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Awesome, and great story about your journey!

This! I started out at 190 and have been losing at 1800 calories (5'3" BTW), you don't need to under-eat either! I went through the same thing! Was always active until college etc and I knew I gained weight, but never thought it was that much until I was avoiding pictures! Good luck!

Amen! Enjoy yourself and strive to a healthier lifestyle that you won't burn yourself out over in 3 months! If I want to eat at an all you can eat pizza buffet.....by George I will and I will enjoy it!

I started by swapping lunch at work for a lean cuisine, and I bought bags of frozen veggies. There calories are almost all int he 250 - 350 range. I know the sodium in pre-packaged meals isn't perfect but it still beats eating out. Once I made a habit out of not eating out, I realized I wanted more variety and started…

I have heard there a lot of health benefits from using cinnamon, but 90% of the cinnamon you see in the store is cassia cinnamon made from tree bark. The cinnamon that is supposed to have all the benefits is the ceylon cinnamon and it amazing! So much better than the other stuff!

Special Snowflakes!

Awesome! Those are the same "rules" I followed too! I never wanted to diet, I wanted to change my lifestyle and do something that was sustainable for me that I could keep doing! Congrats again!

You can really see a difference! Whoohoo!

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You lose weight in the kitchen, and build muscle in the gym. It sounds like you have a decent activity level through the week, but what does your food diary look like?

Baked with garlic and feta, everyone has heard of doing them sweet, but savory is AWESOME!

I can't see all of the second picture, but awesome job!

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Amazing!

How much are you currently eating? Your diary isn't open. Are you exercising?

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Love it!

Awesome work!

5'4" SW 189 CW 155 GW 140 (Might modify once I get here, but will keep working towards toning!) Wish I had taken my measurements when I started, these are current. Chest -40'' Waist -33" Hips -41"

I second the FitBit, it will give you a better idea of your activity level. I thought I was sedentary because I work a desk job, but i burn almost 2200 calories a day, no where near sedentary!

The closer you are to goal and the smaller the amount to lose, the slower the process is. Make sure your weight lose goal on MFP is only set to 1/2 pound per week, anything else is not realistic. You only have 10 lbs to lose, so instead of looking at it like a diet, just focus on my healthier choices and make it a…

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Instead of including everything you do through the day, why don't you get some type of activity measuring device. A FitBit, BodyMeadia, etc?

Someone beat me to it, but I was going to say whey is from milk? You may looking in to rice protein or soy powder powders. Add and extra chicken breast, almonds or some other nut.

Whoohoo!

Work on stretching to help, ice and ibuprofen after

Almonds, hummus, olive oil - cooking, salad dressing, etc. I don't have problems hitting mine, where is yours set too?

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I wish we had one near us!