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I've lost 45 lbs in 3 months on this special diet!

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  • Posts: 260 Member
    Congrats!!! I've been doing the same exact thing...not stressing about it...eat food I love and track it, stay under calories and workout when I can for awhile. I've lost 14 lbs so far in 24 days. I've had pizza, burgers, beer, wine! And support on here is great!
    Thank you for sharing and you have done a fabulous job!
  • Posts: 169 Member
    LOL Awesome! Love your attitude! Congrats!
  • Awesome work, and thanks for the reminder that it really is not complicated, and we just need to keep it simple and stick to the basic principles. Of course the support and motivation on MFP also helps along the way. The secret is….there is no secret. Except for maybe patience! :-)
  • Posts: 117 Member
    This is just a bunch of bro-science. Everybody knows that it's what you eat that counts. You can't lose weight eating 'fatten me up" McDonalds.
    This is a scam, you can't lose weight through common sense
    :wink:

    Now that my trolling is over, great job! I hope that I can have the same type of success!! :D
  • Posts: 214 Member
    Awesome job!!! Congratulations!!! I am thinking of joining a support group and was just wondering which one you joined? Thanks :bigsmile:
  • Posts: 357 Member
    Thank you! I am just getting into this and this time I decided to do it like you are and so far I'm doing OK so thank you for sharing that I'm not alone in doing it this way and that it does work!
  • Posts: 199 Member
    That's great! I am also counting calories and eating what I like. It's working so far and I do not feel deprived or on a diet. 23 lbs lost so far and feeling great????
  • You know what? This is really, really encouraging, you aren't going "carb free" or "gluten free" like my Doctor told me to do.... Just good old common sense! :) I like it!
  • Posts: 29,136 Member
    this should be required reading for every person on MFP
  • Awesome mate,

    Thats the right way, the only way I look at it is hitting macros and staying within the calorie perimeter...

    Vy
  • Posts: 6 Member
    this is how I have started MFP and have to say its working for me I eat what I fancy, don't feel bad and still loose weight :) its the best 'diet' ever ha ha
  • Posts: 1,195 Member
    this should be required reading for every person on MFP

    Exactly! !! Its the KISS (keep it simple stupid) approach that works. It takes time but it is so worth it. If everyone would just stop searching for the quick fix, they would find success. It has taken me 33 years of low fat, low carb," miracle" (mitral valve regurgitating) pills, grapefruit over consumption BS!!!! Eat, exercise, water!!!! I wish I had learned this in my teens. I could have stopped many years of wrongdoing and wear and tear on my body!!!
  • Posts: 3,556 Member
    Love this post! Congrats on your fantastic results even though I think this diet of yours is just too difficult, it requires common sense and Dr. Oz hasn't promoted it yet so you must just be special!

    Well done keep up the good work!

  • Will raspberry Greek Yogurt do instead? ;-)

    :wink:
  • Posts: 377 Member
    Thanks for the nice comments everyone! I had no idea my post would illicit such positive vibes. I guess common sense is common for most of you! ;-)
  • Posts: 101 Member
    Love your write-up, your positive attitude, your continued enjoyment of food (in controlled portions) and of your enthusiasm for your social life.

    Thanks for the reminder that we can lose weight and still enjoy life.

    By the way, I'm a bit envious of your ability to lose weight so quickly, but CONGRATS!!!:drinker:
  • Posts: 686 Member
    no no no ! i cant dare to believe that losing weight is that...uuuhhhmmmmm......easy???????

    :flowerforyou:

    :laugh:
  • Posts: 440 Member
    Special diet? Where's the Dr Oz link ?!?! :O








    ;) Well done!!
  • Wow!! You are awesome!! Way to Go!!

    Thanks for your post. :)
  • Posts: 1,206 Member
    Your plan sounds reasonable to me. Carry on.
  • Posts: 3,202 Member
    Crap. I prefer blueberry Greek yogurt over raspberry. Guess I'm destined to failure.
  • Posts: 51 Member
    Love it! :smile:
  • Posts: 1,564 Member
    Way to go... Such a inspiration for the rest of us.. Just get up and move...
  • Congrats!!! Your doing great! I'm totally impressed. In all honesty I almost didn't read your post because of the title. When I read it I rolled my eyes and thought....... "yeah right. another spam ad." lol Glad I read it!:bigsmile:
  • Posts: 186 Member
    Nice Job
  • Hecks yeah!!!!!!!!!! Me too
  • Thank you so much for sharing this. It gives me hope that this will work. I've been in the dumps...I have given up and started and and given up and started again..due to being diagnosed with poly cystic ovarian syndrome and endometriosis. It is a battle to lose weight bearing these set backs. A normal person would lose 10 pounds exercising where I am only losing 4. It is harder for me but reading the rewards of sticking to it keeps me motivated. Thanks again for sharing.
  • Posts: 377 Member
    Congrats!!! Your doing great! I'm totally impressed. In all honesty I almost didn't read your post because of the title. When I read it I rolled my eyes and thought....... "yeah right. another spam ad." lol Glad I read it!:bigsmile:

    I'm glad you clicked the post title and read it ;-) Thank you and everyone else for your niceness!
  • Posts: 52 Member
    Congratulations ! Keep up the great work!
  • Posts: 439 Member
    By eating whatever I "choose" to eat, keeping and daily logging EVERYTHING I put in my mouth and getting in some modest to moderate exercise a few times a week, I managed to lose 15 lbs a month from 10/21/13 to 01/21/14.

    MFP set up my daily caloric needs at 2,190 a day at the start for a projected 2 lb per week loss. It's a 2,060 a day now. I went over that number 1 time in the first 90 days.

    I've managed to lose thus far through Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, college football bowl games, birthday parties, New Years and NFL playoff games ;-)

    At times, I've eaten hamburgers, fish & chips, fried chicken, burritos, steak, pasta, cake & chocolate candy. Just not every day, or, in excess.

    I joined a weekly support group and weigh-in for accountability and also receive encouragement here on MFP. I'm reshaping my thinking process from "I can't", to "I can!"

    Frankly, I'm tired of making excuses for being fat...

    This is a process, a balance of my life long one, I understand that. I haven't reached my goal yet, however, I'm on my way!

    Cheers!

    :drinker: My sentiments exactly :wink:
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