Weight loss - UGH

Well you did great losing the 40 pounds. If you have been off the diet awhile, maybe you can start doing what you did before. I know what you mean about the motivation leaving you once you hit the plateau. Once I gained the weight back from my medication not working, I stopped exercising because what was the point. It took two years to lose and literally less than two days to gain it back.

@fawkes62 I had my thyroid taken out so I am on medication. If the medicine is at the wrong dose, which it was, I gain weight. It is awful. Gaining that much weight in that time period I knew it was the medicine, but it sucked the enthusiasm for exercising right out of me. It's hard to keep weight off when you use any diet. It has to be a lifestyle change. It was funny, I chose to exercise instead of giving up my chocolate. lol

@mommaj I had done a major change in what I ate, eating much more healthy than I was and then slowly went back to much of what I was eating before. I've kept some of the better for me foods and don't eat as many bad for me foods, but could do a lot better than I am right now. It's definitely discouraging to gain it back, and to gain it back that fast had to be even more difficult. Hopefully you will be able to lose it again.

I cut calories, eat protein, and weight lift. No I do not body build, I just tone. Trust me I have been on so many diets and exercise programs I could probably write you a book! I was just wondering if anyone else was having these problems.

@mommaj That is great!! Keep up the work!!

@Rationalwriter Thanks. It's not as easy when you are on thyroid medicine.

You don't need to slim down... You just need to change your lifestyle. Less carbs, more protein, more water, and exercise to keep the sugar readings steady. If you follow the pyramid as far as the amount of carbs go, you should be fine. My ex-husband did that and he lost the extra weight and his sugar came down.

Congratulations on your weight loss. Definitely a lifestyle change. I never understood how people could go on diets and still maintain their weight after they stopped the diet. I actually believe those are the people that gain more weight back than they lost.

@Berardesco I never did diets. I figured I was big enough and if I couldn't commit I didn't see the point to even try. I actually like "weightlifting". I have a gym but the weights are moved by wires and pulleys so I am not doing free weight. I did this religiously for about 8 yrs. Then I had my thyroid taken out. The meds got mixed up and I gained everything I had lost in two days. That was scary because I had never gained weight that fast. After about a year I still haven't been able to get myself together enough to exercise regularly. I am working on it though.

@mommaj Yes I have done that before to every 21/2 years I would lose 50 pounds like clock work and then put it all back on again and then some. Not this time though.

That sounds too much like a diet and not enough of a lifestyle change for me. I like to enjoy some food, like sweets. I try not to overindulge though.