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I lost about 90 lbs total, and have kept it off for about 6 months. Granted I don't have the same issues because I am about a foot taller than the OP, so have a lot more calories to play with, but some things that have kept my eating in check are to only eat at the same times I was eating during the diet phase, and most…

Simple rules - Check the ego at the door. Ego doesn't work well in a gym. You are there to sweat and work out, nothing else - Get over it. Whatever your particular it is likely to be, leave that at the door too. - Get off the machines if you aren't using them. Rest between sets, fine. Chit chatting with your buddies about…

Honestly, Old Yeller. Watched that movie when I was eight or nine, bawled like a baby. Haven't watched it since. Man's gotta have some composure. Return of the King with Samwise and Frodo...even though there's a certain gay vibe there the book just doesn't bring across.

What I did, ironically enough, was didn't tell anyone I was dieting. If someone mentioned it, other than my wife, I would say "oh, really?" I didn't even start posting on MFP until I was down close to my goal. By keeping it to myself, the weight loss became more about me than anyone else, and that was what was critical.…

It should take about 2 seconds to do an average sit up, which means more 30 per minute, at 9 calories a minute it's about .33 calories per sit up. I usually rattle off 100 in sets of 20 with a short rest in between.

I usually eat a bagel thin (everything bagel), slice of cheese, and a couple slices of deli cut turkey or ham. Whole thing is 200-210 calories (depending on the meats and cheese) and extremely tasty besides. Never could get into the grains for breakfast thing, even as a kid.

Yeah, as far as the abstract goes, the n (that is the sample size) is relatively low to not rule out other factors. The fact that all the participants were relatively young tells me that it was likely a study done at a university with the subjects being students. As a college student I already did a good 30-60 minutes of…

Really, for me it was three things. 1) I had a support system in place for not only allowing myself to gain, but actively encouraging behaviors that would increase my size. Every social event we went to was an eating event (dinner, lunch, etc). My wife would give me leftovers constantly when she couldn't finish her meals.…

I'm trying to maintain, but it's not as easy as losing was. With birthdays, holidays, celebrations, and all sorts of other "eating" occasions, maintaining isn't really all that easy. But I am in that category, as I lost all the weight I should and remain healthy.

"Man up" never ends well. Same with "grow a pair" and "suck it up". "Is something wrong?" again never works.

Condiments, coffee, diet soda, and spices. I track everything else

Okay, semi real answer. Christina Hendriks Selma Hayek Christina Applegate (I've had a thing for her since I was a teen, so there you go) Kate Beckinsale Mila Kunis

The first five to say yes when I ask?

I've found that the biggest problem I had when starting out was I changed too much too quickly. After the third or fourth time of faltering, I finally decided to change smaller things. If portion size is your problem, that one is actually pretty easy to fix. When ever you go to portion something out for yourself, go ahead…

I have a salad with every dinner, and now eat about a third of what I used to of the main meal. Very filling, and about 120 calories with dressing, cheese, and tomatoes

44 inch waist did it for me. My wife bought me pants with a 44" waist, and I just looked at them and thought "wow, these are fricken huge". When they fit, I couldn't think anything but that I was fricken huge by associations. I'm now down to a 34 inch waist. Way better for the ego.

scramble, put in ceramic bowl, hit the one minute quickset, consume. I usually put mine on a bagel thin with a slice of cheese.

Don't know if this has been said, but the increase in technology is a huge factor. When I was a kid we had to get up to change the channel. There wasn't much on TV, and Betamax and VHS had limited options, so we spent a lot of time doing stuff, going out, playing, working on the house, etc. Now we get thousands of channels…

Anything in my stomach before a workout other than water is likely to make me throw up. I have to wait a minimum of 3 hours between the last time I ate and my workout.

I get this all the time from my wife. The problem is that it took me 12 years or so to pack in the weight, and about 7 months to take it all off. So she has in her head this concept of what I should look like, and what I do look like is nothing like it. The other part is that we were supposed to lose weight together, but…

It can be done, but it's not easy. A lot of diet changes will get you going, but you have to put in the work at the gym, exercising a lot, saying no and walking away from food when you really don't want to, etc. I've passed on pizza, donuts, cakes, all kinds of stuff. Just remember, any diet change you make is likely to be…

To be honest, I would be shocked if you did notice a real difference just by staring in the mirror. We look at ourselves every day, so we don't see the changes. Go visit someone you haven't seen in a while and see if they notice. That should give you some indication of how far along you have come.

I give myself an iffy 7, if you like tall red heads, which I don't... Personality wise, a 6 with coffee. An 8 or 9 with alcohol. Without either, well, the scale doesn't go that low.

On women, sure. On myself, not so much.

^^^^^this

It has always amazed me how convinced people are that their way is the only way...ever. It's like yelling at a beaker because the liquid turned blue when it wasn't supposed to. You can not, ever, argue with results. Short answer, what works for you works for YOU, and ONLY YOU.

I just factored the workout calories into my "activity level" and did not eat them back. Then again, I rarely got close to my goal calories, usually netting way less. I can't afford to eat the healthy foods I do at twice the volume I do, and I have no desire to put crap into my body to make up for a fabricated "deficit"

A few of them: "This is a good weight for my height" "I carry my weight well" "It doesn't matter what I weigh, I have a good personality"

Shortly after running into a screen door that I failed to open as I came up to it, my mother gave me the best advice I have ever heard... "You just have to be smarter than the door" Oh, and another pearl of wisdom, though I don't know if she borrowed it or not, "The only person you can fool all the time is yourself"

Seems a recurring myth that all redheads are irish...