I would like to lose around 20 pounds. I do not want to go back to being stick skinny because I have learned to embrace my curves, but I would like to be able to look in the mirror and be happy.

I think that it would also make it easier for me to find clothes and for them to fit like how they are supposing to.

I find myself buying clothes to hide behind. I do not think that I will diet but I would like to start eating and adopting a healthier lifestyle.

This is what I found when I used Weight Watchers ideas about 2 years ago.

Weight Watchers isn’t dieting but it is all about portion control. You can eat what you want but you have to be able to watch your portions.

When I used this before, I would walk around my neighborhood about 3 times a week and I was able to lose 10 pounds in no time.

It was like the pounds just literally melted away. I felt so much better so I would like to go back to that attitude that I had at that time. I was able to fit into clothes that I hadn’t been able to in months.

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.

I tried Weight Watchers for while but I get tired of counting calories and tired of the food. Some of the food items Weight Watchers suggest are very good. They also have a recipe book that is some what helpful and scales to weigh your portions on.

But that is very tiring to do all the time and when you eat out it does not work so well. I know even some restaurants have now added Weight Watchers meals to their menus.

I have also tried MetaFast. I lost a lot of weight on that but how long can a person stick to a liquid diet. It is very hard to stay on a liquid diet when you have to cook for a family that still wants to eat.

Also some people on MetaFast have had health problems from it and even surgery. I am sixty eight years and I weight a little less than two hundred pounds.

I am female and I would like to lose about fifty pounds. But it is very hard to do. I have tried exercise also but it makes me hungry.

Now what good is that. I did strength and fitness exercises. It made me joints hurt and swell. I also tried playing golf for several years but it too is very hard on joints like bad knees and hip joints.

I knew I could never make it back to 105, especially after I dealt with an eating disorder in college. So I set my goal weight at 135.

After Christmas was over, I decided to do something about my weight. I joined SparkPeople and started tracking my calorie intake. At first I was too ambitious. I tried to lose too much weight too fast, and I couldn’t handle being hungry all the time.

I had stopped exercising but started back up, doing Yoga Booty Ballet, bicycling, jogging and jump rope. I found that as I exercised more, I could eat more and still lose inches.

SparkPeople was less of a “diet” and more of a tracking tool. I found that I was eating to deal with boredom or emotional stress, rather than eating because I was hungry. It was also encouraging to track my exercising and see how many calories I was burning.

After a few months of SparkPeople, I had my portions under control and stopped tracking my daily food intake.

I was eating when I was hungry and exercising at least 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. I weigh 135lbs and am a healthy size 8.

I still do Yoga Booty Ballet, and I have added Pilates and Shiva Rea’s yoga DVDs to supplement. I’m not an emotional eater any more, I feel stronger, and I am much more toned.

I am a female who is approximately thirty seven years old. I wish to lose about 35 pounds, or seven five pound bags of sugar. When I say it that way, I feel even worse about myself!!!

I have tried Weight Watchers, but I have not been consistent. It is difficult trying to juggle a full time job, a family, a household to run, and a diet to manage. I realize I need to change my entire way of life.

Instead of reaching for that bowl of ice cream or that glass of wine when I am stressed out, I need to get up and exercise. It is difficult!!!

Exercise has never been something that comes easily to me…it has always been something I have had to work at. I was never the girl in high school who enthusiastically ran two miles around the track.

On the other hand, I did like the end result of burning calories and looking mighty fine, if I do say so myself.

A diet is difficult to follow for me for many reasons. For starters, I do not like to be restricted. I like to eat what I want, when I want, how much I want. I also find it challenging to prepare one meal for my husband and children and another for me.

My husband is a meat and potato kind of guy, actually just meat. He could eat meat all day every day and be quite content. I, on the other hand, hate meat. I mean, I really like chicken, but that is about it.