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SNAP - 6'1" here too! Congratulations :smile: 25lbs is a big deal - I've been chasing the same 25lbs for a while to bring me back to the healthy weight range, so I know what a challenge it is, especially on someone tall where it's harder to see it come off and stay motivated. I'm about half way there now. Onward and...…

That's awesome, well done!

@annapage38 Thanks for the info! x

Consider your motivation-spreading a success - you look amazing! :smile: I'm almost 6'2" and you look better at 94kg than I do at 84kg. Are you doing any weights or just HIIT?

Awesome, keep up the good work :smile:

Hey tall girl! I'm just over 6'1" myself, and I, too, can't imagine myself ever being at the bottom end of my healthy weight range - it's a lonnnnnnnnng way down! Also, I've just reached the top of my healthy weight range (86.6kg) and you look better than I do. So whatever you're doing, keep doing it :smile:

During February (the shortest month!) I decided to see whether I could stop eating refined/added sugar for a month, just to see what everyone had been banging on about. The first four or five days I had what I call the "hungry headache" for most of the day, even though I wasn't physically hungry. It was gone by the end of…

That's actually one of the things that holds me back the most - my perception that I don't have as much right to be in the gym as everyone else does. Of course, I'm totally wrong about that, but it takes a while to wrap your head around it. Great post, and congratulations on your successes!

It depends on what shape and height you are, but in general the more you lose the faster you notice it. It's the paper towel theory - one sheet unrolled from the outside of the roll makes no discernible difference. But a sheet unrolled from the inside makes a HUGE difference. Stick with it and good luck :smile:

I have friends who have found success simply by not drinking their calories, alcohol or otherwise. Milky/sugary coffee and tea, juices, milkshakes, hot chocolates, alcoholic beverages, thickshakes, soft drink/soda/pop - they're all really fast ways to consume calories we don't need, and usually with limited nutritional…

That's awesome! You rock! :smile: Every time I replace the water cooler bottles for the upstairs kitchen at work, I carry two 15L bottles up two flights of stairs, and every single time I thank my lucky stars I'm not 30kg heavier. Or even 15kg heavier, like I was - one of those bottles is still pretty heavy on its own!

From what I hear, cardio alone is NOT the answer. You will lose fat but you will also lose muscle, which will make you less capable of burning fat. Try doing some weights as well. You'll be amazed at the difference you see in your body, even if your weight doesn't go down. People say again and again that they wished they'd…

What you're doing is a really important first step, so you know where you're at. Keep up the good work :smile:

It's hard to say because your diary is not publicly available, but it sounds like you might be depriving yourself too much, which for me at least can make me obsess over food and can trigger binges like that. Without actually logging it to see, I would estimate the calories in your dinner/snack to be around the…

1. Be able to do a full sun salutation at yoga, and not need to use my hands to help scoot my foot forwards when returning to the lunge before standing up. 2. Being able to walk into a shop and pull a size off the shelf, and know that it will fit the way it was designed to. I'm one size away from that happening, and it's…

Looking great! Keep up the good work :smile: Also, I absolutely know what you mean about the disordered eating/dangerous behaviours without actually having a full-blown eating disorder. Hindsight is amazing.

I find it seriously weird when people call me skinny, when I've only juuuuust set foot inside the healthy weight range for my height. Note also that because I'm almost 6'2", I could lose another 18kg and still be classified as a healthy weight, so in theory I have a lot more work to do to even get midway through the…

WOW! You look amazing :smile: Opportunity. I like it. It's such a good way of looking at it.

Well divorce is probably the most efficient way to lose weight - approximately 160lb of it ;-) Actually, I shouldn't be flippant as I don't know exactly what you've been through, but I do know from experience that releasing yourself from a very emotionally stressful relationship can be the silver bullet you've been looking…

What the others said above, plus hopefully you're living a healthier lifestyle in general and are reaping the benefits of good health. Things like being fitter and being able to exercise harder and for longer. Doing physical activities because they feel good not because you're trying to burn calories. Eating the right…

Great work! Progress is progress. I'm only just started out, and in the beginning I couldn't even lift the bar, which I know is pretty pathetic, but at least I'm gradually working on it. In two months I've doubled the weight I can lift, and last night was the first time I actually lifted the bar with some weight on it.…

Hooray! You look great :smile:

Great mindset (and cute shorts)! The last thing my yoga instructor does each lesson is to tell us to give thanks for our healthy, able bodies, and I think it's slowly beginning to rub off on me. Not quite to the crop top degree, but Rome wasn't built in a day :smile:

Keep up the good work - I know it's hard doing it in college but you're doing a great job :smile:

Yes, I have been successful, although it depends on how much weight you have to lose as to how hard your body needs to work in order to walk, and therefore how many calories you burn doing it. I am 6'2", was about 5kg overweight and lost 10kg in 10 weeks. BUT - weight loss is 80% nutrition, 20% exercise. I was on a diet…

I think I'm having the same mental shift. I mean, yeah, I care about the weight - old habits die hard - but considering I'm actively trying to build muscle (lifting weights) and am paying more attention to nutrition, I know that any weight loss will be super slow but probably sustainable. And I'm mostly just getting…

My 6'3" boyfriend lost about 50kg in a year when he was 19-ish (he's 35 now). He has some stretch marks, and his skin isn't super tight on his torso (he carries a small amount of excess fat around his middle as well), but he rides to and from work every day and his legs are AMAZING, with rippling muscles. Based on the…

This. I was an "all or nothing" person myself. And then I realised I'd been on MFP for a few years and still wasn't where I wanted to be, even though I knew what I should be eating and could recite the number of calories in almost any food. I had been going "all" in short bursts, and then letting it all slide and beating…

I don't have photos, but I've been lifting free weights for five weeks now, and it was the best decision I ever made. I hired a PT to set me up with a program, and I lift three days per week (different body part each time) so it's not hard to fit that in or stay motivated. My cardio is mostly incidental - if someone is…

That's an awesome mindset, well done and enjoy your holiday! :smile: It sounds like you get that it's a lifestyle change not a diet. It took me a while, but these days I like to make my calories really count on holidays and special occasions. I went out for dinner last night to celebrate a friend's birthday, and chose some…