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It looks like totally different people. IN AWE! IN AWE! I bow down to you! Just 9 lbs? But it looks like TRUE fat loss. GOOD JOB!

The thing is..some of us did see professional dermatologists such as yourself. And nothing WORKED. Not until I finally got ACCUTANE. I don't even think it's available anymore. I went from 14 to 21 with horrific cystic acne using every thing under the sun that the derm prescribed. Not until I went to a different derm and…

being voted ugliest girl in my senior high school class. they put the poster right there on my locker. I remember pretending to laugh and then running to the bathroom and crying in a stall for HOURS! I vowed that i would one day be pretty. That pretty much pushed me to focus on fitness. Many years...later...my 20 year…

my butt! Used to hate it. Used to be made fun of..I had to overcome the asian women have flat butt stereotype. (and I am only half!) Millions of stepup and lunges later...goodbye flat butt. ;)

At a big corporate gym I used to belong to; once a month there was pizza, chips,wings, and soda night for the members! Right next to the treadmills. Evil!

For a while i was making this kale chicken salad I had for almost two weeks straight with half of a avocado added... I was so stuffed...especially if I had it for lunch that i couldn't eat dinner! I tried it once without the avocado to save calories...and didn't feel that satiety. So yes..more cals but in the recipe but I…

accutane! I had REALLY bad acne as a teen and into my twenties. When I finally got it...it went away and stayed away for more than 10 years. Later on I had another bout of adult acne when I got pregnant but never was bad like it was when I was a teen. I actually went super low carb not that long ago and my face cleared…

I second that! I used to have a really bad anterior pelvic tilt. As soon as I realized it and worked on correcting it- tummy tightened. I also drink lots of water.....double the recommendation and when I get enough water..I have flat abs!

not my friends...but my own sisters. My sisters...one of them says I have no butt. The other always posts about how far she's run on facebook..i.e. almost everyday she posts, "I ran 5 miles today!" and I always congratulate her. Give her kudos. And other people do too. Today I posted on my own facebook page that I won a…

You look fabulous!!! I ruined my body too by lifting heavy. ;)

Bump! I love zucchini!

Nice obliques!!!

Actually that's all I do- Walk briskly back and forth to work. No other cardio besides that. But I do keep my cals in check and lift super heavy at the gym. If I wanted more freedom with my eating and didn't lift so heavy, then my outlook on cardio might change. Also like someone mentioned before,, enough cardio for what…

Alcohol makes me hungry. I try to avoid it.., except for special occasions. I will end up eating all sorts of crap if I ingest ETOH, especially carbs!

same thing happened with me. FOr some reason the cheapest protein shake(thank god for it being cheap!) was the one that did not bloat me! Everytime I go into a GNC the sales people try to talk me into a higher cost protein shake(most of which I have tried in my attempts to find one that doesn't make me bloat!) and dissuade…

Cheese curds! I just bought some from my local Farmers Market not that long ago. SOOO good. Also bought the best cupcakes I have ever tasted at the Farmers Market and even though I am not vegan..there was a vegan booth with really good vegan dinners.

I live in chitown too! I will also hunt down that cake!

I'm a morning exerciser. Been that way since I was in the military. Also I find if I work out in the morning, I make better food choices later. I also have worked out in the pm (and probably will go back to that schedule once school starts since I am a school nurse) and I find I lift less in the pm than in the am! I am…

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I don't think guys should be eating back their cals either. Big muscles and big belly. NOt attractive.

is the op eating back cals becuase she is getting too thin? Is she trying to lose weight? If so, I don't suggest eating back cals unless she is trianing like you are.

maybe not EVERYONE runs tris! The thing is I had a weight problem because I was eating for "recovery" following the advice of marathoners,triathleste, elite athletes when I was just a normal person doing workouts that weren't that level. I could see having to eat back cals if you are training for something like that..but…

Oh please. I AM STRONG.. I have had lots of weight to lose in the past. I've been up to 160. How many pullups can you do? I am not a skinny chic. I am actually pretty frakkin defined.

I NEVER eat back my exercise cals. Or at least I try not to. http://aprilfitness.shutterfly.com/pictures/8 And my goodness...just look at my picture and my vid.. It obviously isn't working for me. ;)

Well I am 5'3 and and 117 in my pictures. http://aprilfitness.shutterfly.com/pictures/8 and sometimes you want to not just be thin. You want to take it to exceptional. It's not always about weigh tthough. But at 122..I still didn't like my shape. By the time I got to 117..I was there. If you look at my vid...there I am in…

I made a video- http://aprilfitness.shutterfly.com/pictures/8

5'3. Currently 116 lbs as of today. I am usually anywhere between 1200 -1600. I usually have a 1600 cal day once a week, a 1200 day twice and the rest are usually in between. Am maintaining. my body seems to know when to take that 1600 cal day now.. I am not afraid of the high cal day now. It's just not everyday which…

YUM!! I just gained weight looking at that cake.

DANCING! And I am not talking about Zumba or Jazzercise. Dancing socially, with no thought to doing it for calorie burn... http://youtu.be/kEqSr5mlA5o I remember after I got out of the army- I gained 15 lbs. I took it off quickly just by dancing. I didn't intend to use it as a way to lose weight. I gained 10 lbs and…

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