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First things first: Congratulations on such a huge success in your weight loss journey! What an amazing feat!! :happy: Second, I want to point out to you that regardless of how you actually look, or feel you look, your body is a gift. It functions for you on a daily basis; performing tasks that you never have to conciously…

Thank you SO much for posting this!! Learning about the different body types really helped me to better understand my own body's fat deposit patterns and how to optimize my diet and exercise for my body type. I was able to google more information and once again I feel empowered and excited to keep on my weight loss path!…

One of the biggest lessons I've learned from my two month adventure of trying to lose my excess fat and gain more muscle is that food & calories are NOT the enemy! When my trainer advised me that I needed to consume 1370 calories per day (0nly 30 grams of fat per day), I kept trying to keep my calories just barely over…

Here is the flip side to this BMI conundrum. I'm 5' 10" and when I started MFP, I weighed 170 which is still within a 'healthy' BMI range. However, two weeks ago, when I had a body composition done by a to reveal my fat percentage, muscle percentage, etc., it turns out that I'm 37% fat which is outside of the healthy…