hi, im here looking for serious weight loss buddy n motivation

sam0803

sam0803

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hi everyone

im from Mauritius. ive always had problems with my weight, always struggling to lose a bit here n there but finally ended up in gaining more and more.

recently ive started a new and i think last diet.
my officially started weight was 93kg that is maybe more than 220lbs and now im 194lb.

my new diet consist of clean eating, which means, ive cut out all junk food n ive stoppes eating out but reserves some special occasions to do so.
i also work out 3 to 4 times a day

ive come to this forum in order to stay motivated as i know that a perfect and safe weight loss is diet and exercise which is quite difficult to do in the long run.
 
Hey, I'm new too and just like you i've been struggling with my weight for most of my life. I just have a problem with food, whenever I'm stressed or anxious I just stuff myself with anything I can find and then i feel bad about myself so I end up eating more and it just never ends. Over the last few months I've been able to loose a few pounds but always screwing up often, I just start things and quit almost immediately, but even though i've failed a million times i still want to start over i just refuse to live the rest of my life like this.
So anyway, I'd love to be your diet buddy, I'm really lacking motivation sometimes so maybe we could help each other out, establish weekly goals, not just about weight loss, but also calories, exercise, etc. :)
Hope to hear from u soon
 
hello

hey im so happy ive got some1 responding coz i was looking at the dates of other post n i noticed most of them were in 2007.

anw, i can perfectly understand ur situation coz most of the time my own life has been moving on like this.

its true that weight loss is very very difficult but never impossible.

would u mind telling more abt urself pls?
ur age?
sex?
location and most imporatnly how long uve been over weight?
take care hear ya soon
 
Yeah sure :), well i'm a girl, 19 years old, from far far away (a.k.a Chile). I've been gaining weight since I was around 12/13, I've never worked out a lot or anything so my body's mostly fast *jiggles* I'm not very tall (5'2/1.58cm) and I mostly gain weight on my thighs/butt/hips oh and arms x_x
 
oh chile???

its in the south of america?isnt it?
hey indeed we are far away.but im just too glad to have u on a similar journey.

ok so lets assume u are not doing any physical activities nor any healthy diet for the moment.
but do u know that its impossible to loss weight if u dont start it?
lets not put too much pressure on u.

ill tell u my story first.

im 23 years, ive always been the big bone type. u know wat i mean?always beeing chubby. wen i finished school some 4 years back i was 70 kg,maybe around 150lb or even more. i dont know how to convert that. then i started working n met my hubby and i never stop gaining weight, coz we were always eating out. breakfast, lunch and dinner. i never wanted to cook n i loved eating.

then i had to go to france for my studies which i quite after 3 month.

before going, i took weight loss pills for 2 month without any diet nor sports. wen i was in france i stopped the pills and continue eating as i was.

after 3 month wen i came back everyone was shocked. the cute little chubby one was no more overweight but obese. i was 95kg

but the worst was that i didnt realise how i was. so i continue wid the eating out, heavy snacking.

i knew ive grown veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy fat but i didnt get the motivation to loss weight.

i joined weight less. i told to my self that now i had to do it.

again i failed coz often i was on hollidays wid my hubby.

i stopped weight less, but they called me back. at that time i was 93kg.

i want to 4 sessions, but my loss was very very insignificant.
i loss only 1.2 during the 1 month ive been going, and they told me that i was not doing well with my diet.

then i definitely quite coz i could not bear people telling me how much i should loss per week. coz we are not the same.

since then ive taken myself in hand, in doing my diet by my own, doing sport.

let me tell u that ive started my serious weight loss since 2 months now and im not going to give up coz i want to show those who told me i wont ever b slim.

from 93kg im now 88kg. its huge. beleive me.

i no more grave for fast food, n i love going to the gym.
ive always been very lazy when it comes to exercise. i cant count how many times ive joined some gym n let go after only 1 month.

now i enjoy it, i started treadmill for 10 min now i can do it a full 1 hour.

give urself a chance, ull succeed. n further more go on the net read as many successful weight loss as u can to have the motivation and be PATIENCE. co zu wont loss watever uve taken since the past 19 years in 1 or 2 months
 
Hi there!
Im new here.. read ur message! Im interested in being ur buddy too :D do u have msn? dont think I can PM yet couz just added today..

anyways.. bit details about me...
Im 174, 76 kg... used to be 85 kg.. lost a bit already but now Im lazy again and eating alot again... really need to keep it off.. and lose a bit more.. couz I used to be 62 kg (2 years ago)..

Hope ur interested!

u can add me>> shopachocoholic@yahoo.com :)
 
Weight Loss Buddy

Hi! I'm 32yrs old I'm living in Antigua, which is in the Caribbean and I don't ever want to put on a bathing suit! I've stopped going to the beach with my husband because of it...:ack2:

So anyhow, I'm like you, I start "diet's" and often lose willpower before I lose any weight! So on Sept 13 I started my "new life" it's not a diet. I've taken all of the information on healthy living, exercise and healthy food and am applying it to my everyday life. I've put on my swim suit and have started swimming in the afternoon after work before I pick up hubby from work and child from school...I feel much better!

My biggest challenge is emotional eating, I get stressed or angry...I eat...then I become stressed and angry and sad because of my weight..so I eat again. It is the worst cycle!! I'm very happy to have found this forum! It's refreshing to read the posts of individuals just like me...who have the desire to change for the better...even if we fall off track every now and again..the important part is to get back up and try again.!:iagree:

One day at a time.
 
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Great to see more people replying :)
anuwndrgyal my problem is related to emotional eating as well, it's just that eating makes you feel good while you're doing it so it's a quick escape from just experiencing stressful or painful emotions but afterwards you just feel even worse cos you're still stressed/anxious/in pain and now to top it all off guilty as hell.

I'm still not sure what kind of diet i'm gonna follow, I'm having doubts about this whole macronutrients ratio, if you have any tips i'd love to hear them, and when it comes to a weight training routine i'm pretty clueless too, i read the stickies but i just don't have the equipment home and i can't join a gym, at least not yet, first i need to make sure i can handle healthy habits and then raise the money :p.

Anyway I was thinking that we should establish weekly goals and weigh ins so that we can track each others progress and encourage each other when things get rough :)
 
I have that too.. emotional eating.. its just that u forget everything when ur eating..
It sounds like a great idea, weekly goals etc.. Can I join as well :)
U can PM or maybe yahoo messenger if u have??

xxx
 
Neveragain: sorry can't PM yet... haha thnx for adding me :) How much u want to lose though? any plans how are u going to do it? we should try to motivate as much as possible.. the hardest thing for me is to eat whenever Im sad, lonely or bored.. or if I have gravings I just start to eat a lott!!!! whenever I feel like I want to eat junk again I really need to talk to someone who'll tell me not too.. hahaha hopefully this forum will help :p
 
The more the better (unless we're talking junk food :p), right? That way we can really support each other when things get rough.

So I was thinking that we should choose a day of the week as our weigh-in day, to keep track of our progress, we could also set little goals each week like this week's about drinking X amount of water each day, or about exercising for at least X days,etc (and ideally we'll just get used to those habits). What kind of things would you girls like to do? I always have a hard time staying motivated but I really feel excited about this :p

Btw I don't have yahoo msn, just windows msn and AIM :willy_nilly:
 
I want to lose around 10kg more, cos i've been losing for a while now (Around 6kg) but I just did it all wrong, I never stopped emotional eating, like i'd do well for a few days and then one day something would just go wrong and i'd eat like the world was about to end so it was back to the start again.
The biggest issue I have is that I probably lost a lot of muscle in the process so my body's pretty much fat right now, there's not a place I can touch that's not soft and jiggly x_x
 
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Do you doubt whether you want to go that route - or do you not understand how to apply it.
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Well i've been reading a lot about the subject but I'm just very confused as to what's the % of carbs/proteins/fats that I should eat, since some people treat carbs as the devil and others treat fats like the worst thing ever. So I'd appreciate any advice
 
hello

oh goddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!

im soooooooooo happy theres so many of u who replied.
emotional eating, i think i was also that type, worse, i would eat n eat all night wenever i watch tv at night.

but i should that i no more feel the desire too eat while watching tv.i think ive learnt to eat wen im hungry only n not grap anything i can.

Shopachocoholic neveragain anuwndrgyal, this is a very long journey and it is our journey.

we are sure to find many obstacle through it but in order to succeed we need to go over all these.

all i suggest for a good start is to learn having control of ourselves. u know wat?
i just arrive home from a restaurant. my hubby made me the surprise. i wasnt even aware til i reach there.

n im so proud of myself that ive eaten clean n not like an obese cow, like ive always did.

but i admit dining outside is not recommended coz they are full of unsaturated fat.
so 2morow im going to hit the gym for 1hr so not to feel guilty abt 2day though i had control over myself. n i didnt have desert, lol:hurray:

ill suggest that we weight ourself once a week and keep an account of our weight.

whether we gain or lose pounds we should be sincere to ourself.

if there are other suggestions plsssssss post.

will sunday be okay for u?
i mean our weight measure?coz im already doing it on sunday
 
hi

neveragain:

all food are good according to me, but we should the quantity only and not abuse of them. like u since years ive been struggling but as i told u u need to look for the motivation.
i dont know for u, maybe by reading success stories of weight loss and also by talking to people like us who have the same problem.

as u proposed,i agree that helping each other by starting wid some petty challenge.

one thing more neveragain, dont hurry too much, try to accept the diet and exercise as a new and healthy life style.

for me to stay motivated,i read out fad diets of personalities but never doing way they do.

i say to myself that they are famous, rich, they do not lack anything, yet they are sacrificing so much. but y cant i simply change my way of eating and b healthy.

dont do drastic diets as well n dont listen to people who advise u to do so. there no short cut in weight loss.

hope we all suceed:hurray:
 
I think Sunday's a good idea since usually during the weekend I tend to screw up more - don't know if that happens to you girls - so that's a good way to stay motivated to controle it
*i will notttttt eat that cake, weigh-in's tomorrow* hopefully i'll be thinking like that :p
 
yeah thats the spirit

u are right neveragain coz me too i have the tendency in eating much more during wkend.

the weight in will help us from eating nonsense. and y dont u try not to buy cakes or any high calorie stuff.

i used to buy so many cakes and chocolate before and at night i would stay awake till 2 am eating and watching, lol:willy_nilly:
 
I always try to keep healthy stuff around the house but since i'm only 19 and living with my parents (colleges here don't have dorms) I can't keep them from buying unhealthy foods D:, I mean they don't buy that much crap but sometimes during the weekends they buy the ocasional cake or cookies, maybe desserts, etc x_x
 
neveragain said:
I want to lose around 10kg more, cos i've been losing for a while now (Around 6kg) but I just did it all wrong, I never stopped emotional eating, like i'd do well for a few days and then one day something would just go wrong and i'd eat like the world was about to end so it was back to the start again.
The biggest issue I have is that I probably lost a lot of muscle in the process so my body's pretty much fat right now, there's not a place I can touch that's not soft and jiggly x_x
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omg.. I HAVE EXACTLY the SAME! I lost about 8 kg until now.. but still want to lose like 15 kg more.. I am doing exactly the same.. doing REALLY good some days.. and then some days I eat freaking a LOTTTTTTTT like there is no tomorrow... and then just doing ok again on other days.. we should stop that!! we have to change our lifestyle...
BTW, I think I can add msn on yahoo thing as well? what ur email then?

Sunday weighing.. sounds like a plan :) we should set goals for urself on each sunday.. :D and then we have to see if we've reached that!!

sam0803>> good that u didnt eat the dessert :) Im proud of u!! :D
 
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