10 months & 154 lbs gone

fortunerose

Thank you for posting the breakdown of your workout

Queen2day

Your accomplishment leave me TOTALLY SPEECHLESS !!! TRULY AWESOME JOB !!!! You have so much to be proud of yourself for !!! WTG !!!!

LeanerBeef

Good Lord - WOW! Fantastic job! Congrats!

Phant4sy

I am smiling from ear to ear for you!!! That is so friggn awesome!

michellebd1980

You look great!

sherrirb

Awesome job my friend!

bear_nakey

Ahhhh-freakin-mazing!!!! I love seeing things like this!!! Great job my fellow MFP'eeper!!!

AnaVerasGettingFit

Bump for inspiration!

iamnoangel

Fantastic, you look fabulous! Congratulations, you are inspiring!

mrshoneybear1014

you look so fabulous!!!!!

Cassie5493

AMAZING!!!!

bskupien

Holy moley! What a change! You look great-good for you!

BombolinaM

Amazing! You look great!

babephant

That's such a BIG weight loss in a relatively short amount of time!! Way to go!! Share your secret??

ajt917

Amazing!!! what an inspiration, congrats!!!

CanuckLove

WOW!! Amazing transformation! Incredible work! Congratulations!!

ATT949

Congratulations! Truly commendable! A hundred and fifty four reasons to be very proud! One word of advice/caution... I went through something similar ( lost 100 lbs in 10 months exercising 1 hour/day with a trainer, 6 times/week with a very restrictive diet). However, after 3 years of keeping this up, I had to give up my training and gained back the 45 lbs just as fast as I had lost it. I truly believe that a slow weight loss with an exercise program that you know you will be able to stick to over time is the best way to go. GOOD FOR YOU! KEEP IT UP!

I find this comment interesting.
If I understand you correctly, you lost 100 pounds in 10 months, stayed at that weight for 3 years and then "I had to give up my training and gained back the 45 lbs just as fast as I had lost it."

What 45 pounds are you referring to?

After you stopped training, you calorie demands decreased (assuming all other things were equal). Did you lower your calorie intake when you stopped training?

If you "gained back the 45 lbs just as fast as I had lost it." and you "lost 100 lbs in 10 months", that means you lost and then gained weight at the rate of 100/(10*30)= 0.33 pounds per day. I can imagine that losing weight at the rate of 2 pounds a week was a very pleasant feeling and, as humans we tend to continue to do things that give us pleasure. When you were gaining weight (9s pound a month) were you aware that you were gaining weight? If you were, what did you do to change your dietary habits?

"I truly believe that a slow weight loss with an exercise program that you know you will be able to stick to over time is the best way to go."
Why do you believe that?

Also, what's the "grace period" for a low calorie diet. Three years is a long time. If you gained back your weight after, say, 4 years, would you still feel that the low calorie diet was a factor in your weight gain. What if it were 5 years or perhaps a decade?

One of the reasons that this is of interest is that, like you and the OP, I lost weight on a low calorie diet (95 pounds in 7 months and then I dropped another 7 pounds in 14 days back in Jan 2011) but I didn't hit any of the maladies that I was told I would hit on an LCD. It seems that folks attribute strange powers to a low calorie diet but everything I know about gaining weight tells me that I gained weight because I ate too much food and didn't exercise enough.

What I don't get is, how is it that you gained weight back (unless you just ate too much food)?

LisaH1231

That is so awesome!! Congratulations!

hoileh10

Wow good for you!! Best of luck sticking with this.

dellgriffin

Incredible job!