What inspired you to loose weight?

Question

If so,how did you do it?! I really need details. Reading someone elses story always inspires your own self. Thank-You. And CONGRADULATIONS! for those of you that reached your goal.

Answer 1

What an interesting and different question. Here is what inspired me:

It started when my pants were getting tighter and I was about to have to move up to a wider waistband. I was looking at various diets and I came across one called Calorie Restriction with Optimum Nutrition (CR diet).

But the diet did not talk about weight loss. It talked about experiments that showed that some animals on this diet lived 30% or more longer than the ones on a standard diet. They were not living longer just because they were much healthier (they were). They were actually living way beyond the maximum lifespan for their species.

It turns out there are about 70 years of scientific experiments on other species. 600 scientific papers in just the last decade both on other species and on humans. No other diet has anything like this amount of research behind it and no other diet had these kind of results.

I was hooked. I decided this was something worth doing the rest of my life.

There is no evidence yet that it will extend the maximum lifespan of humans. But there is accumulating evidence that it really will make you healthier. In animals it is already known to decrease the incidence of several cancers, diabetic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases.

All sorts of changes quickly occur to people on the diet, besides losing weight. In my case, and this is usual, my cholesterol went down, my HDL went up, my LDL went down, my C-Reactive Protein (which goes up when your body is fighting infection) went down. My fingernails got stronger and quit breaking off.

When you see results like that, it motivates you to continue.

CR has only 2 rules:

1. Make sure you get 100% of your nutrition, as best we know it

2. Cut your calories, a lot

Other than that, you can eat anything you want. I personally try to get all my nutrients from foods, not supplements, and I stay away from artificial sweeteners.

The hard part is not cutting calories. The hard part is tracking what you eat and adding up the nutritional values. It is a pain. But it also is very informative. I carry around a piece of paper and a pen. Soon after I eat anything, I note it down. Then every day or so, I enter the results on the computer.

I have been on the diet for 2 1/2 years. As you would expect, I sometimes get off it - once for 5 or 6 months - but then I get back on. Best eating decision I ever made.

I would not get on this diet unless you are an adult. Also, you are on the diet only if you are tracking your nutrition carefully.

Anyway, a few weeks ago I put up a personal website to record my experiences on the diet, what I have learned about CR, links to CR blogs and websites, recipes, tools and websites to make tracking nutrition easier, etc. People from all over the world are trying out CR.

My website is at http://www.nbrhd.net/CR/CR.htm You can find out a lot more about me and this diet from there.

Best of luck on whatever you choose.

And thank you for an interesting question.

Answer 2

My oldest daughter had twins eight months ago and then about 3 months ago, I found myself not physically being able to keep up.

You know, us older folks like to feel needed and geeze, I was beginning to feel I was in the way!

I was extremely frustrated and angry at myself.

I bought Ellington Darden's book, The Bowflex Body Plan and dusted off my bowflex, bought a BMI scale and a treadmill and off I went.

I write EVERYTHING down in a chart: My workouts, and eating plan, and I feel great!

I take them walking in their stroller now for an hour at a time. I can carry both of them at once (if I have to) and I can manage to carry several loads of laundry up the stairs without getting winded.

There's truth to the adage: "Use it or lose it."

Answer 3

I looked in the mirror after my daughter was born and caught a glimpse of my back. It was gross.

Went to the store that day, got some Slim Fast & Dexatrim and not to long after I was back down in weigh.

It wasn't to hard - I doubled up. I was taking no chances on cheating.

And I didnt deny myself anything. If I wanted chocolate I had chocolate - whatever.

I figured the calories I wasnt consuming during the day anymore allowed me to have my chocolate.

Answer 4

One day I looked at myself and just snapped. I didn't want to be fat anymore. I set a goal of losing 2 to 3lbs. a week, and I lost 120lbs. in 12 months. That was two years ago, and I haven't gained a pound of it back.

Answer 5

WWE Wrestling Superstars..

I got jelous of their muscular bodies...

Whenever I watch wrestling I get pumped up and lift weights also!

So far so good.. Its working!!

And yeah those people who use to call me fat.. I take their comment as a motivation also.. I will prove them wrong!

Answer 6

Don t drink soda regularly

Answer 7

Not being able to do all the fun physical activities that I used to be able to do was what motivated me to lose the weight, and I did it on Atkins.

Answer 8

To know how much calories you have to eat just add zero to your weight

Answer 9

I got tiered of feeling like $hit and having a low self esteem.

Answer 10

The mix of cardio and toning five times a week will keep metabolism humming