Trying to lose 100+lbs

[sublime]

My name is Callie, and I have dealt with being overweight my entire life. I honestly cannot remember a time when I was a normal weight.
My entire childhood fast food, fried food, and unhealthy foods were shoved down my throat, and I was made to believe that it was OKAY to be "Fat".

So the older I got, I grew more. Until one day last year my doctor said "Callie you weigh 220lbs. You are 5ft. You will not grow anymore, and you are in danger of diabetes and heart disease when you get older"

I was scared, but I disregarded it all, and went on stuffing my face.

Through October 2006-January 2007, I ate and ate and ate, Because I thought it was "cute" to constantly eat. I guess I thought that because all the skinny girls did it. ( what I probably didnt realize is that they more than likely threw it all up. )

I went to the doctor due to dizziness, to find out that I had ballooned up to 273lbs. Thats a lot folks. A whole lot. My doctor could care less that I was sick. She was angry that I was endangering my body with toxic foods.

She called the director of a local YMCA and I ended up with a free membership ( since I cant afford one on my own. ) and started working out daily with my best friend.

I quit eating all the bad foods. I lived off salad, and other protein.

I melted off 30lbs from Feb-May.

And stopped.
Dead.

I stopped losing weight, and eventually I quit working out as much.

So fast forward to now. I am the same weight, people say I look like I have lost more, but I havent. I havent gained either though, and I have been eating terribly these past 2 months.

My boyfriend recently moved to north carolina, and we are now living together. He cares about my health and tries to help me lose weight. I was introduced to DDR, and ITG.

About two weeks ago I started playing. A lot. As much as I can possibly take in a single day. And eating better.

I can only play on light, and some light songs I cannot play at all.
But I try harder and harder, until I collapse in a sweaty pool. (exaggeration...on the sweaty part)

I want to know what else I can do to start melting away fat again, I have heard so many success stories with DDR and ITG.

All advice is appreciated. <3

[horsey0920]

Ok, one thing that always motivated me is that I want to be fit and healthy even when the going gets terribly rough and that I want to live a long life and not die early from obesity. Well for one, join a blog site such as peertrainer.com. It's really helpful for emotional motivation, since everyone falls off the wagon and gets depressed also. Also change all your eating habits, I don't care what it takes, if you truly want to become healthy and fit, then you will do so. Change to whole wheat bread, brown rice, no white starches, like baked potatoes or white rice, those are killers for your system. Stay away from corn, since in real life, the only creature that can actually digest corn fully is a pig, so right there that says a big 'no-no!' to human's eating it. Since we all love desserts, but you don't want to feel guilty about eating it, take only three moderate bites and anymore would be mindless eating. Try to get more fiber, since that always helps, like even if you hate oatmeal, sorry to tell you, but you need it, since it's very important to your immune system. Well when I played DDR, sure I loved it for about 2 months, but then I got way too bored, so I switched between several things and I finally found my true favorite exercise. Tae Bo by Billy Blanks. Just buy the DVDs and get to work. Tae Bo will be very hard at first for someone who is out of shape, but it really helps. In one week, doing like 30 minutes a day, I lost an inch off my waist, which I've hard trouble with weight, my whole short life-span. Also, even if you despise veggies and fruit, eat em! Though, eat more veggies, because fruit has natural sugar and if you were to over do it, then it could turn out wrong. Also you can't spot train, so workout your whole body. Also cut, if possible, milk from your diet, sure have like a glass of low fat 1% or skim milk a day, but milk actually doesn't truly help you lose weight. Drink tons of water, I particulary don't enjoy the taste of water, but it has helped me so much. Also, don't cut back on eating or else your healthy eating will fall through. Never think of this journey as a diet, think of it as changing your life style for the better. In reality, you're suppose to eat breakfast, then around 2-3 hours later you eat a snack, say a type of grain bar or some fruit, then that'll last you till lunch, eat a good lunch, then about 2-3 hours later have yet another healthy snack, until dinner. Then if you get hungry after dinner, wait until it's been like 2 hours after dinner before you eat a last snack, nothing to big, or else it'll mess up your digestion if you go to sleep with it on your stomach. Well I have things to go attend now, I hope this has helped in any way. Healthy eating is actually quite enjoyable, just find out what works for you. Good luck!

[iherzi]

Let's do it together!

I need to lose roughly 100 pounds as well! :]

[germensano]

let's do it!!!
dance dance!!!

[kyu]

I'm new here, so 'hihi!'
I've always been 'the fat kid' in my group of friends, I can’t really remember when I was a ‘normal’ weight, I’m 5’3 and ) at the moment 195 lbs. I’m pretty much disgusted with myself, haha, I don’t look like I weigh almost 200 lbs, but I’m not happy with myself, or my health. I don’t like not having enough energy, or being able to fit in to my cloths properly.
My diet is not that bad, but I eat a lot of bread and white starches, >.>;; I’m working on changing that.
I want to lose at least 50 lbs, I know it’s not 100, so I hope it still applies to this forum. ^_^;; then I’ll be down to 145 lbs.
hopefully with DDR and a good diet I’ll achieve my goal.
I hope you do too! we can do it together
you can do it!
^w^

[mischievious]

Hello.
I can tell you, with ddr its possible to lose a vast amount of weight in a short period of time.
I lost 100lbs (333-229lbs) in six months. Granted this was a very dangerous thing to do and I wouldn't recommend it to you, but still you can lose it.
What I did was:
Stopped eating out, anywhere, completely. Anything I didn't prepare myself, I didn't eat. This includes other's cooking too, it may seem rude or mean, but I believe you have to really control what is going in you to produce any kind of static result.
At one point I would play DDR up to 5 hours a day, not because I wanted to lose weight, but because I genuinely love the game.
I never looked at scales, or anything.
I just went to a store, picked out a shirt that was too small for me and said "By next month this will fit me."

Idk, personally looking at scales for me isn't something I like to do.

I'm currently 210lbs. I hope for 180 within the next two months.

[xstatic]

Wow... good for you! Seriously, that must feel so amazing. Whatever you do, don't get frustrated if the weight loss slows down/stops for a while. Usually when people hit the 180 range they hit a plateau... at least I've seen that here an awful lot. I say just keep doing what you're doing. As long as you're not starving yourself. Keeping your calories above 1200 is crucial if you want to stay healthy.

PS - I do the shirt thing too. It's motivating.

[angie]

Hi Callie! I'm new, and my story sounds a lot like yours. It would be ideal if I too could lose 100+ pounds, so let's do it together.

My motivations are that I don't want to get diabetes (I found out it runs in my family recently) and I want to have more energy and be healthier for when I move in with my boyfriend this summer.

It would also be cool if I went down a cup size or two, because I am tired of only wearing ugly bras for my DDD's