Any weight loss success stories!!?

Question

if so, please do tell! :D

Answer 1

I went on a low glycemic diet, similar to southbeach or atkins January 1st of 2003 and in 6 months lost 50 lbs. I have kept it off. I can't recall ever feeling hungry or not eating enough. I will of course add I have a gym membership that I use at least 5 nights a week  

Answer 2

oh you bet =].

im your average teen, 16 years old, short, only around 5 foot 1, with no extraordinary long legs, or big b***s or model figure.

my worst qualities were always my gigantic calves (genetic thing from my aunt, seriously, i looked like a soccer player), and the fact that i was boobless.

yeah, i had large thighs and my hips stuck out in jeans and dress, but i had a GREAT ***, and a relatively small waist. at 15-16 years old, i weight between 110-115 pounds, normal, right?

then i dont know what happened, i dont even remember where i got my motivation from, but at the very end of may i began running, and dieting. by the middle of june i was down to 105 from 112, and ecstatic (i'd run a few miles a day, and eat lots of fruit, back then i didnt pay attention to calories, i just tried to eat less in general). then we vacationed in Turkey for 12 days, 5 star hotel, all food included, and god their food was fantastic. i knew i would be an idiot to diet there. so for breakfast and lunch i'd have watermelon and cherries, maybe soethign low fat in between, but i'd allow myself a good dinner, cause that's where all the yummiest food was, and i'd workout an hour a day (i worked out for only 6 of the days though).

anyway, i knew it would be a miracle if i didnt gain any weight there, i cheated a lot cause i was a beginner and everything was too good, it's not every day you get to go to turkey. we came back home at the end of june, and a week later i weighed myself, and i was 103. my weighing days were fridays, and i considered that successful, and i knew that i could go back to normal dieting/exercising since i was back home.

i began doing Tae-bo and Callanetics, callanetics was fantastic for getting rid of my hips and giving me a 4-pack, with Tae-bo i felt an energy boost, and proud of myself for working out daily, which i did.

i kept losing 2 lbs a week consistently, till finally at the high 90's i decided to stop, very worried that i'll gain all the weight back once school starts and i wont have time to exercise and am not gonna wanna diet (i loooove food, i didnt wanna restrict myself my whole life). so i thought it'd be smart to stop slowly, so i stopped exercising. that was a very stupid thing to do, but now it's too late.

instead, i began to preoccupy myself with calories. i know the caloric value of most foods that i eat on a regular basis, and check them out before picking out things like icecream. (i found a fantastic chocolate icream in a cone that's 60 grams, as in big enough, with only 85 calories, and made it my ideal snack).

i'd also go to the market every morning for fresh fruit, since i loved it so much, that's what my diet consisted of.

but because i stopped exercising, i was terrified of gaining all that weight back, like i said, so i limited my calories till i realized i was getting an average of less than 800 a day, and put my body in starvation mode.

i began to do this: one day i'd eat 800, the next day 1200, then i'd eat 900, and then 1300, and so on, just so i wouldnt gain weight immediately after upping my caloric intake. but i was still a little too preoccupied.

tons of comments on weight lost, but for me only my opinion mattered. all my jeans were loose, even the ones bought at the end of may, so was stuck in shorts and skirts the whole summer.

i told my bf i was done once i hit 95 lbs (and i lied to my family about my weight, telling them it was more), but i actually kept losing. fridays continued to be my weighing days, and this friday i was 88.4, even though i told myself i can get below 90.

low moments: pretending i ate, cause my family began to monitor me a little: i'd put a little bit of food ina plate, just enough to get it dirty, and leave it on the counter. lie about eating at my boyfriends house, and so on.  i never purged though. too many relatives telling me i got too skinny, family freaking out about me going anorexic, losing my great butt, the bones sticking out at my chest cause i was always skinny up top.

i dont consider counting calories so horrible, though i do miss the days when i could have a fruit salad with the whipping cream at 10 pm and not give it a single thought, whereas now i'd never have the cream unless i knew i still have some calories left over.

high moments: skirts and high heels, and i feel fantastic. im no longer jealous of the girls who are not afraid to show off their legs. i NEVER thought i'd be one of them. knowing i accomplished something, and getting down to a number where i actually dont want to lose any more weight, where i know i could if i wanted to (though itd be harder now what with me being strongly monitored), but i know i'd just look too body up top if i did. i learned a lot about healthy eating from all the researching i did, and same with exercise. i know i bordered the line of an eating disorder when i'd lie about my eating, but i've got too much common sense to actually deve

Answer 3

My success story... I am not proud of it. I was 5'4 and about 170. And all my life I hated myself. After my partner left me for a cute skinny girl, it seemed that my life was over. At first I was miserable and than I became mad. At myself mainly.

I did it the way nobody should do. I stopped eating almost completely, now I only ate non-starchy vegetables and allowed myself one fruit a day. I bought Total Gym 1100 to work out at home 7 days a week, swam laps for an hour 3 days a week and did cardio on elliptical 4 days a week. It was 2 hours of working out everyday with very little food. I have always been vegetarian and now turned to vegan way. I lived on fruits, veggies, diet iced tea and sugar-free energy drinks. Yes, I was weak and even near fainting sometimes. I lost 50 pounds in about 2.5 months. Than I just started eating healthy (and vegan), but I still work out for at least and hour every day and fast for 24 hours once a week - only this way I kan keep my weight around 120.

It was hard and it was fast and it was not healthy. I do not recommend it to anybody.

Answer 4

i got gastric bypass. now im 5 foot 7 and 135 pounds!!