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Yes I highly recommend. I bought a flat top one at walmart for like 13 dollars and it's perfect. Definitely need a zero feature.

Personally I like to log from when I get up to when I go to bed. But since I am a hard core night owl I am usually up till anywhere from 2 to 6 am and I hate calling things meals that aren't so I set my "meal names" to be time slots of the day starting at 6 am to 10 am and working in 4 hours increments until I hit 6 am…

I did it around 310lbs but very modified. I don't do most things that involve the actual jumping. Instead I do whatever arm movements and then a march with my feet to keep both halves of the body moving and way less impact and also jumping seems to not get along with my lungs. It's not a cardio issues cause I can do light…

Thank you! And isn't that so true about it not really sinking in till you feel/see it for yourself? I hear people say it and I'm like "Yeah, yeah, whatever" Was just really glad I decided to wear the dress again :D

Yes isn't it weird the places it comes off? I'd kinda thought my back seemed different but I never gave much thought to tracking it with pics and I definitely didn't realize how much a difference there was!

It'd be nice if I couldn't even wear it next summer ;)

Being on the pill doesn't matter. On the pill our hormones still fluctuate throughout our 28 day cycle. The pill just dictates to your body when to do it as opposed to your body doing it naturally on it's own.

Are the friends on your page using a HRM as well? That'd be the only way to really compare.

I too cannot more highly recommend a food scale. I am so happy since I bought one. I weigh nearly everything I eat now and the most fantastic part is that it takes the guess work out of how much you're eating of items that cook down. You may start out with 6oz of chicken but it cooks down to 4 but without the scale I had…

First tattoo Second (yes I know it's a terrible picture. I took it through a crappy mirror, lol) Third Fourth (it means friends and my best friend and I both got it) And lastly, this is what I'll be getting soon. It's my under 300lbs reward Oh sorry some are so big. No idea how to resize.

Also, if you ate more volume than normal that all has to be digested and processed. It's normal to go up when increase food for whatever reason. It was definitely not actual fat.

I'd definitely suggest working out your bmr and tdee and then do a 250 cal deficit off your tdee and build up to that number. That is a half a pound a week loss as I see from the ticker on your profile you are close to goal. The closer you are to goal the slower it happens and the closer you should be to maintenance.

So you're netting 500? That's far too low.

runtastic is great. I love seeing my all time numbers for cals burned, time spent, distance, etc. Also anything you enter into it syncs to MFP if you link them :)

You can't spot reduce anything so it will be a matter of losing fat first to be able to see the muscle. Unfortunately we cannot control where we lose the fat by doing specific exercises which is why you may see people who have really big arms, or really big thighs, or a really big stomach, even though the rest of them…

Omg all these stories are so amazing. I probably can't add anything they haven't said already but I just want you to know you are not alone! I know my highest weight must have been around 360. I've been obese all my life. SO many times I've said I have to lose this weight! I am sad to say that even for my wedding which I…

That's fantastic! It's so nice when we start seeing or feeling the results! Keep on rocking it!

I don't think abs on a woman are attractive. I'd rather have a nice flat tummy even if that means there's fat covering my abs. I just don't think they are very feminine.

Feel free to add me. I am on daily, try to post encouragement on friend's status updates, also have 100-125lbs to lose.

For me I guess I would have to draw the line at the "You used to be so pretty and now you look like a whale" I don't think it's right that just because someone is overweight means they are not beautiful. I think that self esteem and self worth are way too tied up in appearance in our society. Like someone said, there's a…

I would also recommend the midnight to midnight approach. My husband works graveyard but on his days off gets up a lot earlier than on days where he sleeps after work and he's found midnight to midnight works better for him. Also, try not to get down too much about how bad ONE day is. Look at your weekly average. On the…

Personally I prefer using the sedentary setting with a 1lbs loss a week for my deficit and log my exercise separately so I know what I can eat :)

Make sure you do military body fat %. The reg one gave me 28% when I weighed 315lbs lol.

That was really awesome! They should do more of those :)

I met my husband this way. We didn't have an "online relationship" because we met after talking for just a week or so through emails and then some phone calls. I say yay, but be safe about it! I did some things as a teenager that make me shudder to think the danger I put myself in...

Love this!

Starting in a similar place as you. Highest weight is unknown but for sure was about 360. I started last year at 325. Got derailed for the majority of the year after having lost 15lbs and now back as of this Feb and 9lbs down. At our high weight and used to eating a lot of cals (I shudder to think what I was really…

Right. Unless you're going to farmer's markets and consuming the item within a couple days, frozen is usually going to have more nutrients and you get all the benefits of being able to keep for long periods of time and just making what you need.

Wow! Congrats both on the weight loss and the move! My husband and I were married there last May and had our honeymoon there and you are right, it's paradise! Keep up the good work!

Bless you! :D I agree btw, inches are the important part. Weight is a very erratic number that can go up or down up to 5lbs in just a single day. I weigh every week but I'd love if I could cut back to once a month. Maybe I'll get there someday :)