After 7 months, I am down 60lbs and am under 200lbs

[GreenPartyVoter]

for the first time in 8 years. I'm still using myfitnesspal to track my food and fitbit to track my movement/energy output. Husband jumped on board and is doing the same plan, and has lost 20+lbs in 6 weeks.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. That is just spectacular news - congratulations!

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I made my own lifestyle change in that direction 4 years ago. Went from 258 down to 196, doing most of it in about 6 months, but am doing a good job staying close - always creeps up over the holidays, then back when I am really active in the spring, summer and fall. The big loss is a huge victory - maintaining is the victory lap - and something that really is a major challenge - hence my viewing it as a lifestyle change - with no return to the habits that get us to where we don't want to be.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Thanks! :^D Am just about at the halfway point in my weight loss journey pounds-wise, but time-wise

it will be slowing way down. I hope in the next 6 months to get to 175lbs, and then after that just let the weight settle downward however it will.

You have done a fabulous job yourself, it sounds like. Maintenance is what worries me. I have lost weight before and gained it back. (Too many times to count!) But I figure if I maintain the new lifestyle, the weight should stay down.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. The one habit I've really adhered to throughout is a daily food diary.

It keeps me honest - I just roughly convert food to "points" using an approx Weight Watchers valuation (it's not hard to think of 50 calories as one point - then calculate points per day - my current goal is below 40 points - 2000 calories - per day). It really is a method that makes you totally honest with yourself and helps me stay on track - it is not for everyone (my wife thinks I'm nuts - but does acknowledge that it helps me greatly!).

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Yeah, I plan on sticking with my food log at MFP. I am terrible at judging

portions and calories without it. The scale and the log are here to stay.

[auntAgonist]

8. Well done to you too!! You are both impressive stories of success in a very

difficult area of life.

Keep up the good work!


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kesha

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Wow, that's great! Keep up the good work.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Thanks! Will do!

[auntAgonist]

7. You are an amazing success story!! Well done.

Keep up the good work, your body, heart and brain will thank you for it.
I bet you're looking really healthy now too.

Congratulations on your hard work and sticktoitavness (I know that's not a word but I like it hehe)

You're amazing!


xoxox
kesha

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Thanks! I am feeling pretty good, despite still having a long way to go. The

loose skin is not my favorite thing, but at my age no one needs to see it anyway. LOL

I had a college English professor once tell our Maine Lit class that there is a word for "sticktoitiveness," Boinkum (bo-ink-um.) Apparently it's a really old Maine thing. I don't really recall ever hearing it in my lifetime, though, and I can't seem to find anything about it on google.

[auntAgonist]

10. OMG I would have used boinkum but no one I know ever heard it before LOL wow.

My friends who live in the Bebee Stanstead area of Quebec, near the Vermont border, had an elderly relative who used that word a lot when talking about having to have the boinkum to get a project done!!


wow.


well done and you certainly do have boinkum!


kesha.
PS I have so much loose skin but at 58 I'm not about to gross anyone out by wearing a bikini anyway
I dress appropriately for my age and get compliments. You will too if you don't already! ! !

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Holy cow! I can't believe someone else knows that word! I haven't

done much shopping yet, but I look forward to buying some things for summer in May. Too bad I had gotten rid of my skinny clothes a few years ago. I would have loved to go closet shopping.

[auntAgonist]

12. I love to shop and don't do it very often. My husband actually buys a lot of my clothes for me. HE

has wonderful taste when it comes to stuff that will look good on me. I on the other hand tend to buy things that are way too big on me. I still feel like I look really fat. Although I am well aware that I am skinny. And loose skin? .. LOL can we talk?


edited to add I was 133 lbs this morning, March 15th 2005 I was 302 lbs.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. It is what it is, right? And the people who love us live with it. *hugs* I think

you look amazing!

[auntAgonist]

14. thank you lots! I took the pic down again I just wanted you to have a quick look LOL

I don't like putting my photo on DU.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I know what you mean. It has taken a lot for me to do photos on fitness pal. I feel

so vulnerable showing all my fat and saggy skin!