Goal Reached! 135 lbs down--please be encouraged if you have 100+ to lose!
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Any particular way of eating? Low-carb, clean-eating, vegetarian etc. or just counting calories? A lot of PCOS patients have success with low carb. I was wondering what worked for you. You look great!!0
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Any particular way of eating? Low-carb, clean-eating, vegetarian etc. or just counting calories? A lot of PCOS patients have success with low carb. I was wondering what worked for you. You look great!!
I did low carb (25g/day) for the first 30 lbs--no counting calories, no exercise--lost about 2 lbs/week. That worked really well till it didn't anymore. Then I started working on low carb and portion control and lost about another 25 lbs. Then came my 7 months of nothing happening. I found MFP, learned the importance of counting calories, and got going again. I also learned from people here, how important strength training was for helping insulin resistance--I took it to heart and have been lifting ever since! I pretty much maintained 2 lbs/week, up until the last 5 which were slower...5 -
Thanks so much everybody for the kind words. Probably my biggest (unspoken) goal, if I'm honest, for weight loss was to just feel normal again. To feel like a regular person. I know being overweight doesn't make me less of a person, but being 'different' in that way is always hanging there, every time I walk into a room and am the biggest person there. I NEVER anticipated what a psychological thing losing weight would be. But this MFP community, where like-minded strangers encourage you on, is just amazing.12
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What an inspiration! Thank you for sharing and giving us all hope and a vision!1
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You look SO healthy and SO happy...and if I may say, much younger!!! Way to go and good job sticking to your goals! I can't wait to post my "after" pictures1
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Definitely - cheers to you! Talk about commitment. And congrats on your 5K1
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Congrats on your major life transformation. Thank you for sharing that it is possilbe to get it done and you are living proof.
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Holy ! Well done1
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I gotta say you are just INCREDIBLE! Thank you for sharing your realistic, awesome story and pics! You will truly inspire others! Wonderful!!!!!! And thanks for giving me hope!1
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Wow! Congratulations. You look amazing and I'll bet you feel great.1
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Congrats on this wonderful transformation. I love seeing stories and pics like this.1
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That is wonderful. Very happy for your success!
I've lost almost 100 myself and have 60 more to go.2 -
So inspiring! Amazing work!!1
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How amazing! You are truly an inspiration. Congratulations!1
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Wow congratulations, and thank you for sharing! You look incredible!1
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WOW! you look great!! What an inspiration!!1
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Amazing and so inspiring! I'm 53 myself - 54 in 3 months - and started losing in March at 305. Sadly, this is my second go-around. I lost 100 lbs back in about 2008 but gained most of it back. Unlike you, I've never been a normal weight - so I just have to imagine what that would be like. Like you I'm larger framed too.
You mention your blood sugar a time or two. Was it high before you lost weight?
All in all, amazing. You deserve to be SO proud!1 -
Well done. I know first hand the hard work and dedication it takes to lose even a few pounds let alone over 100 lbs. I'm sure you are proud and you should be! Congratulations on meeting your goal.!1
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LadyLilion wrote: »
You mention your blood sugar a time or two. Was it high before you lost weight?
I wasn't diabetic, but insulin resistant and considered pre-diabetic. I was told years ago that I had a 50% chance of becoming diabetic. (I'm now considered at no risk for it.) My sugar never got really high--maybe 165 (normal is 80-120) was the most I had ever measured it. But I bombed the 5-hour glucose tolerance test. It spiked to about 160ish, then plummeted to under 40. The nurses had to feed me at that point so I wouldn't go into a coma, thus invalidating the rest of the test. So not so much high sugar as very insulin resistant--when it finally kicks in, it REALLY kicks in, sending it way low. My A1C has always been high normal (5.9). Last time I was tested, it was at a good 5.4. I take Metformin to help regulate sugar/insulin and will be discussing with my doctor this week if I can lower it.
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Wow, Wow and WOW!1
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