I want to hear from people that have lost weight by making healthy choices.

The twist is this: I want to know what you learned to practice psychologically.
It is logic to know that a young woman should be eating well and exersizing. I am 170 pounds and trying to lose 30 lbs. In the end I am going to write an article and try to publish it. I have begun losing weight but I want to remain inspired. If you have overcome a weight problem, I am asking you to inspire me with the emotional and phychological side to your success. I want to know what was going on in your head that helped you overcome such a hard task. What got you up from your downs? What helped you make the turn around?

Feel completely free in this forum to enlighten me and others about what kept you going in your journey.
Also feel free to state your name.
Thank you to all who share and I will be keeping up with this post.

Lifestyle choices were essential for me because I was diagnosed with Diabetes. Major change in choice of foods and nutrition, therefore equals heathly choices.Diet and exercise necessarily followed. Phychological side, well either spiral into kidney failure or live with what I have.

My take on your post. Good luck with your book.

By the way, you can't ask anyone here to state their name. Names are in the avatars.

Tick

Its not always psychological by the way. I have a thyroid issue and needed medication to balance it before I could lose weight.


But you are correct, the feelign you get KNOWING that you are helping yourself, is just amazing. Knowing that you are doing the RIGHT thing for YOUR body, fills you with a sense of accomplishment that can't be matched by ANYTHING. I quit smoking and even THAT couldn't compaire to the feeling.

Good luck on your research hon :)

I am a male, and was at 5'8" and 180 lbs. I wasn't very healthy... I was in school full time and had a job... so I was eating junk food and not exercising.

I decided to make a change, and cut out junk food and started exercising regularly for 4 months, and then went down to 150, looking trim.

Then, I got a more demanding job, so I am now back up to 170... but in the past two weeks, I have made it my goal to go back to the gym and have stuck by it... running for an hour each day, and lifting weights (isolation). Three days on, one day off. I am now down to 165 after 2 weeks, which I think is pretty good progress.

As far as psychological aspects, everyone knows that exercising makes them relieve stress, but there's that bonus when you wear a tight muscle shirt and the server at the restaurant takes your order, and as she walks by, slightly touches your arm. Tee hee

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Lifestyle choices were essential for me because I was diagnosed with Diabetes. Major change in choice of foods and nutrition, therefore equals heathly choices.Diet and excercise necessarily followed. Phychological side, well either spiral into kidney failure or live with what I have.

My take on your post. Good luck with your book.

By the way, you can't ask anyone here to state their name. Names are in the avatars.

tick

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Wow, what a story.
Well congratulations! Thank you so much for sharing.
(and the correction) :)

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Originally Posted by jenniepepsi

its not always psychological btw. i have a thyroid issue and needed medication to balance it before i could lose weight.


but you are correct, the feelign you get KNOWING that you are helping yourself, is just amazing. knowing that you are doing the RIGHT thing for YOUR body, fills you with a sense of acomplishment that can't be matched by ANYTHING. i quit smoking and even THAT couldnt compaire to the feeling.

good luck on your research hon :)

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I agree. I've lost around ten pounds and that feeling is wonderful. I like your insight. Thank you very much for your response.

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Originally Posted by ISneezeFunny

I am a male, and was at 5'8" and 180 lbs. I wasn't very healthy...I was in school full time and had a job...so I was eating junk food and not exercising.

I decided to make a change, and cut out junk food and started exercising regularly for 4 months, and then went down to 150, looking trim.

Then, I got a more demanding job, so I am now back up to 170...but in the past two weeks, I have made it my goal to go back to the gym and have stuck by it...running for an hour each day, and lifting weights (isolation). Three days on, one day off. I am now down to 165 after 2 weeks, which I think is pretty good progress.

As far as psychological aspects, everyone knows that exercising makes them relieve stress, but there's that added bonus when you wear a tight muscle shirt and the server at the restaurant takes your order, and as she walks by, slightly touches your arm. tee hee

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You're funny! :D
Thank you. I'm pretty busy myself so it's nice to hear from someone that had to stick to their guns.

After years of eating according to the food pyramid (brown rice with every meal) and still being fat, in spite of lots of exercise, I started a low carb diet almost as a joke. I couldn't believe how easily the weight came off, compared with the struggle to lose a few pounds on low fat. I lost 45lb over six months, and without being hungry.

In retrospect, I'm absolutely certain that I was heading for type 2 diabetes, and it never got picked up because I was so athletic.

Psychologically, for me, the big thing was learning to trust my body. To eat when I was hungry and not to eat when I was not hungry. I had been doing the "six small meals a day" thing, which meant I was training my body to expect food all the time. On Atkins/low carb, you don't eat until you are hungry, and then you eat as much as you need to stop being hungry. This was a huge change for me.

There are still times when I eat because I'm bored, or because something smells wonderful, but I like to think I'm more in tune with what my body needs now, rather than what some expert somewhere thinks it ought to need.

I did lose 30lbs. Three years ago and have kept it off (for the most part). I'm at 180 now, I was at 196 and for a while was at 174.

The psychological part was the hardest, and I still struggle with it from time to time. I was able to do it because I set a clear goal for myself, lose 25 pounds in five months. If you set a clear goal, the psychological part suddenly becomes easier because you're giving reason to your actions and thought.

I don't know what your liviing situation is, but living on your own helps, a lot. At my mom's, my diet goes to hell because she doesn't practice the same diet I do. I never buy anything with sugar or processed foods, and keep meat consumption to a minimum. I pretty much focus on vegetables.