new to the team - hoping to share my success Topic

U3166519 10/08/14
i just need a source of motivation, since I hate talking about weight loss with family and friends. any motivational tips?

SunnyRoses 10/19/14
Hi, I am new to the community, but I've used the app for a while. I'm reading a book on habit and I think it's really useful for weight loss. It's all about cues, rewards and reworking your habits to work for you instead of against you.

Chillon 12/21/14
I am moving from my community group to this one in hopes of attracting some persons with a common interest. I have 100 pounds to lose but no one joined in so I will communicate in this with a topic of Losing 50 - 100 Pounds. I am eager for some support and also the perspectives of others as we go through this serious effort that for me is essential. I will seek to close out Lose 100 Pounds - Change Lifestyle and Eating Habits and start contributing to this Community Topic. Onward to Success - Chillon

Chillon 01/03/15
I will do this alone if necessary. I need a community discussion element as part of my weight loss and food efforts. I started at 288 pounds and seek 199 pounds within a year. My first effort is to get started and that has occurred. I started at 288 and now weigh 276 as of Saturday, January 3, 2015. I have an eating plan - I am struggling and I have worked every diet on planet earth and beyond with failure as the outcome. I am committed to this whatever the cost and I know the time is now so I will write daily even if no one else joins this group. I will follow sensible eating and my guide will be The Beck Diet Solution authored by Judith Beck, Ph.D. which I find is focused on cognitive behavioral change. I will weigh in every Saturday morning. I need to make this happen for health reasons and also for peace of mind and personal growth and development as retirement approaches very shortly in 2015. Enough is enough. Chillon

Sarahhowells 01/06/15
Hi Chillon I would like to loose around 60Ibs but have set myself some short term goals. I will need some motivation after a few weeks and as I get close to the first 14Ibs.

They way I am looking at this is that today is the start of the rest of my life and would like to spend the rest of it happy in my own skin rather than unhappy with the way I look.

Chillon 01/10/15
I am so pleased you added comments. I am working as hard as possible as this is something that must change many years of improper eating. I will concur that today is the start of the rest of my life. It is also a birthday so it is appropriate to make this a starting point.


I concur with your comments - seek to start afresh as I am terribly unhappy with how I feel I look and I own the total opportunity to make a change. Onward. Chillon


I have a plan and I have support. Yes this means business and I am pleased another person also sees the same focus and the same area of attention. I have lost 8 pounds but I need to start in earnest so today is the proper point of departure. Chillon

Dididarlin 01/15/15
I'm getting refocused too. Need to lose about 60 pounds. That's my long term goal. Really trying to focus on my health rather than the # on scale.

My first goal is in motion. Conquer a 24 day challenge of eating modification and journaling my food. There are supplements and stuff involved with challenge but that's fine.

Prepping the weeks lunches on Sunday. Actually liking meal replacement shakes for breakfast. Good fiber and lots of protein have resulted in less crazy hunger pains.

Chillon 01/17/15
I thank you for participating in this group or communication section. I noted the following "Good fiber and lots of protein have resulted in less crazy hunger pains" and that is a nutrition element that I need to consider. I have realized that I have no idea how and what to eat.


I am almost fearful of food given weight gain and also what plan to follow but I fear it is all in my head and little related to simply poor eating. I know I cannot be physically hungry so it must be head and behavioral based. How to refocus years and years of terrible eating habits covered with intensive workouts over all that time.


I am starting on Cognitive Process - I need behavior change. I have been directed to the Beck Diet Solution. I will not dwell on this process but it is clearly behavioral change and it gives me a tangible place to start. I bought the book (paperback and very reasonable) by Dr. Judith Beck and it has started.


I am focusing on no more than 2000 calories and have retuned to workouts that I previously did 6 - 7 days a week. I have learned that after I had to halt 60 minutes of cardio due to hip and knee surgery and gained a great deal of weight that I had to confront both food and exercise issues with the focus on food. I have retuned to the treadmill (no running - just walking at an easy incline) 3 times weekly and will work back to 6 - 7 times weekly but the emphasis will be on the food and I start with a Behavioral Change program.


I started drinking Evolution - Sweet Vegetable drink at less than 90 calories so I need to add protein and learn to eat breakfast. It starts. All of my overeating happens after 7 PM so the Cognitive Behavioral focus is clear and obvious for me. Chillon

Chillon 01/19/15
I am now logging every food item on MyNetDiary and I feel I have greater control. I want to be tied to the template as I need someone watching over me even if it is the computer. It is just the beginning - weigh in will be at a weekly review session - this Friday. I weighed in at 286 last Friday so the scakle will do the talking.


I have found a zero calorie salad dressing with many flavors - Walden Farms and it is out of sight - just excellent. I learned of it from a wonderful fellow who had to lose weight or his life. As a result low cal salads are now really possible.


I have read one chapter of The Beck Diet Solution, Judith Beck, Ph.D. and I have started in earnest. No miracles for I have tried everything of focus. I hope others might join this discussion or support group. Chillon - I will explain that screen name in a week as it relates directly to my efforts at weight loss. Chillon

Parvati 01/30/15
Happy Friday to all! I am trying to refocus after 3 years of focusing on my twins. My health has suffered and I weigh as much as I did when I gave birth to them.

The hardest part for me is remembering that I really do need to put myself first because if I am sick (which I often am) I cannot take as good a care of them as I should.

I have started tracking my foods and realizing that even though I eat a lot of healthy things it seems to be my vice (Iced Coffee) that is holding me back.

I have basically been eating/cooking as organically as possible, focusing on veggies and proteins. I reduced my Iced Coffee intake and am fighting night hunger pains along with migraines due to less caffeine. But those are small prices to pay for happy, healthier life.

new to the team - hoping to share my success