Official Weight Loss Club Thread

[kewtee]

Pat - I took the time to read your posts! They are brilliant! Great written and how good of you to take the time to help people

[kewtee]

I started reading the thread from the beginning and I am so impressed by everyones hard work and enthusiasm for this. So many great advice and so many great support posts.

I am so happy for all of you who have made the changes in your life and feel good about it!

YT rules - in more than one way!

[Jaspermom]

Originally Posted by kewtee

I started reading the thread from the beginning and I am so impressed by everyones hard work and enthusiasm for this. So many great advice and so many great support posts.

I am so happy for all of you who have made the changes in your life and feel good about it!

YT rules - in more than one way!

Mette, thank you so much for your lovely words! We are all proud of the work everyone has done here, and the successes the club is seeing makes us so proud!!

We are all especially grateful to our friend Pat for all of her research, time, and effort she has put into helping other people overcome healthy eating challenges. She is indeed amazing!

Thank you for taking the time to cheer us on! We appreciate you, and would welcome you to the club anytime!

[Muffie's Mom]

Thank you for the kind, sweet words. I'm just here to help people change their lifestyle and way of eating so they don't end up in my shoes!

Everyone is doing great.

Are there any requests for certain information from anyone???

Keep up the good work.

We're proud of you.

[Jaspermom]

Villette, I see you could NOT wait until today to weigh in... must be you suspected that you had lost another pound and was too excited to wait until today!! Congrats, girly!! We are going to help you find that slinky babe in there yet!!

GOOD JOB in advance to everyone this week!! Get me the weights, and you'll get the chart early!

Here's to Healthy Eating For Life!

[Jaspermom]

Originally Posted by kewtee

So is one day you don't have time to cook right AND exercise, choose th exercise over the healthy meal

And another thing: when you make changes in your eating habits, only make changes that you can live with for the rest of your life. Going on a diet will maybe make you loose some weight, but if you go back to your old lifestyle afterwards, you will put it all and more back on

Mette, I have to take you up on this one...You had many great points in your post, but the one I cannot agree with is choosing exercise over a healthy meal. YES exercise is important, but if you exercise and say, HEY I can have McDonalds today because I am exercising, that is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Once you are in the habit of eating healthy, it is a LIFESTYLE that you will not sway from. There are healthy choices in the fast food world, so if you are on the go, you can STILL make the right choices for YOU!

I left the last paragraph of your post in because this is what we have been saying right from the start, people. THIS IS NOT A DIET. Eating healthy is a way of LIFE!!

OK, off the soapbox, LOL!! Mette, I hope you understand I mean you no harm, my friend. I just could not let that one thing go by for the good of our club! Hope you forgive me if I have offended you, it is not my intent!

[Muffie's Mom]

I agree with Glad whole heartedly. You HAVE to change your way of eating to be healthy and stay clear of some horrible diseases that can take your life.

HEALTHY! HEALTHY!! HEALTHY!!!

Yep, that's our intention - then start the exercising and burn off some of those calories.

Good luck everyone.

[kewtee]

Originally Posted by Jaspermom

but if you exercise and say, HEY I can have McDonalds today because I am exercising, that is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

I agree! I must have expressed myself in a wrong way, of course you can't use exercising as an excuse for eating junk food!

But you know, some people have no problems with being big and so I say - better to be big and in shape, than thin and out of shape.

Many people think you can just eat your way out of overweight - you can, but it is MUCH simpler, healthier and fun to exercise. Best is if you have both healthy food AND exercise, but if you have to choose (or insist on it), exercising is much more important for your health!

As an example we have many elderly overweight women in Northern Jutland, their husbands like fat gravy sauce and fatty meat. They are too old to change their ways against their husbands will. The good news is, it is ok if they just exercise.
What we do here is measure their calorie intake over 2 weeks and then plan their exercise program for them. Make groups of people who exercise together.

I hope you see that we agree and that my point was just that the latest research says better fat and in shape than thin and out of shape.

[Jaspermom]

Originally Posted by kewtee

I agree! I must have expressed myself in a wrong way, of course you can't use exercising as an excuse for eating junk food!

I hope you see that we agree and that my point was just that the latest research says better fat and in shape than thin and out of shape.

Our research here in the US says that being FAT is detrimental to your health. There are studies that show that exercise helps you with weight loss and with health, but all the exercise in the world will not help you with diabetes and coronary artery disease if you do not change your diet.

Like I said, we need to agree to disagree.

[deb4air]

Hey I lost some weight this week yipeeeeeeee ,anyways I am down to 210.8 with a increase in predisone who knows what next week will bring I am just happy there mAY BE a next week! Hope everyones doing okay .

[jbarile]

I have some sad news for you!
Only a scalpel can make you loose weight in a specific place of your body. Most women wants to loose weight on their tummy!

I don't think a scalpel is the answer I was quite looking for? I figure it came by itself then it should leave the same way it came I just think Jaspers mom is right Im at a plateau, that I posted somewhere on this thread haha a lot to cover... SO I might just have to target that area and just do the exercising a little longer and maybe give up my coffee & baileys

[Jaspermom]

Originally Posted by jbarile

SO I might just have to target that area and just do the exercising a little longer and maybe give up my coffee & baileys

Gee, Joann, I would hate to see you give up the Baileys!! Maybe increase the coffee, decrease the Baileys...??

There may be something else going on too. Are you feeling OK? Are you monitoring your food/drink intake? Let's take a closer look at your daily intake together. Email me or PM me and we can do a close-up look.

Hang in there, honey! We will get you past this!

[Jaspermom]

Originally Posted by deb4air

Hey I lost some weight this week yipeeeeeeee ,anyways I am down to 210.8 with a increase in predisone who knows what next week will bring I am just happy there mAY BE a next week! Hope everyones doing okay .

ALRIGHT, Girlfriend!!!! I am really proud of you!! Keep up the GOOD WORK!!

[Muffie's Mom]

Originally Posted by Jaspermom

Our research here in the US says that being FAT is detrimental to your health. There are studies that show that exercise helps you with weight loss and with health, but all the exercise in the world will not help you with diabetes and coronary artery disease if you do not change your diet.

Like I said, we need to agree to disagree.

I totally agree that we have to agree to disagree. Hmmm, does that make sense? Anyway, I agree with what Jaspers Mom is saying.

I think that's enough said on the subject.

Thank you.

[Muffie's Mom]

Originally Posted by deb4air

Hey I lost some weight this week yipeeeeeeee ,anyways I am down to 210.8 with a increase in predisone who knows what next week will bring I am just happy there mAY BE a next week! Hope everyones doing okay .

OK, Deb! Way to go, girl! We're so happy for you.

Please chime in and tell us some of the changes you've made.

I'm proud of you.

Keep doing a good job!