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Oh and I should add that the "need for speed" was fueled by body disgust. That's the other lesson for me. I was overweight and I took it as a personal insult and personal failure, I wanted it off ASAP. And when I lost 50 pounds of it...I still wasn't happy, still wasn't skinny enough. As someone said above, even if you…

I guess it's true though that what I was doing last year was unsustainable and that's probably why I got jumped on everyone to begin with. Everyone has a lot of great insight. It looks like for the most part it's important to find what's best for myself and not what some program, guru or friend has told me. I've always…

Thank you so much for everyone's input; you're all very wonderful. I think I need to not diet and, in the terms of marketers and magazines and pretty much all society that intends to benefit from pushing fast results. And I need to stay away from numbers. I get a little control freak-ish with the numbers. Pounds,…

Done with this. Just done.

And if you all are frustrated with me, then LEAVE. You are not contractually obligated to type a response.

I want to hear the following, "Gee, since you were this same weight a month ago, eating the same amount of calories and doing the same amount of calories for exercise and everything was fine, that must mean there's something different wrong here now. Like maybe you're sick, maybe you're anemic, maybe you're going through a…

Everybody's weight loss goals are different...just because you're on this site, doesn't mean your goal is to hit an 18% body fat level.

I literally just agreed with everyone. But just said I'm not to that point yet. I'm here to talk about energy crashing. Not how long it will take to go from skinny to skinnier. I'm not even at skinny. You cannot tell me I'm on my last ten pounds when you've never even seen my body.

Through my body's last 10 pounds, probably not. But not through the last 10 I'm looking at right now. The last ten for my body would be in the 120's and 130's. I'd expect an all-out battle there. 140 lbs at 5' 7" for me is not tiny enough for world war 3...I've gotten there before at a quick rate and can do it again. Just…

I'm not talking net calories. The way I do it, is that my net calories would end up being at around 900 on workout days and then just the 1400 on my non-workout day. I know a lot of people follow the net calories, but I never have even since day one. If I ate back all of my workout calories, I'd cry. lol To me, the net…

Well, I guess I don't care how it's distributed via either diet or exercise, that's just how it works out. I'm thinking at the very least I could do 1400 a day and 500 cal workouts. That'd put me at about 1.66 pounds a week and I can see if my energy improves.

Yes, I do have a pre-workout snack...today was an apple, greek yogurt and some almonds. As for BMR, I'm 5' 7", 27 years old, about 150 lbs and work a desk job. Fitness pal says my BMR is around 1800. So with a 500 cal food deficit and 600 cal workout, that's an 1,100 cal deficit. That deficit IS technically over the 1,000…

And the "Just don't buy it" people must live in the country. lol I can keep junk out of my house all I want, but I think a true emotional binger has no problem waltzing down to the closest grocery store that sells whatever's gonna do the trick. Seriously, if I'm in a bad state and am going to eat the crap out of some ice…

This advice is so spot on and helped me when I read it! I had several successful months of dieting and then just slowly navigated my behavior into binging. Don't know why or how it got to this point but it did. I suppose my crushed dreams/expectations of not being alone anymore when I lost the weight could attribute. :)…

Yes, I have several routes I'm going to take. I'm eating a lot of crap food and thinking its the greatest, so I've ordered a book on Amazon called "It Starts With Food"....that will remind me how toxic or beneficial eating habits can be. The black or white, "**** or get off the pot" answer is so crass; I don't even know if…

Oh you guys all have wonderful responses! I think I know my deal. Going from 207 to 150 was a very different thing than going from 150 to 135. The first half was going from near obesity to a healthy weight. Now I want to go from a healthy weight to a lower healthy weight. I've never really been under 150 pounds and stayed…

Oh boy me too! 5' 7" SW: 207 CW: 150 GW: 135 I have a med frame, body likes its muscle but I REALLY want to get that flat stomach I've drooled over since I was 12!

Oh, I feel the pain here! :) Every day I look at my stomach with a frowny face! That's right where my body puts its fat and I get so irritated because if I were a "hip carrier" I'd probably look damn good in a bikini by now! But I don't! Because of that ever relentless "overhang"...knock it off stomach! lol I figure it'll…

In the beginning, because I didn't want to die alone. Seriously. I was 26 years old and very alone in life, figured nearing the obesity line wasn't helping things. Only problem with that motivator is when you lose the weight and you're still alone. Ha! Whoops...forgot losing weight isn't an instant cure all! My dating life…

Love it! Because I used to be that heavy girl out running...and now I'm not, and when I see those girls when I'm out and I just want to hug them and tell them they're awesome and that I believe in them. Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Weight Loss Tools

When I started out on my weight loss journey. I got into a little behavioral change psychology and learned a few things that I'm going to write down here. They may help, they may not but I like to bring them up when people talk about change: You have an emotional mind and a rational mind. In order to effect change you need…