I feel you on that. I take medication that make me gain weight, but I lost thirty pounds in three months by working at a caregiving facility, then another five pounds at the pet store where I don't have enough time to eat. But I eat a ton of fast food and really unhealthy foods too.

I'd recommend not starving yourself, MountainDewed...What's helped me to lose weight without exercising is to increase fruits and veggies, eat healthy meals that represent all food groups, limiting alcohol use, and limiting junk food or unhealthy food. It's really tough to do just that, so pick your battles and know when to splurge and when to withold. I really loved eating different fruits and veggies and healthy finger foods or healthy snacking foods.

Then once I got used to that...and now with my upcoming smoking cessation, I went for lots of walks. At my grandparents the high school track was across the street, so I'd walk or run five miles and increased from there, and then where I live now I'd tell myself that I'm doing this to build up my lungs, and I loved going for walks every day with all sorts of things to look at and many hills to overcome...the walks were so important for smoking cessation because my lungs can't handle vigorous exercise while smoking. I made quite the journey last time I quit. I started by overcoming the smallest hill, and within a couple months I was tackling the biggest hill.

Smoking cessation is another New Year's Resolution, and I am going to find myself exercising a lot because I really do need to build up strength in my lungs and my whole body too. I am really, really looking forward to going on walks and excercising more often once I quit smoking.