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Heard a great quote about this recently: "when you have a flat tire, do you immediately slash the other three tires? Of course not!" Another line that has helped me a bunch came a football player whose coach told him, "Take the hit, but keep moving forward." The coach was talking about football, but the line sure helps me…

Cassie, Like everyone else here, I'm going to take the parts of your story that sound like my story, and focus on that. :) The parts that stood out to me were how your overeating was triggered by stress, such as unemployment or a bad day at work or even just feeling down about yourself. (WARNING: I'm about to use words…

Great point about the cold, Lucy. I absolutely picked the wrong winter to take off a 200-lb blanket! And guess where I moved to just before I lost all this weight? MINNESOTA!!! I've been wearing long underwear every day and night since mid-December...and I work indoors! Actually, the past 4-5 days I was able to go with…

--Buy your clothes second-hand! I never used to go to thrift stores, because I could never find anything in size 4XL. I'd have to go to the Fat Guy Store and pay $50 for pair of pants. Now that I'm a normal size, those thrift stores ROCK! I've never had nice clothes in my life, now I've got a closet full of stuff like…

I'd take my mom out to dinner. Anywhere she wants to go. If she wants French food, we'll go to Paris. If she wants Chinese.... Seriously, I spend HUGE chunks of my life daydreaming about winning $300M or so, and I don't even play the damn game! I'd have a party, all my closest friends and relatives, and I'd be handing out…

Oh wait, you're in Canada! You can actually see a health care professional! DO SO! I would if I could.

Rule #1: If you're doing any exercise that causes pain in a joint, STOP IMMEDIATELY. There are other exercises you can do, until you get the joint problem fixed. I'm sorry I don't know anything on wrists--not that I'm an expert on shoulders, either. But my shoulders were horribly screwed up, and I didn't even know it, I…

I've found that "Come here and say that!" usually shuts 'em up. That was the best part of being fat, nobody wanted to mess with me!

You're 42! You're approaching "Cougar"! Take the MILF's with a smile! (That is, if it's the "old" thing that's the part that bugs you about it.)

Nice job, pal. What's your goal?

OMG, then you'd absolutely LOVE what I do with that rope thing! Seriously, I lower the pulley to the floor, and stand over it with my back to the machine; reach down, grab two handfuls of rope, plant my hands on the front of my hips, and take a step forward, which gets the weights off the ground. The exercise is bending…

Some great advice on this page. I recommend some positive thinking. It's not "failure", it's "feedback". You didn't fail at anything, you merely learned what happens when you lead an unhealthy lifestyle. You put on weight this week? Shrug. Oh well, just get back to burning fat this week. You coach sports? Well, just like…

By the way, I have a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich almost every night for dessert. I'm sure that helps keep the cravings for sweets at bay. It's also awesome to see people's reactions. "You eat bacon and eggs every morning, ice cream every night, and you're LOSING weight????"

My weight loss started when a friend recommended a book called "The Body Fat Solution" by Tom Venuto. The first 100 pages or so aren't even about nutrition nor exercise, but psychology and motivation instead. For me, the most important 2-3 pages in the book were about "Psychological Hunger vs Physical Hunger", and I think…

Hey, it could be worse--I've dropped 50 this summer, and NOBODY HAS NOTICED YET!!! Seriously, when I got to 48, a coworker finally said something (I went from 380 to 332). Kind of the opposite of your story, where everyone can see it except you. In my case, NOBODY sees it except me! But yeah, the problem isn't your body,…