Advice: 10 Pounds to Lose is the Power of the Mind!

How can I lose weight?
Before I start I just want to say that I’m not looking for criticism or for any immature kids to poke fun. I need mature, to the point answers from people who know.

I’m 17, female, 5’9" and overweight…not terribly, but I would definitely not say I was near skinny. Last January I went on a diet and lost 10 pounds but quit by Feb because I just couldn’t stand it anymore…the pressure of constantly having to worry about what I’m going to eat and exercising, and seeing all my skinny friends eat and do whatever they want and have it not affect them. It isn’t fair and I just gave in, went back to my normal eating habits, and stopped exercising. I do a competitive dance team and that’s 2 days a week, but it clearly isn’t enough to keep the weight off because I gained back the 10 pounds plus 6 more since then. So, my New Year’s Resolution (as pretty much the majority of people’s are!) is to lose weight…a lot of it. I need to lose at least 30 pounds to be at an ideal weight, at least for my personal reasons.

SO I’ve done this before so I kind of know what I’m doing…but last time I got sooooooo sick of eating the same foods every single day…fat free yogurt for breakfast with two huge glasses of water…turkey (no bread) and two pieces of fruit or occasionally a 100 calorie pack…dinner was usually plain tuna or a small bowl of veggie soup or fruit and what not. Snacks were something like a granola bar or a banana or something like that. Sounds decent when you read it I guess, but after a month of eating that I never ever wanted to see any of that food again. I am still dreading just the thought of it…but I have to do it. I’m sick of being the chubby friend and being the butt of jokes. (well, my weight never becomes a topic of discussion until I’m in a fight with someone…then they call me fat. the truth comes out when you’re mad at someone I guess) For workouts I usually do about 20 minutes of crunches, lunges, leg lifts, small weight lifting, etc and then 30 minutes on the elliptical switching from high power to low power intervals or just 15 minutes on the treadmill (about 1.2 miles). Mind you that I still live with my parents and have older brothers that constantly bring friends to the house and go into the basement where I usually do my workouts so it’s always such a task just to sneak down there and pray that they don’t come down and make fun of the fat girl running on the treadmill

I need someone who KNOWS and has gone through the same thing I am to just help me out…tell me what I can do to make the weight come off, give me tips on nutrition and possible things to eat that are HEALTHY, and some good exercising tips as well.

Your advice is greatly appreciated…any little bit will matter so PLEASE just help me…I don’t want to be fat anymore.

Honestly I think you should go back to that old diet,for a little bit
If you got results like that,just try it
I know you dont like it but its the best you can get;
Instead of eating that little,when your done eating (and digesting)
Go on the tredmill to work off the calories you ate so its like you never ate it
Maybe try doing one month of eating like that,
Next month stop eating whatever you dont like but dont pig out and eat fatty foods(keep it easy)
Then go on the tredmill everytime your finished eating a fatty/greasy meal
Then the next month do the diet again
And see how your results are doing
Good luck!(:
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You need to change your mind set. You see, I became cripple about 5 years ago, and I was simply overweight then. While being cripple, I gained a lot of weight due to emotional eating in being depressed about being cripple, being over weight and really having no means of alleviating and counteracting my climbing poundage.
I have to do several things, especially seeing as I had struggled with my weight before this, I really had something of a war to win when I became not only severely overweight, but obese. Upon embarking on this, I have lost more than 150lbs. healthily and approved by my doctor- I fashioned this myself.
The first thing I did- I made what I was fighting for, my reasons for losing weight more important than the impulsive feeling of putting the food in my mouth. YES, it tastes good, the endorphins it released in me made me feel great, eating food is a wonderful experience. I love to cook, as well, and it was hard, but I looked at the long term effects of my being heavy- the health risks I faced, as my father got diabetes from being overweight, my grandfather on my mothers side faced BAD heart problems, his wife, my grandmother has digestive problems- the family ties for risks go on. My risks were my knees, and the doom of these terrible health issues.
What did I want to do in the future that being heavy was preventing?
-being in relationships
-traveling
I had to resolve that my ambitions were tenfold more important that what I was eating. I then realized I need to eat to live, not live to eat, but I also believed that food was a social pallet, thus why I cook as well, so I looked at major things I could do to enjoy the social aspect of food, as well as the taste factor while making it healthy. I started cooking with healthier oils and cutting the use of butter and cheeses. I ate a large variety of vegetables and fruits in several ways to keep it from getting boring.
By that, I started feeling better, but I noticed, I still met with some other issues- fatigue, tiredness, indigestion, diarrhea, gas. Though I was feeling better, I researched why that might be. I hypothesized it could be the amount of meat I was eating, so I decided to go without meat for a while, supplementing beans and fish (fish on occasion) for the large amount of meat I would eat. I almost immediately felt better, and resolved to adhere to a pesco-vegetarian lifestyle (not diet, life style, as I came to believe that feeling better was more important to me than whether or not I would eat meat). I still had a tiredness I was facing, and then I started to identify a headache and what was almost a flu-like symptom in the morning- stuffy head, blurry eyes. Upon researching a bit more, and talking to my doctor, I decided to try not eating wheat to see if it made a difference (and I was a major wheat eater, loved bread). By this time, I already had about a 50 lbs. loss in about 4 months, safely and controlled by my doctor, as well. When I cut the wheat, supplementing bread with more potatoes, rice flour based breads and pastas, etc, I felt great, energetic, less tired…
I have stuck to this, simply listening to my body, and the guidelines I established myself, and I have since lost 150lbs. I feel better, my knee, though injured is feeling better- and really, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I didn’t follow a diet, I was in charge of this. I told myself to do this, not my doctor, or someone else, and I listened to myself. You don’t have to eat the same things to be healthy, go for a variety, get creative, and if you cant, research ways you can keep it lively so you aren’t jealous of the jelly filled doughnut your skinny friends are gorging on. You also shouldn’t just adhere to a typical eating schedule. listen to your body- it will tell you what you need. If you are willing to do some work to understand, your life will change, and your entire future will be brighter for it, and longer, too. Your skinny friends who eat whatever they want- one day, they wont be so active, and not knowing their body, not understanding what needs to happen- they wont be able to recover from letting themselves go for a while. all people need to eat healthy, despite size or shape, it always makes a difference.
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experience from 150lbs. lost