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Had a late night last night so slept over at my friend's house. She gave me a t-shirt and shorts to sleep in. Actually, she's probably 3–4 inches taller than me AND 20 pounds lighter so it might be a kind of NSV just that I got into her clothes in the first place, but the NSV I feel proud of today is that this morning when…

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Actually did 45 today so make it 25 pounds' improvement!

I've been doing full-body weight training 3 times a week, 45-60 minutes at a time, for almost exactly 3 months, and use the assisted pullups and dips machine maybe every other trip to the gym. I don't know what rate of progress is average/normal/whatever at this level of commitment so I'll just share my n=1: I've improved…

Wow, huge difference, @danibadgley13 congratulations! Can I ask how much weight loss or percentage of body weight lost this represents for you, out of curiosity?

I ate like a pig today—way over goal—but then took an unplanned trip to the gym and worked off 400 calories of it. While it's true you can't exercise away a bad diet, I was pleased to see myself shake off my food-coma-evening-at-home inertia and do something positive in response to my earlier misstep.

Although I haven't suffered from the disordered eating triggers you describe, for what it's worth, my n=1 is that I lost my first 55 pounds without a scale. In that sense my answer to your question is, "Yes it can be done without a scale." I faithfully logged my food and exercise, and took my measurements (neck, upper…

Look at that jawline—awesome!

Don't worry, I saw it on your newsfeed. Everybody can take my word for it that the change is rad :)

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If you mean that you'd like to see your macros in your food diary, you should be able to see them if you tip your phone into landscape mode.

And it will happen, keep at it! I certainly have my awkward and ugly photos that turn up on social media too, but none mortify me to the point they did before, even if I'm not ay my ideal weight yet. And thank goodness.

Yes please to the bolded.

My PhD study buddy, the only person other than my partner who saw me literally every day during the bulk of my weight loss (and who, because he saw me so often relative to the speed of loss, didn't register that I was getting slimmer): "You look extra sexy today ... I don't know why ..."

Yes I'm entirely certain that's true. I'll get there ...

Thanks! I did 5x5 at 60 pounds. Hopefully not too embarrassingly low a starting weight.

I got up the nerve to do my first (barbell) deadlifts at the gym yesterday. I'd been mainly on the machines up to this point, but working my way gradually over to the free weight area.

Seconded. I was totally thinking of that adorable picture with the grey dress while reading your more recent post, @dhiammarath. You have nothing to be afraid of as far as dress shopping.

I'm thicker through the middle now than when I was the same weight in college, 25 years ago. The unexpected cool thing (what qualifies as my 'what nobody told you') is that everybody thinks I look amazing now, as compared with by family members and girlfriends who maintained steady weights but now in their 40s are…

I did pull-ups and dips with an assist of LESS than half my body weight today.

I had the same NSV about 3 weeks back and know the feeling well. Congratulations!

This might be the greatest NSV I've ever seen.

I have a petty reason for switching to recomp now even though I'm not at my target weight yet (a former 'happy weight'—I'm 5 pounds out): I'm terrified of boob deflation because I was flat-chested the last time I was at that weight.

You know I always wondered about that! When I first joined MFP and uploaded that I actually put out a general call to my contacts to ask if it was too much but nobody said anything at the time :)

Just changed my profile picture to reflect the fact that I hit my original goal weight (though I revised it down a touch) and now find myself mentally focused not on losing but on recomping and other fitness goals.

@IremiaRe catty or no I support you in this endeavour :smile: In fact, your post reminds me of one of my own from last spring (except about my mom) that I had to preface with the label "Bitterness alert!" So, your sister at the time was, what, like 15 or 16? Maybe she outgrew that kind of nonsense emotionally by now, but…

Yesterday I jogged for 20 continuous minutes on the treadmill (but not fast). Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to recall that 20 minutes was some kind of benchmark for c25k. Those of you who are doing it, have I achieved something? All my life running has been a real weak point in my fitness level. I could walk 5 hours…

Joined a gym and have actually been going! The last time I had a gym membership was over 10 years ago, and I went once in the course of a year probably. I'm shocked, frankly.