jcairl Member

That is encouraging! Great job :) I'm trying to lose 40 pounds too!

I haven't had it checked, but I think I'm going to when I schedule a physical at the beginning of the year. No, it doesn't run in my family but it seems that it could be a factor after having a baby, so I've seen with some responses. And no, I haven't taken BC since 2008. I never really liked the way it altered my hormones…

Oh, okay. I'm with you now on the bw thing....took me a second to realize what it stands for. Thank you very much. I will definitely purchase a scale. :)

Thank you very much Haroon! I appreciate your thorough advice and helpful input :)

I'm sorry, can you explain the "bw multiplier of 6"?

That's actually where I first heard about metabolic damage and it's what got me thinking that maybe that's what I did. Of course, I'm not a body builder or a competitor , but similar idea.

*eye roll* Clearly it was a typo. As you can see, I spelled it correctly in my post.

I'm not sure what I lowered it from....probably 1100. That was lowered from 1300. And I probably started dieting at around 1500 when I was 205lbs. This was over a span of two years. I didn't lose on 900 calories. After awhile, I found out I was pregnant, so dieting stopped and I continued eating healthy for the baby, but I…

I don't weight my food with a scale, but I so always measure out my food and stick to serving sizes.

Isn't that what an open forum is for??

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear, Mr. knight. I wasn't 175 pounds when I was eating 900 calories. I had already lost 55lbs, and had lowered my calories to 900 when I hit a plateau when I was about 150lbs.

Thank you very much Chris :)

I haven't had it checked yet, but my husband and I were just discussing the idea of maybe getting it checked out at my next physical.

I believe that my metabolism slowed or has been damaged because of the way I lost weight for two years. I read up on the idea of metabolic damage, and it sounded very similar to what I was doing, lowering my calories until I was only eating 900. After receiving the okay to start exercising after having my daughter, I've…