I'm so tired of being overweight and I need to get serious about losing this weight. I currently weigh 246lbs and my goal is to lose 121lbs to reach my goal weight of 125lbs. I am 5'5 and I think that this is a healthy goal. My husband and I want to start trying to have a second child a year from now and I need to be at a healthier weight to do that.

I have been overweight for most of my life and am tired of being the biggest person in the room. I don't know how I let myself get this big, I used to take good care of my body and exercise and eat well., I was never skinny but at least I used to be fit. Looking back at pictures of myself at a smaller size I realized that I wasn't always as HUGE as I am now. It is really depressing to be so unhappy with my body and I don't want to set this example for my daughter. I want her to be fit and healthy and I'm afraid that if I don't do something to take care of myself that I will be setting her up for a life of obesity.

So...I'm not ranting and feeling sorry for myself...I'm going to give myself a kick in the a#$ and get moving. There is no reason why I shouldn't be able to get up a bit earlier in the morning and exercise...I usually tell myself that I am too tired but now I'm going to be honest and just call that being lazy! I will be much less tired if I stop carrying around 120lbs of unwanted and extra weight...that is the equivalent of a whole other person that I've been carrying around. I am stoping this cycle of sloth starting right now!! No more excuses.

I'm very inspired by many of the posts I see on here. I'm going to try to be a more active member of this community and maybe (hopefully) some of you on here can call me on it if I start getting lazy and sloth like again.

Thanks for reading!

Good luck to all in your own weight loss journeys!

Good luck to you momma,

I started back in May, and for me, the single biggest thing I have done
was to keep a food journal. This might not be the case for everyone of
course, but it forced me to think about how much I eat and how many
calories I consume.

When I ate half a pizza (XC, PEP, Saus, On) I didn't have a clue that what I
ate had almost 3200 calories. I did that kind of thing all too often. Sure I
knew it was bad, but I had concept of what was reasonable. Now I have a
target daily intake of 1800-2000 calories. Sometimes less, sometimes
more but that is my goal.

While I started eating less I also ate more often (every 3-4 hours). And I
drink almost entirely ONLY water. I even stopped diet pop because the
nutritionist asked me to. As to what I eat, I incorporated a lot of South
Beach diet. Lots of protein, whole grains, and some fruit and vegetables
(not as much as I should).

I only stared exercising in late Aug. At that point I had lost 52 pounds.
As of this morning I've lost 82 pounds.

I sincerely hope that you meet your goals. Keep at it.

Wow! congrats on the weight loss!! That is very inspiring

I think your idea about keeping a food journal is a great one...I'm going to give it a try because I think it will be helpful to see the honest truth about what I consume each day! Thanks!!

What type of exercise program do you do?

I'm trying to combine lots of walking & Yoga (the 2 things I know I can fit into my schedule no matter what kind of day my baby daughter is having) with early morning workouts 5am-6am doing cardio & some strength training. The early am workouts are not going so well so far since my little girl has been up most of the night for the past few weeks Hopefully soon she'll be sleeping better so I can get out of bed in the morning.

What has worked for you?

Thanks again for the tips & encouragement!!!