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  • Finally hit 68 pounds in 251 days today. 7 more pounds to my high school wrestling weight. Weight loss is going much more slowly, but I'm okay with that now. Just happy to be healthier!
  • Started using this week, 1000mg at breakfast and 1000mg at lunch. No results I can immediately ascribe to them, but time will tell... not bad for a cheap experiment.
  • Easiest way.. Size * Alcohol% * 200 = Calories So in a pint of 6.6% beer, 16 * 6.6% * 200 = 211 calories I've seen the coefficient of 200 above quoted anywhere between 200 and 250 (notice the original post has it as 250). I believe it's closer to 200 myself (since there are 28.3g to the ounce, and 7 calories per gram, or…
  • 1920 currently - I try to get an extra ~200 from walking every other day. I'm still up at 213, so my body needs quite a bit of fuel still.. but when I started it was at 2200/day. I always looked at exercise as a punishment for being overweight. It took me 31 years to realize that exercise is a way to reward myself if I…
  • High end dark chocolate, it's much easier to have small portions of bitter chocolate - which coincidentally I love.
  • Wow, thank you all! What an inspiring bunch of people! I'm actually down 2 more pounds since Saturday, but that's probably mostly water weight - too many glasses of wine last night :-) If there's one thing I can recommend when you're first starting out - give it time to work. The pounds FELL off me after probably 7 days..…
  • Hey, thanks very much. I realized that my body needs positive reinforcement. All it comes down to. Good luck to y'all!
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