100 Pound Weight Loss Story
I'd like to introduce you to Lucie. She's from Quebec and joined my
weight loss forum June 1st of 2007. Lucie's starting weight was 451 pounds which she weighed in February of 2007 (6 months ago).
Lucie was very excited to announce to the forum that she's completed her
first 100 pound weight loss and is heading onto the next 100 pounds! Congratulations Lucie.
Let me restate that:
Lucie has lost 100 pounds in less than 6 months.
Lucie said that it was her removing dairy from her diet and the addition of 4 hours of swimming to her weekly workouts that pushed her past the 100 pound goal. There are VERY few people in this world that can say they completed the "
First 100 Pound Weight Loss Goal" and are working on the second. Very few. Welcome the the club Lucie and well done!
Lucie is following a program outlined by medical doctors and checks in with them regularly. She's got her eye on a huge set of stairs that she wants to climb but is waiting for approval from her team of doctors. You can read Lucie's
weight loss story in the forum.
100 Pound Weight Loss
Lucie is not starving herself.. quite the contrary.. she says it's difficult at times to eat as much as they say and that she's stuffed a lot. She's also exercising every day and at 350+ pounds has begun BOXING! Yes, she's begun boxing. Geesh. See.. this is where she has inspired me. I began walking at 385 and she's Boxing! I guess if she can do it, I can do it too.. so I'm looking into some morning boxing classes for myself
I asked Lucie to share what it feels like to lose 100 pounds and this was her answer:
"- Curiously, in the mirror, it doesn’t look like 100 pounds; it is a bit deceiving if you stick to the "image", but once you go to the "health" it is another story :
- I feel sexy
- I feel confident
- I have an amazing amount of energy
- I feel very proud
- I feel lighter and smaller (in my mind)
- I feel more "credible", I mean: I feel like if people would trust my judgment more if I’m not so so much overweight…hard to express. I guess you must "feel" it to understand.
- I feel more "authorized" to be in places such grocery store, soccer field, walking ring, hiking trails...
- I sleep so very much better. & hours a night in a row !
- I feel more "willing": if I walk on a hiking trail, I will allow me to trust myself when it comes to jump a little leap, or "run a bit in order to cross a rougher path", see? More "willing".
- I DO not feel like I am the only person people will look at.
- I DO not feel like a monstrosity anymore
- I AM able to lace my shoes
- I AM able to have a good personal hygiene ANYTIME ( I know, I know, this one is awful but this is an important problem with being obese)
- I can actually "CHOOSE" my clothes, not only take the 6x in aqua or purple. (I dropped from 6x to 3x…Mucho more choice in 3x!!!!)
- I wear NO MORE ample clothing, I love stretched shirts and straight skirts.
- I AM ABLE to run upstairs if I forgot something without having to pause to breathe
- I GO MYSELF in the basement to pick milk or orange juice in the reserve fridge
- I park where I find a parking space
- I DO NOT go to three Mc Donalds on my way back home anymore
- I feel IN CONTROL of my life, according to MY own choices
- I feel GREAT
- I feel GREAT
- I feel GREAT !!!!!"
Lucie is French Canadian and I'm sure she'd appreciate me saying that English is a second language... so look past the grammatical and into the feelings she's sharing.. the message.
I'd like to ask you the question...
when is the right time for weight loss?
I am inspired every single day with the people who are joining the forum. It's being described as a very safe place to share, to get support and offer support.
I'm glad. That was the intention.
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Fit For Life - The Weight Loss Forum
sdmmike is a registered member of my
weight loss forum and posted this thread about him starting the
Harvey Diamond Fit For Life program. He figures that he's one of the lucky ones and won't go through the "cleanse" process.
I started the Fit for Life program on Sunday of this week. Right now I'm in the middle of day 4 and I feel great. I haven't had any of the detox symptoms yet; maybe I'll be one of the lucky ones and avoid them.
The only problem I am having so far is that I seem to be very tired in the mornings. We've done a pretty good job of sticking to the diet, but for some reason I've had a harder time getting out of bed in the morning. Has anyone else out there experienced that? Is this normal?
I answered his post, which was intended to be a quick one, but turned into a book report about cleansing symptoms, what happens when you quit smoking (as far as toxicity goes) and more. Read my sdmmike's
Beginning Fit For Life post and my response.
Fit For Life was such a big part of my life and is such a good idea that I created an entire
fit for life forum about it. Discuss it, find friends to support, rant about it, whatever...
Labels: Fit For Life, weight loss forum
Naturopath Expectations - Latest From The Weight Loss Forum
My new
weight loss forum was launched a week or ten days ago and is slowly building up members and are being quite active.
this recent question comes from Michele.
Naturopath expectations?I am considering going to a naturopath...have never been to one and don't know what to expect...
What happens when you visit one? Do they take blood? Do they do some sort of physical check (eyes, tongue, ears, hands, other)? Or do you just say, "Hey, this hurts or needs improvement...what can I do?" Do they only deal with one issue at a time (like Canadian docs in our health care system) or should you bring a list of areas you want to work on (ex. low energy, migraines, skin rash, neck pain)...what sort of things can they help with?
Anyone who has seen one, how was your experience? Would you go again? Did you follow their advice? Did it work?
What things should I be looking for when selecting a naturopath? Are they accredited?
As you can probably tell by my questions, I know very little on this topic. Any advice is very much appreciated.
If you have an answer for this question, please visit the
Naturopath expectations thread.
Labels: weight loss forum
New Weight Loss Community
There is no time like the present to get started, so here it goes.
After being on the net since 1996 (I believe) under the name "former fat guy", I finally launched a new version of my blog including an entire
weight loss forum.
Formerfatguy.com has had a blogger blog, which you're reading now, included in my website and I've finally moved over to Wordpress to fully utilize it's features. Now, that blog is not here, but rather at
www.formerfatguyblog.com, and with it, I finally made the jump to include an entire
weight loss community forum in it.
I've set up some forums for discussion about various
weight loss programs like Tom Venuto's
Burn The Fat program, Harvey Diamond's
Fit For Life book and food combining. Also some sections on popular weight loss methods like
weight watchers, Sunrider,
Isagenix and
Herbalife.
I am working very hard at getting expert moderators in the specific forums such as Harvey Diamond for the Fit for Life forum. I'll let you know how it goes.
I think it's long overdue so I've been working the past few days to get it up (the website I mean), running and tweaked. It's still not perfect and will be a work in progress but I'm going to launch it anyway.
formerfatguyblog.com, the
weight loss blog with
community forum also features a
link directory for
bodybuilding,
dieting,
fitness,
health,
personal trainers,
sports and of course
weight loss. If you've got a website related to any of those topics, you can get your link listed in the dirctory.
I wanted a better way to interact with users, answer questions from community members for everyone else to benefit from, answer visitors emails and display the answers for everyone else to read and comment on and just basically harness the power of Wordpress.
Please go have a look at the new
weight loss blog. I'll still be active here as well, but right now, I'm putting a lot more attention on the new one.
It's been tested about as much as I can test it from my end, but I'd love readers to go have a look around and let me know about anything they see that's unusual.
I have a request for a graphics designer to create a new logo for the blog and for the forum. If you know what you're doing with photoshop and have examples of your work, then contact me for a possible designer project.
PLEEEEZZZEEE make sure you register for the community. There's not much in there now as It's just been started, but I'd sure like some initial testers to register and post some threads about their weight loss success stories. I will begin to feature some select stories for that blog as well as this one. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. Ah heck, there's a lot I've wanted to do with this website for along time and now I am able to in a much easier fashion.
I've also just posted my inaugural post entitled
How I Lost 300 Pounds with subtitle my
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