Been here more than a year? How are you doing?

I have been here for almost a year. I lost 50lbs in the first 4 months. Then I trailed off a bit, gained some back, and am constantly trying to stay motivated for longer then a week. I am like you, I know I can do it, I just need to try harder....

I have been here almost a year. but only logged consistently about half the time. I've lost 26 lbs and feel amazing...my goal is to reach 40lbs lost by June 2012.

10 months here.... So here's a bump

Nov 2010. Lost 40 lb. in six months. Stopped logging in May 2011, and have fluctuated within about 5 lb. since then. Latest cholesterol and glucose are great, I too could lose another 10 lb. but will do that slowly without logging. So, yes you can lose and maintain your loss. I know where I used to get my calories from and what to pay attention to.

I've been at this a long time. I quit smoking, lost 15 pounds and plateaued. Finally, this year, I lost nearly 30 pounds and have kept it off. I only have 10-15 pounds to go and am sort of taking a break from the push towards my goal.. Since Oct 1, I've been eating at maintenance calories and exercising only sporadically. I'll jump back on the wagon come Jan 1 and get the final bit done.

I have been on here almost 2 years. I now fluctuate 5 pounds up and down. I am at my goal weight. I keep loggin to stay on track. I know when I have a bad weekend that I will be up the 5 pounds then I log and am usually back down in a few days.

I will reply since my one year anniversary is knocking on the door. January 11th will make one year for me. Within 9 1/2 months I lost 100 pounds and I am now down 106 pounds. I can say I lost 106 pounds and gained my life back. I still want to lose anywhere from 10 to 25 more pounds. Once the 10 is gone I will reevaluate what I want to do. Here's some pics.

I've been here since September of 2010. I met my goal at the beginning of August 2011 and, four months later, I've shed about another 10 pounds but have been maintaining for the last couple of months.

I didn't really have any setbacks, but I was very consistent, which I think made the biggest difference for me.

Focusing on health first - before the scale or whatever size goal I might have had - made everything much better, because I knew that every day I was getting healthier and more fit, regardless of the scale.

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I've been using MFP to track food and exercise for just over a year. I was on a diet for 7 months and had a great weightloss experience (Yes, I've had a "lifestyle change" and I've "changed my relationship with food" and I was also on a diet.)

I used a diet where I ate 800 to 1k cals/day for about 6 out of 7 days each week. I'd guess that on that other day, I might have eaten as high as 1100 cals. I exercised 3 x per week on an elliptical and twice a week using dumbbells for a while. As a result of my plan, I lost 95 pounds in 7 months.

I started running in June 2011 and upped my cals to about 2200, per MFP's recommendation. Testing revealed my BMR to be 1958 cals instead of 2200. I've been running a fair amount since then (I've had two injuries but I've averaged about 65 miles per month).

There were times when I was losing weight when I disliked food. I saw is as something that had hurt me. Since going into maintenance, I've had problems eating enough. At first, it was because I'd spent 7 months eating almost nothing so I suspect that I simply developed the habit of not eating much. After a while I realized that I had fundamentally changed how I think about food. I see it primarily as fuel for my body and I'm not that good at refueling!

My son is tall and slender (6' 6" and about 195). He's been clinically depressed since the age of 8 and had a very difficult time eating for all of his life. At one time, I tried to pay him to eat. When he and I were talking about "things" yesterday, I told him how hard it was for me to eat and he laughed at me and he used my words against me — "You may not want to eat but you have to feed your body." Smart *kitten* kid! :-) What he and I agreed was that we feel hunger but we just don't care enough about food to eat something.

The bottom line for me is that I'm very pleased with the results of my diet and I'm very fit (per my bloodwork, physicals, stress EKG, V02 testing, running, etc). I was overweight for about a decade and very heavy for three years. As a result of my diet, my weight is back to where I was in the late 1980's and my attitude about food is what I think it was back then — yes, I like food but it's just a means to an end and if I feel hungry and don't have time to eat, that's fine.