joshua147

Hi everyone,

I used to be a faithful buddyslim contributor and lost over 100 pounds as of last year around this time. Well, since then I have gained about 80 of those pounds back. The funny thing is, I never felt like I lost control. I watch my weight climb and climb and did nothing to stop it. About every 10 pounds or so on my way up the latter, I kept telling myself, this is it! Starting tomorrow you are going to lose that weight and you are going to get healthy again. Tomorrow came and went, with little change to my eating. So here I am, nearly 300 pounds again and my self esteem has been stripped from me. I can’t believe what I have done. I get up every morning and walk past my full-length mirror and I just want to cry. All the hard work I put into my weight loss and its gone, dead and so far from my grasp. I’m trying to find that same motivation that started my 100 pounds weight loss in the first place. I don’t know what happened inside my head that caused that great success! I guess I just need to start looking at this one day at a time. I feel like the shell of the person that I used to be when I was almost to “one”derland. I need some motivation to get this big ball rolling. I need to start loving myself again, instead of being disgusted with the person that I see in the mirror.

Hi everyone,

 I have not made a post in quite a while. The past year has brought a lot of change for me. Last summer was great! My weight got down to 218 and I felt Great!  Fall came and I gained a few pounds. I could live with 225. During the winter months, I have gained another 40 pounds bringing my weight to 262. Now, I am so down on myself I cant even stand to look in the mirror. I’m so upset at myself for what I have done I want to cry everytime I catch a glimpse of myself. THe worst part is that I keep running back to food to conmfort me, which only makes the problem worse. I dont know how to make the problem stop. It just keeps getting worse and worse. HELP! 

Hi Everyone,

The past few months have brought some big changes into my life. I have started a new job, and I have started college so my stress level is a bit elevated. I have been doing very well on my diet, I am down to 254 now! So that means that I am 2 pounds away from hitting my 60 pounds lost mark!

But here is where I need some help. I have gone on what I call the “Lean Cuisine” Diet. I have a LQ meal for lunch and one for dinner. Becuase of this, my calorie intake seems very low… I am only eating about 1,300 calories a day. I exercise on the treadmill everyday for about 30-45 minutes and I burn about 250 to 4oo calories on average depending on how intense I make it.

I have not lost any weight in the past week, and I was wondering if I am doing something wrong. I Don’t cheat, and I drink between 100 to 200 ozs of water a day, so between  12 to 24 glasses of water. I am just getting really depressed this week and I am just looking for guidance…

Thanks so much!

Ok, I have been a member of BuddySlim for a few months now… In that time, I have lost 30 pounds and 4 inches off of my waist. The first few weeks of being here were amazing, the support the love and the friendships pour out over you! But unfortunately I slowly stopped logging on, and then eventually did not participate in this site at all… My diet hit the rocks, but not to hard…lol I gained back 3 of my lost pounds… But this is a new year, and I am still commited to changing my life, I want to look back and say that 2009 was the year where everything changed! :-)  We can all do this, If we do it together… So lets get out and walk an extra mile, lift an extra 5 pounds… lets all raise the bar, and by the first day of 2010 we can all sit back and enjoy our health and wellbeing….

Thanks so much to all of you, never could have started this new lifestyle without you!

Awesome day!

It’s the day after thanksgiving and for the first time in my life I don’t feel miserable and so bloated my pants are gonna shred when I put them on. With the mazing help of my buddy Teresa, she showed me that I am not eating enough calories and that was the reason for the weight loss halt. I had started to climb in weight and was back up to 294 from my lowest so far of 290. I spent the last few days examining how much food I eat and started eating a bit more, and GOOD NEWS!! I got back on the scale today and I am back to 290.
Without you Teresa I probably would have given up, and this diet along with all the others would have failed.

My clothes are fitting looser, and I am feeling better about myself. If I feel like this just after 10 days, I cant imagine how my self image will change 100 pounds from now!!

See you all later, Happy Shopping!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Diet did not go as well as expected but I am happy with how I did today. I had three thanksgivings to attend so I balanced each one like it was a regular meal. Gotta run!

normal day, not much really to talk about. Getting ready for thanksgiving!! Cant believe its here already…I had eggs for breakfast, no lunch but I had a nice size salad for dinner!!

Another smooth day for the diet. The evening was a bit harder though. I went to my girlfriends house tonight and there was ice cream and spicy chicken nuggets floating around but I resisted the temptation and stuck with the turkey sandwich. I got on the scales today and for the first time in the diet, I did not loose any weight on the previous day . I knew my free-fall diet would hit a rock somewhere, just wish it would have lasted longer, about 100 pounds longer. But thats ok, the harder I work to loose the pounds the more determined I will be to keep them off once there gone.

Today was awesome!!! I now down 11 pounds. I know the fast pace that I am loosing weight can’t continue, buts Its nice while it has…I think I am over the overwhelming feeling to feed my face too. I went to visit my grandma today and she just had pizza delivered. She got a large for just herself and I think she eats a half a piece and puts the rest of the pizza in the fridge, so she offered me the pizza…Guess what I said?? NO THANKS GRANDMA, I’m gonna have a salad when I get home. It almost brings tears to my eyes..lol

My goal for this week is to exercise 4 days, and I am def. gonna exercise on turkey day in the morning to boost my metabolism!!

I am not feeling to well today so I am gonna keep this short…
Normal day, absolutely no cravings or the old :I really wish I could eat that” moments. I had a salad for brek/lunch and a grilled cheese sandwich made with light butter. For the Second day in a row I have not eaten dinner. To be truthfully honest, I am just not hungry and I really don’t even think about eating! I hope this is not gonna hurt my diet, but time will tell..

Thanks to all who commented on my previous post, I was getting a little down on myself but I am back in the game and ready to get hit this diet head on!!

Ok, I’m going back to bed….