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Do your best to track the calories. You need to find a deficit amount for you that is sustainable. Using a trip is a strong motivator use it to keep you going for now, but use that time to build into a long term plan. Walk when and where you can. Little things add up. Lastly, please never use the word 'halp' again - its…

When the pro tennis players stop loudly grunting after swinging a light weight tennis racket, then that guy can talk to me about not grunting under a four hundred pound squat and those guys doing serious weight will also follow suit.

Old saying - Its the fist day of the rest of your life. How do you want to live it? You have the power to make changes - your recent history proves that you can do it.

Unless you are greatly overweight - I mean by 200-300 pounds over, you're not going to be able to burn off five pounds a week without losing muscle mass or doing other damage to your body. Sure, for a few weeks you can dump water weight, but that comes and goes. Its the excess fat you want to go after and for most people,…

I wish you a happy journey to get where you want to be. Cut out the folks who are insulting. Ignore the people who can't help but make an *kitten* of themselves by attempting to shame someone else (they do it in hopes of making themselves feel better). Those people are just looking for targets, don't be one by reacting to…

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. So does falling down a flight of stairs. Its not easy to start with, but you have to start to go anywhere. Once you decide what it is you really want (easy and heavy or harder but leaner) you can take your journey. Once on the path, you may find that it gets easier and…

Cannondale - for inside, I just ride one of the stationaries at the gym.

I don't have any words off the top of my head, but what works for me is always remembering how much better I feel while I am working out and how I feel afterwards. It makes me want to go back.

Good luck not going for the diet soda. Been drinking it for over 40 years, but for me, it was never the cause for me to gain or lose weight.

I'm obstinate by nature and never fold to peer pressure - In fact, its usually the opposite. I do better at saying 'no thank-you' to all the food offerings the harder people push. Holidays are the easiest days to stay focused (for me).

The wise sage Curly once said "I try to think, but nothing happens." As I get older, those words have become prophetic.

Eat them if you're still hungry after your daily allotted calories. Don't if you you're not hungry.

There is a distinction between people noticing and people saying that they noticed. Some people don't want to say "hey - have you lost weight?" which implied that you're overweight to begin with. If they're wrong, they'll feel like bafoons, so they might be keeping their mouth shut until they're absolutely sure.

I weigh myself every single day at the same time of the day. The morning, right after using the rest room is the probably the best time to make it happen (assuming a typical 9-5 job). Your body has had time to rest and process the food and water you had the previous day.

Great job - though I have a problem with calling peanuts 'unhealthy', mainly because I am a peanut butter fanatic =)

Rock on!

Comparing one scale weight to another is doing just that - it is NOT making a comment on all the weight you've lost.

At the end of the day, this is the only thing that drives weight loss. Eating 'clean' is healthier, but will have zero impact if you're eating as many 'clean' calories as you did before you started. You have also been working out, you may have added a couple pounds of muscle which the scale can't tell you. Take some…

I would definitely have it out with my wife if she made me go on a vegan diet. Its one thing to be supportive and eat better, but such a drastic dietary change would make me a grumpy old man. FWIW: she'd never do that, she's as much a fan of bacon as anyone.

I weight myself every day as well. While I don't have a wi-fi connected one, I do log everything in an excel chart (several years of data in there now). Like others have said, as long as you don't expect to see a drop every single day - or multiple days in a row for that matter, you'll be ok.

Never. If I were to do that I would come up with an excuse for another meal to be a 'cheat' and then the 'cheat' would be the regular meal.

If you're burning more calories than you're taking in - you will lose weight. Slowly and surely. It works. It never fails. The thing that fails is our ability to stick with it. There isn't anything wrong with you. But I fully understand how aggravating it can be to not see the results you may have hoped for. Again, slow…

Calorie counting. Eat less, burn more. Lots of biking.

Whenever that hit me, I'd get obstinate about eating anything and instead chug some water and go for a walk. The feeling would subside.

Every morning at the same time and plotted it on a chart I have taped right by the scale. For me it was a quick little review of where I was and where I'm going. The day to day ups and downs didn't mean anything - it was all about the trends.

Fantastic!

You're well on your way

Excellent work!

Bummer about the missed days, but you can start a new count today where you've missed no days (half hearted or not). Focusing on what you can't do anything about anymore won't help - focus on what you can do now.

Keep getting back on that horse. Good luck and this time, I hope it sticks!