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Woohoo! Go you! That is fabulous! I'm not quite sure how to send you a friend request - if I don't manage it, please send me one, I'd love to connect. I recently posted something similar about lacking real-world appreciation for my success so far, and people were great about chiming in. I bet they will for you, too! I…
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Also - aside from stuffing your feelings you may be self-medicating with food for clinical anxiety or depression. That's best discussed with experts. Good news is, it's also fixable :)
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So, a couple things: - this is very common - there's no reason to be embarrassed - it's fixable, and can be fixed incrementally - you don't have to go from zero to perfect in one step, no one can - you'll be happier once you make progress on fixing it - you won't keep trying to fix your feelings with food once you can see…
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One really common reason that people overeat is for comfort - for a distracting pleasure, for escape, for short-term boost of feelgood chemicals in your brain, to "eat your feelings". So if you take that coping mechanism away, and you haven't got another ready to take its place, you can end up very raw and upset. All the…
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Thank you all so much. This is a long haul, and so after the first time people noticed I had lost some weight, they didn't keep mentioning it or paying attention - which is great in a lot of ways, I don't want my body to be a constant topic of conversation or scrutiny. But it means it's been a long time since anyone's…
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Life can involve "cheat days", indulgences, refeeds, Thanksgiving dinners, etc., and you can still lose weight. The trick is: 1. Draw a bright line around the off-plan eating. Whatever the occasion, whether planned or unplanned, separate it from your "normal". So like, your family feast on a food related holiday? Eat…
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311 days, 142 pounds. Still more to go.
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I feel for you. I've had 3+week plateaus but stayed consistent, and then whoosh! a sudden drop on the scale. I assume that I didn't not lose weight for weeks and then lose multiple pounds overnight, but rather that the fat loss was masked by water retention, constipation, and the like. Hang in there, be scrupulous, and see…
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I'm in this category. I've never posted here before, but I am today because even though my progress has been excellent, I'm just feeling like it is such a slog... and it's getting me down. 6/15/2017 367.8 5/20/2017 226 (up from 225 yesterday because the scale hates me) goal weight: 180 stretch goal: 165 So, it's been what,…
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I almost never read the forums. I've never posted before. I pretty much just use MFP to log my eating and help me focus on some fitness goals. This thread makes me want to never come back. Even if I take the most charitable possible interpretation of the original poster's views and attitudes, it's still such a downer. This…
