I have been overweight my whole life pretty much. I am an emotional eater. I am trying this 7 day Fast Lost Kit from GNC with doing the exercises from the 2 week total body turnaround book. This is my first day. So far, I had one shake, a Pre-diet cleanse drink, and a peppermint mocha latte with a croissant donut from Dunkin Donuts. I will be exercising later today after work. I will have my second shake then, I will eat something for dinner before though.

I hate being overweight. I feel like a big blob of a human being. I need to lose weight to feel better about myself image. When I feel stressed I eat. I think what I need to do is when I am stressed to exercise instead. I am going to try to implement this though into my daily life. I do have to be careful with these weight loss shakes because I am lactose intolerant. I will use a supplement to counteract the symptoms.

I will still drink diet soda for now. I will only have a diet version of a frappe in the morning if I feel like I need to have one. I do need to have my coffee in the morning. When I have a latte from Dunkin Donuts I always have them add cream not milk since the almond milk is a 50 cent extra charge. Which I don't understand why they would charge the 50 cent extra. The almond milk is about the same price as organic milk or lactate milk.

I need to lose this weight for good. Not for a temporary time. The more weight on the body for a longer period of time is known to cause more health problems later on in life, which my family is prone too. I just feel frustrated that I can't seem to keep weight off for a very long time... Let see if I can do it this time...

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    I know that I am over weight. I know it is because I am an emotional eater. I also don't like to sweat. So I tend not to exercise much. So of course I weigh more than I should. I don't look as big as I am according to other people. I don't know if they are just trying to be nice or what? I've never been so bad looking that I couldn't get someone to talk to me because they were interested in me.

    So, why do I want to lose weight? I have a major fear issue that I will turn out like my Mother if I don't change the way that I do things. My doctor wants me to have bariatric surgery. If I need it, I will go that route. But for now, I'm going to start working out at the gym. My roommate is adding me to his membership plan, and eating fewer calories. I found a few great meal menu plans for 1,000 calories a day diet. I know I can do well on a diet like that even with all the food that is here in the house as long as I keep busy on work and doing what I need to do to lose weight.

    Where did I find these menu plans? I found it at Choose my plate which is a United States Government website. This is the only site that I have found so far that won't force me to eat more calories than I want too. Why did I choose so few calories, when the diet calorie range is 1200-1500 per day? It is because of the fact that I have in the past been told to go on a diet with that few calories a day by a physician who specialized in weight loss.

    So we will see when I start my workout routines at the gym. My roommate doesn't always do things right away. I don't know if this is intentional or what. He said he was going to pay my phone bill, but didn't pay it until the day that my phone was shut off. He also keeps saying he is going to buy me a new pair of shoes, which he has been saying for weeks now. Why am I relying on my roommate so much? It is because I give him almost every cent that I have at this point to pay rent and the other bills.

    One thing that I am going to work on is to drink mostly diet drinks until my roommate gives me the shoes, the gym membership, and the measuring cups and spoons I need for my portion control. I am also going to try to watch my portions as much as possible due to the fact that I do I a partial set of measuring spoons. So at least I will be working on my progress to lose weight.

     I will also be forcing myself to walk to Starbucks to work each day until I have this gym membership so that I can be doing some sort of exercise routine. This is a lot better than what I am currently doing. Which is just waking up in the morning, making my bed, washing my face, showering, and just sweeping the common areas. This is before I work on my blog and YouTube accounts. So at the moment there isn't much that I am doing other than my personal work except for when I see my client. I am a home health aide.

I hope you all follow me through my journey to lose weight. Those that follow what I'm doing will be able to tell when I am losing weight and gaining weight and what solutions I use when I am stuck at a weight loss plateau. I hope to see more and more people following my journey...

Weight loss Articles

  Weight loss articles are hard to believe especially those that say you can loose 30 plus pounds in a month. This is a unrealistic goal for the average person. The only exception to this is if someone has had gastric bypass surgery. So what are you to believe when look for ways to lose weight? You can't just buy a smaller size of clothing and just fit into it, like a cartoon character. Most diet pills don't work, and those that do work you have to get through a doctor with a prescription. So unless you have money for that you aren't going to get that far if you want to go that route.

    If you have no clue on how to lose weight I'll give you some tips that I have learned over the years. One, when you want to lose weight, make sure you have the money for those healthy foods!!! I mean seriously you most likely have pretzels, chips, popcorn in your cabinets if your into salty foods. If your into sweets you most likely have cookies, cakes, chocolate, ice cream, and other sugary foods. If you don't want to waste food see if those you know will want some of your goodies, or wait until your almost done eating your goodies before you start your weight loss plan.

    When you start to lose weight it's a good idea to just at least for a week to document what you eat and how many calories at least are in the foods that you are eating. You will most likely be very surprised at how much calories you are eating. You will start to wonder what you can do to get that calorie count down!!! Well, start focusing on your drinks about a week or two into your new diet or eating routine. Trade that Pepsi into a Pepsi Max or even diet. That will drop a lot of calories during the day. If you drink bottled teas, opt for the diet version. Get the light juice or sugar-reduced version of your favorite juices. This is a big way you can start your weight loss to a nice healthy start.

    After a week or two of just focusing on your drinks, you want to think about what other ways you can reduce your calories. Well, start drinking a little bit of water if you haven't already, if you don't like water there are those 5 calories or less drink mixes in powdered, or liquid forms. These will make the water not taste so much like water to your taste buds. Next you want to start thinking about portion sizing your food that you eat. There are several websites that are great to help guide you in this.

    This is about the time you may want to look into those websites that deal with weight loss. There is an American government website called choose my plate which is an okay place to start with the basics. But what if you want more detailed information? Do you really have to go to those paid websites? The answer is no, you don't!!! You can go to sparkpeople which has a wealth of information about portion sizes and how to even start a workout routine even if you are bed bound. This site also has a chat forum where you can chat with others going through the same things as you are in life and how it affects you adapting to your new lifestyle change. You might be one of those on the go people. You could still do the sparkpeople with their mobile app, but you might like my fitness pal which even though you are logging the same items tends to take less time to do so with my fitness pal's scanner.

  At this point you will be wondering what is the ideal calorie amount for someone to be eating a day? On average the calorie count is between 1200-1500 calories daily. This will when you add an exercise routine will jump start your weight loss into over drive. If you want to loose weight faster, then opt for 1,000-1200 calories. If you opt for the lower consult your doctor first. I was given an 1,000 calorie diet once from a doctor and the weight started dropping very quickly at first. So just a very low calorie count will help you start to loose weight. Doctors say that on average you should lose 1-2 pounds per week for a healthy weight loss, though this won't always be the average especially in the beginning.

  Next you have to start an exercise routine after getting used to adding your food and getting used to making your food portions smaller if you haven't already started. Start with small steps. For example if you never leave the house and can walk you should start with just walking to the sidewalk, garbage cans, or block (whichever you feel you can do without too much exertion). You could even walk just 10 minutes three times a week if you can do that much. Just focus on doing something every other day. Slowly work up to exercising everyday.

    With both sparkpeople and my fitness pal you will notice that you are burning some of your calories that you are eating by exercising. Just keep this up for a few weeks until it becomes second nature to you. When it's second nature for you to exercise in general you can focus on exercising more to loose more weight. Just make sure that when you are exercising more that you are getting enough calories in. Sparkpeople is a great website for this as it will let you know that your food calorie is too low for your body to keep building the muscles that you are toning while exercising.

    Keep this up until you lose your weight. If you get stuck at one weight for about two weeks go to sparkpeople or another website to look at tip for those plateaus. You should start losing weight again. Once you have lost all that extra weight it isn't time to stop all that hard work you have done. You just need to adjust your settings on the website or websites that you have used to lose all that extra weight. You will find these new "maintance weight" setting giving you a few extra calories per day, this is because those 300 plus extra calories will help you stay at your new healthy weight. So you just stay watching your calorie count, exercise log, and the weight on the scale to make sure you don't gain all that weight that you originally lost and gain it back again.

I hope this helps those wondering how to tell the healthy ways to lose weight in the proper manner. Just always make sure your doctor knows in general what you are doing because you don't want to go from an over-eater to an under-eater and become anorexic!!! That would kinda defeat the all purpose because your doctor will end up having someone force feed you even if they have to use a tube to do so. I don't think you would find that very pleasant. Best of luck to you all!!!