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1- Trying to keep that in mind. I find it hard when I don't see 2 lbs every week. I'm way too hard on myself and I need to .. relax. boo. 2- i'm really short.. I don't need to eat as much as the average size person do. think.. 11 year old lol 3- trying! lol 4- I can't measure, i'ved tried.. rubbish at it.. but I do weigh…

Lol none taken. i've been teased about that all my life :P I don't need to eat 1200 a day. I make sure I do because I work out often and push myself. I know I can't build muscle if I don't eat my proteins lol.

thank you!

Added!! Congrats on 118!! woot!

I am going to try and take in more protein though and stop looking at my scale so much. I'm really pushing with weights. I go to the gym and I do the supreme 90 .. I'm lifting and sweating during my lifting. I do 12 reps x 3. by the last 2 reps of each rep, I nearly don't make it with the weights I use.

Yep. I don't drink liquids other than my one coffee a day. ( other than water) I will have a day or two a month I don't calculate my calories because I know they are higher. Had wine at a restaurant and I have no idea what my calorie intake was for that meal. Why bother when or get frustrated trying to figure it out when…

my scale is linked to mfp. it updates it whenever I weight myself. very convenient. I'm slowly going down... some weeks not so much, but overall yes..

Yep.. but it's hard sometimes not to when you feel your yardstick is lamen lol

Wow.. that was a lot of information in your last few responses! I will have to read them over a few times to get it all lol I do find I get all kinds of info that are all over the board. I hate when i'm told I don't eat enough if I don't always hit 1200. I eat a lot of nutritional foods and I'm never left hungry.

I'm 4 feet 10.5 inchs, 125 lbs, BMI 26.1 :/

I hate saying "fatter" but I think this is closer to the truth :neutral: I hate saying that. I see how little they work out because we state everything we do and eat. They cheat often.. and you know what. .. as I am writing this.. im JEALOUS.. that is what it's coming down town. this ugliness is me.. being jealous... I'm…

How long and by how much? Does it depend on my height and weight?

i've seen pics like that. They have "helped" to keep my mind off the scale, but I often think of them for very fit people. Hence why my goals are 105 lean or 110-115 toned. I never think of it for when you are overweight ( which I currently am).

Really? Hmm.. I always tried to stay away from "dieting" and just try and maintain healthy eating habits. Adaptive Thermogenesis? going to have to look that up.

I'm not loosing 2 lbs a week all the time.. Way less so now than before. Some weeks I'm working my behind off and GAINING weight.. boo. If I was loosing 2 lbs a week all the time every week without fail, I probably wouldn't be so annoyed with myself for not loosing 5-10 lbs like I see others do lol. I just need to take the…

Gawd yes!! I'm wearing a weight belt now to try and get the same type of walking workout I used to. Everything has to be so much more intense now to drop anything! I keep having to add to my workouts to try and keep up.

That seems so low!! lol I know I have to just relax.

Sugar is fine! it's better than artificial sweetners. I use Sugar and log it. I don't eat anything "diet" including fake sugars If you want to take sugar out, you can try honey?! It's not for me though. I eat so well the rest of my day that I don't mine the bit of sugar I put in my one coffee in the morning. Moderation.

I thought skin elasticity was really more an issue of genetics. What effects? I always heard up to 2 lbs was safe?

Good to know!

Thank you ! will be looking up those links! much appreciated!

i hope so!! I'm trying to lift as heavy as I can when i'm at the gym :) I just want to see results NOW NOW NOW! I need to learn patients. You are so right. I will keep trying to do that! thank you !!

Sorry, for a very long time. Unless I binged at night with chips and chocolates :/ which in the winter I often do. When I started counting calories, about 5 years ago, I counted the amount I was eating a day. It was usually around 12-1400 cal a day. ( unless I had chips and chocolates, which I never calculated for obvious…

No. I try and keep a 500 cal deficit. It is easier to do with fitbit and mfp. It calculates it for me. 1200? most of my life. I'm 4 feet 10.5 inches and so I can't keep up with most adult's food portions. I'm more the height of the average grade 6er lol. - Seriously though, no joke. I try not to "diet". I'm trying to eat…

Just asking, I thought what you ate did matter for weight loss because of fiber. I was always under the impression that if you ate foods higher in fiber that it would be beneficial for weight loss. Same as Protein will help build muscle.

You can do it! It is all about setting it as your lifestyle and sticking to it! I find it hard to keep at it during the winter and find myself start over every spring. boo. BUT YOU CAN DO IT!!!

I have to keep remembering this.. but when I can't, I love that you guys can help me get my ego back up to keep moving forward and pushing hard to keep working! Thank you!

we are doing scale pictures weekly. lol I hate doing those!! You guys are so right. I just, really needed to hear it this morning. SOO many thank-yous!

105 lean or 110-115 toned.

I eat for me. I figure out what portion size is right for me and calculate the calories for that.