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What you're doing is great. Make sure you're not overeating and it should be off in roughly 5 months (500cal daily deficit). That may seem slow, but in all honesty that is a good sustainable amount of weight loss. I see too many people on these forums, and in real life that lose weight quick and gain it back just as fast.…

Very cool, I admire your willpower as I do not have the self control to avoid solid foods for 5 days. I loved that documentary btw!

Hey Candace, Good job on sticking with it for the past 2 months. I think 1000 calories is too low. Lets do some math shall we? you want to get down to 160lbs by june? you are now at 191lbs so 191lbs - 160 lbs =31lbs of desired loss. 1lb of fat = 3500 calories. so 3500c X 31lbs = 108500 calories < this is the total amount…

This. Look up what your upper limit and RDA for sodium is and stick to it

Very cool, do you have any goal dates in mind (short, intermediate, long term)? I would love to hold you to them whatever they may be! Also, you working our 3x a week is a great step, according to the American Dietary society, people are most likely to lose weight if they workout 150mins a week, looks like your over double…

Given that your height/weight is fairly unique, it might not be a bad idea to seek advice from a professional. The upper limits and Recommended Daily Intakes are averages of a very large aggregate. You may very well sit outside of the normal distribution.

I looked through your food diary and for the days in which you completed it looked great! ~2000 calories with an adequate amount of protein and carbs! Remember that carbs are good for your brain, studies have shown people who cut carbs are more likely to gain the weight back (ADS). Maybe one recommendation is to increase…

Very true, ABC family is even worse.

Do you lift weights?

^^ This

I get what your saying. To be honest, I am not a MFP food logging nazi - I think that has helped me with this place. Any changes that I have made with diet and exercise have been made for the long run. In fact, I have tried to avoid going overboard with health/fitness decisions because im worried it might burn me out. For…

I think the woman in the painting is very pretty, so you should feel blessed that people have compared you to her. :smile:

I really liked what you said! 1 thing I have learned is that I feel better physically. I don't hurt anymore now that I am exercising daily. That has in turn made me more confident to do tasks that I usually would not undertake!

What is the main reason why you have stopped? Just curious.

Very cool! I am happy to see you feeling better about yourself. Though I have never had the depression you speak of, I have been around enough people with it to know its not just a switch you can turn on and off!

You can do it holly! tell us about your weight loss plans!

Im voting for him

Drink 100 oz of water a day

sorry man. Try again!

You can do it! hope to hear back from you on April 14th!

I would ditch the scale. Depending on where your starting weight is, the scale can either be a major motivator or a major demotivator. Everyone is a little different. I look better now at 192 than i did 2 years ago at 183 I have started lifting weights and doing cardio 50 minutes 5x a week. I haven't lost any weight after…

That's what I was trying to get at but I must have poorly worded my OP, thanks for being able to tell what I really meant.

Thanks for the advice. I think that is key. I am really poor with romance, but I have been working on it. Though my wife and I do spend a lot of time together. I think I could definitely go the extra mile in being more romantic though, never hurts right?

I think a lot of people have said something very similar and I am inclined to agree. Thanks for your words.

Once again you used another straw man. It is fine if you feel that way and I don't want to force you to do anything.

I think you must have read someone else's post and not mine. You can straw-man all you want, but at the end of the day its not addressing the real concern.

wrong post

Maybe, but thats as abusive as I get. Cheers

Yes even I admit after reading that part it made it sound like "now that my wife is doing the things I want her to do, I have found a new sense of happiness". Lol really not what I was getting at. If you know my wife, you know that those things are very important to her. So though it may seem like im just being a pig, I…

I like what you said, I agree that I probably take on the fixer role more than I should. I have got plenty of my own problems to be trying to fix hers all the time lol.