Collection of Tricks and Easy Ways to Lose Weight

Okay fellow dieters here's how I did it. First of all I would like to say that this has been a long journey for me I failed a gazillion times before I got it right and I'm not mad at that because it only made me stronger so you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. I wanted to lose weight so bad I could taste it and see me self slim and might I say sexy. I am 24 years old now I have always been fat (I'm not going to spare myself). I had alot of friends in high school I was always kind of like the fat friend you know, like people would tell me their problems but I was never a choice to go out with and party. Whatever the case my best friend was always hot (she is still my best friend) she was the one who got all the guys, she was the fabolous one, anyways I started to resent her a little bit but I realized that it is not her fault that I am fat and I hate myself it is only mine. My genetics are horrible everyone in my family is overweight. My heaviest was 220 at the age of 22 and I hated myself. After several attempts at weight loss I would just give up and start from the beginning. I have tried everthing on the market.. from Atkins.. to Hydroxycut to Trimspa. Its all B.S (don't mind my language I'm just so passionate about this) Anywho on my 23 birthday I weighed 214 which was depressing as hell... of course my friends wanted to go out and celebrate so when I went to the mall to try and buy a decent outfit and couldn't find anything nice that would fit I got even more depressed.. I went to the food court (and well you know the rest) I promised myself by my next birthday I'll be damned if I look like this. So the following week I borded the weight loss ship.. yet again. This time I promised myself that I wouldn't be hard on myself if I cheated from time to time. Because before I would be on an extremely strict diet and when I cheated or made a mistake I would completely binge and say to myself oh I'll start over tommorow... or next week or next month (big no no) anyways I invested in some dumbells, skipping rope, and good old running shoes. Every other day I would go for a 30 minute walk and 3 days a week i would do my 5 pound dumbell rountine. I cut out pop.. white bread.. sugar... basically all junk and anything packaged. At the grocery store I would only shop around the perimeters i.e veggies and all that good stuff. I ate sandwiches with whole wheat bread.. turkey or chicken breast cheese (i refuse to give that up) fruits... some times ill have veggies with some steak or chicken breast basically whatever healthy thing i can think of whipping up. For snacks I would have yogart, almonds, fruits... I started drinking alot of water. This isn't to say I didn't cheat.. at first I cheated alot but it only made me feel worse... so now I cheat here and there and I realized its really not worth it. Anyways I went from 220 to 130 in 9 months and I look and feel amazing.. lets just say my best friend isn't the only one getting numbers. The first 2 weeks I lost the most than after that it was slow and steady which I didn't mind because regardless of the scale I was losing inches and my clothes started to get looser and looser on me. My biggest tip and best secret though was that I put a scale in my kitchen right near the fridge. Im serious try it... try and go to the fridge and have that mean scale staring at you! If it could talk it would say I dare you! lol anyways I hope this helps and I hope you all overcome this war on weight!!
cheers,
Kelly
ps. I would like to apologize for the spelling and grammar mistakes I was typing really fast.

 

Wow! That was a powerful statement! Congrats! I love your passion!

I can't believe I whine about 10 pounds when you lost so many!! I have to try the trick with the scale next to the fridge! I usually cheat before my period...

And I think I know how you felt when you wanted to go shopping and actually felt worse rather than better. For a year now I haven't bought not even one pair of pants, that's how freaked out I am! :( I'm only buying tops.

Well, I lost about 5 pounds but I need to shed ten more. And I know it sounds little, especially after what you have accomplished, but it's hard till you start and get moving. :)

Thanks for sharing! I loved it! :)

 

That was amazing Kelly.. I know the feeling of being told, "Oh how much weight you lost!!"

This is my story...

I never was a slim girl, i have a thin bone yet i am big framed, the smallest size i ever managed to wear was a European 38 (Us 6), weighing 52 kilos (114 pounds??). I never used to do any training back then and i used to eat a lot of junk food.. all this glory until i started working 8 hours a day at a desk. Sizes started going up from 6 to 12. About 3 years ago i started swimming and training, used to swim 200 laps a day and an other 1hr and a half of cardio daily.. from a size 12 i went down to a 10 and even 8! Then, i met my boyfriend!!
Swimming and any other activity went down drastically and in 3 years i went up from 60 kilos to 69 kilos (152 pounds). i started feeling chubby and i tried millions of diets but none actually worked. Then on new year's day (this year) i was invited at a dinner were all the women were perfectly slim and they started joking about chubby women. I felt totally stressed out and promised myself things were going to change. For the first week i cut down on my carbohydrate intake and i fell in love with rocket leaves (the only veg i like to eat). I stopped eating toast at work and started eating soups and salads. Plus an hour of walking a day. In 2 weeks i lost 5 kilos and from Jan to May i was weighing 59 kilos (130 pounds).
I started playing squash nowadays and i go to the gym every single day, but my problem is that since may i stopped losing weight!! I went down to 58 and got back to 59 and sometimes even 60! My instructor says that its muscle weight, but still.. now i feel hopeless. My target is 55 Kilos by the end of the year and i dont know how i can get there !!

I am happy with the weight i managed to get, however i still wish to be slimmer :)

Any suggestions??

Graz

 

Hi Graz,

Just wondering indeed how much is muscle and how much is fat? And how tall are you? I'm 163 and I weigh at the moment 57 - starting dropping from 59. I see big difference in appearance but not on the scale. On the other hand, as you know, fat is very light while muscles are heavy. I am sure, like your instructor said, that you are replacing one with the other.

The veggies you hate are essential to weight loss. Stay away from anything that raises too much the sugar in your blood and eat a few small meals a day, instead of 3 big ones. If you like plain yogurt, eat ! Obviously your body got used to what you are doing right now and it got to that moment when it won't allow you to lose any more weight while following this routine. Change the routine. Change the days you are training and the hours. Change eating habits. Make a change somewhere to shock your body. Once past that, you should be able to lose again.

And certainly don't eat after 7pm if you go to bed at 10. Your metabolism slows down in the evening and your body is tired, unable to burn as fast as it does in the morning. Try a bit of exercise before going to bed - about 10 mins; just normal stuff - sit-ups, push-ups, etc. Fast series to get your muscles tired.

Let me know if you see any changes in a week.

Take also one of those funny tests to see what your minimum weight is if you were to have 0% fat on your body. Why I am saying this? Because I tried for a very long time to drop under 50 kilos - even though at 50 I had no fat on - then I took the test and it turned out that my body could be 50 kilos minimum with no fat on. :)

Keep in touch! :)
Andreea