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Good for you, you look great! :)

Thanks for sharing! You have some very good points here, hopefully this will help some people out! Shoes can make all the difference and having professional help is beneficial, especially if you have feet, shin, knee, and/or hip issues!

Are you logging all of your calories? I just took a look at your diary (just looked at the last few days) and you appear to be eating under your calorie goal (like 200+ calories under). At 6' tall, is 1500+ calories really the correct number of calories for you? I'm just curious what method you used to come up with this,…

I think if you use sedentary as your activity level and do a standard 20% cut, the numbers often put you at below BMR. That's what happened to me, as well. I posted the same question here on MFP and folks suggested splitting the diff between TDEE and BMR, so that's what I did and it worked well. When I started doing…

Great job!

I like Jay Robb whey protein powder. From their website-- "only cold-processed cross-flow microfiltered whey protein isolate is used as the protein source and this material comes from farm-raised, pasture-grazed, grass-fed cows not treated with the synthetic bovine growth hormone rBGH". I always get chocolate so I can't…

You look fantastic!

Thanks to you both. Yes, I am an over-thinker in most things I do and this is no exception. In my younger years I was athletic, always played sports and had physically demanding employment. I am now just over 40 and feeling the effects of those years of activity, and I am heavier and more out of shape than I've ever been.…

Sorry, hon, Jesus isn't the answer for everyone. It may be the answer for you, and maybe the answer for Mike. But not the only answer for everyone. There isn't only one answer for anything. Except maybe '42'

Man, so many things to say about this! First off, I'm really sorry. Break-ups are almost always awful and being the one left to pick up the pieces stinks. I think if you're willing to get some counseling, it may be a good idea. Having someone else help you get some perspective should prove beneficial. When your heart is…

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Nice job, hon! You look great!

If I understand your question correctly, the answer might be that to lose weight you need to have a caloric deficit and you need to have a surplus to gain a lot of muscle. With a deficit you likely won't gain a lot of muscle but you can gain strength, and lifting while at a deficit should help maintain lean body mass. Is…

Yep--I've been hungry for the last two days. I think I under-ate early in the week and then the weather turned to crap, and that turned on some cravings for comfort food. I went ahead and indulged a little (pizza) but didn't go over my intended caloric goal to the extent that it would completely throw off my weekly total.…

I'm not trying to be one of those caloric intake bashers, but the low end of that calorie range (at 1100) seems awfully low, no? I would assume that most folks would lose weight eating so few calories (at least for a while), but I wonder if that is actually healthy? Basically, people will lose if they are exercising more,…

Also, if you haven't read the Roadmap 2.0 thread yet, it's worth a look, too!

There are a lot of threads on here about eating more to weigh less, definitely worth doing a search on it. I think a lot of folks worry about not being able to lose if they have a higher caloric intake but it seems to work for a lot of people on here. It also seems like folks will try eating more to weigh less when they…

"Don't think what could happen--decide what you want to happen" "Do what you've always done and you'll get what you've always gotten. If you want something different, do something different!" "Don't sacrifice what you really want for what you want right now"

Wow, great job! You look fantastic! And happy birthday! :smile:

I, too, am a sugar addict. I've never had any issues with salty things like chips, fast food, soda, alcohol or drugs. Just sugar. I was never able to have 'just one' unless the 'just one' applied to the entire box/bag of cookies or chocolate (Lindor chocolate is my biggest weakness!). At some point I happened to be reading…

I had PF for a number of years, tried all kinds of shoes, inserts, acupuncture. Nothing really helped. Unfortunately I had been told by a specialist that I should never go barefoot, that doing so would exacerbate the PF and my foot needed the constant support. I finally made it to the office of another professional who…

"Yeah in these cases I'd split the difference and probably eat 1750 to start and adjust from there" Ok, I'll do that. Thank you!

I did the Road Map 2.0 recommendation from the forums here... I'm 5'5, 193 lbs.

I, too, am a little confused. My BMR is 1607. I have been using the sedentary number (1.2) to multiply with my BMR 1607 (I am recovering from some injuries), and that makes my TDEE 1928. If I subtract 20% from my TDEE 1928, it puts me at 1542 calories. To lose weight, I believe that is what I am supposed to be at. My…