Does anyone have some good personal success weight gain/loss stories?

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  1. neorane profile image60
    neoraneposted 13 years ago

    I am trying to find other peoples stories and if you also have the info available, your strategies and routines, supplements, ect.  If you do please share. I am trying to get a better understanding of what people have actually implemented and have found to work for them. smile

  2. Kimberly Bunch profile image61
    Kimberly Bunchposted 13 years ago

    I do it the Zen way. I don't eat anything after 12 o'clock in the afternoon.

    Years before I was down to 110 pounds when I stuck to an all vegetable diet. While eating whenever I wanted to and that being just the vegetables! It changes your taste buds. There was times when I would forget to eat a given day. Not to often but I recall having forgot to eat once on that diet.

    It's really all about mental discipline and not constantly obsessing about food.

  3. ilmdamaily profile image68
    ilmdamailyposted 13 years ago

    The first time I rode 100km in a day on a bicycle I lost 2.6 kg's.

    There's no subsitute for physical activity - just find something you enjoy.

  4. IzzyM profile image87
    IzzyMposted 13 years ago

    I just started back on to the atkins diet less than a week ago. About 9 years ago I was on atkins for about 10 months and I lost about 50lbs. I'm still not as heavy as I was before, but its been creeping back up so I'm forcing it back down again.
    Low carb dieting really works!
    I feel my stomach deflating already, and in only about six days I'm definitely seeing results. PLus all that water is good for me (min 2 litres a day).

  5. mixfitness profile image61
    mixfitnessposted 13 years ago

    I ate less and exercised more.  It was a decision to take control of my out of control eating.  I was eating whatever I wanted.  So, I decided I wanted to be slimmer rather than having extra snacks.  Plus, I increased my exercise from 1 to 3 days per week.  I lost 20 pounds over 6 months and have kept it off for a year now. 

    Diets only work temporarily.  If you don't find a way to eat healthy the majority of the time, you'll always gain back the weight you lost on a diet.  You learn nothing about healthy eating by cutting out entire food groups and you become frustrated when you restrict foods you normally enjoy.  Balance and moderation are keys to weight loss success.

  6. profile image57
    truparad0xposted 13 years ago

    Consistency in workouts and lifestyle changes in "diet."  Works perfectly.  My 175lb now and my 175lb from two years ago are very different.  Body composition is better.

    1. annmeadows profile image60
      annmeadowsposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I agree. When you start building muscle it's aggravating cause the scales go up, but the inches come off like crazy. And, fat weight and muscle weight are two very different things. Hm, that gives me an idea...

  7. Mr,Motivated profile image61
    Mr,Motivatedposted 13 years ago

    I used to be obese and i lost alot of weight, i have posted a hub about my success in weight loss. I hope you find it usefull.

    From Mr,Motivated
    Thanx for stopping by.

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      Home Girlposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      After my first child I started to expand like a pie in the oven. I had to sit and think really hard. It was in my old country. No knowledge about nutrition. No information. Just guessing. I did not want to be fat. So I did not have a choice but to cut my regular portions in half. And no sugar in my tea or coffee. I 've been living like that for almost 20 years. When I came to Canada my enemy caught me again. I started gaining weight. But I had the power of knowledge  - I got my hands on every single diet literature that was printed and circulated, I read lots of nutritional books - some of it pure garbage, but some absolutely gem. I can manipulate my weight any way I want now. I know what things I cannot eat, what things I can eat sometimes, and what should be my regular meal every day. I learned to love oatmeal without milk and sugar, cocoa drink without sugar and no butter on my bread! And I learned that stress is part of the problem. Our weight is the response of our body that cries: help, I am stressed out, do something! Be quick!  Not to eat after 12 pm is a little bit brutal. It's enough not to eat after 6 pm.
        I still carry some extra weight in my body, but I am okay with that. I sit on my butt from 9 am till 7pm answering phones. it's very stressful and I am not strict with my diet. It's not my goal. But if I start to grow - I know what to do and how to do it quickly. I don't let myself  go wide. Still no sugar in my tea and no butter on my bread either! I have to watch that.
      You can change your food preferences, food is a habit like everything else. Habit can be good or bad, but the power is in your hands. Just do it.

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    Precious Williamsposted 13 years ago

    My sister-in-law has just started the South Beach diet and lost 5 pounds the first week and 4 pounds last week.  She says that it is different from anything else that she has tried, because she doesn't feel hungry and it is easy to follow. She says she really feels in charge of her eating rather than it controlling her.

  9. Aficionada profile image79
    Aficionadaposted 13 years ago

    After my fourth child, I had a harder time getting rid of the weight gained through the years and the pregnancies.  I was pretty mad about it and determined to find a way. 

    I selected what I thought was a reasonable but healthy rate of loss (one pound every two weeks), figured up what calorie deficit I needed to achieve that, then - for about one week - kept records of calorie amounts of what I actually was eating to see how close I came to the intake I was aiming for.  In the process, I discovered what degree of hunger I would experience when I was eating only the required number of calories per day, and adjusted my rate to something more workable for me.

    After I got the process underway, I stopped counting calories and focused on other things; weighed myself twice a week, but didn't worry if I didn't see a change for a couple of weeks.

    It worked for me. big_smile

  10. annmeadows profile image60
    annmeadowsposted 13 years ago

    You can find  my story here at http://hubpages.com/hub/Bare-Bones-of-Diet-and-Exercise
    Thanks
    Ann

  11. KCC Big Country profile image84
    KCC Big Countryposted 13 years ago

    Weight Watchers is a sensible system.  I've had great success with it.

    1. USMCwifey09 profile image63
      USMCwifey09posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      totally agree. in one year i lost 80lbs. and that was just sticking to the points system. now i've added yoga, daily walking, and other various exercises. and have lost 20 more lbs. it's about attitude and self-control. good luck!

 
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