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Less than you would imagine. They are getting paid, afterall, to be invested in your health. Money talks. LOL Same reason my sister will go and spend hours cleaning someone else's house for an hourly wage but lives in a pigsty.

I prefer the MFP tool for logging calories but I can think of at least one other site similar to this that has EXCELLENT support forums. To be truthful, I mostly stick to my calorie counter and my friends list and rarely venture into the forums for the reasons why your friend was turned off - it really doesn't follow with…

SW: 250.6 7/27: 250.6 8/03: 249.4 8/10: 251 8/17: 251 CW: 247.8

We can't fault you for having a life! It's all good. :) I sent my Paypal yesterday, I think it was.

Missed the date, but stayed the same @ 251. :(

This was something I was wondering. I am usually bright eyed and bushy tailed at work first thing Friday mornings with my number but there is no thread posted, which is why I missed last week's - is it okay for someone to post a thread if they get there first? Often, I will have my number, check in the morning, then get…

That's awesome! Good for you! I am having some trouble getting kickstarted again at the halfway point, but in the 70lbs that I lost previous to this, I always tried not to reward with food because I would take it too far. Instead, I still eat some of those extravagant things through the process. Ie - I don't eat a candy…

Let's put it this way. Say you were gifted with this awesome car. It has the power to do AWESOME things. It could win a big money car race, for example, but for whatever reason, you will never be able to race it. Would you put the cheapest grade gas in it? Never do any maintenance at all? Change the tires when they get…

SW: 250.6 7/27: 250.6 8/03: 249.4 CW: 251 ARGH!

At the end of the day, having the support and approval of your family is nice but not necessary. YOU only have to be accountable to YOURSELF. You only have to be "good enough" for yourself, and I think that starts with you believing that you ARE good enough, regardless of what your father thinks. This was something that I…

SW: 250.6 7/27: 250.6 CW: 249.4 It's not much, but it's something, AND I broke the 250 barrier that has been plaguing me like crazy AND I am just ONE pound away from being at my all time lowest adult weight again!

Just as I was ready to add more... put my back out. Still nursing it. It's muscular, and I have no coverage for massage or chiro, so sticking it out. :(

I stayed the same this week as I predicted: SW: 250.6 CW: 250.6

Considering that Monday, I weighed 10lbs more than I weighed on Friday through a combination of TOM and absolutely horrid eating (no tracking) on the weekend... I will be lucky to stay the same this week. I REALLY need to get motivated to do more exercise. I walk both ways to work, which is almost 2.5KM each direction and…

Late to the part for introductions, but here goes! I am a 26 year old aspiring author from Eastern Canada. I have always been heavy - I was born 10lbs11oz - for my family it was not healthy choices but portion control, I believe. I have always known how to eat healthy, but never known the stopper on my hunger. In 2010, I…

I think it is a slippery slope. By a literal definition, severe obesity is a disability. Do we ask the man in the wheelchair WHY they are in a wheelchair, and then deny them the rights to the label because the reason they are in the wheelchair is due to bad choices? I WISH that I got fat from eating "just one too many…

My starting weight is 250.6. :) Psyched and hoping this will get me back on track.

It says that it occured over "two or three hours". I usually drink close to 100oz of water in the course of a work day plus more if I am exercising.

LOL Don't be offended - I relate everything in life to horses (which I know something about) and cars (which I don't - but I have been known to talk about fueling a car like fueling your body more than once!). I have lost 72lbs by eating back my exercise calories. Now, if I could just get control over my weekend eating, I…

I can understand if you are logging calories for cleaning house or folding clothes and then eating them all back that it wouldn't work... I only count a burn if it is something I have specifically set out to do for the purpose of burning calories, and that helps. I just don't understand how someone can come on here, saying…

The biggest loss I had was working out at home, while I was on EI, to a $5 WATP Leslie Sansone DVD that I got at Zellers, LOL. I just recently canceled my Goodlife membership because I DON'T USE IT and it was costing me $100 a month nearly for my boyfriend and I. I used it more when I lived 45 minutes outside of the city…

Kodi, do you actually weigh/measure your food or are you just guesstimating most of the time? That is where I found I began to slip when I was logging and stopped losing. I figured I knew "roughly how much" I was eating but I was SO WRONG. Go to the dollar store, get measuring cups and spoons and invest $10 in a food…

I hope the same is true for me! I have a LADIES size 12 foot... finding cute shoes is a complete nightmare. But I am not too hopeful, my feet don't look fat and they never went down when I lost 72lbs (granted, I still have as much to lose again).

What they don't tell you is that when you start taking care of yourself physically, you also need to start taking care of yourself mentally, and that is something that many people neglect when they are busy planning meals or hitting the gym. I have lost 72 lbs and this journey has absolutely been one of self discovery -…

I am currently in an LTR with a reliable, tall, blonde broker who is not quite "farmboy" (which would be my initial type), but a little bit country... in the city. I think he could transition nicely. I don't think he will ever be a calf-roping, sheep-purchasing, mud-truck runner BUT he has been making a big effort to…

At 325lbs, I hated exercise, too. I hated the feeling of sweating. I relish it now! I started with a 15 minute walking workout DVD. In the comfort of my own home. It was ONLY 15 minutes and I figured my body deserved that, regardless of whether I liked it or not. Eventually, I built it up... I felt so accomplished being…

Way to go! I went from being an exercise hater to loving to run. :)

The thing that I had to recognize at the end of the day with my loss (which is about 68lbs worth right now) is that I am the only person who is going to be able to make the move. Support is crucial, yes, but motivation comes from within - and the most important motivation is loving and caring about yourself enough to make…

Gyms make their money off of people like you and I, lol. I pay $45 biweekly for two memberships (my boyfriend and I). I have not been in months and months, him, even longer, but I am locked into a contract. I would rather walk my dog and go horseback riding and get my exercise that way than into the gym. I am considering…

I am a writer of fiction and a moderately well-followed blog called "A Fat Girl & A Fat Horse". I have long ago stopped considering the word "fat" to be anything more than a descriptor - the same as the fact that I am tall, blonde, and fair skinned. One of my dearest friends who also struggles with her weight was SO…