Texas Teacher, 45 lbs in 3 months
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This is my second update. Pics on the left were taken April 9th at 235 lbs. Pics on the right were taken July 10th at 192 lbs.
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This is my second update. Pics on the left were taken April 9th at 235 lbs. Pics on the right were taken July 10th at 192 lbs.
your doing fantastic congrats0 -
Looking good, how are you doing it??0
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SO GREAT! Congrats girl! You deserve it!0
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Awesome work! You can definitely see a difference. Keep up the good work!0
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yea!!! Way to go!!!! Very inspiring!0
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You look like you are doing excellent! Did you go below your sug. calories. Tell me what you are doing!0
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You can really tell the difference! Great job:flowerforyou:0
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Please share your success tips for your weight loss. I too am a teacher and spending 5 to 6 days exercising. I have also kept my calories below 1300. Can't wait for your response.0
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That is great!! Congrats on your progress in the last few months!!0
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I 2nd ctroni.....:)0
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From one Texas girl to another
You look awesome! Keep up the
great work!(:0 -
Great progress!0
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Excellent job! Keep up the great work! I am a teacher also--not in Texas though! :-)0
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You have done great!!! I never thought about taking a pic before I started the weight loss journey. You're pics makes me realize I needed to! It is so incredible!!
Let's be friends!!0 -
Hi everyone,
Thanks for the nice words! To answer the question "What am I doing?", I don't entirely know where to start, because I literally did a lifestyle overhaul. I ate tons of fast food before and did not exercise at all (not even 1x a week). When I started my diet on April 9th, these are the changes I made:
- No soda at all (diet or otherwise)
- 8-10 glasses of water a day
- No fast food (I did eat a Wendy's grilled chicken sandwich in a moment of desperation on a roadtrip and I didn't die so....)
- No fried foods
- VERY few restaurant trips (It is too difficult to eat healthy in a restaurant, and it's easier to just cook for myself!)
- Running, walking, or doing the Insanity DVD 3-4x a week
- No white bread, potatoes only once a month, no cereal or sugary carbs
- No baking (cookies, cakes, etc.) I was a huge baker before
It has not been easy. I hate when people say that!!! It has been SO SO hard! But my body has picked up on that this is my "new normal" and now I can't eat as much as I used to, and I do not crave the same food like I used to. So what do I eat? A typical day looks like this:
- Special K cereal bar for breakfast, plus skim milk with Low Sugar Choc. Milk Mix
- Turkey Sandwich on "light" wheat bread with 1 tbsp. mayo
- Dinner is usually a light version of something I used to cook (like Spaghetti with Turkey meatballs instead of ground beef, and Ronzoni Smart Taste pasta)
My intermittent goal is to get to 180 which is the lowest weight I can remember weighing as an adult. Long term I'd like to be sitting at about 170. I am 5'8" for reference, and at 192 lbs I wear a size 12 in jeans and dresses.0 -
Great job!!0
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Whoops! Forgot to say that I consistently eat less than 1200 calories a day (1200 is what MFP "gave" me). My body has not gone into starvation mode, and I am not hungry. I am averaging probably 900 cals/day.0
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you look awesome! keep up the great work!0
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Whoops! Forgot to say that I consistently eat less than 1200 calories a day (1200 is what MFP "gave" me). My body has not gone into starvation mode, and I am not hungry. I am averaging probably 900 cals/day.0
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Whoops! Forgot to say that I consistently eat less than 1200 calories a day (1200 is what MFP "gave" me). My body has not gone into starvation mode, and I am not hungry. I am averaging probably 900 cals/day.
900 plus exercise....so u don't eat back exercise calories?0
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