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I have achieved the thigh gap of legend... never thought I'd be here! (Especially at over 200#!)

For me success comes with a high-protein, high fiber diet; at my height, gender and age I was told I could have a max of 120 g protein per day, so I go with 100-120 grams and rarely miss it. For me, that means eating 4-5 meals per day and that works out because I LOVE to eat and would graze continually if I didn't have a…

I seem to cycle between sticking to my calorie goal for weight loss and getting so hungry some days that I blow it out of the water, and I haven't lost any weight in a couple of months. Do you have any suggestions on what to do when I get really hungry to keep me from stuffing myself way beyond what I need to eat? Would…

I can now reach both feet to put on my socks and shoes without having to use a sock helper and an 18" shoehorn!

I am exactly there. I am down to about 230# for the first time in 30+ years, and every time someone asks me what I weigh now (supportive friends as well as medical personnel) I start the number with a 3, as in 330#. It's just the place I was in for so long, and I haven't adjusted to the current reality. And I still have a…

When I spend too much time looking at how flabby I am getting as I shrink inside my stretched -out skin I love this picture to remind me it isn't all about the calories.

Had to buy new clothes since the ones I had were falling off my waist and my shoulders. Bought only a minimum since I hope this size is just a phase I'm passing through on the way to my ultimate weight goal of having a healthy BMI (I'm assuming that scale will still be accurate for me.)

I see you have some gym equipment in what looks like your garage. Do you have a recommendation for the single most useful piece or set of equipment for weight LOSS? Even better, do you have a specific suggestion for equipment or a website, book, blog, Pinterest, whatever to guide me in doing bodyweight exercises? My…

Great job! I am 56 and have lost 208 lb (just under 15 stone) but not half my highest weight quite yet - and I will still be obese when I get there. SO GLAD to not be totally dependent on mail-order stores anymore!

My current mini-goal is to get below 240#, at which point I will be lighter than a guy I'm dating now at 55, who I also dated in my twenties, has ever, EVER seen me! That is 4.3# away. Then I have a chair with a claimed weight limit of 225#, so that's next, then when I hit 219# I will be literally HALF the woman I once…

This morning I put on a pair of size 32W jeans I haven't worn since some time before fall of 1995 (when I wore a 34W but kept going up from there, all the way to a 44W)- and now, in 2021, they're LOOSE! Also, I've been working outdoors daily for the past 5 days or so -- totally unexpected, I'm surprising my neighbors,…

This is not me, but I love it as an incentive to work out! It won't help with your skin, but it will help shape your body into something even more amazing!

Just for today, I will start walking again. I have lost enough weight to have my hip and knee replacement surgeries, yes all four joints need to be replaced, and the stronger my legs are beforehand the easier my recoveries will be. I need to start exercising (walking, so far) again, so just for today, I will, even if for…

What an awesome job! I am guessing you are about 5'10", my height, because you've got my numbers! I weighed in at 318.8 this morning (my all-time high was 438), and 165 would put me at a BMI of 23.7, which is also where I was when I graduated high school. I am hoping to have a VGS in the next month or two, which MY…

To NewLIFEstyle4ME: If I were to live each day as if it were my last, the body count would be STAGGERING!

* Freshly picked corn on the cob, dripping butter * BLT's with perfectly ripe tomatoes, no lettuce(it's just crunchy water; why dilute the flavor?) Needless to say neither of these foods will make it onto my summer menu this year! :s

900 calories is not sufficient to sustain health in a woman our size. (I am 5'10" too). Your weight goal is healthy, but I think your body has gone into calorie-conserving starvation mode. Try INcreasing your calories to 1200/day (I would suggest 1500/day) to see if you start losing weight that way. Your eating looks very…

For yesterday and today the song I've had stuck in my head has been "Eleanor Rigby" by the Beatles, because I was thinking about a movie and a primary character's name matched the cadence of the name in the song. So I've been singing "Hannibal Lecter, wearing a face that he keeps in a jar by the door - whose was it…

Personally at 1,800 cal/day I am losing about 2.5 lbs/wk steadily - but I also am 5' 10.5" and weigh well over 300#. I even allow myself a cheat day once a week and have still lost 45# in 18 weeks and 2 days. Don't hate, people - even having lost that 45 lbs I'm still 339 lbs. My current goal is 267 lbs to get to a BMI of…

I adapt the method J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (from Cooks Illustrated and now Serious Eats website) prescribes: boil water, then put eggs cold from the fridge into the water - gently! Reduce the water to a high simmer (it bubbles but the bubbles don't break the surface, even though they may move it) and for hard-cooked leave for…

That's because Canadians are known throughout the universe as being very nice people!

My current mini-goal is simply to stick to my plan for the first month or so, so that I've got a motivating history of progress to work from.

I think fatorexia is nonsense. I did do exactly this: after losing 90 pounds in about a year I felt much thinner and more attractive - but I knew I still weighed 290 pounds, so that kept the fantasy in a convenient box for storage and occasional use when I needed the boost.

I took a break to try to maintain after having lost 90 pounds and then regaining 10. It was not good for me because once I lost the impetus to lose (which is what prompted the break) I started eating again the way I used to and regained another 63 pounds over about 8 months. HOWEVER, I recently read an article that…

Talk to your doctor - he or she will be able to give you an intake appropriate to your current weight or activity level. Another way to determine your best calorie intake is to use tools available on this website or elsewhere on the Internet, to determine your BMI and then your BMR. You should not go below your BMR - that…

Mochicakes92, he IS being a control freak, and he is not trying to help you or he'd find a gentler and more realistic way to go about it. If he does have a food-related disorder he may be displacing his own food issues onto you; regardless, his attempts at controlling what you eat are all about HIS issues, whatever they…

@LAMCDylan, you overlooked the main issue regarding her choosing to leave him. Your post sounds like you think her problem is emotional dependence on him. Her dependence on him is FINANCIAL. If she were to leave him now, she wouldn't be worried about being alone because she'd be too busy worrying about the issues that come…

I went through the same thing for the past week or so and regained four pounds. I am thinking about coming up with a different name and restarting here, so that I don't have to think about that setback (failure, to me) anymore. And hey, I'd be starting from a much better place than I did 6 months ago! I do agree with…