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True story -- had finger-bruises on my arm and had a very nice lady attempt to drag me to the women's shelter.

I dropped from 38DD to 34F/32G depending on brand. I wish I could share it with you all who lost it!

You're awesome and I want to be you. Especially that bench, hoo boy!

I gained cup sizes when I lost weight because more of it came off the band. But OP, getting a really good sports bra that fits has made a world of difference. (For the record, my bra size converts to your size as either 75H or 70I -- depending on brand which one fits better). With a good, properly fitting bra, I can run…

Cutting out full-sugar soda is definitely a contributing factor for me. Without that ~700 calories a day, I'm maintaining a hell of a lot lower without really trying. Edited: To be clear, the only difference I've observed is because of the calories, not the sugar. When I cut calories but kept a lot of soda, I lost at very…

I see you've got 80 kilos to lose -- what goal did MFP give you, and how much did you tell them you wanted to lose?

I eat at bizarre schedules and times and still lose as long as I track. If it has an effect, it's small.

If you have just started working out it is possible that your body is retaining water from the unaccustomed exercise.

When I started, I treated any day under maintenance as a victory. It meant that no matter how achingly slow, I was still going to be headed in the correct direction after today.

You'll probably be a lot less sore tomorrow. There are a lot of times (especially after switching stuff up) when I'm agonizingly sore on the day after and barely ache at all the next day.

I just have two good ones. After every workout I hang them up to air, and they seem to do fine between launderings.

1) You don't really need to exercise to lose weight. Where it's really relevant is for optimal cardiovascular health. 2) The "burning fats" vs. "burning sugars" is irrelevant through the course of a day. Your body needs x calories per day to maintain its weight, and if it receives less than that, it will go through its…

I didn't gain it all back, but I gained a bunch back during my last year of graduate school. I was quite depressed and gorged myself on my old favorite foods. However, I got re-started and I'm quite a bit lower now than my former lowest weight :) Advice, if you do stop tracking: 1) Weigh regularly. It is much harder to lie…

Depends on how much you lose from the chest. My chest measurement has only gone down one bloody inch so most of the stuff I wore before just looks like potato sacks now (far too loose around the middle).

Um ... by definition, a kilogram is 1000 grams.

What the **** kind of a complete and utter moron tells someone who is NOT EVEN OUT OF UNDERWEIGHT to eat less? Yeah, get a new doctor, preferably one who has some experience with eating disorders, but at least one who's not a moron. Also, kudos to you for having your head on straight enough to not listen to him.

I eat a lot of chicken, beans or lentils, and frozen veggies. I buy chicken dark meat and use the bones to make broth to cook the beans in, and I eat a little more fat and a little less protein than I'd really like to if I were affluent.

If it works for you and you feel less hungry there, great. I hate eating like this because I constantly feel peckish. Also I wake up in the night feeling hungry. I prefer to eat twice a day, once in the early afternoon before workout and once in the evening after workout. That way I get to go to bed satiated and I sleep…

No, because once you get closer to actually maintaining, you'll start actually having enough energy to repair muscles/replenish glycogen/etc. This won't make you look any fatter or make your waist bigger, but it'll cause you to have more water retained which will make the scale number go up.

As others said, you lose them or you don't -- it's all luck. But smaller boobs can look bigger on a skinny body than bigger boobs on a fat body.

OP: 1-1.5 lbs/week is far too rapid for someone with your activity level and current body fat level. You have posted earlier about feeling uncomfortable with your body, being thin and not being able to see it, feeling cold, weak, and hungry all the time, and now you have said you are fainting. You might not be too thin…

What is an incredibly slow pace to you? You've lost almost 100 lbs in the last 14 months by my calculations, and I'm wondering if what's seeming incredibly slow to you is still pretty rapid. It's normal for someone who's far into obese territory to be able to lose faster than someone who is only overweight. The biggest…

Also cottage cheese is pretty easy, if I'm out somewhere I sometimes just stop and buy a tub and eat it.

Some things I just avoid. Cookies, popcorn, and potato chips -- I don't care how pre-measured the serving is, I will go get more. I only buy them when I'm about to go to a party and can share, or when I've done a monster workout and can justify them.

I've done it -- worked my way up to 500 actually -- but I was trying to work on muscular endurance for something completely different. It didn't change much about my rear though. I got a lot more change when I decided I had enough muscular endurance and started increasing intensity instead.

No, this is not actually correct. Many food trackers do work that way, but not MFP. If you enter a higher activity level because of your workouts (or if you get your calorie goal elsewhere where you took them into account), THEN you would not enter or track them back. But the 3x/week goal for workouts doesn't change your…

I don't know who on earth told you "borderline overweight" but 5 4 and 135 is nowhere near overweight. Borderline overweight for you according to the BMI calculator would be 145-146. Could they have mis-entered either your height or weight? This cute little thingie will not only calculate your BMI but tell you where you…

What do you mean by "only slightly come down?" I'm guessing you're not very tall -- 5 2 or 5 1 -- otherwise 135 wouldn't give you a borderline overweight BMI -- but if so, you dropped almost 5 points. That's a huge drop! That puts you from borderline obese to borderline overweight. BMI is definitely an imperfect measure.…

That's where I started a while back and I usually ate 1400-1600 net depending on whether I was trying to fuel a heavy workout or not (I do martial arts). Some days I'd just say "stuffit" and eat maintenance because I really wanted the extra energy that day. My personal viewpoint was that each maintenance day would only…

Assuming you're not dehydrated at the moment, odds are that you were losing fat all along but water retention was masking the fat loss.