First...YOU ARE AMAZING!

Second, I want to add something about patience and those doing a metabolism reset (or not).

I have been having my metabolism monitored for the last 4 months. I'm not exactly sure what the numbers mean but apparently our metabolism should be at a 37 or greater, when I first started having it monitored I was at a 27. I am now at 31, still well below where it should be but it has taken 4 months to get my metabolism moving just a little bit. So patience is definitely key! People expect over night results but when we have damaged our bodies and metabolism with low cal diets there is a lot of work to be done and it takes a lot of time. The rate I am going it seems it will take me at least a full year to get my metabolism back to running where it should be. And this is why my losses are so slow.

And in the same respect those slow losses are great because I have also had my fat mass and lean mass measured and in the last four months I have gained 4 lbs of muscle, and lost over 11 lbs of pure fat with ZERO muscle loss. Typically when people diet they have a 1:1 ratio of muscle to fat loss. So for every pound of fat they lose they also lose a pound of muscle. Imagine, all that precious fat burning muscle going down the toilet (literally). That's what happens when those people on 1200 calorie a day diets are doing, they have great 2 lbs losses each week but half of it is muscle! So if you think about it, I have lost the same amount of fat as those 1200 calorie dieters but have preserved all of that wonderful muscle that speeds up your metabolism and makes you look a million times better!!

Nope I don't mind at all!

Heidi, first - I you!

Second - HOW amazing is your story?! It's the epitome of the "wait, have patience" motto that everyone and their momma I tired of hearing us talk about!

I plead with you to let me also add that testimony to the site , where it can be an ultimate source of inspiration for days/months/years to come. People need to truly understand how much time this process can take.

Thank you a zillion times over for sharing that! :smooched:

~Kiki

Thanks for sharing. I just found a picture from last April about same time i STARTED emtlw.. I was sick, under eating, and skinny. As my sister called them flabby. I look like I gained right now, but more curvy, more toned, more muscles. I guess i was really under eating to the point when I was losing muscles. I was on WW for 5 years, which suck. I just am loss right now for words. However, I am going to continue not tracking, eating what I have been eating (what i'VE LEARNED from EMTLW) and move on. I hope MESO 2 is the answer for me

Kiki-if you add that to the site, can you take out the part about 1:1 fat ration loss from dieters. That isn't supported by any actual studies, it was what my naturopathic doctor said to me based on her experience in her practice with her clients. So it isn't backed up by studies or anything.

BUT even though it isn't backed up with studies, I still feel like it makes sense.

Ladies awesome work but at the same time it kind of has me depress. All the weight i loss really now says that i screw myself over cause i believe i lost alot of muscle. My thighs have the LL cool j disease (juggling baby gohead baby) .i was reading a article that said the muscle loss from vlcd would required to put mass on to gain muscle then do another cut. Lucia I'm trying to process really but at the same time feel like a idiot.

First...YOU ARE AMAZING!

Second, I want to add something about patience and those doing a metabolism reset (or not).

I have been having my metabolism monitored for the last 4 months. I'm not exactly sure what the numbers mean but apparently our metabolism should be at a 37 or greater, when I first started having it monitored I was at a 27. I am now at 31, still well below where it should be but it has taken 4 months to get my metabolism moving just a little bit. So patience is definitely key! People expect over night results but when we have damaged our bodies and metabolism with low cal diets there is a lot of work to be done and it takes a lot of time. The rate I am going it seems it will take me at least a full year to get my metabolism back to running where it should be. And this is why my losses are so slow.

And in the same respect those slow losses are great because I have also had my fat mass and lean mass measured and in the last four months I have gained 4 lbs of muscle, and lost over 11 lbs of pure fat with ZERO muscle loss. Typically when people diet they have a 1:1 ratio of muscle to fat loss. So for every pound of fat they lose they also lose a pound of muscle. Imagine, all that precious fat burning muscle going down the toilet (literally). That's what happens when those people on 1200 calorie a day diets are doing, they have great 2 lbs losses each week but half of it is muscle! So if you think about it, I have lost the same amount of fat as those 1200 calorie dieters but have preserved all of that wonderful muscle that speeds up your metabolism and makes you look a million times better!!

:O Thank you for saying this. Really. Thank you.