10 months & 154 lbs gone

Amazing and congratulations! I can't wait to show this post to my hubby!! You should definitely be proud!!

Congratulations! How did you do it so fast? 15 lbs a month is incredible. You really inspire me.

WOW!! Fantastic!! Way to go!!!

Man, talk about sticking with it and seeing results!
Congratulations! and Great Job!

Thank you for posting the breakdown of your workout

Good Lord - WOW! Fantastic job! Congrats!

You look great!

Ahhhh-freakin-mazing!!!! I love seeing things like this!!! Great job my fellow MFP'eeper!!!

Fantastic, you look fabulous! Congratulations, you are inspiring!

AMAZING!!!!

Amazing! You look great!

Amazing!!! what an inspiration, congrats!!!

Congratulations! Truly commendable! A hundred and fifty four reasons to be very proud! One word of advice/caution... I went through something similar ( lost 100 lbs in 10 months exercising 1 hour/day with a trainer, 6 times/week with a very restrictive diet). However, after 3 years of keeping this up, I had to give up my training and gained back the 45 lbs just as fast as I had lost it. I truly believe that a slow weight loss with an exercise program that you know you will be able to stick to over time is the best way to go. GOOD FOR YOU! KEEP IT UP!

I find this comment interesting.
If I understand you correctly, you lost 100 pounds in 10 months, stayed at that weight for 3 years and then "I had to give up my training and gained back the 45 lbs just as fast as I had lost it."

What 45 pounds are you referring to?

After you stopped training, you calorie demands decreased (assuming all other things were equal). Did you lower your calorie intake when you stopped training?

If you "gained back the 45 lbs just as fast as I had lost it." and you "lost 100 lbs in 10 months", that means you lost and then gained weight at the rate of 100/(10*30)= 0.33 pounds per day. I can imagine that losing weight at the rate of 2 pounds a week was a very pleasant feeling and, as humans we tend to continue to do things that give us pleasure. When you were gaining weight (9s pound a month) were you aware that you were gaining weight? If you were, what did you do to change your dietary habits?

"I truly believe that a slow weight loss with an exercise program that you know you will be able to stick to over time is the best way to go."
Why do you believe that?

Also, what's the "grace period" for a low calorie diet. Three years is a long time. If you gained back your weight after, say, 4 years, would you still feel that the low calorie diet was a factor in your weight gain. What if it were 5 years or perhaps a decade?

One of the reasons that this is of interest is that, like you and the OP, I lost weight on a low calorie diet (95 pounds in 7 months and then I dropped another 7 pounds in 14 days back in Jan 2011) but I didn't hit any of the maladies that I was told I would hit on an LCD. It seems that folks attribute strange powers to a low calorie diet but everything I know about gaining weight tells me that I gained weight because I ate too much food and didn't exercise enough.

What I don't get is, how is it that you gained weight back (unless you just ate too much food)?

Wow good for you!! Best of luck sticking with this.