So I have not been working out much yet, am still sorta getting things in order.
I tend to get a bit ahead of myself though. Realistically I should be able to concentrate on physical health a bit more than I have been. I am cash flow positive, debt free, and fairly well caught up on work (maybe only a day or two behind at the most).
I have been losing a good bit of weight just by not doing some of the bad things I normally do. I unfortunatley have had a couple Chicken Quesada’s recently, but other than that I have ate fairly healthy.
Whatever your weight trend is (stable or slightly changing), that is the trend you are on if you change nothing. I used this quote on one of my other sites today:
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein
Not working out that much makes it seem as though I have not been changing much, but just by cutting the sweets and binge eating my weight has went from 240 to about 230 in under a month.
When you are far overweight, small changes can reverse the calorie balance and weight trends to where slight weight gains are turned into slight weight loss.
The camera idea someone left in the comments is a good one. I shall adopt it soon. Unfortunately I lost my camera at that concert I recently went to. Lucky for me Amazon.com exists and I have a bit of a gift certificate to use.
Ok so I just want to say that Its FASCINATING that I stumbled onto this blog because I just came to the realization that in order to START losing weight, I have to STOP dieting! (I think that those of us who are over weight and addicted to sugar may be the only ones who get that) I also think that I read somewhere in one of your previous comments that someone said that soda DOESNT make that big of a difference in weight loss… for whoever said that: C’MON buddy!!! HElooo! SODA=SUGAR! just cutting out soda makes a HUGE difference. Not only the sugar but the caffine. Caffine helps your body to store fat… ANYHOW! AWESOME job on your wwight loss efforts my friend, and Im right there with ya… If ya need a cheerleader let me know…
It seems to me that every time I stop ‘trying’ to lose weight, I start losing weight… Then, I get ahead of myself, start to gorge myself, then I get fat again.
I’m a blob.
The way I stay skinny is I just look at all the fat people I see all day. I mean jesus, they’re overweight and they just keep eating and eating as if it doesn’t matter. Which I suppose is a nice mindset, but whatever. They keep eating and then they get depressed or upset whenever they’re reminded that they’re a disgusting blob of stored calories. They know the only way to lose weight is to exercise at least a little bit every day and eat better, but for some reason they do none of these and instead elect to sit on their bums all day in their cubicle or whatever with a chicken sandwich and a soda.
This cycle of “ooh, I’m fat, I’m depressed” and “ooh, I’m depressed, I’ll eat more” makes me rage like none other, and also causes me to feel sick to my stomach enough that I eat maybe 60% of what I would normally eat.
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Solution to weight problems: loath what you are and what you see, your appetite with go away.
hahaha so TRUE. last couple of weeks i lost 10 LBS just by not eating chips and binge eating. i went from 130 to 120. i try to keep it up, but it can be hard when ur stressed out
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well anyways congrats, and keep it UP
oh and btw, i really LIKE what Dave said. now i REALLY feel like burning those daily 500 calories!! wohoo, thanks Dave!
WWOOOOWWWWW!!!!!! so i just want to thank dave for making rude judgement calls on overweight people….a lot of the time it is just a health issue…maybe that thought never crossed your mind since you think that you are somehow superior to the rest of the world. If it makes you sick then QUIT LOOKING!!!!!!!!!! its just that simple. i dont think i could have thought of a more endearing term that “disgusting blob of calories” you must fair well with the ladies with those kinds of shallow cady remarks. This world would truly be a better place if there were less assholes like you around. Maybe you should stop being so cocky and help someone. might even make you feel better about yourself since you have deemed it necessary to pick on other people. I dont think that this site was created so that people like you can belittle all the people trying to make their lives better. And i wouldnt be the least bit surprised if you had some selfesteem issues yourself. try looking in the mirror and helping someone for once. You cant go through life shooting people down and making them feel worthless. Dieting can be hard and if you werent brought up in a health concious family you may not know how to eat properly and what foods are bad for you when you eat too much. it is all about balance. so dont let people like dave make you feel like you cant be slim.
Melissa, you are SO right. i mean, dave has probably never been “a blob of disgusting stored calories”
Dave: you have no idea what it feels like to be in an overweight body. -many people hate you just because of the way you look. you dont feel like you can accomplish what you want to do. you’re embarresed everywhere you go. yet, when you try to stop it’s almost impossible which makes you hate yourself even more. it’s like your body MAKES you keep eating. it’s terrible. but your probably one of those people who make fun of fat people so, for that, i dont like you. i bet many others do. just by your post i can tell you are a very mean, self-centered person. if there are any kids reading your post who are overweight i bet you just made them feel a whole lot worse, maybe even cry about it. so thank you, you son of a bitch.
Came across this site in a random google iPhone search. I currently weigh 167 lbs, Im 5′1 & female. I went from 110 to 167 in 6 years of college, graduate school & start of a career. Because of my small frame i’ve developed stretch marks which makes me unhappy with my body. I try dieting and exercising in my busy schedule but most days I’m way too tired after work. It also doesn’t help that I’m from one of those famalies described above. I’ve resulted to not eating at all and then grabbing anything I can get a hold of when I’m near passing out. I don’t know what to do or where to start. I thought about vitamins and purchasing nutrisystem but like I said- I don’t know.
Syn, The first step for you is to make an appt with your family doctor. Get a check up and talk over your concerns with him. Starving yourself is not the way to go. It’s like learning to walk…you need to take baby steps. Trade the candy bar or bag of chips in for some celery sticks or some fresh fruit. Eat a salad instead of a cheeseburger. Start taking 20 minute walks and build up from there. Break it down into sections of each day. When you do it that way, it doesn’t seem so overwhelming. Wishing you the best of luck. Please stop back and let me know how you are doing.
i was looking for ways to lose weight by not doing nothing and i can’t help but feel that it wouldn’t matter if i get fat…im tired of this self-concious society of ours were people think they are ugly just because they are alittle funny looking or overweight.what im trying to say is, that if you think you are ugly, then you must be very beautiful on the inside. your family loves you regardless of how you look. but never bring yourself down,even when you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders,never ever give in. be proud of how you look and be happy that you are alive.
and although im not religous and all that stuff.
please,please,please never give up faith in what you believe in.look at what you have and look at the happiness that you get from you family and friends and live life.
don’t be ashamed of the way that you look,because to me.
people who love are stronger than those who hate.
im 20 years old and i weight 163.4 at the moment.
yeah, i might be alittle chubby but im happy with it.
and im tired of how some of my skinny friends get depressed when they get alittle flabby….so it drives me crazy when i hear people think they are ugly, when in reality they are very beautiful just the way they are. and i hope that anyone that reads this starts to understand that you are super cool and you don’t need to change your looks for nobody! (>.<)
be happy and be thankful
for you are awesome! <3
see ya around ladies and gent’s
-mike the weird guy
so i am a teenager, and i am currently about 5′1ish and i weigh about 133lbs. granted, a lot of this is muscle (i am a cheerleader, as my mother is making me, and i lift a girl that weighs 123lbs on my own. my max. lift is 200lbs.) but i have a decent amount of flab i wish to be rid of. like, 20lbs. its sort of like i have a muscle with an outer core of fat.because i eat relatively well, but its just these couple pounds that i cannot shake.
on a more helpful note!: i know how hard it is to try to lose weight. no matter how much you want to, you feel like you can’t, can’t break your habits, no one is supportive, and you want to murder your scale. a thing that i have done it not eating after 8pm. it works! also, just do not buy any thing fatty! and, EAT OATMEAL! the serving looks small dry, but it is actually filling!! a half cup WITH brown sugar is only about 200 calories! and it is so filling. salads are great, but not very filling, right? if you are hungry, (for dinner) eat a potato! use margarine, not butter, and it will fill you up so that you are not hungry!! not fries though. fries=bad (almost always)er, i hope i helped!!!!!
can someone please help me?!?!?! i am so frustrated.
thanks!!!!