Have you lost 200 pounds?

[cleochatra]

What was life like before you came to lose the weight? What was your joruney like? How is life different for you now?

[love2beeamom]

I just wanted to bump this up cause I was wondering if we have anyone who has lost 200 pounds? That would be awesome!!

[ravinalevi]

Down 203 lbs here

[love2beeamom]

Congratulations !! That is an awesome accomplishment.. :clapping

[nikki_e]

WOW! Would love to hear your story, ravinalevi! Please share.

[cleochatra]

Go ravina!!!

Please tell us your story! I'm stickying this thread.

[sidrah]

Great thread.. I, too, would love to see the story. I think it would be great for everyone to hear that it IS possible :joy

[Zolgor]

This is an awesome thread, I have 200lbs to loose myself and so far have lost a little over 25lbs, I look at it like I am 1/8th of the way there already so I just need to do it 7 more times

I must say though that with so much weight to loose I sometimes feel like I am still an 'odd one' even here at ADDB because I have so much to loose and people with 200lbs to loose are not that common around here.

Any stories would truely be awesome and I would love to hear them if any of you are willing to share, Hopefully when my time comes I can come back to this thread and share my adventure.

[Felicia]

I also have over 200lbs to lose and would find it of great interest to see how others lost 200lbs or more. I am slowly but surely losing lbs and inches but its nice to read that I am not lone on how far I have to go and that it is possible to make it to goal.

Thanks for starting this thread.

Felicia

[joecap]

Not quite 200 lbs but so far I've dropped 170 lbs.

I started April 29th, 2004 at about 435 lbs. I'm 6'6" so I was always able to carry my weight at about 330-350 lbs. but when I went up to 435 lbs it started to slow me down and I was worried about potential health problems.

I just stayed on strict Atkins from April 29th until about Jan. 1 and had dropped 135 lbs. I was walking about 3-4 miles pretty much every night.

From Jan. 1st, 2005 until April 1st,. 2005 I didn't lose a single pound but I didn't get frustrated because I hadn't cheated and most of the time during the holidays or winter I would always gain weight in the past so to stay even wasn't a bad thing. I stalled mainly because I had stopped walking because of bad weather here in the Northeast during those months and because I was eating too many of the "low carb" snacks like the ice cream bars, candy bars etc.,,

Started walking again every night on April 1st and eliminated those "low carb" cheats like the bars, ice cream etc.,,, and now I'm down to about 265. I still need to lose about 40 lbs or so to get down to my ideal weight.

My only recommendation would be to really pay close attention to the amount of carbs you are eating because as I reached a comfort level with the Atkins way of life during those months I had stayed the same weight I wasn't cheating but I was bumping myself out of "fat burning mode" by eating too many servings of "legal" carbs or by eating those "low carb" snacks I mentioned.