1 year later, My phentarmine experience

donise25 · 04-05-2009, 10:12 PM

you look amazing
wow congrats on the weight loss
keep up the good work

saphire bluebell · 04-06-2009, 11:40 PM

Wow!! you look great.
I'm only just starting out & I'm at almost the same weight you started at.
I hope I can get similar results to yours

Well done again on all your hard work

**susanpesek** · 04-07-2009, 04:03 PM

**mp21** · 04-11-2009, 08:06 PM

congratss u look great, am also in the pill and lost 10 pounds in one week

**tashadanielle0127** · 04-13-2009, 11:33 PM

wow you look great!!!!

kconklin04 · 04-14-2009, 07:43 PM

Fantastic JOB!!! You are an insperation to us ALL!!

**hanabi** · 04-16-2009, 02:10 PM

Thank you very much, everybody. ^_^ I have to admit I got a bit emotional reading the responses. This is the first time I posted by before and afters, so I was nervous.

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Originally Posted by spice2621

Yes please give us the details..lol!

lol, ok, but I've realized over the last year that what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. I truly believe it's finding a lifestyle/eating habit that is right for you.

To start off with I was a binge/stress eater. I would eat when I was stressed or depressed, but I would also wake up at 3am and head to the refrigerator and start gorging on the previous night's leftovers.

What I did was the first month I was on phen I went on a 1000 calorie or less diet. This was only for the first month, and looking back I really don't know why I did it. I completely cut out every food that I felt contributed to my weight gain... doughnuts, soda, and fast food.

I greatly decreased others like my intake on meats and sweets (thank God for those 100 calorie snack packs).

I increased my water intake. In fact, water is just about the only thing I drink now, with the exception of tea on rare occasions. I read that drinking water before bed time increases your metabolism while you sleep, so I would do that every night, and still do.

Stopped eating after 8pm. I'm pretty faithful to this rule, though I've made exceptions (like this last Easter).

I started snacking and eating big breakfasts. In fact the majority of my caloric intake is in the mornings, and I try to do it sensibly.

Exercised like a fiend. And by exercise I mean I walked my butt off. I walked everywhere, up and down the road, in the parks, around my school. I would park as far away from the entrance of Wal-Mart as I could just so I would have that trek to the front doors.

After the first month I increased my caloric intake to no more than 1400... I also vary it. One day I may take in 1200, another 1000, another just a little over 1400. I think this coupled with the ever increasing exercising has helped me to not plateau.

But most of all it was my state of mind. I was tired of being over weight, humiliated I couldn't even fit into a roller coaster, and ashamed to tell people that I was part Asian, only for them to respond: "Oh really? Asian people are usually so tiny."

Losing the weight has been a life changing experience. In an odd way I'm grateful for being overweight to begin with, as having the weight and then losing it has given me a totally new perspective on my life and the way I want to live it.

And that's my story.

I appreciate everyone who's responded with such positive words, and I hope that my story helps to influence someone to their own great weight loss.

birdgirl · 04-16-2009, 04:23 PM

It looks like it took off not only the weight, but 20 years!! WOW!!!!