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I hope that works out for you. My lower back pain is GONE. Some mornings I hurt like heck getting out of bed. It took me a long time to get moving. Now my only problem is if I work out too hard the day before, but I LIKE that a lot more.

Width wasn't the only problem for me. Not only am I wide, I had a lot of fat behind my spine. I'm tall, plus that fat meant I used up a lot of leg room. Combine the two and I pretty much couldn't move in an economy seat. It really sucked once my employer cut business class seating when the economy tanked in 2001. Try…

Oh most definitely not during. When I collapse on the bed breathing hard and my heart is pounding at my chest is when the thought pops in my head.

I was so glad about the first place I lost. I lost the roll above my butt in the small of my back. I hated that the most. That dropped my pants size by 2 inches but I was really tight in the legs. Since then my legs have dropped way down and now it is all left in my gut. Arms... gone... legs... almost there. A little over…

My daily workout is my 'normal scope of activity' now.

There is so much variability, at least for us. Most of the time it isn't energetic. That's not to say it isn't lots of fun... But sometimes it really is a good workout. The times it has crossed my mind wondering how much I burned is when I'm panting hard and all sweaty after. Most often if we go for round 2 or particularly…

My thoughts exactly. I was going to post the same thing.

I'll second the recommendation for taking a full dose of Welbutrin and then adding enough of another SRI as needed. SRI's have two HUGE side effect risks: weight gain and loss of sex drive. Welbutrin usually has the opposite side effect. If you start with Welbutrin and then add the other then you minimize the chances of…

I drove a stick Dodge Caravan rental car in Belgium. I give my wifey a bad time about how she could have had a stick shift if she had one imported from Europe.

How do you figure that is better for the clutch? Most definitely better for the brakes but not for the clutch. If you coast to a stop, the clutch is used 1/2 as often and will wear 1/2 as much. I can do a full brake job in 2 hours, and clutch is at least twice as long and much more involved. I'd much rather wear out the…

Can you even kill it if you try? My FIL has a Dodge diesel pickup and you can't kill it. Even if you dump the clutch it just squeaks the tires and lurches off without killing the engine.

What I hate the most is that you can't control downshifting with an automatic. If find it most annoying on curvy roads. I like with a manual I can push the throttle down deep and not worry when it shifts. With an automatic I can't predict when it will shift and I don't like cycling through the gears at every curve. I…

The longest life out of a clutch and syncros is to pop it out of high gear and use the brakes to stop you. This doesn't apply on a long hill, but for normal city driving. If you do that you cut out 1/2 of the use of the clutch, and the hardest use of the syncros. I had to pull the transmission on my car because of the…

So far I'm not seeing any kind of inverse correlation like people claim. I eat less, I lose it faster. I exercise more, I lose it faster.

I'm going to second that right there. Please realize that there are a bunch of folks here just like you. I didn't hit 360lbs without some REALLY bad habits. None of us are here to judge you, only to support you. Be brutally honest with the food tracking. What you're after here is a gradual change to your habits. Diets fail…

It should be working your back if you reach for each stroke. Pivot your shoulders with each stroke to reach the forward arm further ahead of you and push the back arm further behind you when you push to the end of that arm's stroke. Since you're pivoting at the same time that the back arm is pushing, you're doing it…

Right there is your example: under 35 minutes per mile is cruising along. If you're moving that fast then you're going to burn a lot AND build a lot of muscle.

I agree with the others, it's all about how hard you push yourself. I've lost almost 60 lbs with my primary workout being swimming. I also can get quite hot in the pool. If I do a 500 pushing myself as hard as I can, I'm burning up at the end. I'll sit on the stairs for 5 minutes to cool down before I can do anything. I've…

The two components of table salt are deadly in on their own. Just because something is made out of something safe does not mean their combination is safe.

New members may not realize that there are sub-groups here. A couple I'd recommend you check out are: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/702-100-lbs-to-lose http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/1157-300-

For this 'you' it really is bad for me. I react quite badly to aspartame, saccharin and sucralose. REALLY badly. Even a tiny bit of cross-contamination gets me. It was part of my incentive of giving up all sodas, because every now and then I would get the faintest hint of artificial sweetener flavor in regular soda and…

Down 113 lbs you should sure notice the difference already! I sure do.

I got a variation of that when I went to China. I got poked in the gut multiple times by kids. I think they'd never seen a 300+ lb guy in their life.

I'm 41 and wife is 38.

Hyperfang: 32?

Hi all, I'm Matthew. I started working out last summer and I lost a little weight. I didn't adjust my eating. I definitely added muscle and lost some fat, but the weight didn't go down. I weighed about 355 lbs when I started. When I joined MFP last April, I'd dropped to 345. I used the food diaries for a while to figure…

Yes, that is most definitely true. That does go against human nature. Men are visual and they will notice other women. What is disrespectful is to check them out with her knowing. Many women are lookers too, just better at it than men. They'll note where their guy is looking and then take quick peeks without staring.

I like just about all of them. Big, little... I like them. The only thing that doesn't work for me is tiny rock in a socks or a woman that's heavy and they are tiny.

My problems with cramps went away when I gave up flippers. I've now gotten into good enough cardio condition that I find my legs and arms are being worked hard enough during swimming that I'm sore even without fins or paddles.

I'm now researching where pools are when I travel. I'm not going to let myself make excuses because I know they will escalate one after the other. I think this will be easier once I've lost enough weight to take up jogging.