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Name: Shelly Age: 52 Height: 5’4” Total weight lost: 145.1 Time it took to lose: 430 days How long in maintenance: 3 days Maintenance weight range: 140-150 Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): 191.25 Average weight recorded from January: 233.05 Average weight recorded from February: 228.2 Average weight recorded…

"Doesn't necessarily" are the key words here. Yes, you can "still manage" to get in 10-12k steps a day, and in the last several months I have been doing so. However, left to my own sedentary devices I was not doing so, and my TDEE was pathetically low. So, yeah, gaining weight on 1800 calories a day, over lots of years of…

I run slow, too. Just looked up my 13 minute pace today to see it described as “halfway between walking and jogging” and felt devastated. But as the day progressed I decided I don’t care. I’m not out to win races. I just want to be healthy.

I’d concur with AnnPT77 that it might not turn out as bad as you imagine at this point. I’m down to half the weight I was in the beginning (143 out of 285), and as I approach goal/maintenance, though I have plenty of loose skin, it’s nowhere near as bad as I dreaded midway through. Things look a lot worse in the middle of…

Thank you, the maintenance then reassess sounds like a plan. I’ve had the same thought about shapewear and have started wearing one.

How much less mammograms will hurt when there’s half as much boob to flatten into a pancake!

Gave them to a friend who's just starting her weight loss journey, and she's sharing with some friends from church that are in similar situations. Glad to help, and to be rid of them!

How "breezy" your bottom would be while walking without all those thighs in the way!

I've been using one for 3 weeks and so far the math is working pretty closely -- they estimated 2.5 lbs a week with my usual daily deficit and that's exactly what I've lost each week. So, at least going by me, works pretty darn well so far.

Um, my BMR is round about 1300, and I have a desk job that has me working long hours. Eating 1800 calories is pretty much how I wound up morbidly obese in the first place. So, no.

Coming up on my 1 year anniversary in a week or so, and I've lost 130 lbs so far (285 lbs - 155 lbs), so that comes to 2.5 lbs a week on average, but it's been not at all linear -- some weeks I lose five lbs, other weeks I gain three, and anything in between!

I've never posted anything that could be construed as pseudoscience or anything "too good to be true" and yet I have several "woo" reactions. I don't know what to think of it. I think it is confusing.

This topic is obviously long-dead, but I just wanted to express how thankful I am for all the great shared info in these forums, given what a relative dearth there seems to be elsewhere -- lots of articles/studies mention rebound edema as a thing that happens, but not much for the nuts and bolts of what to expect in terms…

This is totally my guilty pleasure -- I lay there in bed at night, feeling the junction between my hip and my thighs because there's no fat there and it's all muscle and tendons and stuff I could never feel before so it's simultaneously weird and kinda cool, and it's like when you go to the dentist and can't stop tonguing…

For me, the trick has been to stop thinking about the way I'm eating as a means to an end and just taking it as "the way I eat now." That way, it doesn't matter to me as much what the scale is doing or not doing. I won't lie: it does niggle at me a bit, but not as much as if I were constantly feeling cheated that there…

I plan to add a couple hundred calories a day for a week at a time to figure out my maintenance calories, but I will definitely take the MFP suggestions under advisement.

My dentist takes photos once a year to associate with our files, and this year the dental hygienist emailed mine to me because the 1 year (and ~125 lb) difference was so dramatic.

My "aha!" moment was realizing my mistake in getting close to goal and thinking "Awesome! Now I can eat like normal people!" by which I mean the 2500 calories a day nutrition labels imply everybody ought to be eating, when in fact my caloric needs are way, way lower than that. And there's a part of me that does inwardly…

I budget 50 calories for chocolate and have it every night just before I go to bed. That way it acts as a little reward to look forward to all day, and also can't turn into a binge because I'm letting it melt in my mouth as I drift off to sleep so no time for seconds! LOL! Works for me. But I second the no sugar added ice…

That the day may come where you start sneaking extra exercise in the same way you used to sneak Snickers bars.

I’m just using MFP to track my calories and that’s it. I just started walking on my lunch hour a few weeks ago, but the bulk of my loss was with only restricting input.

I’ve tried all kinds of things over the years — Weight Watchers, the Cambridge (pre-Slim Fast meal replacement shake plan), low carb, etc. The only one that absolutely didn’t work for me was Weight Watchers — I consistently gain on their plans because their calorie counts are just too high for me. Besides, I hate the…

Yeah, but I have skin hanging down on the sides at the level of my belly button.

How when I’m lying in a deep bath my belly skin would rise six inches up off of me and float on the top like buoys. Also, how my loose skin would be simultaneously a public embarrassment but also a private source of wonder and fun.

I’m queer — add me!

“Virtue” has nothing to do with it. People do what works best for them, and so long as you are in a calorie deficit, you will lose.

Yup, as I lose weight my thighs are showing more and more of them.

Absolutely. I have lost 100 lbs + twice now and gained it all back, and this time that must NOT happen. MFP is a permanent part of my life from here on out.

Add me! I’m 52. Starting weight 285, current weight 161, goal weight somewhere between 125-140.

I budget 50 calories per day out of 1200 for chocolate (roughly two squares of a Cadbury bar, or a fun size Hershey’s Milk Chocolate). I look forward to it all day, and it’s just enough to melt in my mouth and savor but not enough to spark a binge. It’s part of my bedtime ritual. For the record, I have lost 124 lbs…