JennifrClaire Member

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Wow!

Congratulations!

That's really amazing. Even if it had taken you twice as long, it would be a great achievement. A round of well deserved applause from here.

I set out to lose 100 and got stuck just past the halfway point. Trying intermittent fasting now, together with the low carb, and MFP. Every additional tool helps.

There's a Facebook page for families of hoarders that's very helpful. Everyone there understands.

That's fantastic!

This is my first week on intermittent fasting. It has combined very well with my low carb diet. I'm really happy with it.

"Victory" might be too strong a word but I've completed my first week of 14:10 intermittent fasting. For a woman who - prior to LCD -couldn't go 4 hours without snacking, that feels like a victory.

Cheering from the cheap seats at the back ! Those first steps are the hardest.

I love the way people on MFP are so helpful and supportive. The rest of the internet should take lessons.

That's a more extreme version of my own experience. Super low-calorie eating, to get past a plateau, after losing most of the weight I wanted too lose, didn't work at all. I had already read, countless times from countless sources, that it wouldn't. I thought it had to work: 800 - 900 calories a day, with at least 800-900…

Congratulations, well done. Its a very significant milestone!

I've only recently picked up the water drinking habit but it seems second nature already. I keep water bottles, and refill it, every time I finish it. And I have them stashed every where - office, car, house, even the green house.

Yes, same as before: I keep to my 1200 and don't eat back my excerise calories. I don't really have a problem doing that, since going low carb. I'm pretty strict these days, but not keto. Also, I use the CBT for keen eaters. This all used to work quite well, apart from the occasional blip. It all sorted of came unravelled…

Hi, tagging on quite late, here, but I only just saw this. I have lipoedma, too: Id never heard of it and when I did, I emailed a Lipoedma association for their information pack, took to the doctor, who hadn't heard of it before, she sent me to a physiotherapist for diagnosis, and I can say that -although it's traumatic to…

Thanks everyone for your insight. I think it may be the lipoedma rather than the thyroid, as we've had a week of very warm weather and this apparently, is a trigger for lipoedma weight gain. I'm back in my compression tights, drinking twice the usual amount of water, etc. I have my thyroid tests done every few months and…

Thanks for replying. I supposed it could be a thyroid thing, not a low carb thing. Hadn't really considered that.

I have find the last 1/4 of this journey to be the hardest, by far, but the upside is, because every pound off now is a bigger percentage of my total weight than before, I feel like it's mitre noticeable. So where five pounds off, at the start, wasn't visible to the naked eye, it makes a big difference now, too how my…

Hi, I've lost 45 pounds since joining MFP, but 70 pounds from my starting weight, a few years ago. Its do-able, even though it seemed impossible at the start. I still have 30 pounds to go.

"Be patient. You didn't gain it in a month, you won't lose out in a month, either" I can't believe I needed to be told this, but I did, and it's just common sense. Patience is a big part of the whole thing.

"Wow you look great, how'd you do it?" "No junk food, no alcohol, exercise at least an hour a day." Aaaaaand...they're gone.

I'm 52. I've lost 50 pounds, though I periodically put 4 or 5 back on, (like now), I'm still trying to lose 30 more.

I have a pair of Calvin Klein jeans in a size ten that I keep only because they were my goal, and then I got into them and wore them, and felt like "Look at me, I can do anything!" They're nothing special to look at, high waisted, straight leg, medium blue, jeans without lycra.

Wow, that is almost exactly my numbers. You look great. You must be quite tall. I was 174 and plateaued for a long time, then since late 2016, regained 12 pounds, so I'm back to 186 now. I'm doing low carb. I started to slip up badly for a few months just after my father died, but I'm back on the no sugar wagon now. I…

Have been experimenting with these all week. I think ground almond meal works well, and it is readily available, round our way, in any Lidl. Other than that it's just a typical pancake recipe, but no ordinary flour, and no sugar. I added desicated coconut just because I had it in the cupboard, and I like it, but I don't…

Lost 4 stone, so yes, some loose skin -I'm 51 - but its not obvious, especially when fully clothed, and its still way better than the weight. It's a bit like after having a baby, really. You can't erase it, but it's not like evidence you committed a crime, is it? We were just fat, not evil.

Hi! I'm in the upper limits of 'middle' age- for 51 to be the middle, I'd have to live to be 102- but I'd like to join your thread. I suspect that slimming is slightly different for us than for those in their teens/early twenties. I'm low-carbing the past 18 months but not no-carbing. I've lost 4 stone though slipped up…

Just an update to tell you what you already know : cold turkey seems to work well. Two weeks later, and I'm still on the straight and narrow, even surrounded by all my favourite Christmas carbs. Gradual withdrawal, after a bad few weeks, may work for some people, but definitely not me. I'd say to anyone still struggling,…

Ok thanks. Its the truth. I really had to go cold turkey. Yesterday was my first sugar free day in weeks. I stopped eating sugar years ago. before I even went low carb, but its like smoking. I'm so crazy addicted, I am back on it in the second I let my guard down. I've even put back on a couple pounds now. Dark chocolate…