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Name: fat mom

I am the same person who had posted some days back for being overwt and depressed and how family conditions were creating hurdles.

I think I took a right first step by posting here. I was visiting this board regulalrly that gave me some boost up. At 176 lbs, I was depressed and dint know what to do.

I went ahead and enquired at the best gym in my town and just enrolled in.

I believe by sharing our thoughts and success stories here we can help motivating each other, keep ourselves motivated and going.

Some good things have happened since then which i want to share with my friends here who are struggling and are depressed like me and need boost up.

I really liked sandya' s post on \" wt loss secrets unraveled\" . It motivated me and made me think.

It has been a month that i joined the gym. I dont hv time in morning or evening to work out. So i selected to join a gym close to office. I skip from office little before lunch time and spend some 1.5 hr in gym which i hv selected v near to office.

U get motivated by seeing other people there, by seeing those who have lost weight, you make friends and you talk about losing wt and calorie food so you keep urself going, when u r trying alone, u go back to square 1 at times.
The doc in gym made me go thru medical tests and some results have come out against me :( - thyroid is little bit high - whch means i dont need medication but will take time to lose wt and there are some things i am not supposed to eat. I was asked to consult dietician for that who told me some surprising food items like cabbage which can make my thyroid problem worse so i need to strictly stop all that.

So, i am on a diet, and work out 5-6 times a week.
I also go for steam bath 1-2 times a week.

I read sandy' s post after that and got more motivated and started burning calories as per that calculation. Man, its v hard to burn 500 Cal a day, i go till 350-400 max!
Dint think all that while eating earlier :)

But i have to do it, else mhy health will only worsen. Have got small kids, so i need to be fit to be able to take good care of them.

Some more things i did. I searched on google for some good diet/exercise websites, picked up points from there. I have printed them out and pasted inside my closet so i see them whenever i open it.

I have made one of those sites as my internet-explorer' s homepage.

I had set goals for losing wt, but i dont think they will be achived, thats a different story.

So thats all the good i am doing friends. Get up and just do it. Its been a month for me now. I am now all set with working out, next thing i am going to do is strictly watch my diet. I was not able to be strict on that as I was already concentrating on lot of things and hence when hungry did not find items or time to prepare and eat so ended up eating \" allowed\" things but more quantity.

After 1m at the gym, steam bath etc, i climbed the wt scale and guess what.

Not a gram less :(

Well, some people tell me that it takes time to lose, give it a month and half or so. Dietician told me that it will be slow for me as i am hyperthyroid.

Whatever, I am not losing hopes and I am not disappointed. I am going to try ... and try more .. and I have to lose weight before I meet my old friends (who all are slim) at my hometown by next diwali.

80kgs is damn too much, i will make is 68 for sure.

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