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About six years ago, I’d gained a lot of weight after giving birth to my third son. I had never been what anyone would call “skinny”, my normal weight is 165, with me being five foot nine, but not being able to fit into my clothes spurred me to do something about it.

I started in January, when I weighed close to 250 pounds. I bought a bike, and started to ride the bike trail every morning for an hour. I’d heard somewhere that the more you sweat, the more calories you burn, the more weight you lose so I would wrap myself in plastic wrap, and then put on my sweat suit over it.

To me the hardest thing about excising is actually getting started, and when I don’t see results right away, I get really discouraged, but I stuck with it and it finally began to pay off!

I began to drink more water instead of the sodas that I loved. I stopped buying sugar and after a few days lost the craving altogether. Read more

I have been a yo-yo dieter for most of my adult life. Usually what happens is that something changes in my life and my weight goes up or down.

When it goes either way, it goes rapidly. For example, when I have fallen in love, I have lost a lot of weight because I’m more focused on the other person and not food.

When I have gotten depressed, I have gained weight because I use food as a reward to keep doing the things depression makes difficult.

I have also used medications that seemed to make me hungry all the time.

I have also lost weight trying different diets. I did low fat and lost weight. Read more

Right now I am a female who is 27 years old that is 5′2″ tall and I currently weigh 190 pounds but I’m also 7 months pregnant.

When I lost weight in the past it was right after the birth of my first child. At that time I weighed 170 pounds (after I had her) and wanted to get down some where between 140 to 150 pounds.

I read several diet books before finally deciding on one diet.

The diet I chose to do was the Atkins Diet by Dr. Atkins. I began the diet around the beginning of May 2001. I followed the diet which was not easy to do. If you are not familiar with the diet, it is a high protein, no/low carbs diet.

I had to cut out all of my starches and sugars which meant cutting out bread, soda, tea, pasta, potatoes (of any kind), certain processed foods, etc. Read more

As a child I was very thin. I never had any problem with weight until I was in my thirties. Then my body changed and everything I eat seems to turn to fat.

After my third child in three years all of that changed. I have tried all kinds of diets but I tier of all of them.

The TWA airline diet, the MetaFast diet, Weight Watchers, counting calories, counting carbs, Akins diet, the Ice Cream diet, Dexatrim, Cabbage diet, Banana diet etc. On all them I lose some weight for awhile then I can no longer stay on the diet and all the weight comes back. Read more

At the age of 61, I find myself 150 lbs overweight. As a twenty something, I was thin, blonde and a flirt. This is not acceptable. Jenny Craig was the answer for me.

As of now, I have lost 44 lbs and continue to reduce. Swimming has helped.

My husband and I swim three times a week at our local Swimming Center which has an Olympic size pool with 10 lanes for lap swimming.

The Jenny Craig diet was very easy to follow. I was never hungry and the food was good. The entries were supplemented with fresh fruit and veggies. Read more

I am a 36 year old female approximately 5′3” and weigh at 193. My goal is to lose once again 20 lbs to feel healthier. I’ve been on many diets.

My latest was the biggest loser diet in which I had lost 20lbs and felt great. I followed it for 4 months. I exercised by walking only. I never was the type to enjoy vigorous exercising.

Actually, I depise it and refuse to do anything if I have to work out.

I didn’t follow the diet plan but followed the calorie intake that was required.

By doing this made the plan a lot easier to follow. This didn’t make it difficult at all. Read more

Over the years, I have tried several times to lose weight. I often would go on short fad diets that never lasted.

Two months ago, I decided to forget the diets and change my way of life.

When I stared my new way of life, I was a 25 year old woman that is 5’9 and weighed 242 lbs. My goal weight is to lose 60 lbs over a year time span.

I decided to change my life by tracking my calories and allowing myself 2000 calories a day. I count every ounce of food that I eat.

In addition, I exercise 60 minutes a day. I either do 60 minutes on the Elliptical machine or run for 30 minutes and then do the Elliptical for 30 minutes. Read more

I wanted an easy way to lose weight. I am female, 1.7 m and right now my weight is 69kg. A while ago I still had 72 kg and I absolutely did not feel comfortable with me at all. I wanted to go under my magic 70 kg again.

I tried to go to the fitness centre regularly to lose weight. But as I already suspected right from the start there was always something going on that prevented me to go to the fitness centre.

One day I did not feel so good and the next day I worked over time and so on. I tried to follow a diet that allows you to eat as much as you want. The only thing you have to be careful about is when you eat it.

You are allowed to eat carbohydrates in the morning. So that was my loved chocolate cream on toast. I was really glad I did not have to abandon that habit. Read more

I have tried many diets in the past and I created my own that worked. I call it a low calorie diet with exercise and frequent eating. The first thing I do in the morning is do at least 45 minutes of cardio workout (i.e. running, riding a bike, jogging, swimming, ect…).

I do this with an empty stomach, in order for my workout to attack the fat. After my workout I eat yogurt, which is known to increase metabolism.

I drink only water, diet green tea (for the herbs), and things with 0 calories.

Fruit juice isn’t nearly as nutritious as regular fruit and pop is just empty calories.

Approximately three hours after eating yogurt, I have lunch. This is my biggest meal of the day, yet it’s still pretty lean. Read more

Weight loss has long been a problem since I had my first child at 16. I had gone through so many exercise programs that I can’t even count them all.

Nine years and another child later I decided to try it again, this time I was going to stick to it. I was 25 years old 5’8’ tall and I weighed 197 pounds. I hated myself.

I started my diet with a week long colon cleanse program. It was very hard at first because I would get really hungry. But I couldn’t each anything.

I lost 8 pounds with that. Then I replaced two meals a day with a high protein meal replacement. I ate whatever I wanted with the other meal. When I started to get real hungry I would suck on a piece of peppermint candy and drink a tall glass of ice water. Read more

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