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Thank you for posting, SO inspiring, cant wait to lift weights tonight :)

Not precisely the same but, after being on the right track and being so close to my goal I had several setbacks, medical misdiagnosis, deaths in the family etc, all at the same time. While I haven't lost the weight I gained yet I DID quit smoking! I used nicotine tabs (they go undetr the tongue or cheek, they have nicoderm…

I like this, it is a helpful perspective to me as well.

I grew up "chubby" with similar stats but when I was around nineteen, after lifting weights for awhile, eating less (not even on purpose was just busy and not snacking too much) and was away from home and took walks to beat boredom. I thinned out quite a bit. I actually grew about an inch more when I was 18, maybe my body…

I initially wrote with a list of things I liked to do when in a similar situation but after I reread your post you were looking for something different. I would like to suggest searching for "culture shock" it is a pretty normal thing and recognizing its symptoms and how to cope, it can usually be overcome quickly! Best…

I'm exhausted from sifting through the overly judgmental pretentious replies. Gah, y'all are annoying. And way too impressed with yourselves to realize how ignorant you are. Anyway. Thanks to the OP review and updates, it was informative!