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Old 02-02-2006, 08:54 AM   #287 (permalink)
Catdaddy33
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Originally Posted by Melka
My roommate recently sent me a picture she took a week or so ago. Looking at it, I felt really upset and sad. I just look too big. I've always felt that I could probably tone up a bit have talked about working on that. But I've never been too concerned because I've always been ok with how I look and what size I am. I'm going to print off the picture and use it as some motivation to actually go to the gym and stop eating so much chocolate.

Has anyone else had a point or specific reason why they decided they needed to be watching their weight and getting some exercise in there? How do you motivate yourself?

I just got fed up with being overweight and one night after eating way to much at a restaurant I felt disgusted with myself, and decided to make a change. The next day I wrote down all the food that I liked and then went through and marked off the unhealthy foods, I decided that I would only eat the foods that were good for me.

Needless to say, it was a small list and giving up junk food, pizza and fried foods hurt, but I wanted to do this for myself first and for my family second, and didn't want to get to the point of health problems that could easily be avoided. So I sucked it up and did it, I also decided to join the gym, it was awkward at first as there are many toned and fit bodies in there but it didn't matter I wanted to do this.

Losing weight is a slow process and there is no magic bullet, it took a couple of months before people started noticing (I only told my immediate family and close friends) and the comments and the complements keep coming, that gives me a boost, not to mention I feel better both physically and mentally. I had to buy almost all new clothes, I've dropped 6 inches off my waist.

I found this is a pretty good link for dining out http://dietfacts.com/fastfood.asp it gives nutritional value of some menu items at quite a few restaurants, most don't publish their whole menu but some do.

You just have to find the trigger that MAKES you want it, and its all or nothing, you can't partially want to lose weight or get in shape you have to give it 100%..

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