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Shopping in my closet and wearing my goal clothes.

There is another post fairly recently of women with the same goal! Might be a page or two back :) I'm in the seriously considering stage but will wait st least until September to officially start trying. My little one is nearing 8 months old.

Less hip and knee pain and much smoother flexibility and range of motion in those joints.

It depends what your goals are and how you set MFP to reflect those goals. I eat my exercise calories. MFP is set to maintain for me and I'm using breastfeeding to create my deficit. Exercise calories would make my deficit too large and have an impact on my milk supply. So I eat every scrumptious morsel of my exercise…

Daily on happy scale and when I lose on MFP. Fluctuations matter very little to me so weighing daily doesn't phase me. I adjust my goals when I lose manually because MFP doesn't do it for me.

I have been successfully nursing and losing weight while eating at maintenance. Breastfeeding creates my deficit. If I exercise I eat those calories. It has been incredibly easy weight loss. I recommend it to all breastfeeding moms. Down 57 pounds and counting.

As far as I've tried (and I've tried a ton) you can't make spinach awesome. It's just not my thing. I put it in a pita sometimes and that's ok.

Mine (from pregnancy and years of obesity and of course puberty before all that) are swiftly fading and shrinking with my weight loss. Nothing will make them go faster . It just takes time and patience.

Loose skin is genetic and based on your body's make up of collagen and other factors that make up the elasticity of your skin. How heavy you are, how log you've been that way, and what your goals are will all play into your final results. Some people don't care about the loose skin. I am one of them. They would rather have…

If absolutely nothing else changed in your diet you would definitely start losing - or at the very least stop gaining weight - depending on how many calories you consume for the rest of your daily/weekly intake. However, if the change to diet drinks causes other changes in your daily/weekly intake the results may vary. I…

I know exactly how you feel. It can be super isolating. I too am trying to find people who want to do some sort of walk/hike/swim/team sport active time. I will see how it goes. Good luck to you!

I'm 5'3.5" and 170lbs wearing a size 13-14 comfortably. My highest weight of 227 was not enough room in size 20. I need more muscle and less fat.

A new one - portion sizes for food at my favourite restaurant are MASSIVE now. I used to eat it all and want more. Now I eat about half and I am done. It's crazy how quickly things change. I actually asked for half portion of my main course last time because I don't eat it all if I take it home anyway.

How vain you feel checking yourself out in reflective surfaces. lol

51-53 as a 31yo.

I personally have noticed periods of worse acne but also periods of significantly improved acne. Wish I could pinpoint why but I appreciate the clearing up times!

Whenever you want. Just ensure it is a timeframe that is sustainable for you. If you are happy with your current timing don't change it. Eat within your calorie goal and profit.

I'm an RN - I am starting work in palliative and long term care in a few weeks after my maternity leave ends. I have some scheduling flexibility which is a huge perk for me right now.

I constantly misjudge the size of stool-type chairs and/or the toilet and often end up needing to catch myself from falling off or to readjust. My brain still thinks my butt is huge!

After reading 20 pages of this including adding my own commentary I've realized something. Everybody gets wound up about something but it isn't necessarily the same as what someone else gets uptight about. Certain things annoy me. Certain things enrage me. Other things are irritating but manageable. But if I don't like it,…

I have doubt that people who claim they can't lose are accurately tracking their intake and activity levels. Every single person I have talked to about post baby fat loss and has done what I do find success. I'm more than 30 pounds below my pre-pregnant weight. I eat at maintenance calories. I use breastfeeding to create a…

Within the normal BMI range for my height, and after that, wherever I feel happy confident and done with weight loss. It will probably end up being 120-130 range but I am not particularly attached to those numbers. I would like to be in single digit clothes size (would be fine with 8) and I want to be strong and not…

I've lost 55 pounds eating at maintenance and using breastfeeding to create a deficit. My 7 month old is a happy little nurseling.

Absolutely. Why wouldn't it work on vacation? My plan is to try to make healthy choices, be attentive to calories in food, log everything, be active for at least two hours a day, and let the deficit happen as it happens.

Excellent summary of quality info. Great job!

Stretch marks are from weight gain. You will always have them but they will fade over time to be much less noticeable.

Up your activity with your kids. Go swimming, hiking, biking, skating etc. All activity counts. Or find a reliable person you can trade two hours a day watching each other's kids. Or bribe a family member with kiddo time every afternoon or morning or evening or whatever. There are options.

One day will not destroy the world of weight loss. Calorie count everything you consume the best you can and carry on. In the future, you can plan for these events in advance. If you know it's coming you can increase your deficit by 50-100 calories daily for a week leading up to it, then eat those extra calories completely…

Daily. I log everything in happy scale but only log loss in MFP.

I eat a minimum of 1800 calories daily and have lost all my 55+ pounds that way. I actually eat between 1800 and 2300 daily based on activity level. I'm fairly short (5'3.5") and only very lightly active. Please do not follow the advice to drop down to 1100-1200 calories. Seriously, don't! Your baby, if exclusively…