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Loveee Sweatin to the Oldies! The 3rd is my favorite. I remember doing them with my mom as a small child and I've done them on and off through the years to stay active. My mom and I actually did the dance routine to Give Me Some Lovin as our Mother/Daughter dance at my wedding. It was so special and we laughed so much!

Update. My wedding is just over a week away! I lost 50 pounds and have maintained that weight loss for the last month and a half (through dress alterations and sizing because my dress was at least 2 full sizes TOO big!) Hope that everyone else was able to see progress on their goals. And if you're working your way there,…

I have a tendency to eat one or two hershey kisses to satisfy my sweet tooth. I immediately log in in my diary though, so it doesn't turn into a handful or the whole bag!

I am literally in the same situation as you! Just a wee bit taller at 5'10". I have been under 200 since mid December, about a month now, and I still feel like I did last summer. Those progress photos help though. I like to do a photo comparison where I put on the same dress or skirt and just see how much difference there…

Two pieces of stuffed crust pineapple pizza leftover from yesterday

From an in-progress success story, I have lost a little over a pound a week when eating in a calorie deficit to do so. I exorcise sporadically and am not currently doing any sort of exercise beyond living in a three story house. Around Christmastime, I was feeling hungry on the strict calorie deficit and so knowing I was…

When I first went cold turkey, I would sometimes have a cup of hot tea. But I was also really trying to kick the caffeine because on a day I didn't have any, I'd end up with a horrendous afternoon headache.

I quit cold turkey aswell. I started mfp and looked at my daily calorie allotment and realized I'd much rather eat something for 200 calories than waste it on a beverage!

April 7th here! I started in July 2017 and have lost 38 pounds and far!

Keep up the good work! You know you can do this and keep the end in sight!

I've lost 40 pounds since mid July. Eating 1800 to 1500 calories per day. I've eaten maintenance for the last 10 days though.

It's funny because I refused to do before shots. These before shots are just from my camera roll. I have a lot of pics from just before I started on myfitnesspal because I got engaged in May at Disney... and boy those engagement trip pics helped to kick my butt into gear because I want my wedding pics to look amazing!

Keep it up! This is so inspiring!

Thank you for this thread! I totally am a forum-stalker and rarely find myself posting. But I have learned and continued to learn so much by reading everyone's threads. It's a shame that people get so sensitive and flag the no-nonsense, not-sugar-coated reality answers. Sometimes people just don't want to hear the truth…

Updated with another comparison shot. End of May 2017 to early Dec 2017. Same dress. Same pose. Different look! Though I'm loathe for the day that all my dresses are WAY too big for me and I have to donate them.

I totally feel ya there! Not only is it holiday season, my birthday was last Monday. Went on a mini vacation away. Are within calorie goals all except my birthday and still came home to being 4-5lbs up. I ate at deficit and told myself to shake it off and thankfully this morning saw things back where they should be on the…

My wedding! Down 32 pounds from July 2017. I'm going to look so good April 2018

Love the progress and love all the pics! Totally reminds me that all those before, during, and after shots are worth it. I'm halfway to goal and didn't really think that it was so important to take a starting pic. Now I already regret it.

I love that last bit. It IS my health maintenance for life because I want to live a long healthy life!

Highest: 240 Starting Weight: 237 Current: 213 1st Goal: 175 Height: 5'10"

Height - 5'10" Starting weight - 237 Current weight - 216 (First) Goal weight - 175 Bust - 38 Waist - 34 (at smallest point) Hips - 49.5 (at widest point) Clothing size - US14-18 Shoe size - 10W I have always enjoyed being tall. I think the only annoying things I've found is that my height is all in my torso so that a lot…

I love this challenge! I'm working on a 1lb a week loss, but I'm going to give myself a little wiggle room (a trip to Disney for the birthday between now and christmas :)) So 10lbs by Christmas sounds great! That would put me at 207 :)

This an amazing narrative showing off your hard work! Thank you for sharing it!

You have put in some awesome work! I also totally understand the needing to tell someone feeling :)

Thank you guys for all of the info in this post! I truly had no idea about anything related to palm oil - besides maybe that it wasn't very good for you. Great to know about it's environmental effects as well. Something I want to try and be on the lookout for.

One of the healthy habits I've picked up is becoming "addicted" to drinking water! Previously, I could easily drink four cans of soda during the day. When I started logging, I realized I didn't want to waste any calories on something that wasn't actually food! I started filling up my water bottle and dragging it with me…

I can't second this enough. I, too, am in the boat of recently engaged and getting married in 6 months. Around July, I hit a wall where I realized if I didn't do anything about it, I was going to look and weigh exactly what I did then at my wedding. And the photos of my engagement were none too forgiving! I re-downloaded…

I am definitely in the save more cals for dinner boat. It makes me feel better to know that if I get home and we end up going out spontaneously, I can enjoy a nice meal and not feel cheated. If I end up eating a smaller dinner, it still gives me the freedom to have a little dessert. One of the things that's really worked…

I regularly am figuring out dinner right before it happens, in that 7pm time period. One of the things I've done to keep from snacking before dinner or over-eating dinner, is I eat throughout the morning. Breakfast is a quick 100 to 150 cals from fruit/cereal/granola. Lunch is around 500, usually protein heavy with vegs. I…

Could you not take pics (front and back) with your phone camera and then put them together into a collage via a photo editor, then upload that as your progress photo?