198 lbs lost in a little over a year :D
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Will you be showing successful before and after pictures of your "meat bags for legs" as you called them, or perhaps pictures along the way as you transform? Were there any exercises you could have done along the way to avoid that happening or did you check into it when you saw it happening? I'm also curious how you felt if you ever exerted yourself too much exercising on the low calorie intake and if you have had any numbers run to see how it affected your metabolism and immune system?
Umm no, I will not be showing my legs, ever. I called them "meat curtains" anyway; different visual; think of drapes. I didn't take a lot of pics before I got thin, and I still don't do that many. I am a bit camera shy and tend to feel that I am ugly. I never felt that I over exerted myself because I made sure not to. I had more and more energy as I went along and as I lost weight I began adding more calories back into my diet.
Sorry! I thought I quoted you right and didn't. I asked about the "numbers" from doctors blood tests etc because after I lost 50 pounds in 3 months after being stagnant for 2 years, my immune system went all wonky and I started having dizzy spells, turns out my immune system started killing off my blood platelets and they were at dangerously low levels. Here I thought I was fine because I was eating healthy and biking 3 miles a day to get my exercise in at the same time and it was all good, but my body went into starvation mode and went nuts. I'm dealing with the after affects now before I can get back on my bike again so I don't pass out on the road in front of a car or something.
I can't help but be impressed at your weight loss, just from experience I know how dangerous it is to do it so quick. Have you or are you planning on having a doctor check you out and run blood tests? I would think any doctor would want to after such a drastic amount of weight loss in the time you did it.0 -
Man, you rocked it!!! WTG! Totally amazing! :flowerforyou:0
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Amazing work - you look like a different man!0
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Outstanding result, really really speechless0
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What an incredible job on your transformation. Congratulations to you :flowerforyou:0
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Wow! Incredible progress!0
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OMG, that transformation is just awesome! You became handsome0
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Brilliant! You look amazing! (and you have a great jaw line by the way!)
You are so disciplined, it's really inspirational0 -
Hi There: Congratulations on finding your smile again! You look fabulous!
Enjoy your new smile.0 -
You look wonderful! What an inspiration0
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If you are going to eat below 1200 a day you did it better than anyone I heard of yet. Congratulations!!!0
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Well done! Everyone has their own way and one person's method is not necessarily what works for another person.
Congratulations! I think you look amazing but more importantly, you look like you are HAPPY (and healthy I hope)! Well done.
for what it's worth, IMO, avoiding major surgery is always a plus!!!0 -
Congrats on all your hard work. You look amazing!0
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Totally awesome!!! I think you made the best choice to forgo the operation. That doesn't teach you how to eat and how much. You did it!!! thanks for sharing. You are inspirational. Who cares about the skin thing. You have just gained many many years of life!!! Congrats.0
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you look years younger! congrats!0
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I am a bit camera shy and tend to feel that I am ugly.
Also, this cult of silence around VLCDs has to stop. What is bariatric surgery except a forced VLCD? And doctors *still* endorse it, and MFP has no problem with threads about it.
I have followed nutritionally dense VLCDs for up to 2 months at a time with no significant muscle loss or other "starvation mode" symptoms. I don't endorse it just like I don't endorse any other diet - what works for me may not necessarily work for you, plus IANAD - but why shouldn't we be allowed to discuss our own strategies that worked? Why must we silence everyone whose experiences don't conform to the groupthink?0 -
You pictures are so inspiring!
Big *high five* to you!!!
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That's a phenomenal amount of weight to lose in just over a year - like a few previous posters have pointed out, you look like an entirely different guy!
Great work!0 -
amazing ! great work (:0
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Will you be showing successful before and after pictures of your "meat bags for legs" as you called them, or perhaps pictures along the way as you transform? Were there any exercises you could have done along the way to avoid that happening or did you check into it when you saw it happening? I'm also curious how you felt if you ever exerted yourself too much exercising on the low calorie intake and if you have had any numbers run to see how it affected your metabolism and immune system?
Umm no, I will not be showing my legs, ever. I called them "meat curtains" anyway; different visual; think of drapes. I didn't take a lot of pics before I got thin, and I still don't do that many. I am a bit camera shy and tend to feel that I am ugly. I never felt that I over exerted myself because I made sure not to. I had more and more energy as I went along and as I lost weight I began adding more calories back into my diet.
Don't feel ugly!!! You look amazing!! And you've been a beautiful person regardless of your weight!0
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