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Right now I just use my iPhone. It tracks steps and distance and that's all I really need.

When I started MFP was recommending ~3500 calories. That's primarily because MFP is built around the 1-2 pounds a week to be safe metric. However, the safe metric as I understand it is really more so 1% of your body weight/week which means at much higher weights, your safe number/week is higher. For example, at 300 pounds…

You're also getting close to having lost 30% of your starting weight. That's amazing.

@NicoleVT83 You're doing awesome! Thank you very much for sharing your pictures :smile: You can tell a huge difference in that second set. Keep up the awesome work!

@bmeadows380 PlentyOfFish.com is by far the largest and I think has been around the longest.

I want to "woo" this post except MFP ruined "woo" for me. So here it is manually; woohoo! :smile:

Thank you for posting it! I agree with you about weighing daily. Most days I find I'm actually looking forward to see what the scale says. Weird, I know.

Outside my main motivation of getting to a healthy weight and being able to live a normal healthy life, there were two things that kept me on course when I was starting out. One was that I had promised my parents that I would come home for the holidays. At my highest weight, that was not an easy task and I wanted to keep…

@crazykatlady820 One of the hazards of losing a lot of weight; those jeans are brand new (well, bought last month). Each picture is actually a size down of jeans now that I'm thinking about it...

I love seeing the progress pics. Especially with folks from this group :smile:

Here are mine. First pic is a comparison of me at ~600lbs (before I started) and a pic just before Christmas having lost 80 lbs. The last one is me today at 120 down (~480lbs). I've been cleaning today so last one I'm a bit dirty/sweaty.

I like the woo, as a woohoo! I don't even know how you get to "bad" from "woo".

Had to buy my second new belt since September; my pants were falling off. Using belts as a measure, thats about 8 inches lost.

I'm fighting the same thing this week. January was by far the most total pounds lost for me in a month since I started, and this first week of February it feels like my body is fighting back! I may actually end up with a gain for the week, which would be my first in a non-vacation week. It's a little puzzling because…

Welcome. Does anyone like the pats? Looking forward to hearing more from you.

That's pretty cool!

I didn't know about the zip. I may take a look at that thanks :)

Does anyone know where to get BIG custom bands? I've wanted to get either a fitbit or an apple watch, but my wrist is about 10" in circumference and most custom bands I've seen top out slightly over 9".

I've definitely been down that road (lost weight, gained it back). Welcome :)

So, this is kind of an odd NSV, but I haven't bought a new car in 20 years, primarily because I was worried about looking stupid squeezing in and out of them in front of a seller, getting out of breath walking around a big lot, etc. My old car was old, but my butt had beat the front seat into submission over the years and…

I tried this this weekend. All I have to say is man that looks easy, but they are moving fast. My 490+ lb self was going whoaaa. Then about 5 minutes in she's all, well that was the warmup, time to step up the pace! :open_mouth: Time to step up my game :lol:

I get this. I don't like people to see me struggle with anything, especially things that are easy for most of people. I didn't go outside to walk until I was fairly confident I could do reasonably well. One thing I want to do at some point is work with a physical trainer, but I also really don't because I don't want them…

Totally going to try that.

These are great ideas! I love the idea of visualizing it. When I was home for the holidays we cooked a prime rib for dinner and Dad came over and told me to hold the tray (the meat was ten pounds pre cooked). He said there; you've lost 8 of those. It's astonishing how much weight we get used to carrying.

When I started trying to walk more I literally paced in my apartment for x minutes at a time. Felt stupid, but it got me moving. You can do it :smile:

@GothicsDarkAngel Awesome! So far so good for me this week walking each day. I've been getting about 50 minutes in over the day.

If you do 5 minutes 6 times in a day, you've done 30 minutes. I do a lot of my walking like this. I work a desk job and multiple times a day I get up from the desk, go outside and walk for a short period of time. Staring down a 30-40 minute walk is daunting for me at my weight, but three or four ten minute walks-I can do…

You can do it! I had the same experience in September last year; bought a scale that could weigh me and found I was 100 pounds more than my worst estimate. Since then I'm down 107 pounds. Just start :)

Dude I feel you. I'm in the same boat. For a while, when I was getting out of my car my stomach would push over the horn and beep it. Talk about embarrassing. I've also lost 100+ pounds before and gained it back. Really hoping to keep it off this time. My problem is I typically get to a place where I'm feeling so much…

This story echoes mine a lot. I was also athletic in high school and played sports including football and gained weight *very* quickly when I got out of college and started working in a sedentary job. I kept eating the same way I had when I was being so active and the weight piled on quickly. Before I knew it I was at a…