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  • Do you have any way, such as a wearable activity tracker with a heart rate monitor, to somehow see if your workouts are effective? At 40-60 minutes and 1 month, you should be walking out of the gym looking like you jumped in the pool with your clothes on. If not, your workouts may not be intense enough to actually be…
  • I have a pair of jeans that I call my gauge pants. They are about 15 years old and wouldn't be caught in public wearing them. I keep them around because I know that if I can get them on comfortably, I am at or near my goal weight. This is the first January and after the holidays, in years, where I am able to wear them…
  • Team effort: We lost over 100 lbs by dieting and exercising together. Me -65 Wife -50
  • Getting my mind to match my new body size. It took several weeks before I walked in to my closet and would not have that miserable "I can't fit in or feel comfortable in anything" feeling.
  • I would take working out to gain muscle mass (weight) and losing fat over just dieting to losing weight any day. It feels so much better to have a better body to go along with the loss of inches and not just weight.
  • Just got a Bluetooth scale that syncs with my activity tracking on my phone. Because of the new toy, I weigh myself every morning, as soon as I wake up, just to watch it automatically pop up on my phone. It gives me too much information. Now, my phone controls the home security system, my vehicle status, tracks my weight…
  • I have struggled with that very same issue for several years. Starting January 1st, I begin my typical weight loss routine to get back to upper end of my correct BMI range by the end of March. I maintain a good weight through summer but always drop my diet and exercise routine from September through December. A big part of…
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