Good for both of you! That's excellent! Thanks for sharing your progress!

Congrats on the losses!

Wow that is so awesome and so inspiring.

Cheers to getting healthy and feeling better!

Thanks for the support. I'm gonna try and keep this updated every few weeks or so. Maybe I can use the status reports here as additional motivation.

I'm sure you must watch "The Biggest Looser"....it's truly amazing what people can accomplish when they are really motivated. I need to loose some weight but thought I couldn't......until the other week when my wife was gone for the weekend and I was too lazy to cook for myself. I ate only one meal a day and was amazed how fast I lost weight. If you are having sucess with your routine, keep it up !! Genie

NWGA_Couple,

I know where you are coming from, and where you are going. I was at 335 and a couple of weeks ago I weighed in at the Doc’s at 207. You are right, it is a lifestyle change. Changing the way that you eat and exercise. One thing that I want to caution both of you about is to not obsess with your weight or percent body fat because that goes up and down. One of the biggest problems with “diets” is that you set goals and if for any reason you don’t meet that goal you can start feeling that you have failed which makes it easy to quit what you are doing, which you already know.

In my case, I threw my scale in the trash. I focused on changes in my life exclusively. I focused on what I could control and that was my lifestyle. One day I was dressing for work and my belt was too loose. I went down to the tool bench and poked a new hole in it. Ooops, it was loose again. Another hole. Lee told me, “Steve, you need a new belt!” Naaa… I just keep poking new holes. Which reminds me, I need to poke a new hole.

It took a couple of years. It didn’t happen overnight. My goal was not to lose weight, it was to change my lifestyle, which is a much easier thing to manage. I eat anything I want, I just do it in small portions. I don’t eat after 6:00PM. Oh, maybe some sugar free ice cream as a snack.

Good luck to the both of you, but remember, it is a lifestyle change, not a diet, and you will get their eventually. And GoodWill will love you for all the clothes you donate.

S

Way to go!!!!!!! That's fabulous! Just keep in mind, when the numbers don't really drop quickly, that each percent of body fat lost will lower you risk factors for all kinds of illness and disease. Please keep us posted, we would definitly like to follow your progress and support is always helpful. J is a type 2 diabetic, and could possibly reverse his diabetes if he were to do it.