Originally Posted by Audball
So I guess that with seven machines that you wish you were an octopus at times, hehe. Welcome to this overwhelming, but fun and helpful site. We hope to see lots of you here (but less of you than you were, hehe) Congratulations on the hard work of losing that weight. What is your secret?
I'm on a diet of 1500 calories a day, I walk everyday ( I'm up to 1 and 1/2 miles ) and I do leg and arm exercises while I'm listening to music or watching something on tv ( I try to spend 30 minutes a day doing that ). I've lost over 250 lbs since Dec 24, 2008 and I'm at 375 lbs. now and I still have about 250 lbs to go to reach my goal. I thought about surgery and did much research on gastric bypass and decided it is to risky a surgery to have but did seriously consider having the gastric sleeve surgery done. I finally decided that regardless wether I had surgery or not I would still have to deal with my addiction to food and learn how to eat it properly. So that is what I've done to loose my weight so far. My diet consists of 3 meals a day breakfast, full meal at lunch , and a lighter meal at supper and a snack mid evening. I have not cut out any foods, just learned how to take the fat out of what I eat and in the prep of the foods. I eat proper portions and the only diet foods I eat are splenda instead of sugar and I also watch my sodium intake since it makes you hold water. I also drink a lot of water and limit myself to at most 1 diet soda a day but usually only 2 or 3 a week. That is how I have lost the weight so far.