Thread: 190 to 150 pounds in 3 months

I used to be a 200 lb smoker.....quit smoking and went down to 120 lbs....but it took me a yr. Find excercise you love, walk or bike doing errands, and we all know what we should and shouldn't eat, instead of making excuses tough it out for 1 month only. By then the habit is formed. Tell yourself it's just for a month only. My weakness used to be ice cream, so I replaced it with low fat, low sugar frozen yogurt. After a month I had a bite of real ice cream and it was so gross!! All I could taste was the fat!
Good luck! I kept it off for 13 yrs now....plus had 2 children and went to my pre prego weight by choosing healthy. The ironic thing is now that I'm almost 40 I'm struggling with peri-menopause and gained 15 lbs. I still lead a very active lifestyle running and working out with other cardio and weights, and still can't lose these bloody 15 lbs!! I now struggle with too many periods, hot and cold spells, depression spells and feeling PMS alot due to this peri menopause.Any one have any ideas???

WOW!!! Congratulations! Thats amazing and so inspiring!
I am going to print this out and hang it on my refrigerator and start taking control! THANK YOU!

This diet plan has quite a few upsides:
-eating non processed foods can help decrease cellulite
-not eating meat (acc. American Heart Assoc.) leads to cardio health
-the extra fiber and the raw fruits/veggies causes your body to do extra work in processing them (burning calories as you digest!)

Coming from personal experience eating all this natural food will lead to a healthy metabolism, meaning you will eat all the time, have more natural energy and on top of that you feel really good about yourself. Eating a strict natural diet gives you more control over your life and more energy, which makes you feel motivated to go for a jog etc.

iamwomen, thanks for the info. this is just want i was looking for.
about 4 years ago i was successful in my weight loss of 30 lbs. i've since gone through a divorce and made some major life changes. i also have a new "man" friend.
not all good news....it's been several months since i've been on a scale and really not paying attention to my eating and exercising. yesterday i went out and bought a scale (left mine for the miserable man i left) and was VERY surprised at what i saw. i knew i gained some weight back but WOW...it all came back! so i am looking to start over.
any help or advice would be appreciated. i am going to the store tonight to start on that new healther food purchase. i'm going to use your post as a guide. i did it before i know i can do it again.
just for the record...i'm 5'5" and now 187lbs........I'M SO UPSET WITH MYSELF!!!!
thanks for listening!

This sounds very good, im gonna try it out.
Thanks !