Went for my annual physical and am officially 70 pounds down from my July 2018 weight! It was a fun appointment getting congrats from both nurses and the doc! I’ve been at this weight since end of summer but this is the official doc scale verified number. Very happy!
Congrats! That’s awesome!
Good for you!
Great! Can you share how you did it?
Fantastic! Well done, you! And over a pretty long period of time should make it more sustainable.
Congratulations!! It is not easy to lose weight, and you should be very proud of yourself.
That’s terrific! Congratulations. I know you’ve worked hard and I bet you feel wonderful!
Many congrats! I know how much work that represents!
Great update! Congrats!
Wonderful. Keto or IF or combinations of some? Congratulations!!!
“Great! Can you share how you did it”
Good old fashioned calorie counting with a smidge of intermittent fasting and weight watchers:
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I track 1200 calories on My fitness Pal but don’t track : lettuce tomato, cucumber, carrots or berries ( in the manner of WW “zero point food” I should note that I ate ALOT of those foods. Not unusual to go through 2 bags of lettuce and a container of tomatoes daily.
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I never ate before noon but wasn’t rigid about when I stopped eating at night. Fast was usually 16 hours but sometimes only 14.
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I lost first 50 pounds in six months. Another 15 in the next 4. The final 5 came after off I’d reached my Official goal weight and happened over the course of 3 months.
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I’ve had no tracking “cheat” days on my birthday, thanksgiving, Mother’s Day and 2 vacations. I was probably eating in excess of 3000 calories on a few of those. . I’ve followed those up with 500 calorie fast days After which have easily reverted to the 1200 calorie ( plus free foods) way of life. The fast days really help keep me on track.
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No food is off limits. I eat mostly veggies, Fish, lean meat but have chocolate every day. Eat bread and potatoes on a not irregular basis.
Congrats! I am down 60 pounds since Feb of this year. I have 6 more to go to hit my goal. I’ve been doing Weight Watchers and Richard Simmons disco sweat DVDs 
@thedreamydaisy CONGRATS!
Congrats to you both. Your joints are doing a happy dance inside of you I bet. Great job. Keep it up. I mean steady. ?
Congratulations to both of you! Those are really impressive results. I’m 8 weeks into a strict diet and hope I can reach my goal in a few more months.
Congratulations to both of you! It sounds like you were on a lifestyle change rather than a temporary diet.
@Massmomm this is definitely a lifestyle change for me. I don’t even call it a diet because I will never be done
Wow! Inspiring!
@maya54 so inspiring and you should be so very proud of yourself for sticking with your new eating lifestyle through each of those 70 pounds.
Was there something that motivated you to get started on this journey? What were the struggles? (if you care to share!)
@abasket My motivation began of all places on a cruise ship! Two things sparked it :
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All the extraordinarily heavy people…those who were probably more than 100 pounds overweight or more…is that where I was heading ? Seemed like it
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The lovely but heavyset restaurant manager who kept complimenting my clothes and asking where I purchased them. She clearly saw us as the same size but I was in denial up to that point.
So on the cruise I just sort of decided that it was time to do something about my weight. I stepped on a scale and was pretty much horrified. I made the decision to eat only half of my meals for the rest of the trip. I actually lost 1.5 pounds by the last day!
As soon as I got home I decided to try weight watchers. I did it for a week and decided it wasn’t for me. A program that allowed me to not count the salmon I was eating or the bananas was going to be a disaster for me. I liked the counting but not what I thought of was too much reward/ punishment for eating certain foods. I was already a healthy foods eater. I just ate way way too much of them. I can eat a pound of salmon or four bananas easily. I also thought a lot about when I wanted to eat. I was never ever hungry in the morning but was always told one had to eat breakfast to “keep up your metabolism”. But the new interest in intermittent fasting seemed to belie that. So I came up with my plan discussed above.
The weight flew off. 15 pounds the first month! Around 2 pounds per week after that for the first six months. My real struggle time was at night when I’d “ run out” of calories for the day. Sometimes I was really battling my hunger until bedtime. Then in the morning I’d wake up almost miraculously not hungry. I. Sometime took a bath at night to distract me. Or once I’d lost a good amount I’d try on all my new clothes, putting together outfits and getting motivation by how much better I looked. A few nights I was really white knuckling it but it got better over time.