Thanks for the advice about resolutions. I do understand that, and it’s better to set a ‘goal’. It sounds like you are one of the lucky ones to have liked exercise at a very young age. I have gone in spurts it seems. I used to walk almost religiously, but I keep losing partners and then I just don’t seem to do it anymore. It’s so easy once you skip to just keep putting it off. Now that I have the 2 older ladies that need some exercise, I am starting to walk a little again.

Good luck to you with your sugar. Cutting out high fructose corn syrup, if you aren’t doing that already, will help quite a bit. It’s amazing how it’s in almost everything! Thank you again so much for your advice and encouragement. I’ll have to come back and read your comment whenever I’m feeling lazy. LOL.

When you incorporate exercise in your diet and stick to it faithfully you will be able to indulge in more food than you thought possible, meaning good for you food. I love sweet stuff so I have to be careful with chocolate and cakes…

I would also like to say that making a New Year’s resolution, i.e. “I’m going to lose weight,” “I’ll start a new diet,” I’ll quit smoking,” whatever it may be, will set you up for failure because you are putting the pressure on yourself to stick with that resolution when all it will do is make you more aware of it. The pressures of dieting will be harder because “you said it” you have to live up to it. Just relax, change you eating habits, walk, run, lift weights and take a lot of deep breaths or drink a lot of water when you feel that craving coming on. Air and water are calorie free. I hope you have made progress this year and that this has been (so far) a great year for you.

I admire Kirstie also, but I’m a little skeptical about the lasting success with her own new products. I’m waiting to see, although a lot of people swear they have gotten great results.

I think the biggest problem I have is just lack of exercise. Wish I could develop of love for running, or something. LOL

I admire Kirstie for losing weight again and searching for a permanent change instead of giving up and accepting fatness and failure like a lot of people would do. That’s awesome and inspirational.

Both of these women are inspirational!!

The amount of energy these newbies are burning in their 45 minutes in the gym is trivial. Maybe 300 calories (half from fat stores half from carbs so maybe 150 cals from fat – tops). If they are hitting the gym three times a week then the only have to miscalculate their calories by an average of 100 calories a day and that will wipe out any fat loss from the exercise. 100 calories is nothing. Most people can’t estimate their calories to within 100 calories a day, even if they are keeping a meticulous food and exercise log.

I am afraid if you want to shift a lot of weight, you have to spend a lot of time being very hungry.