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MISTERZ
Posts: 3,166 1/14/12 10:02 A
Coming back to SP and this team after being here on and off for several years. I can sympathize with you on the yoyo dieting and losing/gaining weight over the years. It's frustrating. Guess the best thing I have found that helps is the kind of support and motivation that you get here on SP. Definitely a slow loser so am glad to be back and trying to do it right this time. Good luck. You have lots of company here! Mary
"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow." Swedish Proverb
"Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before." Eleanor Roosevelt
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SMARGED
SparkPoints: (39,866)
Fitness Minutes: (26,513) Posts: 2,828 1/8/12 1:30 P
Welcome to SP and to the team! I can so identify with you - even though I didn't gain weight until I was in my 40's - but ever since then it's been you-you dieting for me too. I'm still struggling, but determined that 2012 is going to be the year I reach my goal, and maintain it!!
I am healthier and stronger since joining SP - but still working towards my goal.
I know we can do it.... we just need to make up our minds and be consistent!!
Good luck and happy Sparking!!
Marge
"I sing your praise, God, my King; I bless your name forever and ever!" Ps. 145
"If you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul, you shall find Him!" (Dt. 4:29)
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LYNMEINDERS
SparkPoints: (108,807)
Fitness Minutes: (42,734) Posts: 10,593 1/7/12 4:22 A
Hey Laura and welcome....
I know the Yo-Yo dieting thing....
This is a good place to get support to help break it.... Remember it is a journey
LYN EST +19 hours NZ zone
BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
Leader Meeting the Daily Challenge of Diet & Exercise team.... Co-leader Daniel Fast Team BLC 18.. Powerful Prism Panthers Team BLC 19....Powerful Prism Panthers team Summer 5% Fall 5% Challenge.... Cloverleafs team Beck Diet Solution Team 100 Days of weight Loss challenge..
5% winter into Spring Challenge... Leader of the Cloverleafs Team in 5% challenge
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RUBYEAGLE134
Posts: 1,283 1/5/12 5:07 P
Welcome! Look under the "Community" tab & then under "Success Stories".
Only those who risk going too far can find out how far they can go.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours. ~ Noela Evans.
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DIDI2692
Posts: 678 1/5/12 3:29 P
KATSIM1
SparkPoints: (19,282)
Fitness Minutes: (15,247) Posts: 655 1/5/12 2:13 P
Welcome, just know that you are not alone. It seems as though I've been dieting all my life. Hopefully, this time it will work as it now is a way of life. You can do it. Good luck.
Kathie
Kathie
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength."
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MS_SWEETHEART
SparkPoints: (42,139)
Fitness Minutes: (18,985) Posts: 7,431 1/5/12 1:26 P
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Never undermine your worth, by comparing yourself to others. ~Tonya J.
Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing being wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre
BLAZINGPHOENIX
Posts: 3,045 1/5/12 12:11 P
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana
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POLSKARENIA
SparkPoints: (66,124)
Fitness Minutes: (21,963) Posts: 6,803 1/5/12 11:36 A
Wecome Laura! You're in good company here! Enjoy the ride - it may be long but it's worth it.
Renia
2 weddings to be glam for - the second will be my own in Spring 2013!! A good place to start...
2012 must surely be MY year at last!!
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FLA-1956
Posts: 1,640 1/5/12 10:29 A
Welcome!!
PSYCHOJULES
Posts: 13,636 1/5/12 9:59 A
hey howdy there and all the best to ya! be good and have fun!
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"You're not going crazy, Arthur. You're going sane in a crazy world."--Tick
SparkPoints: (1,881)
Fitness Minutes: (368) Posts: 115 1/5/12 7:39 A
I too am a yo-yo dieter, so I feel where you're coming from.
Type II Diabetes - DX 12/2009 Last A1C: 6.0
Working on me one day at a time.
Starting Weight: 284 (BMI: 48.9) Current Weight: 197.8 Next Goal: 190 (95 pounds lost - 32% body weight) Goal: 184 (100 pounds lost - 35% body weight) Goal: 170 (115 pounds lost - 40% body weight) Final Goal: 160 (45% body weight)
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SPARKLISE
SparkPoints: (21,299)
Fitness Minutes: (7,325) Posts: 4,285 1/5/12 6:28 A
I've been a yo-yo since I was 16 years old. I though I was so FAT,but, really, I can't find a picture where I am fat at that age. I wish things would've been different and I would've been accepted for who I was (my mom sent me to WW.) But,it's my struggle now and I don't give up!
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MOIRA48
Posts: 3,141 1/5/12 5:30 A
I am another Yo-Yo
This is a good place to learn a better way to live!
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RUTHEY01
SparkPoints: (34,970)
Fitness Minutes: (25,590) Posts: 1,456 1/5/12 3:34 A
Hi Laura and .
I totally know where you are coming from. I started "dieting" at 14 when I was 5'2" and 165 pounds. I dieted for years. Last Aug (2011) I discovered Spark People and learned that diet is the nasty word I had thought it to be. Until I decided to make a healthy "lifestyle change" in my eating I couldn't keep the weight off.
Stick with us. We are a great group who will encourage you, give advice when asked for and help you on your healthy lifestyle change.
Ruth
"Give to every other being every right that you claim for yourself.”
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
NZDT New
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LUNCHMOM1
SparkPoints: (90,440)
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LAURA622
SparkPoints: (264)
Fitness Minutes: (180) Posts: 1 1/4/12 11:35 P
i am dieting since i was 11 i have been great a losing weight but only to gain back more, the last time I joined a weightloss company and did lose 5o lbs on healthy diet, but even though i thought I had mastered the correct way to eat, Somewhere i get derailed and gain it all back, So here I am back down on bended knee begging for help and inspiration, Id love to hear about any sucess stories, especially from people who are over 100 pounds and nearing 50 years.
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