SuperHero_Girl Member

Welcome to MFP!! It's very user friendly and such a great tool to use for getting healthier and fitter. I was once in similar shoes to you, with 100+ pounds to lose - it actually was seeing a photo of myself that woke me up to how serious things had become with my health and weight. After I realized how bad of a situation…

You can absolutely lose on 1700 calories/day. I'm 5'2" and I've been losing on about 1730 net calories per day and I actually had to increase that from about 1580 because I reached a point where I was losing too fast.

Thank you so much and good luck with everything!!

Apologies for the double post, but I just put together my latest progress photos and, rather than starting a whole new thread, I thought I'd just post them here. In other words: NEW PHOTOS!!! August 2013 vs. September 2014 September 2013 vs. September 2014 August 2014 vs. September 2014 August 2013 vs. September 2013 vs.…

Comments like this mean so much to me. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the kind words and praise, but knowing that my perseverance motivates other people to keep going makes all the difference to me!

I'm definitely proud of the way that my posture has improved.

I'm sure that you'll get there! It seems slow-going at first, but before you know it, you've been at it for a year, your habits have completely changed, and you are no longer the only one who notices that your body has changed. I look forward to seeing a success post from you in the future!!

Bumping because I'm super-proud and I want more people to see.

Okay, for those of you who were wondering how I got so much definition in my arms, I spoke to my personal trainer today. He tells me that he believes at least part of it might be genetics, but as for the exercises we did that focused on building strength in my shoulders, well, it was a lot of weight lifting. I know some…

Sometimes, when I found myself facing a rough patch, the photos were what inspired me to keep going.

Thank you to everyone for all your kind words and replies!! Sometimes I have a hard time believing that I've accomplished what I have or thinking of myself as an actual success story. Hopefully anyone who I've inspired will also succeed and pay it forward by inspiring others! :happy:

There were occasional fleeting moments where it felt that way, but most off the time I found myself enjoying what I was doing. It helped to have a personal trainer that was motivated by more than just money and who was invested in helping me to better myself. He's also not the biggest fan off doing things traditionally all…

I just started going to the gym and doing my own thing, as I continued going my stamina built up and I was able to do things at a much more vigorous pace for longer periods of time.

I LOVE my arms now, they have to be one of my favorite changes!

Thank you! Might I say the same of you? You've lost quite a bit as well!!

My personal trainer and I did a LOT of focus on my shoulders for a couple months which consisted of excruciating exercises that I hated, but did anyways. Things that involved weight like shoulder flies and rows and whatnot - not too terribly certain of all the names of the exercises we did, but I can find out when I see…

Thank you for your words and that gif, it made my day! Sometimes I go back and look at the old photos and can't even believe that I looked like I did because, for some reason, I always pictures myself as smaller than I was.

Don't let what other people don't notice stop you - you're doing this for yourself anyways. If it makes you feel any better, it took until I lost about 85 pounds before people started really noticing and commenting on my weight loss and then the comments came so frequently that it became more annoying than it did…

Same here, but it's specific to grated bridges where I can see the water below me. I can swim just fine, but the fall is what makes me nervous. Did you ever see Stephen King's "It" by any chance? That would be an absolute legitimate basis to this fear. I feel the same about these. I'm actually diagnosed with emetophobia,…

Gosh!! Thank you everyone for all your kind words and lovely comments. Coming home from a long day at work to see all these awesome comments on my silly little post just put a smile on my face so wide that it almost hurts! :happy:

I weigh myself every morning and track each weigh-in using an app called Weight Bot. I used to get discouraged if I didn't see a loss or if there was a gain, but I've become more interested in the science-y side of weight loss and fitness and I like to see and decipher any trends so I know what works or where I might see…

Thank you, a kitty is perfect! I already have 3 but always have room for one more!

Hey, you're my birthday twin - it's my birthday today too!! Happy Birthday!

Grew up in Somerville, currently living in Medford. :)

The first time someone commented, unprompted, and without prior knowledge of my attempting to lose weight was after I'd lost about 65 pounds. People in my family noticed when I had lost about 50 pounds. For the most part, people I work with never really commented on it, so I can't be sure at which point it became…

Thanks! I'm pretty amazed at how much I've lost in my midsection.

I'm glad I got back on the bandwagon too, I can't even believe how far I've come sometimes! I'm so glad I ended up proving myself wrong with this!

Thanks to everyone who has read this post and commented so far! Funny thing is I started this whole weight loss business sort of sarcastically. I was dead set on getting weight loss surgery and even went to a weight loss center surgery seminar because I was convinced I was incapable of losing weight without medical…

I have experienced the same feeling. I explained it to my therapist and she said that it's just straight up body dysmorphia which, defined, is seeing yourself as looking different than the general public tends to see you. I had it so bad that, even when I looked at myself in mirror, I saw myself as significantly thinner…

Your numbers Obesity Index 36bmi BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is National Above average You have a higher BMI than 86% of females aged 30-44 in your country Global Above average You have a higher BMI than 99% of females aged 30-44 in the world Did you know? If everyone in the world had the…