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Very sorry to hear this...your strength comes through in your postings, but I know how hard this is to go through, having personal experience with this....we are here for you.

9/3: Walk for 90 minutes Bank all my exercise calories (500) Teach 2 classes (Accounting) Run errands Take dog to park Be REALLY nice to my wife.

Welcome CDL. We have all arrived here with a lot of weight to lose. My dog makes me exercise every morning! That habit got established and has made losing weight possible....,I have a terrible time losing if I don't exercise....anyway, glad you're here!

That seems to be the way I lose weight too. A couple of weeks of bouncing and then 2-3 lbs seemingly for no reason.

I love it when I obtain a goal early......you've come a long way in a short time....I hope you keep beating your goals!

Aug 26 Me. 21 Binge 2 Days BF 17

My weight finally dipped below 250 after a two week plateau. Now my BMI is 34.9, just enough to cross the line between morbidly obese and just plain obese. 7.3% reduction in weight, over two months. Next goal is 225 by year end. Need to lose 1.5 lb. Per week average to do that.

Aug 25 Me. 20 Binge 2 Days BF 16

What is the 1% rule?

Great job! I am in a similar position in that I am almost to the obese category, started in the morbidly obese. I keep flirting with that 35 BMI point.

My goal for this week is to eat just the base calories allotted to me without considering any exercise calories. My goal for exercise for the next week is a minimum of 500 calories burned per day.

Aug 23 Me 20 Binge 2 DBF 14

Thanks so much.....it works

How do you copy a previous post that you want to reply to? I see most of the group doing this but I haven't been able to figure it out.

Aug 20 Me. 17 Binge 2 Days BF 11

Aug 19 Me. 16 Binge 2 Days BF 10

@conniewilkins56 You may feel like you're barely hanging on but we are here beside you and if you fall off the wagon we'll pick you up and throw you back on...

Aug 18 Me. 15 Binge 2 Days BF 9

Naz_2020 I just went through a two week plateau that was very discouraging....the suddenly I was down two pounds. So I put my scale away, only to be brought out once a week on weigh day. I understand your dilemma...just hang in there like everyone kept telling me.

Aug 17 Me. 14 Binge 2 Days BF 8

Connie: Right after I posted this morning I got on the scale and it registered 250.4, my lowest weight yet. 8 weeks ago I set tomorrow 8/17 as my day to weigh 250 lbs...if I round down to the nearest lb. I have arrived there. So I dropped 2 lbs. since yesterday! WTH? Maybe the Scale Gods heard me whining all week. I'll go…

Aug 16 Me 13 Binge 2 BF 7

bmeadows380 My wife complains about this all the time.....so she buys a lot of her clothes from the thrift store...people are evidently getting rid of their "old fashioned" clothes

I've been sitting at 250-252 for 2 weeks now... I'm thinking of changing my goal to 1 1/2 lbs. per week and trying not to eat back any of my exercise calories.....that rate of weight loss would put me at 225 on 1/1/21. Any ideas on whether this makes sense? I just need to make some kind of change....

Hi Alisa: I am already one of your friends but I did want to congratulate you on such an accomplishment! Chris

Aug 15 Me: 12 Binge: 2 Days BF: 6

The day I picked up Darwin from his foster home....he is a rescue dog from Roswell, NM. A beagle/terrir mix and the cutest dog I've ever seen..

Aug 13 Me 10 Binge 2 BF 4

I avoid mirrors at all cost.

conniewilkins56 Amen! You said exactly what I was thinking.....when I looked at my medical records with my doctor and realized that everything wrong with me was directly related to my obesity....and that it would just keep getting worse if the trend continued, I had to acknowledge the 800 lb gorilla in the room. The idea…