Bad habits?

Hello, I have tried numerous times to lose weight over 12 years. I had been on a medicine for over a year that I had no idea it could/would cause me to gain weight. It did, I was wearing a 5/6 in jeans and in less than a year went to a size 18 in jeans. I was miserable. I spoke to my doctor and asked if the medicine did this, I was told YES. I asked to be on a different on (for seizers). He told me they would change the medicine bit that All seizer medicines will either cause you to gain or retain the weight you are at. It has been a hard long road for me. I lost 30 some odd pounds in a month...I had stopped my seizer medicine to do it though. I started eating right and ate snacks or dessert in moderation. I had to go back on my medicine because of the seizers and I stopped eating right too. I am going to do it again, actually I've already started. Wish me luck as I may not look like it but I need to lose another 50 to 75 pounds.

Come dec. if i live till then i have survived 67 years , 2 bad marriages, raising 2 sons on my own & working like an idiot. Is that sucessful enough, lol.

My goal is just to take better care of myself. I am getting there I think. That will include more exercise and eating better. It is easier for me to make better food choices than it is for me to exercise at this time.

back in around 1973-74 I stopped biting my nails and since June 1st, I've lost 30 lbs

Bad habits? I don't think I have any bad habits because I never do anything which I feel bad. Ya I do booze & smoke, but since it's occasionally it's not a bad habit for me. Happy Lotting

Bad Habbits?? nope i dont have .. but i strongly believe this is bad habbit since i am too much adicted on a game "Guildwars" which is similar to "WoW" game which is MMRPG.. so do u guys think playing too much like 10hrs a day is bad?? i need some advice i will be happy as well :) TY

I really don't have very many bad habits. I think my worst bad habit is eating a lot of wrong food for me. I don't think I over eat I just think the choices I make in the types of food I eat is what the bad thing is. I'm just trying to be a little more mindful of my choices and to only eat things occasionally but sometimes that fails. However I think we're all human and have room for error so I don't worry about it much.

A couple of years ago I went on a diet to lose weight and it did work - only because I was in the right frame of mind. The diet was a good one, but I'm sure it was my state of mind that helped me achieve the weight loss; I was committed and determined, and it paid off! In the past when I have tried to lose weight and not been successful, I know that it's because I wasn't really committed and wasn't positive - it didn't matter how good the diet was. So to answer your question, yes, positive thinking does help, and mind over matter does work - I proved that to myself.

my bad habit is cussing I guess its from growing up around it i don't think before I drop an f-bomb trying to stop though an the other thing is no word of a lie where i am from is nick named mingya valley which means f### you in Italian

Hi Helen, yes I have bad habits, one is smoking and have done since the age of 13, in my about 20 I stopped smoking for 15yrs but was in a rather bad situation and one day I just picked one up and started again, now I don't want to stop it is about the only pleasure I have in my life apart from my animals, also being on my own I never can be bothered to cook for myself so just have snacks throughout the day...now and then will have a good meal about once a week, that is one thing I really want to change and to start enjoying food again, but at the moment it doesn't even bother me if I eat or not..hugs LoLo

I thought everyone has it own addiction.For me,I would like to purchase everything throng internet,including my shirts,snacks,cell phone etc.I think this is somekind addiction,because if I don't buy something from internet once a moth,I feel something is worng. There are lot of habits,may be it is bad or well.I think different have different view.

My worst is my smoking. My only other addiction is coffee, but I'm still happy with that one. I would like to be more regular with my exercise routine. I'm stuck at the last twenty pounds I'd like to lose, after having lost 100 pounds, and the only way I'm going to get that done is if I exercise regularly.

My bad habit is smoking. I have tried to quit many times. The gum and patches make me sick so the only thing left is the med. which scares me. I plan to try again next week to just quit cold turkey.

I always sit before computer for several hours and don't want to leave for a moment.I think that is a bad habit,as it is bad for my health. I want to brush my teeth every night before sleep and I can't stick to it.I also want to get up early every morning at the same time.But I often get up too late. Some people may say just enjoy yourself and don't pay attention to what you have done or not.Some elders tell me that I should take good care of my health and change bad habits,or I will be regretful.I believe them.So from now I will try my best to form some good hanits.

I think my bad habit of my life is sloth or procrastination. Possibly I adopted this habit since childhood. I like to finish thing slowly, especially those need body energy. Therefore, I am always reluctant to clean the house or bath room. I also feel that it's tedious to cook or wash the cloths. Therefore, a washing machine and a cloth dryer is my best solutions to these daily chores. Too bad, a cloth ironing and folding machine is not available in the market yet . I have my meal in the restaurant or food court everyday, so I don't have to shop for cooking ingredients and cook the food on my own. But I will try my best to consume healthy food like vegetarian or organic food. But recent progress is, I am making simple yet healthy breakfast using oat meal, muesli, raisins, milk powder and honey. I even bought one touch air-tight "tupperware" to store the packet-ed ingredients so I don't have to seal them with rubber bands.

hi forestgold I am overweight and cannot quell my need'to 'eat potato chips and chocolate, but I need to lose the weight to help control my blood glucose much better, Maybe' I could count calories a bit and still enjoy more of the'things that I like to eat. I have a bad leg which makes walking for exercise a bit problematic so need some type of exercise that I could do. not swimming as we have no pool here but anything else just about.

Hi Helen, Well I have got a very bad habit, its smoking, i know i shouldn't but i do and if someone tells me I should stop, I get really angry as I will do it when I want to, not when some one tells me not to, that is my stubborn streak, I will do one of these days but so far have not been successful. Hugs. Tamara xxxx

My worst enemy ( you can say bad habit ) is delaying things, until everything coming up altogether and I feel panic. I should have do that this afternoon, so I can rest well, but I delay it until I feel sleepy in the evening. Delaying process continue to the next morning and so on... Sounds awful, isn't it. But Thanks God, slowly but sure I has learned to erase this poisonous habit so it won't let me down anymore. May be some of mylotters have experienced this too, I hope not...

Mine is eating after midnight! I am gaining weight and have been trying to lose some, succeeded and now, it is back to square one! Sometimes, when I have set my mind to shed those extra pounds, I have a very positive thinking that I can do it, will do it and have managed to do it, but other times, I guess because of my thinking that I can always do it next time, that it becomes so difficult to be consistent and discipline myself.

Well i have a goal to reducing the cholesterol in my body because it amount already higher then the normal amount. I try many thing like doing reguler sport and start to eat less cholesterol food. But i dont know, i can only do them for about a month or so, and after that i get back to the bad habbit that i have, sleep too much and eat a plate of cholesterol food. I try and try but i can only manage less then a month for every attempt that i make.