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Fantastic. With that kind of discipline you can accomplish a lot of other things too.

Good work. My food is also about 40-40-20. It's a sustainable level of reduced carbs but not what is usually called "low carb" which for me is not sustainable. As far as BMI, I find it useful, but not to determine if I'm fat. I look in the mirror and if I see a fat person, then I'm fat. If so, the BMI will tell me how fat…

First of all, your feelings are normal. When I was losing weight, I figured out that far-away goals were insufficiently motivating. I needed to win every day. So I quit focusing on my weight and started focusing on my daily plan. Every day that I followed my plan I was a success. If I failed one day, I knew I could win the…

Awesome job!

We all see ourselves in harsher light than others do. All I see is that you made progress and look good. Keep it up.

I'm at my desk writing a report. When this thread started, I was a college freshman.

I intermittently fast instinctively and only recently learned it's a thing.

I'm here. Hello.

I'm not a likely friend/support match but kudos for coming back. Everyone loves a good comeback story.

I've been on MyFitnessPal for 8 years and on maintenance for 7. I still can't just do this intuitively. It's because my hunger is more than just physical. If I'm at home doing office work, I'm hungry all the time. As soon as I leave the house and become active, hunger ceases even if I haven't eaten. I don't like it but…

" I know I’m fat. I’d have to be an idiot not to know that." From time to time I've seen people ask how they can tell a relative that they are concerned about their weight and every time I tell them "just don't. They already know and your telling them will only add to their feeling bad. " Sorry you are having to deal with…

I learned that when people achieve a certain level of weight loss and fitness success, some of them think they've discovered some universal secret and begin proselytizing. There is a lot of variety among people and each person's genetic makeup matters.

I do all my own yard work. Mowing and edging takes about an hour and a half. Good calorie burn, plus I'm good at it.

That's how I handle excess too. I log it and make myself face it as punishment. ;-) Some people only log the good days. At least that's what they tell me.

It was an acquired taste for me and I make my own and eat it straight with no sweetener or fruit. I love it now. I didn't like beer at first either.

I wish I could help but I love veggies. It might be a generational thing. I'm somewhat (read:very) old.

Everyone is different but I'm a lifer. I tracked, lost weight and went back to intuitive eating. It worked for quite a while but then I gained weight and went back to tracking. I've been on maintenance for almost 5 years.

I spent my career in the radio business and I retired but retirement got old real fast and what used to be my hobby is now my freelance job: web developer. It's a blast.

The message boards are frequently idiotic so I never noticed anything different.

We've been married 33 years. It works because we're on the same page on all major issues. If one of you wants to get married and the other doesn't it COULD be a problem in your relationship whether you get married or not. It depends on if it's important to both of you. Get married and the one who didn't want to get married…

It's rationalization. Pay no attention to what people call it. If you're 40 you're 40. I'm over 60 and people tell me it's the new 50... or 40... or something. We all get older. I deal with it instead of telling myself I'm the new something.

I'm done with everyday shaving and wearing suits. I did both for a long time. I shave but on a very irregular basis. As a bonus, my wife likes it when I don't shave.

There are some questions best left to professionals. I hope you will ask a doctor about that.

You can do it!

In 2007 I tracked calories and then stopped when I got to maintenance. I gained it all back and then some. In 2011 I started tracking again and went on maintenance again in 2012. I'm still tracking. Whatever I do to gain weight, it will come back if I stop doing it. I will point out however, that my tracking on maintenance…

Should I eat back my exercise calories? Oh wait, wrong board.

I didn't lose anything for the first week including water loss. It happens. I just focused on following my plan and trusted that it would happen. It eventually did, but it wasn't a straight line. My weight loss graph looked like a saw at a slightly downward angle.

Beer. Not out-of-control addicted but damn I love beer, especially IPA. Wine? Meh.

You probably have nothing to do with his weight gain but you can't change him either. Marrying someone and then trying to change him/her is inadvisable. I gained about 40 pounds myself and my wife was wise enough to never say a thing about it. She knew I'd do something about it when I couldn't stand myself anymore and…