shadowconn Member

I don't eat Nabisco products anymore since they outsourced to Mexico.

Just take it one day at a time. Like everyone else has said. There are several on here that started between 450 and 550 pounds, and they did it. It was a long journey, but they were successful and you can be too.

I had to lose about 40 pounds before *I* saw a difference. My family could see it before I could. But generally speaking, I need to be smaller before small amounts make a big difference.

I lost somewhere between 10 and 12 pounds the first few days and 20 in the first month. Most of that was probably excess water. I've lost a total of 50 pounds in the last 160 days

You can't change anyone. as others have said. I also have a fat family. What they do is what they do. What I do is what I do. It is none of my business how they eat. Am I concerned that they are all between 250 - 350 pounds? Sure. But it's none of my business.

MPF has a thing you can use to figure it out, but their estimate is usually really low. Whatever it says, you could easily add 200-300 more calories and still lose weight.

and like some of these other posters. I don't like health food. I won't eat it. I won't stick to an exercise regimen. I know myself. I won't do those things. So I had to make my existing diet work.

Portion control. That's is. No eating clean. No exercising. I work a desk job. It was literally calorie counting, portion control and finding a daily calorie intake I could live with. I currently range between 1700 and 1900 calories a day. I've lost 50 pounds in 5.5 months. NOW . . . I did start this process with a juice…

THe big fat pic is me at 225. The one next to it is about 200. The one in the grey shirt is 180ish. I am currently 175. 49 pounds down with an end goal of 145-150. It has taken me 160 days so far. And yes, that sucks major monkey butt. But I figure at my current rate, I'll be done by March. Yeah . .6-7-8 months to lose…

You've lost half your chest and hips.

It may have been a rerun, but I did see it cause the other lady lost quite a bit too, but she didn't look nearly as finished. AH . . Mennonite! I can never remember that one! I knew it wasn't Amish. Good luck on your future health journeys

LOL . . I saw that episode. Amazing since I watch TV so rarely. Like once a month if that. But I could have sworn that before pic looks like a religion that bans electronics.

I have to. I have no idea how much I am eating otherwise. Like today's lunch. I had a slice of pizza and a connomon roll - both homemade from scratch. In the creation of these items, I was highly aware that if I put too many toppings and cheese on the pizza, it'll be 500 cals a slice. So I limited what I put on them. Each…

An antacid stopped mine - if you can believe that. But the biggest thing that helped me was eliminating 90% of my stress.

Just figured I'd put the counts in for what I recommended. The meal plans I put up are 1161 cals per day, 75 carbs and 56 fat.

That is a low carb diet. I don't recommend it unless you have a health reason for doing so. But that diet looks like this. Breakfast 2-3 scrambled eggs with 1 tablespoon of butter 1 2 ounce sausage patty Lunch 4-5 ounces of lean mean 2 cups of broccoli or green beans (That's it. That's your vegetable choices other than…

Scrambled eggs and toast or scrambled eggs and sausage and toast. or a scone or a cinnamon roll My breakfast are high cal though. Usually 500 - 700 So if you are on a really low calorie diet, my breakfasts won't work.

My sister succeeded at this. She was a fat baby, fat child, fat teenager. Somewhere in high school, she got sick of it and started running cross country and doing other things. It took her about 10 years to get the body she wanted. She is still constantly tweaking it, and it's been prolly 15 years since she started. I…

I only count calories. I do not exercise. I may eventually exercise, but I'll need to be very close to my goal weight before I even attempt it. Exercise does terrible things to my appetite. If I burn 600, I'll eat 1200 or worse, and I end up fat/fit. Now, if I lose it all THEN exercise. Not so bad cause I'm already skinny.

Mine was snack cakes and diet coke. Since I can't eat just one snack cake, I don't buy them at all. Instead, if I want a dessert, I have to make it from scratch. The diet coke I still drink, but I only buy X amount at a time, and I don't run out and buy more as soon as I run out of it at home. Instead, I wait until I go to…

I am 5'9", small frame - and I can be anywhere from 135 - 150, depending on how much muscle I have. Someone taller would probably want to weight more to avoid looking like a skeleton.

I would say do a water flush. The majority of that is probably salt intake. So I would handle this by drinking water and coffee only for a couple days while logging everything in detail. What you do down to in 48 hours will tell you what was water weight. What's left is weight gain.

Top pic is 180. The doublesided pic is 225 and 200 I am 5'9 and am currently 178. end goal is 145-150

That is horrible. WHile I do not have a chronic pain condition, I don't exercise for other reasons. I can tell you that just with portion control, I"ve lost 46 pounds in the last 150ish days. So it is possible to just lose weight with diet. It's just slow . . sooooo sllooowwww

Depends on what you've got. I've got IBS and lactose intolerance and I manage them by keeping my stress very very very low and eating almost no dairy. On bad days, me and the Imodium get up close and friendly, but that may happen once a month, every 2 months now. Ever since I started working from home and not eating dairy,…

lol . .this is too funny. Reminds me of high school. We got a new teacher one year and she had some ripped abs. I am sure she spent hours and hours at the gym. But . . . being students, we used to joke that she had lots of sex and did crunches while doing the deed.

Liquid diet. That would be the only chance in bleep you'd have. Oh and you're gonna starve. There's no way around that. You can, however, fake the look. If you truly only have 15 pounds to lose, you can buy full body nude spanx and pair it with a corset. Lace it tight. And buy a new outfit that looks good with all the…

Could you be putting muscle on as fast as you are losing the weight or perhaps eating too much salt? I just changed my calorie goal to 1403 because that is what my maintenance will be once I reach 145 pounds. That assumes I remain mostly sedentary. I am 5'9". Right now, my maintenance is 1600ish... at 202. It almost sounds…

I used to bake bread. One time I took all the ingredient calories and divided them by slices. It wasn't 100 per slice, it was like 300-400. Unless you are able to slice that stuff really really thin, you might be eating way more than you think. the commercial stuff is fluffier and has more holes. Homebread tends to be…

Rest, Ice and heat. If it isn't better in a couple days, go to a doctor. And Honestly, you should probably just go get it checked out. I don't know that I would screw around with bad neck pain for too long.