Greetings. I'm new to the board and will make a post here similar to the post I made in the intro area.

At 308 pounds with high blood pressure for years, my cholesterol and glucose finally went out. My Doctor told me she was going to have to start me on a number of various meds in addition to my blood pressure meds or I was going to have to try and make a change.

She sent me to a nutritionist. That was about 7 months back and I've so far lost 52 pounds. The nutritionist figured out how many calories a day I should be eating, taught me how to calculate a serving of starch, dairy, protein, Vegetable, fruit,and fat...then laid out a plan for me based on how many servings of each I'm to target at each meal. In addition to her diet (my new diet if you take my meaning) I added exercise to the mix. I'm doing 30 minute secessions once a day. One day aerobic and the next weight resistance (strength training).

My target is still a long way off but I'm almost half way there. With 52 pounds lost, I'm starting to develop some genuine faith that I can actually do this.

Always happy to talk diet, healthy eating, and exercise to anyone. Just finished my healthy breakfast and I'm about to go down and work out on the new Bowflex I bought to replace my now ancient model.

Anyone out there needs a little encouragement, wants to chat with someone whoes had some success, I'm here.

Congrats on your your success so far! Keep it up and shatter that goal. Losing 110 lbs in a year would be a great feat. Babes will flock to you.

good for you ! welcome!

Thanks guys.

I doubt that I will lose 110 pounds in a year. I have an ideal body weight of about 190. I started at 308. So I needed to lose 118 pounds to get to target.

It really didn't seem possible. But now, with 52 pound off, I'm starting to dare to think that I might really do this.

Hunger between meals has been the issue I've had to deal with and I don't like the idea of eating more, smaller meals. So I've been learning how to cheat. My nutritionist set me up with a one serving of carb snack and one serving of dairy snack.

I take my carb one tiny cracker at a time (whole grain) and add it to a free vegetable, I eat them at the same time. IT gives me a treat that is somewhat satisfying that I can come back and do again in a half hour or hour and it doesn't put on the weight.

What I think about most and am working toward is "do I have a different mindset". "Have I changed forever the way I think about food, eating, and exercise?". I know that in the end, if I haven't won the mental battle to completely rework the way I think....I'll wind up sucking down pizza's again and putting it all back on. I don't ever want to go back.

Awesome work...that is remarkable progress too.

and welcome to the board...this place is great!

Congratulations. It looks like you're on the path to success. Keep with it.

Thanks Spicy, I do seem to be on the right path. The question is if I can keep doing the right thing.

Today is going well. Lunch behind me, workout behind me, just took the dog on his walk/jog. Lunch was 1/3 of a kashi healthy type small pizza. Not much there but it tasted good. I still needed a sandwich of whole grain bread with 2 0z of protein to fill out my starch and protein requirements. Vegetable and fruit on the side.

Tonights dinner is going to be whole grain pasta and spaghetti sauce. The protein will be 4 one ounce meatballs. And on the side I'll have vegetables spritzed with a little dressing and a piece of fruit. It's an easy meal, neither my wife nor I feel much like cooking tonight.

I think tomorrow I'm going to do some fish on the grill with a brown rice for the starch with some asparagus and a salad for the vegetable. And as always, a serving of fruit.

Since today was a bowflex day (weight training) tomorrow I'll be up on the schwinn recumbent doing 30 minutes of aerobic exercise.

My wife and I are going to run a few errands then stop in an visit with an overweight friend who is now diabetic. She saw me losing weight and decided she had to get seriously after weigh loss if she wanted to live to see her children grow up and raise their own children. We've been getting a lot of that kind of reaction to our weight loss. The other day a neighbor came up while I was mowing the yard and he was yelling at me that I needed to slow down, that I was zipping around the yard behind my mower, using one hand, almost running, making it look too easy. That was his way of saying he could see how much weight I lost and how much more fit I was. I used to mow half my yard then have to sit down and catch my breath. Now I mow the whole thing and I'm ready to do something else. No breaks needed.

It's almost impossible to imagine what I'll look like with 50 more pounds gone, but I'm' going to keep at it.

Well played, Stephen. I look forward to observing your continued success.