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Thanks everyone! my SIL got into town right as that 100lb happened. I've since got a good 5lbs of water weight back up from sunburn, excessive walking (~20k+/day), and extra eatin'.

Today, this happened.

Yep! Me too. Because some things are worth spending your money on. Same with calories!

For me, what works is balancing my calories by week. So the days don't matter so much as the weekly total (I have a daily goal, of course, but I keep my eye on the weekly upper limits and have MFP set up to show me by week rather than by day). I also treat calories like money: I can save them and spend them later or now.…

I assumed that when you mentioned surgery. Especially surgery that will let you get more mobile / lead a healthier life. Keep up the motivation! The hard work and harder restriction right now will pay off in the end. Also, good luck with the surgery once you can get it!

Wow! Awesome!! Congrats! :smiley:

Good luck!! You can do it!!

I agree! Being miserable is not sustainable, but a certain amount of discomfort is growth. People can mistake discomfort at change/growth as miserable and fail back to old habits. It's important to try to become self-aware and inspect the things you (collective) feel when you feel them. Am I miserable? Or am I struggling…

No plan survives contact with the enemy. Paraphrased from the writings of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder by Correlli Barnett For me, this is apt in many parts of my life beyond weight loss. Since I am not truly at "war", this really serves to remind me to manage my expectations and make sure they do last beyond first…

I go through spurts where I am content to lose slowly and spurts where I want to be aggressive (healthy) and stick better to my goals to achieve a marginally increased projection. What that means is: I go to Costa Rica in 3 months. I know I won't drop significant weight (I aim for 1lb/week), but I want to make sustained,…

I can't edit my post... so them arrows came out funky. Apologies on that!

I should add: I calculate my current weight TDEE's weekly target every week. So I guess you could say I recalculate that one each week, but my target weight's TDEE never changes. So my numbers look a little like: WEEK> Jul 1 - Jul 7 Goal (from MFP Digest) ----> 11251 Logged (from MFP Digest) -->12600 Burned (from MFP…

I use MFP and tracking to see if I hit my personal range: TDEE needed to maintain my current weight (This is the point where I am making no changes; neither losing nor gaining. Anything over this, I'm in the true red and going backwards). TDEE needed to maintain my goal weight (This is the mid-tier number that I aim for.…

A whole different situation, but your words could be my words. I have a pair of pants that I love and got on clearance but they were in the wrong size. So I got the right size in another clearance sale but in the right size. I was so excited! This weekend, I felt pretty good overall. I wore summery stuff and felt like a…

Today I am up a pound (which does nothing for my hyper-focus on the dumb scale) because of water weight (I know it's not fat). But I hoofed my bum out onto a nature walk with a friend despite the burning ball in the sky that wants to fry me like pancakes on a griddle. (I had to go out decked in a hat and light UV jacket…

@NovusDies Yep. That is EXACTLY how I watch the scale. Like, c'mon. PONY UP THAT LAST POUND. Because I cannot feel like I can claim 100lbs if I've not actually lost 100lbs. I try to find ways to trick me out of my feels. Seeing Xkg on the scale means very little in terms of emotion. The numbers are so much smaller, but…

@LilSkittles22 Thank you, and yes! I will definitely have to be creative. Luckily, I still have a good chunk of time to prepare and come up with some ideas on how to stay motivated and hit goals!

At 5'5, my starting weight was 243lbs. Yesterday, I hit 144. (My all-time low at the beginning of June was 143.5). I'm still a pound away from that 100lb badge (grrr! It's hard not to focus on that, truth be told). I'm aiming for 123 (I like round numbers and 120lbs lost sounds better than 118 pounds lost and it's still in…

@NovusDies Wow! that is awesome! Congrats on achieving 2/3rds of your goal! It is definitely worthy of a moment of recognition! I totally understand not making a big deal out of things... I try not to as well, but that's in part because I'm afraid if I do, my goals will shriek and jump back into the bushes and I'll realize…

Ahhh, the scale. I have good days and bad days with the scale even though I'm largely able to abstract myself away from it's fluctuations. But I have issues with driving hard toward something that keeps slipping, even when I know that's the nature of life. Ie, I am up 1.5 lbs today, and I know *why* I am (water weight).…

I think that is a great expectation to set. The hardest part about weight loss for me isn't losing the weight. It's managing my expectations that go with losing the weight, because the heart wants the impossible!

@amkita Hats. XD Hats tell the tell when the subcutaneous fat in our scalp decreases. Hats and glasses! I don't measure my fingers (except by my rings) but I do measure my wrists. Now, I measure my wrists primarily because I also make jewelry, but it also helped to show where some weight came off, too.

@amkita You might be finding that you're losing inches in places you wouldn't think to measure! I am a numbers person. I looooove hard, concrete data. So I started taking measurements in all sorts of places: neck, upper arm, elbow, forearm, wrist, fingers, upper thigh, middle, etc. I noticed that I lost inches off my…

@jlucas210 I was also super picky! I joked that I could fit on one hand what I liked to eat. When I was little, my mother had battles with me (as a toddler) and I was stubborn enough to just not eat if I didn't like it. So, I totally appreciate the picky eater life! Baby steps -- that's the best way to describe this…

Whups, hit enter too early. So, don't be discouraged if you can't 'see' what others might. Or that you struggle to see the new you. It's not just you and you're not crazy, but this is part where you have to work on the mental. On loving yourself and accepting yourself. Tell yourself something positive! Today, I am AWESOME.…

@NovusDies Thank you!! I am really glad I took the plunge to join! :smiley: I am more than happy to share any and all experience I've had if it might help even one person. Even the points that aren't so awesome! One more thing I wanted to add: Losing weight does nothing on mental clarity. I am STILL struggling to see me as…

Hi! When I'm done, I will have hopefully lost 120 pounds. (That's my first goal, anyway, in the middle of my healthy bmi). With that said, it's a daunting number! How can anyone ever lose so much?! At least, those are the thoughts that swirled in my head after I realized that I needed to make a change. Now, the first thing…

@rheddmobile Yes! It has taken me a long time to realize this, but now that I have (my 'ah-hah!' moment came when I realized that because I'm so short-waisted petite tops actually fit pretty well over regular tops after my husband inadvertently brought some for me to try on.) It was an enlightening weekend! Both in mental…

When I lost the weight in 2012/2013, I was going to the gym (elliptical) and walking (Fitbit/10k steps/day). In 2013, I did a bit of recomp with 30 day shred (inspired by these forums) and months of the New Rules of Lifting for Women. I lost a bit of weight, but my body composition changed, I think. I wasn't good at…

NSV: I enjoy getting dressed for work now, and actually dither over what to wear because I have things that a) fit me, and b) I like, and c) that look good on me. So I have choices now. The downside comes with adding more time to getting ready. Also, I have embraced colored jeans. I have a pair of white jeans arriving this…