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I just booked my ultimate goal weight reward, a professional family photo shoot for me and my husband! I might not actually be at my ultimate goal weight by then, but I'm actually excited by how I'm going to look in these pictures rather than hoping that I can somehow be posed to look good.
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My husband and I are both engineers, and for our personalities, meal planning is the best. I cook our dinners for weeknights on Sunday, we each plan what we need for our lunches for the week, then we have our same breakfast items pretty much every day. I pre log the night before, but leave out snacks so that I can see how…
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We had to buy a bigger dresser because I have 3 drawers full of workout clothes now rather than 1/2 a drawer!
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I would tell myself to stop trying to make huge lifestyle changes all at once. And that you don't need to do anything that drastic to successfully lose weight. Just start by making one small change. You'll start seeing results and craving more healthy changes. Before you know it, you'll be living that healthy lifestyle you…
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I had so many NSVs to go along with my long run this week. I'm training for my second half marathon. My first was last February, right around when I started using MFP and was 30 lbs heavier. Today was my longest long run in quite a while. I don't use my running belt except on my longer runs, so I hadn't put it on since…
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My highest weight was 225, but my starting weight for MFP was 205. I'm 5' 4 1/2" and just hit 140. I'm planning on continuing until 133. I run three days a week and strength train three days a week. The best advice I can give is to make small changes you can stick to instead of overhauling everything at once. I started…
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Thank you all for the advice! I decided today to decrease my deficit to 250. I'm training for my second half marathon in November, and it's probably going to be more pleasant on a smaller deficit. I guess it still hadn't hit me that I'm to the point now where I'm losing vanity weight now and it really won't make too much…
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I hadn't been on my weekly long run in a couple of weeks because of vacation and general life things. I was kind of dreading going this morning because I thought I would have lost my conditioning or something. But I got up this morning and went for an 8 mile run anyways. It felt so, so good to just get outside and run. I…
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Yes! I'm now wearing an xs in most tops and mostly a 4 (but sometimes a 2) in bottoms. I'm at the top part of my healthy weight range at 142 lbs and 5' 4 1/2". I feel like I should be around an 8 or a medium and I really wonder what my size will look like 10 lbs from now when I'm at my goal weight. Also, I often wonder…
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I bought new boots for fall today and they weren't wide calf! First time ever!!
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We're going on a backpacking trip this weekend. I hadn't used my pack since October, and when I took it out of the closet, I had to make adjustments to almost all of the straps, shortening them by a few inches in the waist and chest! I got rid of all of my "big" clothes, so this was the last indicator of how far I've come…
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There used to be a theme park in South Carolina where at least one of the coasters had a row with larger harnesses. It used to be the hard rock theme park, then it was something else for a season, then it closed, I believe.
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I agree 100%. I have epilepsy and still pay the full admission price to parks where I can't ride the majority of rides. Universal, for example, seems particularly fond of strobe lights. I know going in that I can't go on everything anywhere, but just choose to spend my money at parks that have less stuff I can't ride.…
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Nobody told me how crazy vanity sizing really is. I guess in the back of my mind I knew, but when you're a size 20 it's hard to believe that vanity sizing is a thing. Now, at 5'4" and 143 lbs, I'm a size 4 in bottoms and a s or xs in shirts. That seems crazy to me because I'm just barely in the healthy BMI range. I still…
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I finally had time to clean out my closet and got rid of 5 garbage bags shoved completely full of clothes. Then got to go on an epic shopping adventure to replace my wardrobe ahead of starting my new job in September. We had a sales lady at the store helping us and she said she'd pull some stuff for me, she pulled xs…
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I haven't been working since May (I just graduated from law school and have spent the summer studying for the bar exam). Last week, I thought I'd look at my work wardrobe because I'm starting my new job at the beginning of September. I cleaned out my closet of all of my work clothes that were too big and I had nothing…
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I'm still about 10 lbs from goal weight, but at 5'4 3/4" and 145 lbs Bust: 35 1/2 " Waist 27" Hips 37" I'm pretty happy with where I'm at now, but excited to see where I'll end up at 135! I just started lifting and have lost inches more quickly than before.
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I've had a similar situation the past couple of months. I thought I had completely skipped my last period, but it turns out my trust 28 day cycle had stretched out to 45 days. I got some cramping when I was supposed to start my period, and felt like I had started when I hadn't. I hoping it goes back to normal once I'm done…
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I just like the look of the alta better. It's smaller and you can change out the band. I kept having problems with the Charge HR bands peeling off of the center. Fitbit sent replacements, but I felt like something I paid more than $100 for shouldn't need to be replaced every 4-5 months. I've only had the alta since May so…
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For what it's worth, I've noticed that the calories my fitbit gives me are almost exactly spot on over a 4 month period, with a charge HR for the first couple of months and an Alta HR since May. I've found it really helps motivate me to move more throughout the day and I've been able to lose weight at a reasonable pace…
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My new favorite progress picture because I finally found this dress again in a size that fits! 56 lbs down and 14 more to go!
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Update! I did another comparison picture today to celebrate seeing 149.8 on the scale! I've been pushing to get out of the 150s for a while, so I'm so happy to finally get there. Left is me at 205, middle is me in February at about 167, and right is me today at 149.8!! My height is 5'4.5" and my goal weight is 135. Always…
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I PRed my 10k this weekend, which was wonderful, but also heartbreaking because my finishing time was an hour and 35 seconds when I was aiming for under an hour. The real NSV came today when I looked at the race pictures online and found one where the only real problem I had with it was that I was making a weird face, even…
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The exact thing happened to me, with similar stats (5'4", sw: 170, cw: 150, gw: 135). The first 20 lbs came of at about 1.5 lbs a week, but I haven't been able to dip below 150, and I can barely tell if I'm losing at all any more because the water weight fluctuations can mask a lot at half a pound a week. One thing I've…
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We adopted the world's most adorable coonhound mix (in my humble opinion) back in November. Unfortunately, he was 110 lbs when we got him. According to the vet and some research, he should be closer to 75. It's been tough, but he has lost a fair amount of weight since we got him. I'm not sure how much because we haven't…
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I eat back exercise calories as given by my fitbit. I've done the math and they're pretty accurate. If I didn't eat them back, I would be too tired to function. For example, I ran 8 miles this morning, burning about 1,000 calories according to my fitbit. With a net goal of 1,200 calories, if I didn't eat them back, I would…
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Thanks for the ideas! I have what my cardiologist likes to call a malignant form of syncope (I had epilepsy as a kid but eventually outgrew it, but the syncope triggers full on grand mal seizures as opposed to just fainting for me). I have a hard time getting enough sodium to keep my blood pressure up, even in addition to…
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And because of the way bras are sized, if you've stayed the same or a similar cup size, they have gotten smaller. I've found that I just don't store fat in my breasts, since I've gone from a 40B to a 34DD. They haven't actually gotten any bigger, but as band size goes down, cup size goes up for the same cup volume. I've…
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My NSV is just that I pushed through a plateau during final exams and didn't get lax or give up. I also have started focusing on the long term successes over my day to day weight. I really noticed because I compared graduation pictures from my undergraduate graduation (3 years ago) and Saturday. Even though I didn't make…
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I've been frequenting thredup lately to try to replenish my wardrobe for less money than buying all new clothes. Today I found two dresses I used to wear all the time in smaller sizes and it was crazy to order a 6 in a dress that I used to wear in a 14 and a small in a dress that I used to wear an xl. It's so encouraging…
