It's taken me 5 years to get where I am - slow and steady all the way....you have to remember you didn't just wake up fat, so like wise you are not going to wake up one morning slim - it takes time....so commit to the long term and enjoy your life along the way :)

Hey Pam2 - perhaps not the most obvious one, but kind of does it for me: "If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

Love it!

No - it is being sold for weightloss - you eat your self silly - then pump it directly out of your stomach before it digests!!! The full article is here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hea...

I just can't believe this - just made me feel physically ill....come on people we really can't be reduced to these measures..... http://youtu.be/WfBE_DIR2Jo

How the hell did they manage to fit so many calories into a tuna roll??? Just how big is the roll????????????? So glad that junk food does nothing for me - tasteless and salty blah!!

Fantastic everyone!!!

Hey Jess - I was a fat kid too - in the 70s/80s when we were seriously the minority (there was only two of us in my whole junior school who were fat!!) - so totally get where you are coming from here..... Make the best of your life now though - you have done a fabulous change to yourself and your life :)

My thoughts exactly FB!!! Sending lots of strength ((((((((((())))))))) to help you get through this....you know you can!!!

You can lose weight with less exercise....you just lose it slower. I started losing my weight in 2007 and had a couple of life hiccups in between - but have very gradually lost 86 pounds....I don't have time or the inclination to dedicate hours of gym exercising into my life - I have changed my way of doing things so I am more active just living my life and do try and swim once a week and do some form of stretching and stuff perhaps twice a week. So it really depends on you how you want to do it....but I will say don't start something that you can't see yourself doing in one year, five years, ten years, twenty years from now...you must be able to sustain what you start....

Nice article and soooooo important to follow....calories are just too damn important to waste on rubbish food, so really enjoy the ones you have!

You need to open a Photobucket.com account.....upload pics and then click and paste the image code in your journal....

[quote=FullaBella]Applebees Bacon Cheeseburger with Onion Rings: 1510 calories, 89grm fat, 115 carbs!!! [/quote] OK that is some serious burger....it should be banned!! FB you need to find a new vice....mine is shoes, I can't be bothered wasting my money on rubbish food my body doesn't need anymore - just bring on the shoes :)

I love my body because....it is me and I am finally happy to be me :)

I've been taking it for the last 7 days and I'm down 2 pounds (which is a lot for me) - but I can't say it is the coffee yet, I prefer to keep taking it for the month and then see what the results are. But I will add that I am still calorie counting and have tried to up my exercise - perhaps the coffee is helping with my energy levels too....

Nice poem :) As long as the Start over is TODAY and not always tomorrow....

None of us are perfect Jess....but we can both be proud that we are both in a far better place than we were a few years back :)

I also want to add that if she was televised smoking a cigarette, or shooting heroin, there would be a massive outcry.....but the fact of the matter is that obesity is a faster growing and potentially a bigger health issue than smoking and drug taking put together and perhaps it is time that we openly talk about it and advise people who are taking the wrong road to perhaps look at themselves and get help in getting healthy. It wouldn't have been nice to hear, but I wish people had been more honest with me....

I don't see a problem with it - it is not bullying, as he is entitled to his opinion and looking at the clip she does fall into the obese range, so it is not false what he is saying and he has not said it offensively.

My biggest challenge has been learning to love myself.....it took a long time, but now that I do, I know I will never return to my former fat self :)