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Just had my baby in September, and I gained way too much with my pregnancy. The big goal is to get back to a healthy BMI, which for me is 160. Weighed in this morning at 205.4. Current goal is a pound a week through the holidays, then I'll kick it up a bit if I can. (26 years old, 5' 7")

Let me start out by saying everyone's before and afters are stunning! I wish I had taken true befores, but I had to search since I have been dodging the camera for quite some time! I started my weight loss in Jan. at a BMI of 35.4(weighing 226.2 at 5'7"). My goal was to be healthy by BMI standards by my 25th…

My family is my biggest motivation. well, my future family that is. My husband and I want to have a child but are worried my weight will be a problem. So I am losing for a the goal of a healthy pregnancy. After that my motivation will be to be a healthy role model for my family. The long term goal is to be able to be…

I have lost 43.4 lbs since mid january (137 days with MFP, 4 1/2 months roughly) 22.8 Until my goal weight(the top bracket for a healthy BMI for my height(5'7"). Once I reach that goal I will reasses If I need to go further.) I started out with a calorie goal of 1540, but have since dropped to 1340. In the first few months…

Like many have said already, if its not too much I Keep going and later take a soak. But If it bothers me as I'm doing my daily things I rub a bit of tiger balm on it. my husband hates how it smells, but I love how it feels(plus I happen to like how cloves smell, so I'm happy with that.) I started using tiger balm back…

I have been using MFP since January this year. For exercise i have been playing the Just Dance games on the Wii U. I have both 2014 and 2015, but prefer 2014 for the sweat variations of different songs. I do the 40 minute just sweat routine, but they also have 10, 20 and freestyle settings. On average the game says I burn…

I'm not even in the healthy BMI for my height yet and have already been told by a coworker, "Haven't you lost enough yet? You should stop now." I explained I am still 24 lbs away from the top of my healthy BMI range, and that while I have lost more than half what I have aimed for, I still need to continue this for myself.…

I have felt that way for a long time, But looking through pictures of my childhood I noticed out of literally thousands of photos, my mom was only in a very small handful. Like I think I found 3. When I asked her about it she said the same thing, "I don't like how I look." This made me reflect on myself in the more recent…

I thought my snoring was a sinus problem, and here I am 40 lbs later and my husband doesn't have to wake me up or roll me over to stop my snoring. As a result of that I now get better sleep and feel more energetic throughout the day. I also feel better about myself in the way that I can now wear clothes that I havn't been…

I love that post right there because it echoes my mantra, "What do I want more, this food now, or my health later?" When I'm feeling stressed I have various fall backs, and they don't always work 100%, but they help me. I will call my mom or a friend and vent. Sometimes I need a moment so I will put on music with lyrics…

In love how you included your Bible! Sometimes I get caught up in what I'm doing and forget to give the glory to God and be thankful for what He has helped me accomplish. Thank you for the little reminder, and may He be with us for the rest of our journeys!

I wish I had started in the high end of healthy, instead I waited until I floated all the way up to obese before I faced reality and decided this was a problem. Now I have worked myself into the high end of overweight, my goal being the high end of healthy. Once I get there my plan is to re-evaluate to see if I should lose…

New foods that I would have passed on before for a much less healthy option; The new willpower I have have to say no to things I know are bad, and the knowledge of portions.

The struggle is real! I have a very supportive husband and mother, but my friends are always trying to get me to 'live a little' and 'have fun'. I tell them I am living and having fun, I'm just making healthier choices for my health and ask that they respect it. I have only been at this for 91 days, so your dedication of…

The biggest problem I had when I started was at the end of the day I would look at my diary and go, "wow! I have all these calories I can still use!". Then I would proceed to eat a bigger dinner or have extra snacks. Since then I have learned to shift the majority of my calories to the beginning of the day and try not to…

Hi! 24 going on 25 years old. 5'7", sw:226.4 cw:200 gwe:160(once I get into that healthy BMI i will *kitten* what more I need/want) I live in Nc with my husband and our one cat and hope to expand our family in the next few years; that is my biggest goal in being healthy.

When you figure out how to get out of the rut tell me! I told myself If I lost x amount before my friends wedding I would buy a new dress to wear to it.Here I am now, I have loss that plus some, and still resisting buying anything new because I plan to keep losing! At some point I will just have to do it.

my mouth- It keeps eating even after it promises 'this is the last bite!'

I feel I have to contradict and say that I felt it was important to let them know I am working to improve myself. I didn't just come out and announce it the moment I decided to become serious about weight loss. First I told them I was giving up soda as a way to be healthy. They still offer it to me but have been respectful…

Yes! My husband and I have been together for five full years and are part way through year six together. Before we were married we talked about our future wants to make sure we both wanted the same thing, and we did. We wanted to get a house, make it ours and travel before having children. Now here we are years later,…

I weigh daily and record it in an excel spreadsheet. This way even if I chose poorly the day before, I can look at my line graph and see that I am still losing overall and what I need to do to get back down again. 25 pounds gone and 41 to go! Those last two spikes was the day out with my friends and the night I caved and…

I have a similar problem with some of my best friends, If I spend the day with them I feel like we do nothing but eat all day! I tried sharing with them what I am trying to do and why it is important to me, but that backfired, they feel like they have accomplished something if they can get me to make bad food choices and…

I'm here because at the beginning of the year my husband and I were talking about what we wanted to accomplish this year. Somewhere in that conversation we decided this would be the year we would take that big step in expanding our family by having a baby. I was so excited at first, but was suddenly saddened when he…

I too was curious on how accurate that little boost of motivation was. I have tracked my weight regularly in excel since I started MFP and decided to test it. I added a note of the projected weight so I could compare it. I wont have results until March 14, but If I stay at my average of 2+ pounds loss a week I think I…

I'm 24, 5'7", and started at 226 lbs. Right now my target goal is to be 160 by September (I know its after swim suit season by then, but I am trying to be realistic about my expectations and have a different goal in mind.) I figure once I get to the top of the healthy BMI range I can *kitten* whether I need to keep going…

I also went cold turkey, just because I knew from the past I would make up excuses to have one or two when I probably shouldn't have. I gave up pop the same day I started using MFP, so that is 39 days 'soda sober'.