Weight Loss Community Challenge

Why, hello stranger, lovely to see you, a very very happy new year to you dear friend, I hope you are well and certainly up for a challenge I see, I wish you all the best goes without saying and I know you'll do it! The only way I lost weight was through exercise, I had been dieting for years, on and off, on and off, like yo-yoyoing if that's a word! I love my food to much, I would binge eat then I would starve myself, I tried all sorts of diets, I was overweight and very unhappy, in the end I decided to brave the gym and boy did I get the results, I went from 16 stone to 12.7 stone, but that was over a course of many many years, my waist size went from 38 inch to 32 inch not bad huh! Even now at 38 years I am still a trim '32 waist, albeit I am 13 and half stone, I would love to get back to 12.7 stone but at least I can now eat what I want when I want without worrying. I go to the gym 3 times a week and I just get addicted to the cross trainer. Only yesterday I was on the machine for 45 minutes non stop! Anyway good luck my dear friend and keep us posted and a very very successful and healthy 2010 xxxx

I've lost almost 45 lbs since June 1st. I started at almost 250 and am down to almost 200. I haven't weighted in a while, but I don't think I actually gained during the holidays, tho I may not have lost any - but that would be a success all on its own. I am continuing my diet, this is the diet they put my roommate on to lose some weight before her gastric bypass surgery, that she had on Dec 9th - she lost 50 lbs. It cuts way back on carbs and protein and way up on fruits and veggies. And, despite those who think the first 10 had to be water weight, I also way increased the amount of fluid I've been drinking.

I don't have any pounds to loose, but I may have good advice for those who want to loose few pounds. I have the same cloths size since age of 14 and I am not starving, in fact I eat a lot. People who stay with me for at least one week are loosing weight, so maybe my kitchen is doing some magic tricks....

hi ellie, nice to see you its been a long time...losing weight is my main problem and i want to lose weight i enrolled aerobics class for 3 months i lose 3kls.only hoping to lose more than that..congratulation with your losing weight program im really interested.please send me a message for that.thanks

Well... I'll share with you my experience... losing weight its not that hard.. I just went to a nutritionist!I followed the program that she gave me, and I lost 20kg in just 3 months... It wasn't too difficult. I just ate healthy food... but once a week I ate whatever I wanted!! It felt a nice feelling everytime I climb on the scales and saw that I had lost weight! p.s. sorry for my english, but I'm foreign ;)

Hi Ellie! I haven't really tried anything new, but I have decided to take it slowly but steadily instead of fast and panicky. No use to stress about the bikini season and then add the weight again in October, so I plan to use a couple of years. After all I've used a couple of years gaining it. And I've been getting acupuncture, not sure how effective it has been for the metabolism but the last time I got it it reduced my cravings for chips and chocolate!

Wow! It's so very nice to see a discussion by you again! Welcome back. I did lose a bunch of weight in the past...and have kept most of it off. I did it by cutting out four things....excess salt.....excess sugar...switched from regular to diet soda....and cut down on breads. Otherwise I use portion control. Stop when you feel full meaning you don't have to eat everything on your plate even if some child is starving someplace as they won't get your excess food anyway...my mother used to tell us that all the time....eat everything as someone is starving...LOL..

Hello Ellie. I've missed you. Firstly I think that you look perfect as you are! I have tried to lose weight with a colleague years ago. We bet each other a cream cake for the one that lost the most. I went on the F Plan diet - remember that one? I lost two stone in three weeks and then put almost all of it back on in another fortnight! Such is life. Enjoy your £300!!

hi ellie for goodness sakes where have you been? I just got back here about four months ago my self. nice to see you back. I have to lose fifty pounds this year to help control my blood sugar. I usually just cut back on carbs and try to exercise forty five minutes at least four or five times a week. here its so hard as I cannot do my own cooking so have to just cut back on the carbs best I can. I will pm you to find out the details as it might help me in my own goal. hugs back hatley.

Hi Ellie!! I'm just glad to see you again. I've thought about you so many times ans wondered what you were up to. As much as I need to lose weight, I have so much going on that only allows be to gain it. If I ever find out exactly what is going on and get some control, I'll look you up. Please stay in touch!! I miss you. xoxoxo Leenie

Hi ellie, Happy New Year to you and gosh! well done for participating in the twelve week course to help people lose weight, what a great thing are are doing, keep up the good work, love and hugs. Tamara

Hi Ellie. I think you have come back to MyLot around the same time as me. Good luck with this new venture. The one time I succeeded in losing weight was when a gang of us at work decided to do it together. I was feeling a bit desperate because I'd just seen myself on a video! We followed a diet that allowed 5 small meals a day, with a list of items to choose from. They were things like a tomato sandwich or a tub of cottage cheese and a celery stick. Somehow I didn't feel so hungry when I knew I only had to wait about three hours for the next snack. But I did cheat a bit. I had a man and several children to cook for at night, so I cut out one of the five meals and just had smaller portions of the same as my family. We had a collecting box and all put a small amount in each week that we didn't lose any weight and we had a weigh in once a week. I did lose a pound or so each week and at the end I'd lost more than anyone else and won all the money in the collecting box.

Hi ellie333, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU....!!! i am trying to lose my weight after my last baby BUT always failed...hahahaha but this year i really want to lose the weight for my health..so could you please tell me more about the programme?? Well good luck!!

hi, Its nice to know that, and I think im interested in losing weight because Im sick and tired of other people saying that I need to lose weight, can you explain whats that program is? thanks a lot

That sure sounds exciting, and the fact that you get help about nutricion sounds even better. Most of the time people want to loose weight fast and will start to eat too little and they do not increase their activity. This way losing weight is not a good and healthy thing, and once you start eating your regular diet again everything will just pop back on. Whenever I feel like I should loose a few pounds I increase my physical activity slowly up to a certain level and try to eat right and snack less. I will loose the pounds pretty quickly and then slowly return to my regular routine, and it will most likely stay off. The holidays are times of year that people tend to put on some extra weight, so I guess it will be crosstraining multiple times a week again from now on .

That's pretty cool. It's good to see you by the way.