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186lb July 2018 // 140lb July 2020 // 5'5" Finally got medicated for my ADHD in September 2018 at the ripe old age of 28 (!) and stopped mainlining sugar & caffeine all the time to try and make my brain work. Losing weight is no longer a constant uphill Sisyphean battle. Ain't science wonderful? Currently 138lb so pretty…

Aww, thank you! I'm 30, so yes you're older ;) I've always "carried the weight well" (so people tell me) which I think is entirely because I lose and gain it evenly. A blessing when you gain it, but a curse when you lose it since it's really hard to see a difference when you always have the same proportions, you know? But…

I don't have any (permissable under t&cs) full body photos of my high point at 188lb only face shots which don't show much. I don't keep a lot of weight in my face. That highest ever point was September 2018. I've been up and down since 2012 but finally have all of my medication sorted and it will hopefully be easier to…

Oh our regulations for prescribing are 10% in the last 3 months and my medication cycling kept me outside of that. I'm the same weight now I was in October, I've just gained and lost the same 10lb 3? 4? times in 7 months. It also gets muddled by the fact I am wanting to lose weight I just have no intention of doing it…

I'm in Scotland so health insurance isn't a concern and any prescribed products are free, so I'll ask for a referral from my GP when everything returns to normal(ish) and non-urgent appointments are a thing again. My psychiatrist isn't at all concerned about the weight loss since I'm not underweight (I was over and now I'm…

Name: Lex Age: 26 Height: 164cm / 5'4.5 Start Weight (June1): 165.75 (recorded on May 26th but was up after that for ages because who knows. My actual recorded weight on June 1 was 167.5 and I assure you I did not gain 2lb in 4 days) Goal Weight (July1): 158 Weigh-ins (week of...): June 1-7: 165.25 June 8-14: 163.5 June…

Day 23 (23/6): Steps 18,809 // Miles 9.37 // Cal burn 1,047 // 2hr 50 // Walking + 20 min elliptical + 20 min kettlebells + 1 mile (10:00) run Day 24 (24/6): Steps 676 // Miles 0.33 // Cal burn 135 // 30 min // Yoga. Stayed up all night Thur for EU referendum results, so skipped gym on Friday through sheer tiredness. Day…

June 23 18,809 steps // 9.37 miles June 24 676 steps // 0.33 miles - stayed up all night Thursday for the EU referendum results, so not a lot of moving on Friday June 25 32,092 steps // 15.71 miles - hike to/from and up/down a 1,600ft hill June 26 13,159 // 6.73 miles

SW 01/6: 165.75 CW 27/6: 158.5 (-7.25lb) GW 01/7: 158 (0.5lb to go)

So close @quiltlovinlisa ! Day 19 (19/06): Steps 2,684 // Miles 1.32 // Cal burn 230 // 1hr 05 // Walking + 45 min yoga (I was very tired after my 15 mile hike on Saturday don't judge me) Day 20 (20/06): Steps 14.030 // Miles 6.88 // Cal burn 903 // 2hr 50 // Walking + 45 min weights + 45 min 12% incline treadmill walk Day…

Whoops forgot to post June 19th - 2,684 steps (lmao) // 1.32 miles June 20th - 14,030 steps // 6.88 miles June 21st - 14,598 steps // 7.15 miles Week 1 (1-7) target: 126,215 / 98,000 Week 2 (8-14) target: 141,801 / 98,000 Week 4 (15-21) target: 125,128 / 98,000 June 22nd - 15,734 steps // 7.76 miles So close to my 14k/day…

Weight loss is not linear. If you only weigh once a week you're losing a lot of data points and misconstruing a natural fluctuation (water weight from a hard workout / high sodium meal for example). Unless you ate like 6,000 cals over, you did not gain 1.6lb. (you're also not going to gain 1.6lb muscle in a week. Water,…

Honestly for a bit there (looking at you, last summer) I just stopped caring. I have chronic pain and got sick of having to take breaks from physical exercise and then my diet going suitably down the pan and either maintaining or slowly gaining. But I never got to "very overweight", I don't think. Might have touched on the…

Aye. As I pointed out way back when this thread was but a baby (aw, remember that, you guys? It was so long ago. Times were simpler then) I gained weight when my maintenance cals dropped by about 200 and I didn't know that was what had happened (neither did medical professionals, which is the worrying thing here. You'd…

Yup, all of this. Snacking does seem more constant now rather than just "we're going to a game/barbeque/fair/event of some description". I didn't really snack at all as a kid but I go to folks' houses now and they all seem to have the cupboards stocked up with biscuits (cookies)/cakes/chocolate/crisps (chips) etc which we…

... Because when someone says "Hi, I maintain on less than 2k" and your immediate response is ARE YOU LOGGING ARE YOU TINY YOU MUST BE SEDENTARY that doesn't imply "I would like clarification" that implies disbelief. If you actually believed Deb when she said she maintained <2k you wouldn't have asked for clarification in…

-The discussion went in the direction of how changes in snacking behaviour might cause weight gain (a valid point, which is in fact relevant to the thread) to which your response was that it isn't a valid point because high maintenance cals and that you "don't think quantity is an issue". -You didn't "ask for clarification…

x 1.3 (lightly active) = 1762 Note I said "before additional exercise". Although that's still 700 cals short which is mighty impressive for 45 mins. Your sister works out. That's great. Your sister isn't everyone and doesn't negate the experiences of other people. Some people have low maintenance calories. But you know…

I mean, I'm 5'4 / 162lb and my lightly active maintenance cals (BMR*1.3) are 1830ish so... I'd gain on 2k if I ate that and didn't do additional exercise. Lower maintenance cals really aren't all that uncommon. You don't have to be under 5ft and tiny to have maintenance cals that low. If I wanted to lose 1lb/week without…

Name: Lex Age: 26 Height: 164cm / 5'4.5 Start Weight (June1): 165.75 (recorded on May 26th but was up after that for ages because who knows. My actual recorded weight on June 1 was 167.5 and I assure you I did not gain 2lb in 4 days) Goal Weight (July1): 158 Weigh-ins (week of...): June 1-7: 165.25 June 8-14: 163.5 June…

As usual at the weekend, I'm going to have to manually calculate from staying out late on Saturday. So. Saturday (18th) Steps 46,544 // Miles 23 // Cal burn 1,826 // 6hr 34

Day 18 (18/6): Steps 46,544 // Miles 23 // Cal burn 1,826 // 6hr 34 // Walking Walked to the train station (just over 1mi), 15.5 mile walk around Seven Lochs, then went out to a few bars with friends (walking around the city) before a 2 mile walk home.

Another quarter pound down today SW 01/6: 165.75 CW 18/6: 161.25 (-4.5lb) GW 01/7: 158 (3.25lb to go)

162.75 for 2 days running (16th/17th) then another drop this morning to 161.5! SW 01/6: 165.75 CW 18/6: 161.5 (-4.25lb) GW 01/7: 158 (3.5lb to go)

These are mine: https://www.instagram.com/p/uas37Lpe3J/?taken-by=happycigarettes (excuse the old photo I am Very Bad at updating my insta) Currently got a couple of short ones after suffering some flaking issues. Need to get back on my nail care routine again stat. ETA: I had a nail art blog but because I am, again, the…

Testosterone impacts men and women differently, although it isn't actually (directly) the high T levels in PCOS that cause weight gain. http://www.livestrong.com/article/315045-high-testosterone-in-women-weight-gain/

Day 17 (17/6): Steps 14,068 // Miles 6.91 // Cal burn 1,212 // 3hr 22 // Walking + 1 hour personal training + 45 min 11% incline treadmill walk Taking a long walk out to Seven Lochs tomorrow, so that should be nice.

I can't speak to cravings, because I've been on the hormones that induced my menopausal state for some 5 or 6 years and I honestly can't remember a time before? But hormones can, and do, affect metabolism (declining oestrogen levels in menopausal women, for example) so all I do know is that it reduced my BMR. I've always…

Perhaps, and I already addressed that with LC up there ^^^ somewhere. However, a response being psychosomatic doesn't make it less real, or less horrible to deal with. There's attitude from a lot of people (not saying yourself personally!) on the boards that "there's no physical reason for it and I've never had it so it…