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  • Welcome! My mom was born there, small world!
  • The great news is that you're breastfeeding, so you do have some leeway with calories and would have to eat quite a bit over a long period of time to see a serious gain. Logic tells me that you know that, but I do understand your fears. My highest weight was 215-220 pounds post-pregnancy, and I maintained or lost and…
  • Your body is responding to the increased calorie demands of breastfeeding by telling you to eat more. I don't recommend trying to cut your calories below maintenance for your current weight if your goal is to continue losing, and if your goal is the maintain your current weight then you should be eating back the calories…
  • Congratulations on your baby! First, I can't stress enough how important it is to please be gentle with yourself. You recently had a baby and are breastfeeding, and that really does change everything. You seem to be putting a lot of pressure on yourself and that may not be compatible with the new pace your life is at now.…
  • Pot roast in the slow cooker, mashed potatoes, and a salad.
  • Hi everyone! I'm taking a diet break for a bit and working on recomp. I have another 6-7 pounds I'd like to lose eventually but I would like to work on putting on some more muscle and I'm enjoying better workouts with more food. I'm currently maintaining in the 126-127 pound range which has been pretty easy so far. I'm…
  • This is not how MFP works. MFP uses the NEAT method, which means you're supposed to log your exercise and eat back what you burn from it. If you select weightloss as your goal when setting up your profile, then the deficit necessary to lose weight is already built into your calorie goal and that excludes any extra calories…
  • You say you started two months ago but recommitted two weeks ago? So how long have you actually been consistently and accurately tracking everything? Two weeks? You also say you amped up your workouts. That can cause temporary water retention and mask fat loss from showing up on the scale. Have more patience and keep…
  • Greek yogurt, high protein granola, and frozen fruit of some kind.
  • A reminder that there is no better time to start lifting weights than right now! I'm down almost 70lbs. and hanging out at 126lbs. at 5'1" and moving into a size 2. A well-designed strength program has improved my body composition so much as I've lost weight. It has given me so many new goals to work toward beyond weight…
  • They will still be there, but the color will lighten. The skin is stretched and thin where the stretch mark is and the skin can't repair itself there because the collagen is broken down, so the texture will remain but they will become less noticeable as they lighten over time.
  • I've found that everybody always wants to know what you're doing to lose weight, but not because they might actually take what you're doing into consideration or are generally interested in hearing about your success. It's because they either want to point out how that could never work for them, or it's to shoot down…
  • Come up with a plan that you can see yourself doing for as long as it takes. If you failed in the past, then think about what you were doing and why it wasn't sustainable. What can you do differently this time around? Even at two pounds a week, you can't expect to lose weight every week because weight loss isn't linear.…
  • I was pretty much exactly like @apullum. Years ago I tried another weight loss site and it didn't have nearly as many tracking tools as MFP. I was totally in the dark other than having a calorie goal (which I was in denial about because I didn't want to eat less) so I didn't know anything about macros or weighing food.…
  • I base my goal weight on the middle of a healthy BMI range. I was overweight when I graduated high school so I've never had a period of adulthood that I could use to help establish a goal. I'm 5'1" and planning to settle around 120lbs while continuing with strength training. I believe if I hadn't started strength training…
  • I've lost almost 70 pounds in the last 16 months while breastfeeding. I've been as consistent and accurate as possible with logging my food so that helps. I use a food scale for solids and measuring cups for liquids. Breastfeeding hasn't been an issue at all, besides having to manually increase my calories to account for…
  • 6 pounds away from a 100 pound difference between these two photos. I can't believe it.
  • I have pretty severe diastasis after five pregnancies. A few of those babies were huge so that didn't help. During my last pregnancy (also biggest baby) I suffered from something called "pendulous uterus". My abdominal muscles completely gave out and could no longer support the weight of my uterus by the end, which caused…
  • I don't have very many photos of me at my heaviest but I was probably 170-180 on the right vs. 126 on the left. I'm 5'1". People tried to convince me I looked slim and had a great figure, probably to make me feel good or make themselves feel better. I believed that at the time but I've accepted reality now.
  • I agree with this. I've had overweight friends refer to anything in the "normal" weight category as alien or skeletal and how they would look horrible at a normal weight. I asked if I look alien or skeletal to them and they shut up because apparently I'm "different". No, it's just not as drastic as most people think to be…
  • For the last year I've done my workouts at lunch time. I'm currently doing a full-body strength program (Strong by Bret) three days a week. In the past I worked out later in the evenings but this feels way more efficient to me because I have more energy and then I have the whole evening to get other things done.
  • I keep a running list of things I've heard from my local ladies networking group: - You must go keto, vegan, *insert fad diet*, in order to lose weight. - You must cut out all yellow, white, brown, or orange foods to lose weight. - You must eliminate all sugar and white carbs. - Certain foods, like watermelon, will boost…
  • I haven't seen it before but I will check it out! Thank you!
  • I haven't had a c-section, but I do have the belly "dog jowls" after five pregnancies. It has significantly improved over time and the flaps of skin have become thinner from weight loss. What my future stomach would look like after all my pregnancies was one of the first things I wondered about when I first started losing…
  • I haven't seen any messages from you, maybe we have to be friends first?
  • Thank you so much for the kind words! He's doing great at the moment. We go back for a post-surgery check tomorrow and then we'll be seeing a new dentist after this to hopefully come up with a better course of action. I still have a lot of anxiety and anger that the extra stuff wasn't treated when she had the opportunity…
  • I have some good ones for you. And I have zero shame so here we go. Posture goes a long way. 5'1" Five kids 126lbs. (23.9 BMI) Diastasis recti Lifting weights since 2015, including through my fifth pregnancy. Currently following a full body program three days a week. Highest weight ever: 220lbs I don't know what my body…
  • Congrats on your baby! I recommend waiting at least 6-8 weeks before attempting weight loss. You won't have a clear picture of how much weight you have to lose until then because you'll still be retaining a lot of fluid. I'll give you my C&P response that I've given others but feel free to ask specific questions:…
  • Pretty much at my August goal now and had a refeed today after a surprise on the scale this morning. I think it's probably some water weight since I had my two rest days over the weekend but I'll take it. Wishing you all a fantastic upcoming week! Height: 5'1" HW: 195lbs. August goal: 126lbs. Ultimate goal: 120lbs. August…
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