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what an awesome post, @pianogal1967 I always enjoy reading success posts!!!!!

I’m going to disagree to disagree. Drinking a (plain) whey protein shake typically involves adding flavor, ingredients to pad it out, etc. Plain whey is bland as drinking flour to me. I can get almost an equal number of protein grams for the same amount of calories simply eating a lean meat (sorry, vegetarian realm outside…

while I appreciate the sentiment, and started out that way myself, I learned quickly that depriving myself of the occasional fun food was the quick path to failure. Instead of demonizing foods, learn both portion control and self control. I don’t keep “junk” foods in the house, except for maybe one at a time, and I’m very…

hi Kyler. I lost about 100, got too low, and intentionally put 25’ishback on. For me, continuing to improve my nutrition and varying my workouts seemed to help. Weight training helped fill some of the loose skin back out, particularly on upper arms, thighs, calves. I still have extra skin around my waist. I’ve accepted it…

welcome back. So, have you taken a moment to reflect on those three earlier tries? Where do you go wrong? What are you going to do differently this time? Same old same old will lead to same old results.

welcome to MFP @roselleukkong14 are you asking us how many calories this is? You need to learn to look these foods up, weigh them, and add them to your food diary. Learning this process will help you track what you’re eating, how much and if you are near your daily calorie goal. There are several tutorials under the MFP…

good for you and your sister! Hope yall can support one another to success! I didn’t live with my folks, but worked with them for decades. Time at the office was probably more than living with them, and we were over at their house all the time. Mom was morbidly obese and refused to get out of her chair. Dad was obese but…

that’s interesting. When I do weights or cardio/weights in the mirrored rooms, I’m like “dayum, would ya look at those muscles!!!” But when I’m in street clothes, I look (disappointingly) normal. It can be a total mind kitten.

I’ve been in maintenance for several years, and do cardio and strength regularly. I’m lean everywhere except my tummy. I came from obese, so a lot is simply extra skin. I’ve learned that acceptance, high waisted everything, and lots of Lycra go a long way towards satisfaction. Several years in, my “pouch” is slooooooooowly…

love me some halloumi. Whenever I find it, I buy several packs because I don’t know when I’ll see it again. Discovered it at a restaurant in London. I thought it was grilled chicken breast on the salad. Didn’t realize til I dragged Mr S back the next day for a do over that it was a grilled plank of cheese. Mind blown. 🤯 I…

I eat super high protein, because I’m normally very active I shoot for at least 1gram per pound of my weight, but prefer higher. I get most of my protein from lean meats, and lately, beans, after discovering heirloom dried beans. I also eat several servings of cottage cheese per day. I use whey protein, but not in shakes…

short version, losing weight does not equate to building muscle. At 18, my ribs showed from being underweight, and I could span my waist with my fingertips touching. I ate like a horse. I was thin as a rail, and about as un-muscular as you could ever visualize, other than maybe back muscles from carrying a 45 pound harness…

knowing what I know now, 45 years later, I would go back in time and tell my underweight self to do some weight and core training, for many reasons. The confidence it’s given me, taking it up as a senior, well, imagine the confidence it would have given my younger self. Confidence, versus looking good would have been more…

the graph isn’t going to be consistent. It’s our brains that say that it should be. Reality is totally different. Here’s a random month from earlier in my own loss (SW 225, was at 200 when I started with this Bluetooth scale): crazy, right? Yet the consistent trend was downwards. Consistent is the key word here. If you…

This double cream from South Georgia was in our last cheese of the month club. It was outstanding. Strongly recommend it if it turns up at your cheesemonger.

It just dawned on me that the Mediterranean diet ad included American breakfast sausage. I’m all for that diet.

Everyone is a target: I remember this being called the “George Bush Walk” with your arms out in some kind of psychological power move. Apparently, it’s big in weight loss, too: different view, in case you missed it: Very specific target market? Genuine ceramicist, or AI? How’d you like to be making these for a living?…

I can’t quite figure out what is happening here.

non scale victory. Like your pants being baggy, wedding ring being loose, etc sometimes, when the scale ain’t budging, you find your wins elsewhere.

lol Ann beat me to the NSV thread. When I hit “plateaus” I went there. I have read every. single. post. on that thread, and have identified with all of them (except some specifically “male” posts!). As others have said; Seeing family and friends struggle with weight, and also breaking my own loss into bites and rewarding…

welcome to MFP @wicoakca if you’re that close to goal, those last 11 pounds may be harder to lose, and take longer than expected. Be kind to yourself, don’t self criticize,, and don’t give up if you don’t make it in two months. That’s over a pound a week loss, which is even hard for a larger person to do. Ditto for…

well duh. Eat something different. I lost from XXL down to S and never had a problem being bored eating. What are your favorite foods? Cut the portion sizes. Get creative. How can you lower the calories? I’ve got a banging lasagna that I’ve tinkered with til it’s half the calories of what it used to be, higher protein by…

hi @JhianneAudreyArandia Welcome to MFP. If you set “lose .5” or whatever pounds per week in your goal setup the deficit the poster above speaks of is already included. If you cut even harder than suggested you risk underfueling, losing too fast, being hungry and binge rebounding. Take it slow and methodically. After 6-8…

welcome to MFP. The search engine is your friend here: But the best tip I can give- the one that worked for me- give it time, don’t give up, get involved here on the boards for support.

search engine is your friend Almost 90,000 results in this site alone, not include searching for trendy term “hack”: If you’re looking for a fast fix to “strip kilos”, no such animal. You’d be rich beyond your wildest dreams if you had a legit one. Heck? Even if you pawn a bogus one as an influencer, there’s enough…

I’m so overweight per se, I’m 5’ 10” and 149lbs. But recently the scales read 157. I’m hoping there is a typo somewhere in this sentence?

have you seen the videos of people doing “street lifting”?

I’m super proud of myself. I gave up all sugar free products after a dietician visit on January 7 pointed out to me I was having waaaaay too many servings per day. I needed to use up some cottage cheese and Greek yogurt, which ended up being on the high end of calories for homemade ice cream. So instead of sugar, I put 1/4…

the diuretics are also probably contributing to the fluctuations. You’re trying to drink more yet you’re trying to flush it out at the same time.

I walked with a weighted backpack when I was practicing for the Camino de Santiago, which I had booked for April 2020. 😢 I weighed everything I planned to take and loaded the backpack I’d bought with just a little more than that, and was doing about 8 miles a day, broken into pieces. Did this for two or three months, I…