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Hi, I found out about Pahla through a MyFitnessPal group. Very much at appropriate weight and an athletic person until menopause, then gained 30 pounds in 5 years despite best efforts and have been fighting to lose (with various techniques) for the past 3 years - max loss 12 pounds which I always gained back (about 3…

I want to join! MFP name: amwiggler Weigh day: Monday SW: 170 Current weight: 167.4 Doing better at exercise and eating too many calories.

Me again - one of the few NS supporters on this thread. I don’t think anyone on this thread is wrong - just know that everyone has to find what works for them. This week I was on a vacation involving lots of buffets. Ate what I wanted, including pizza and desserts, chewed it slowly and enjoyed it and saw another loss on…

mjohemme wrote: » I feel this thread is opinion skewed from the get go. I'll admit my work just started offering this and we started the program yesterday. I am definitely skeptical, but not going in to it scornfully. I'm open to learning what I can that will work for me. I'm not trying to lose weight as much as changing…

100% working for me. I’m not losing fast, but I am losing consistently. Counting everything, making sure everything is the “right” food, logging and weighing was just too much - total lost in a year @ 5 pounds (because I was always falling off and starting over). On this program, I watch the videos on Monday morning, eat…

I am a recent convert from ‘eat healthy before you go’ to ‘go hungry.’ For me, if I eat healthy before I go, I still eat at the potluck. Now I go hungry, circle once to see what I actually want to eat, eat reasonable portions slowly enough to enjoy them and then socialize away from the table. I’m having significantly more…

This is a speed bump on your journey. There will be many. Any of the ideas shared can get you over it, but you have to want the results more than you want that donut. The next “donut” will be an office, school or church function. The one after that will be a night out. There are a lot of donuts out there, it’s up to you…

My stats, activity and eating are very similar to yours (including thyroid) and I am losing, on average, about a pound a month. Not sexy, not exciting, but there is a payoff over time. If you let that pace get you down, it is easy to gain several months of work back in short order - it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Find a…

I always want that fritter...😏. Yep, pretty much always. Somehow the scale always knows whether I ate that fritter....

I am officially through menopause and have 35-40 pounds to show for it. Rock solid healthy weight before that, including after pregnancy (one of which was twins). It’s a head game settling for a half pound a week when I could formerly pass on a doughnut and get into the slinky dress. I have come to accept the half pound a…

Attitude is everything. Wear what makes you feel good and be happy. Nothing competes with happy.

My point is “slow or no” - when I was younger, there wasn’t as much to lose and whatever I wanted to lose came off easily. Going to the thread start “No Results”, my strong recommendation is to go back to the food diary - the answer really is there. If you are following calories to result in a loss, you will lose. It takes…

54, thyroid pill every morning. Have gained @ 30 going through menopause and having a very tough time losing it, but I cannot deny that after tracking religiously everything that goes in and everything that goes out (and weighing, and researching and double-checking), my experience is that there is a correlation between my…

Saw Alice’sGrandma and know that this is where I belong - I was at 135 forever, sometimes dipping down to 128-130. Menopause and now it’s a slog to get within 30 of that! Just had a .2 gain after two weeks of logging on target. Ech! I am tightening up - weighing and logging and running, oh my!

I used to be a weigh in daily girl, then as weight crept on, got away from the scale (went through menopause) and now am working to lose a 30+ pound gain. After 6 weeks, I’m down 6.5 pounds (most of it early). I’m trying to view this as a positive, since my calories are set to lose .5 a week but when you’ve been able to…

Cockiness of having been at it for a little bit and having some quick success is a constant threat for me. This time I’m making sure to put on some of my tighter clothes that used to fit whenever I start to feel like I can fudge a little. It reminds me of how much I really want these clothes to be loose again.

This looks like the group for me. I am officially post-menopausal (effective around February) and more than 30 pounds gained to show for it. I am almost getting away with it (loose clothes, etc.), but when I said something to my doctor and he looked at my history, he agreed the jig is up and something has to change. MFP is…

I'm all in. 159.5 today. Every time I lose a pound or two I gain back double. Hoping this challenge helps.