Hello my new friends
I got here and almost immediately found out I was eating way too little and that eating more healthy things and eliminating the unhealthy things is actually the key to successfully steadily losing weight. Eating more calories than I was, not less! I had no idea. I thought I was going to have to ...well... be starving all the time. So that was an amazing thing to find out. Thank you to the posters who helped me with this, I am eternally grateful. If you guys had just let it go instead of pointing out to me that I was using the wrong site to find out my suggested cal intake to lose 1-2 pounds a week, I would have still been eating little over 1100. THAT is why this site is so marvellous. You take note. You step in. You help. You little beauties.
Then I came out. Hurrah! People were wonderful. It went better than I anticipated. I actually had tears in my eyes at one response it was so beautiful.
Then I started to post in daily diaries and what a difference this has made. Being accountable is so important to me. I ate tonight and didn't feel deprived after at all. I felt, dare I say, satisfied. This is a brilliant discovery. If I can lose at 1700 cals a day then i can do this. In a year, too. whoop whoop!
Now I read a lot on here. It helps me. I don't feel alone. I don't feel hopeless. I do feel excited and I do feel like I am in a winning team.
Thank you so much
Bobette