Thanks for being supportive Fluff, it means a lot to me!

I've been eating raw fruits and vegetables and nuts all week. Apples, bananas, carrots, celery, walnuts, almonds.... also been taking a multivitamin. The key is to eat slowly, but do it throughout the day. That wakes your metabolism up. I've lost five pounds this week, and I'm working on keeping this up for the next few months. Take it a day at a time. When you plateau from diet alone, start exercising. Cardio is good for the heart, but strength training is good for building muscle, which burns fat on its own. If you need some one on one help, let me know. I've done this enough times in my life that I know it works.

Yep! Next shoping trip is raw only... its hard to kick the yummy drinks though.. I think I will switch to unsweetened ice tea
And the biking will be my cardio until I lose enough that running no longer hurts like death
What are some good exercises? I've been trying to do Pilates again but I have lost almost all my everything strength

I joined a slimming group called slimming world and its working for me so far..dunno if you have it over there tho. They seem to concetrate on eating fresh stuff over anything prepared, cutting heavily down on bread and wheat and any kind of fat. Still i think youd need to see the whole diet to appreciate how to do it. Ive lost 14lb so far.

That seems to be the most consistent advice I've been getting.
And I like fresh anyhow so it shouldn't be too hard

if you don't mind the awful aspartame, Great Value Iced Tea with Peach is decaff and tastes good. Learn to like tap water is a good thing too. Really it's not so much what you eat as how active you are. It's better to find something active you like to do than to just "work out". That said, walking lunges are pretty easy, if somewhat silly looking for walking around the house :) Simply step as far forward as you can, then repeat with each step.

Splenda in Tea is a decent way to lose some weight if you were using sugar. You may like Benefiber as an additional source of very handy Soluble fiber. It's a bit expensive though at about $18 for a bottle of 125 servings at 3 servings a day.

If you find the right way, let me know. I'll join you on that diet.

congratulations on going through the challenge of losing weight, it takes a long time but its for the best. i've mostly kept to a long term course to lose weight. what ive always found helpful is calorie counting, i base it around how much you need daily just have to measure out the right amount for your meals of the day. and if you need an exercise buddy i dont mind helping you out with that, your just a bus ride away

hun, do what makes you feel good about yourself. thats what counts.you could portion your meal intake, making them small. you can eat twice a day, drinking juices. thats my 2 cents. hehehehe

but as for me i enjoy being pudgy. i love myself just the way i am. my mate loves my belly too. i think pudgy is beautiful and sexy.

just be happy with yourself and if you need to make small tweaks do them gradual.

SQUEAK SQUEAK!!

I am mostly happy ^_^
This is about health. And fitting my cothes.. I am tired of buying ne clothes....

i know the feeling hun, i have two brand new pairs of jeans i cant fit in to. and a couple of shirts as well. but they wont go to waste, i give them to my mate/boy friend.

but i fully understand on the health issue. i wish you all the best hun.