Nearly 50 pounds before I turn 50 with pictures

you have accomplished so much....congrats to you....you look great!!!
one question....how many calories were you eating in the beginning, middle & now??
you said you DID eat back all your exercise calories??

Thanks for sharing :flowerforyou:

I was set to 2lbs a week loss, which put me at 1200 calories. Later when the weight really slowed up I changed it to 1 and then 1/2 lb loss a week. I stalled in losing and decided even if I only lose 1/2 lb a week it was still more than I was doing at the time. This puts me at 1450 calories a day before exercise right now. The smaller you get the smaller the calories! And older makes me have less! Slow and steady, because you only fail when you quit. Just never quit. The wagon keeps moving, get back on every single time! I always eat back my exercise calories. Thats also my incentive to exercise. Other than now it's a habit that I feel funny about if I don't do it. I once looked up my maintence and it's not much over 2000 a day. So I'd better find a way to eat lots, be satisfied, and exercise!

Being short the weight loss shows quicker, as does any gain. And the more I lost closer to my goal, the slower the loss was. But that "records" and check in kept me at it. The slope on the graph was the same all along, just evening out a little more after the halfway point. Stalls, then dips, then stalls again. It was better than my imagination that told me it had been ages since I lost, when it was really only a week or 2. Like a roll of paper towels if you take off one and it's full you hardly notice it, but once it gets closer to the end of the roll one sheet will look like a lot more of that roll! So even though it's slower, I was toning and looking much better.

And the best part of all of it?

No more batman shirt.

Or that might be the worst part, I'm not actually sure.

I love you and I'm proud of you mom. You set a great example.

Look! That makes it pretty damn worthwhile right there From the girl I admire most in the world..