What choices do you have? Is your weight staying the same or is it going up all the time?

The word diet does not bother me like it does other people. It just means the food I eat regardless if it is healthy or bad. It's my diet. If I lose weight with diet alone I have to cut my calories so much that I want to quit. With exercise I feel better and I can eat more. I am less likely to quit if I am not deprived and starving all the time. With exercise my skin will not be saggy as I lose the weight slow and moisturize. Don't be in a hurry. If you where at your goal weight today you still have to watch what you eat and exercise. Or gain it back. Thats what the losers do. Learn from those that have lost the weight.

Lessons from Losers
Since 1993, more than 5,000 women and men have joined the National Weight Control Registry. This select "club" includes only people who lost more than 30 pounds and kept them off for at least a year. What was their secret? (28)

They exercised. Registry participants burn an average of 400 calories per day in physical activity. That's the equivalent of about 60 to 75 minutes of brisk walking, or 35 to 40 minutes of jogging. (29)

They ate fewer calories. On average, registry volunteers consume about 1,400 calories a day. That's significantly less than the calories consumed by the average American. This doesn't mean, however, that you should aim for 1,400 calories a day. What's right for you is based on your weight, height, and activity level.
They watched less television, limited fast food intake, cut back on sugars and sweets, and ate more fruits and vegetables. (30, 31)

See http://www.nwcr.ws/

I have tried so many different diets for the last 20 years that it is unreal. I just seem to slowly get fatter and fatter throughout the years. I am such a miserable person.

You just can't give up. I know your not giving up cause your hear asking for help. Something in you wants it. If you want it you can do it. If you talk to anyone with real weight loss issues, they all tried it many times before they got it right. One old guy in my group that lost 200 lbs. He said you just don't quit. You might get knocked down but like the quote in my photos. You don't stay down. I have been trying for 10 years. I feel I needed all those failures to learn from. If you don't learn from the mistakes you keep doing them over and over. Right now I am 25% of my way to my goal. Twice I had completely fell off the wagon and gained 4 pound both times. That weight came off and I was back working to my goal. I have also learned a lot about myself and what I want in a diet and what does not work for me. I picked my diet on what I like and what fits me. This is so important because it only works if you stay on it. Any diet will work if you don't quit. You have to eat to live so if most of your meals are eating healthy eventually you will lose weight. Just changing the size of your plate you eat on will help.

My weight is wavering. I go from 193-191-189 and it wavers back and forth. I don't ever loose. I stay about the same. I am tired of being at this weight. I want to see results. I workout on the Wii Fit and don't notice a difference in loosing. I am beginning to loose my faith in it. The parents lent it to me to try to see if they could help me loose weight. I have a wii and wii fit on loan in my home and it doesn't seem to do any good. I get real hot but I don't sweat. I don't understand. I am slipping I need help.

Princess

Maybe mix things up a bit with you diet and exercise. Very high fiber is a key to my weight loss. I eat lots of vegetables, beans, brown rice, high fiber cereal, 13 gram fiber tortilla (80 cal.), 5 gram bread, high fiber pasta (single serving) and high fiber nuts (1 1/2 ounce) or seeds and fruit. I go meatless a few times a week (nuts, beans, fat free cheese and soy is my protein). The rest of the time I eat fish. I have skinless chicken breast about once a week and lean beef once a month. I use mostly extra virgin olive oil in my salad dressing or I will use salsa if I want to go fat free. I use light soy milk rather than milk.

I also wanted to say I am 5'10 and use to weigh 127 lbs.

Maybe I will start loosing when I do dance dance revolution along with the wii fit. I am gonna buy dance dance revolution disney version next week on ebay when I get my money. I hope it helps....someone on the BP board said that the DDR will work my buns and thighs the troubled areas that bother me the most. I dunno anything is worth a try we'll have to wait and see.


Princess

I think if you shift your thinking from losing weight to getting healthy it will help alot. Don't make your life about a number on a scale. make it about being healthy and the best you, you can be.

I'd rather not.....looking at it from that perspective means I'd also have to take a look at what kind of foods I eat and try to eat healthier and that would probably mean more salads and instead of crispy chicken get grilled chicken and that would just make me more miserablethan I already am anyway. If I go fast food ever and get a crispy chicken sandwich I usally just only eat half the sandwhich and half the fries because I get stuffed. So it's not about how much and what I eat but more on what I do to combat that. I do the bare minimum to get me by and that's not helping me loose any so I gotta work harder and get more aggressive.

It sounds like your not in enough pain yet for motivation to change. It's like you have not hit bottom yet. Right now what your doing is working for you.

i totally agree with cinnamint----FIBBBBBERRR IS KEY!!!! So true...eat a lot of fiber....keeps you flushed out and things moving. Thats probably why I lost 50 pounds.

I disagree......I have hit bottom. But I don't want to have to completely change what I eat to loose weight. I don't want to be restricted. Diets are too restricting that's why I have a hard time staying on them. I don't cry all the time about my weight. But my weight issues affect my self esteem. I wouldn't be asking for help if I thought what
I was doing now was working for me.

I will try the fiber thing though......get some kind of fiber cereal So what kind of fiber cereal tastes good out there does anyone know?

What if you don't eat enough food to go on a diet?

I guess I don't understand that statement. If you are overweight you are taking in more calories than you are expending... hence the extra weight. Have you ever kept a food journal of what you eat daily ? That was a real eye-opener for me. I actually thought
I was a "light" eater until I honestly wrote down EVERYTHING I put in my mouth. Every bite, taste or lick.

If is the word diet that is offensive to you then call it something else.

You have to want to change and do the work to accomplish it.
There is no magic pill, or words that can do it for you.

Good Luck -

You haven't hit bottom. When you hit bottom you become willing to do what ever it takes to get the weight off. Right now you want it on your terms. Thats not working is it. Maybe another 50 pounds will make you more reasonable. Restrictive won't sound so bad.