise daily. This is something I know I can keep up for a lifetime and I know that's the only way I can sucessfully keep this weight off this time. The only thing I am going to have to work back into my diet is eating out I 've only done that very very few times since I started my lifestyle change in April, but the reason for that is more about all the sodium they put in their food but I know it's not realistic to think I'll never eat out again so I need to work on adding this back into my diet at least a little.
Johnita
What triggered me to decide I had to do something about my weight was honestly when I went to the beach this year and looking at the pictures once I was home I was shocked that I had allowed myself to gain almost all of the weight I had lost 2 yrs previous back. I was so upset and disappointed with myself, plus doing simple things were starting to get hard I was finding myself huffing and puffing doing something as simple as walking at the store. I knew I had to take action and this time I had to not go on a diet I had to make a lifestyle change and it had to be something that I could stick with. Diets I believe fail because once we hit our goal weight we go back to eating the way we did before the diet and you just can't do that and keep weight off. So this time I have not elimated anything from my diet, if I want to eat something I allow myself to eat it I only control portions and exercise daily. This is something I know I can keep up for a lifetime and I know that's the only way I can sucessfully keep this weight off this time. The only thing I am going to have to work back into my diet is eating out I 've only done that very very few times since I started my lifestyle change in April, but the reason for that is more about all the sodium they put in their food but I know it's not realistic to think I'll never eat out again so I need to work on adding this back into my diet at least a little.
Johnita
Non Surgery - (HW/CW/GW) - - 247/173/150(first major goal)
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