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Not silly! I am here precisely because you guys think before forming an opinion and question everything. That and the part where you know stuff. In no particular order, I have come to this conclusion because: - I get sore and tired around the midsection when I try to sit with good posture - Planks and other core exercises…

Thank you! I found that extremely useful, especially the parts about how to ride in traffic.

Charlie, I've definitely had issues with binge eating in the past (that loss of control feeling) and although it wasn't due to depression I think my suggestions might still be relevant for you. For me, weight loss and fitness are easy, even pleasant, when I am paying attention and my logical brain is in charge. I can…

Social support is great, but remember that just having people pester you is not going to solve the underlying problems. If you're making bad eating choices (cake for breakfast, for example) the important thing is to understand why you're doing that and address it. Maybe you're starving yourself and it's leading to…

My question is about my weak core and bad posture. I'm overweight (currently 195ish pounds at 5'5") but very physically active. I do physical labour regularly (helping with a family landscaping business), plus I rock climb, run, walk, and do some bodyweight strength training. I'm also just getting into biking. I feel great…

June 3 - 2.4 miles

Vegetables are your friend! They're pretty low in calories but they offer a lot of nutrients and they fill you up. Try roasting different veggies in a light coating of olive oil. Try eating different veggies raw as snacks: I like carrots, cucumber, zucchini, and cauliflower. Steaming veggies, like broccoli, is a great way…

Thanks! I've used Endomondo for running before and it looks like they have a cycling mode too. Going to give that a try. Off to the local bike shop for a reflective vest and some tubes.

Glad your husband is okay. That sounds stressful! It sounds like you're having trouble with consistency with food logging might be part of why you're not losing the way you want. You say that when you were on track you weighed and measured most of your food. What does "most" mean? How long did you do that for? What kind of…

Welcome! It's very possible. I started at 265 and I'm down to 195 and still going. Set a reasonable calorie target for your eating and get used to tracking your food accurately. A food scale is cheap, and it's the most accurate way to log foods. Get active in some way you enjoy. Take small steps. Be patient and be…

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Welcome! I started at 265 pounds, and I'm 195 now and still going. A lot of what you're saying is very familiar to me from back when I started, except that I waited until I was 30! Do it now, and do it the healthy lasting way - no fads, no gimmicks. Keep it simple: create a reasonable calorie deficit, which means eating…

Happy to have found this thread! I biked as a kid, and for (short-distance) transportation in university, but that was a while ago now. I remember really loving it, and I want to get back into it. I'm starting out small: I'd like to bike 25 miles in June and figure out how to be less terrified of cars. Two days ago I…

Hey all! I'm back to MFP after a lull of not logging for about 10 months. It's good to see some activity in this group! I lost a bunch of weight using MFP and then took a maintenance break, but now I'm back to logging because I feel like it's time to lose the rest and keep my fitness improving. I live in Boston with my…

I've never experienced depression personally but I had a long-term relationship with someone who was depressed, so I thought maybe I could offer something from that perspective. I loved her very much and wanted to help her see all of the wonderful things about her that I saw but she couldn't seem to see. I tried to cheer…

I definitely understand what's it's like to have a lot of weight to lose. I started at about 265 - I'm about 190 now and very happy with that, but looking to get down to about 145 and increase fitness. For me it's not just about weight loss, but general life improvement: when I eat better I feel better about myself. More…

Hey HolliBeth. Welcome and congratulations to both you and your daughter for getting started! When I first started a few years ago, I knew nothing about fitness or health. It took a while, but I learned a lot about nutrition and changed the way I eat. I started at 265 pounds and dropped down to 175 in about a year, by…

For a long time, I had a vague desire to lose weight, but I didn't, because it required eating healthy food in moderation and exercising. And I didn't want to make those changes, or felt I couldn't for various reasons. Eventually, when I was ready, I lost weight pretty easily, without feeling miserable...because all it…

You answered your own question yourself: you just started tracking calories one week ago. Although you were working out since December, you were probably eating more calories than you realized. If you only had an average calorie deficit of 250 calories per day, that would explain your rate of loss. Now that you're…

This is the approach I took and I have lost 90 pounds (265-175). I'm 5'5". At my current weight (175) I burn 2300-2700 calories per day depending on what I'm doing. This includes about 45-60 minutes a day of walking briskly with my dog, plus a regular lifting schedule and other outdoor fun stuff/chores on top of that. I…

I've developed some tricks and shortcuts to make logging a bit easier. Things like: - I have a whiteboard on the fridge, so while I'm cooking or putting my meal together I can scribble it down and enter it in later when I have time. - Recipes that I make frequently I enter into the "My Recipes" tool in MFP. Enter it once,…

Feel free to add me! I'm a lesbian in my early 30's, in a happy long term relationship, currently trying to get my weight loss back on track (I lost a lot, then maintained for a year, now trying to get myself refocused to lose the rest) so new friends would be great for me right now.

Informative and interesting, as always. Thanks!

Sorry to hear you're feeling down. I have definitely been there, and I am sure many other people here can relate. I suggest trying to use your frustration as fuel for change. Are you sick of feeling frustrated and sad, sick of feeling unhappy with your body? If so, there are things you can do to feel better, and it's…

Yeah, I've had a BodyMedia FIT for a while now, and I love it. I originally bought it because I was losing weight faster than I expected (i.e. faster than my models predicted) which I found alarming because I wondered if it indicated a health issue. I had a physical and came back with flying colours, so then I bought the…

This post made me a very happy data geek. I have a similar history (successful loss, complacency leading to slight backsliding, then a wakeup call that got me back on track) and a similar stack of graphs to document it. I think data collection and graphing are incredibly powerful tools for understanding and controlling…

Having the same issue. This used to work for me without any problem, and I haven't changed anything. Sounds like it's a technical issue on BM or MFP's end; hopefully they fix it soon.

The calorie goal MFP gives you creates a fairly large deficit, but you can have a smaller deficit (i.e. be over your MFP goal, but under TDEE - total daily energy expenditure) and lose weight just fine. For example, say MFP tells you to eat 1500 calories per day to lose one pound per week. That means it thinks you burn…

Yeah, Fat2Fit is pretty decent although in some of their older podcasts they do have some misinformation. The more recent stuff is better. I like the Nutrition Diva Quick and Dirty Tips podcasts. She's very sensible and objective and I like her perspective. However her podcasts are much shorter than what you're looking…

I have a BodyMedia armband which I link with MFP. It's awesome. Based on your current rate of burn, it is estimating you'll burn 165 calories more than your target. Think of it like a projection for the day, based on the data of what you have done so far . Like the previous poster said, the calories it calculated so far…