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I often have well meaning family and friends who tell me that I look fine, and I don't need to lose weight, even though i'm obese. Most of my family is also obese, diabetic, and unhealthy, so as far as I'm concerned, what do they know about my health? My husband often tells me that while he agrees I need to lose weight, he…

I'm torn, on one hand I wish I wasn't so "into" food, but on the other hand the idea of not being a foodie and not enjoying the tastes and textures that I eat, is horrible to me lol. I love food, it's more of a matter of just controlling how much I enjoy it. :)

I weigh myself daily as well, but I do also take those weigh ins with a grain of salt, literally. I know that if I just pigged out the day before, I probably have a lot of water weight because of the salt intake, so I don't decide what kind of damage it did until after 2-3 days, to let my body release all the water weight…

Add me to the naughty ladies who store phones in the bra, haha. I only put my phone in my bra at the gym when I go, and because i'm so hugely chested AND too poor to afford better sports bras, I have to wear two. It fits well in between the two. I know I really need to A) get some better sports bras, and B) get something…

I think overall I'd prefer to be stronger, the running is really a secondary thing i'm trying to incorporate, in order to increase my stamina overall. The only reason I can't split it to do lifting one day and running the next, is because I'm also doing taekwondo three days a week. So that limits the number of times I can…

Thank you ladies!! I actually was able to do my squats with the empty bar today, which thrilled me :D I am still struggling with overhead presses, I thought I could swing using two 20lb dumbbells, but I failed to complete one of my sets with them, so I'll be doing that weight again next time. I'm enjoying it so far, my…

If you do wake up in the night hungry, and you really can't turn over and get back to sleep, I would get up and eat a light snack, yes. In fact, I did that last night, I woke up at around 3am to go to the restroom, and went back to bed to find that I was very hungry and felt a little queasy from it. I couldn't get back to…

Unsweetened tea is literally just flavored water. It's an infusion of the flavoring of the tea leaves into the water. So yeah, it's pretty much zero calories. Also, I'm with Naomi, I know it's not good for you but I do use splenda in my iced tea. But I don't drink a TON of tea, and I've found 2 packets of splenda per…

By the time I lost around 14 pounds, I had lost half an inch on my neck, an inch on each thigh, one inch on my waist and two inches on my hips. I haven't really been monitoring my chest or bust lately. I probably should, lol. :)

Fruit is good for you, it's typically low in calories and highly rich in vitamins.As far as people saying that the sugars in fruit and cookies are created equal, I would say that I highly doubt anybody ever got overweight or obese because they had too much fruit in their diet, but cookies however... lol.

I know people who have had great success on WW and lost a great deal of weight, and kept it off. My grandmother in particular lost over 100 pounds about 5 years ago and has kept it off, despite all of her health problems (diabetes, glaucoma, congestive heart failure, you name it). I went on it and found moderate success,…

I have a pair of size 18 capri shorts I bought last year during the summer, and I wore them to work today. They were sliding down most of the day, lol. Yesterday I had the same problem with a pair of my dress pants, they look like clown pants now lol.

I'm not doing too badly myself, although that's probably because I gave up burgers for lent (my favorite thing ever lol). I seriously cannot wait until Sunday when I can go treat myself and order one object of my affection lol.

That isn't too much. Don't listen to him, sounds like he's insecure and jealous. I go to the gym 3 days a week to do heavy weight lifting and to work on running, overall that's an hour workout. Then I still do taekwondo (which is moderate to high intensity for me) another 3 days a week. If you feel good and you're being…

Just pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and move on. I had a major binge moment on Monday night (my first one in a couple months), and ate double the amount of calories I should have eaten in the day. Next morning, I got up and went right back to eating right and keeping track of my calories. It did do a little damage…

I agree with this! I am shocked that you can't see the change in yourself, your abdomen looks half the size from the side and so much flatter. You look fantastic, congratulations on making your halfway point! :D

Here is basically what I do, and it works for me, hopefully it makes sense and maybe it'll work for you or others. I work a sedentary desk job, so in order to "lose 2lbs a week" i'm only allowed around 1200 calories a day, which I feel is too low, and i'm always starving. BUT, I also work out consistently (at least three…

Also, if you want any more advice or anything, send me a message, I'll talk to my husband, and he can give you a better idea of what it feels like to push "too hard" than I can. :) But in general terms though, usually if you're getting lightheaded or dizzy, your heart is racing, or you're having trouble breathing, then you…

My husband has also dealt with this exact problem. He was born with several major deformities in his heart, been through 4 open heart surgeries in his life,etc. He has also been told by his cardiologists that he is cleared to exercise, but not to push himself "too hard". Unfortunately, as far as how hard that is, that is…

Whenever I would go on diets in the past, I used to say my grandma losing 100+ pounds was my inspiration, and not wanting to look like the rest of my family (morbidly obese), fear of diabetes and other health problems were my motivation, but honestly I've found it's not really any of those things (although they are…

It depends. Usually I will go and workout, because I find that once I'm there and doing it, I don't want to stop. But if I go home from work and I am literally physically and mentally drained (and yes, there is definitely a difference between being tired and being drained), then I will skip it. Or rest awhile and see if…

DEFINITELY go and exercise again today! Every single time I've started a new exercise to do routinely, I've had agonizing soreness, and the second day is always the worst. But the only thing to do is go to the gym and work out again. You don't have to do quite as high intensity as you did the first day if it's really bad,…

Wow, that is an amazing transformation!! Congrats to you! :D

Thank you everyone! I'm going to try the suggestions given to me. :) Unfortunately i'm working a desk job and can't move around as much as i'd like, but tonight i'm going to taekwondo, i'm sure that will be fun lol :P.

Usually boredom, but that's less confusion and more KNOWING I'm bored and going to the kitchen for something to do (aka shove in my face). For a long time when I wasn't eating right, I confused feeling sick from poor nutrition with being hungry. I couldn't tell if I was nauseated or hungry.

I can relate to everything Brandolin has said here. :) I did all those things, I'm definitely an emotional eater. I would lose weight, be doing really well for about a month, and then go "oh heck with it, if I eat ONE horrible meal at burger king it won't hurt anything in the long haul". But then I wouldn't stop there. I'd…

Girl I feel your pain!!!! I'm a size 42F and I seriously cannot get over the sticker shock of the bras meant for my chest size! Especially when I'm losing a bunch of weight and know in a month I'll need to spend that amount AGAIN for a new one. Eek! I double up sports bras for now, and it seems to do the trick, but I'm…

Thank you everyone for your advice! :) That's awesome! :D I've only been back for the past couple of months after a 10 year hiatus, and I could definitely see running helping with my sparring (which frankly, I could use all the help I can get with haha, i'm so awful at it). The endurance is part of why I want to pick up…

I love this post, thank you! :D My whole life i've been my own worst enemy. I always blamed everyone else for my low self esteem, but while they contributed, they weren't the full cause, I WAS, for letting them tell me who I was instead of loving myself and ignoring the haters. I'm now a recovering self-hater, there are…

The reason we didn't know was because we got him at 2 months old, and he had SUCH long fur that any "male parts" were completely hidden. Even the friends who gave him to us thought he was a female, and we just took it at their word as we couldn't see any differently. It wasn't until a little bit ago, his fur has smoothed…