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catmacd
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Ok! This is pretty hard for me. I'm not usually the one asking for help unless I'm asking my husband to find something I've lost etc. I finally realized that I can not do this alone and honestly I don't want to anymore. I've tried to many times to count to lose the weight only I lose the willpower, hope and determination with in weeks and then I just get depressed. It's a vicious circle that I desprately want to break. I want to lose about 70 pounds and really just be overall healthy. I would love to run and play with my kids and play the sports I used to love. I'm looking for a support system that I can be accountable to and receive and give the support we all need. I am ready for a true life style change.

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vbutterfly

I've just started too. I feel the same way. I keep doing the same thing. I try for a week or two and then give up because it just seems so hard when you mess up to pick yourself up and keep going. Plus it's just hard to get off the couch! I'm looking for some encouragement too. Maybe on here we can encourage each other and others can help us too. I have at least 80 lbs. to lose, possibly 100. I haven't been that thin in a long time so I'll have to see when I get there! Good luck on starting your journey. I think I'm going to start walking. Write me any time!

catmacd

It feels good to know that you are not alone eventhough you feel isolated! Well, to start the ball rolling, I went to the gym for the first time in about 16 years. It wasn't near as bad as I thought it was going to be. It's not one of the big gyms with 50 elliptical machines and a pool. This one has a key card pass to go anytime - snap fitness. It was just me and 2 other women working out. It feels good just to know I went and tried. Talk to you soon!

vbutterfly

I wish I was that good. I went to lunch today with friends from work and blew it big time. But I'm not going to dwell anymore. I made a mistake but I'm going to do better the rest of the day. The weather is beautiful here and will be for a couple of weeks so I think I will start walking. I love to walk and my kids love to go with me. So instead of giving in tonight since I messed up at lunch, I think I'll go for a walk! Good for you for going to the gym! Were the other women there friends of yours or did you go by yourself? I'm not good at going to a gym by myself. I tried it a few times last year but it seems to wear off soon without having some support there. I guess that's why I like going walking because my girls will go with me and push me.

catmacd

Wow! What a wonderful attitude! I got my son's fundraiser in yesterday and I forgot I orderd a box of chocolate caramels. I couldn't resist. I ended up eating 5 of those bad boys but I told myself at the end of the day, my old self would have eaten the whole box and tried to do better last night.
Unfortunately I went to the gym by myself but it did give me an opportunity to meet other people. It turns out the 2 women have a "biggest loser" contest going at work and they buddied up together. Walking sounds like a great idea! I think I might try that as well as long as the weather stays nice down here too! It's amazing when the weather is nice how often I stay in doors and as soon as turns nasty again I long for the good weather to "go outside" which I didn't do in the first place! :-)

vbutterfly

Well, I am going to a Japanese Steak House for a working lunch today. That's not going to be easy. I need to go shopping really bad. I ended up fixing biscuits and bacon this morning because that's what we had left before I go shopping. So I had 2 biscuits with 3 pieces of bacon and now I find out I am going out to eat Japanese food for lunch today. Boy, this isn't starting out good today. If I have enough will power, I will ask for a to-go box before I get my meal and take half of it with me for another meal or give to someone at home. I hope I can do that. Friday nights we usually get the kids McDonald's but that's not really tempting because I am just so tired of McD's. I'll try to go walking but it is really getting dark early now. Maybe I need to start getting up earlier and walking in the morning. That's a lot harder for me, but I don't like walking in the dark!

About the Biggest Loser buddy system, I think that's great! I watch the show all the time (usually while I'm eating). It would be nice to have someone to work out together. Maybe you can join in with the women you met at the gym. That could be a good help. Hope your day goes well today. Let me know!

catmacd

Well, I bombed tonight. I found the stash of halloween candy and had zero will power! I actually had a sugar rush for about 45 minutes then crashed so hard I almost fell asleep while cooking dinner! And this on the heels of waking up today, weighing myself and feeling great of having lost 5.4 pounds this week. what is wrong with me??
I worked out on Wednesday and it caught up to me on Friday. My right calf was so sore I could barely walk at work. I think that means I may have overdone it a bit. :-) Oh well. I'm moving forward from here and determined not to let this minor setback keep me from the life I want and deserve!

I hope you are doing good. Let me know how how the walk went and I hope your weekend is going good!

hardBODmiranda

I feel the same way, thanks guys alot of good reads.

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