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Wow.. you do look 20 years younger! Molodets!!

Will Fitbit track steps taken on a stairmaster? (stationary one, not the one with the looped steps treadmill style?)

Pick a long but interesting TV series, with episode lengths corresponding to your exercise period. Something with a continuous plot line (where you want to find out what happened next at the end of each episode). Watch it on the treadmill (TV or tablet). DO NOT let yourself watch it off the couch etc.

Ghirardelli squares. About 50-60 calories per sq, individually packed to prevent overeating.

Wow, that's a HUGE difference. Congratulations! Looking good :) (Now, all left to do is the easy part - stop hiding behind the beard and get a modern haircut! that is, unless you love the beard... but even then, it's worth a try - the hair grows back fast!).

Exactly. Just cook the same for everyone, and if it happens to be more indulgent than you like, take a smaller portion and add a cup of broccoli or veg only salad with a spoon of oil for yourself. I usually cook a reasonably healthy dinner, we split it 50/50, and if it's not enough for my husband, he compensated with a cup…

It is hard, but London has a lot of restaurants to choose from, and also most semi-fast-food places (popular sandwich/soup shops like Pret and Eat etc) have some relatively healthy fare AND they post calories for all their products on the labels, so it's easy to pick out the least damaging option. There is also a lot of…

I'm in too. 14 by Valentines sounds ambitious (I only lost about 20 in all of last year, and I was relatively focused!) but why not? Even half of it would be good!

Thank you very much for the responses - I will give it a try! I don't have an ipad, but have an iphone and a kindle. Somewhere between those it should work out!

Not sure how you manage to lose lb bit not inches - most likely biased measurement, but if you are losing lb, you are definitely losing something. Re calorie goal, there will be loads of people telling you you have to eat more, at least 1500-1700 net, etc. I am happy that those people exist, and very jealous of them, I…

Be thankful he does not care. Mine did not care about a lot of things (the boundaries were set at simply no purple and no gold/bronze which was fine with me), but a couple of items he did care about, we happened to disagree on. Oh, how I wished he said he did not care about those either at the end...

There is a HUGE difference in your before and after pic. You should be posting in success stories, not in 'this is too hard help me god' thread. I think most of us with weight problem must eventually come to terms with the fact that weight management, dieting (or call it healthy eating/calorie counting) and exercising are…

Just allow yourself at least 3 months of maintenance level calorie consumption... don't beat yourself up for not losing, just try not to gain until you are motivated to be losing weight again. It's probably better for future maintenance to sit on a plateau anyways - helps adjust your set point. Sorry about your loss, and…

Most of the delicious whiskey cake with cinnamon walnuts and fresh whipped cream topping. 2 spoons only!

Just ignore it. I weigh every day, and I have the same tendency - the weeks when I've been good, and particularly the weeks I've been doing regular strength workouts (as opposed to cardio only), the scale tends to move slowly. I just record the lowest weight and do not measure increases when weight fluctuates - as long as…

We don't have cable, but I'd get it just for that show. Oh my!! I felt guilty about asking family members to bring 2-3 options of solid color shirts for the pre-wedding family photos... the idea of asking them to lose weight, change hair color to cover up grays, get some botox... gosh, I completely missed my chance!!!

Impressive! You must have traded a lot of fat for a lot of muscle.. 35 lb off 200lb does not sound like a huge weight difference, but in terms of change in body shape - you look like you lost 60 lb!! Congrats!

Hey, don't get me wrong - I never said that anyone's body is not acceptable. In fact, I'm a big believer that step number 1 is to accept and like yourself and your own body, whichever size, symmetry level or other physical condition you got. Can a woman be very pretty while overweight? Absolutely! Will she likely be viewed…

Exactly. It's a freaking compliment, and it is based on reality for the majority of people out there, especially the person making the compliment. For most people the same person at 25 BMI looks prettier than the same person at 35 BMI. I sure prefer the way my husband looks at 20% BF over when he was at 25%. I'll love him…

Drink water is a good reminder, thank you D9123... I am guilty of drinking more tea than water on any given day. And yes, hardone1979 - it is probably psychological... like someone said earlier, I probably need to start thinking about hungry feeling as a signal of losing weight, and treat it as a positive feeling.. that's…

Oh, 4 lb per month is GREAT, don't take it wrong.. my problem is I can only get 4 lb per month if I am hungry most days of the month, most hours of the day! The months when I am tracking daily and eating good stuff 95% of the time, exercising 4-5 times per week and sticking to about 1700 - I'm lucky if I lose 1.5 lb... My…

I don't like any kind of exercise except for hiking in moderate weather or scuba diving (which probably has the lowest cost-to-calories burned ratio of all sports!). I also have exercise induced asthma - basically, take a puff before exercise for a couple of weeks, and then try going one or two levels of intensity down and…

Looking fantastic! I must say, you were carrying your weight very gracefully at 200.. I would never have guessed you are 5'5' and 200 in the first pic, and you look a lot skinnier than and average 140 in the second shot! Congratulations!

I lost about 70 lb in my early 20s on 1000-1200 diet over the course of a year and a half. I did work out a lot, so it was probably 700 net. I would not recommend it because it did temporarily negatively affect my health (some skin problems, loss of period, gall bladder stones). Note I did not even become real skinny - I…

Overeat something relatively healthy then, and give yourself a treat. My rule is that I must eat 2 green apples for each 0.5 oz dark chocolate square. Usually I have trouble making it to the second piece of chocolate, and I do fill full. Also works with mangos and pineapples. I like those, and the damage is minimal... and…

I have a similar problem, so I tend to stick to cardio on the road.. just the fact that all the weights are different shape and weight plus all the machines are different in every hotel immediately throws me off. I am not doing a hardcore weight circuit now, just burning off accumulated fat (from travel...). But when I did…

How is it possible to get away with buying just 4 clothing items after losing 45 lb?? You will probably lose 3-4 dress sizes by then... (I guess if you have the whole closet of things that you can't fit in right now, that may be doable... but who keeps lots of clothes from 45 lb ago??)

Speaking about *ss pain on regular bike, it is normal and it does go away after a couple weeks of consistent riding. Amazing what kind of stuff the body adjust too.

I prefer stairmasters for cardio because it is easier to watch TV from a stationary position. My head is more stable! And they take way less space, especially the new models. And apart from treadmill, it is the only machine I know that forces you yo maintain set pace. No phoning in possible. But if you don't know what you…

I'm traveling by plane, usually about 12-13 time zones away from home, to the countries that have different voltage and outlet plugs, and where it is typically illegal to bring in any unprocessed food from abroad :) On the positive side, I do visit the motherland of Zoirushi very regularly - they even got Zoirushi electric…