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I made it today! Hallelujah. 60 to go but oh my my I haven't been in onederland for over 20 years.

i'm at 1350. feel free to add me. last month was on work travel and vacation but earlier months and now starting up again you will see accurate recordings. what you'll find is an awful lot of vegetables and fish and yogurt, not much meat or alcohol.

"Fall down seven times, but stand up eight."

For me, shopping is the key. If I have healthy grab and go snacks, like baby carrots and apples and bags of salad, I have been able to redirect binge impulses towards those foods -- so at least the binge isn't so harmful -- and over time the fact that these foods are not triggers means I will eat them but then stop long…

I had a couple of bad days too, when I was in a different environment associated with different eating habits. Back now in usual digs and am simply getting very very focused on returning to the successful patterns of the last 6 months.

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!!

This is my second time trying with MFP and I gotta say, this does work. So first of all - good for you for getting back on the wagon. Second of all, learn from me, and don't get *off* the wagon! :-) Seriously - I am a multi-goal type. I have highest weight, then starting weight for this diet (which had me at morbidly…

I'm only 65 pounds into my 130 pound effort, so posts like yours are an incredibly inspiration. What really amazes me is that you are hardly recognizable, Your face is so transformed, it looks like a different person. What a sensation this must be. Thank you for the post, and my most sincere congratulations and admiration…

Awesome! Transformation is incredible. As someone aiming to lose 110 pounds, stories and pics like yours are what make me believe that the impossible really is possible after all. You go girl!

That's just awesome! And your new hair and makeup are only adding to incredible change in your looks. Lovely every way.

Amazing! I could have written the same post! HW was 272, but more recently it is 48 pounds since mid-Nov (from 258 to 210), *entirely* because -- like you -- I finally finally accepted that lying on the log is not helping me lose weight and not making me feel better. Plus - truly honest logging all day long as I eat keeps…

First of all, if you are already at your low-end healthy BMI, of course you won't lose quickly. No one would. You are already small enough that your body doesn't need as many calories to maintain resting metabolism as it would if you were overweight or obese. And you can't go lower than a certain number of calories per…

I do something similar - keep salads, carrots, berries etc in fridge for easy grab and go, so that when I have a binge and need to eat A LOT and to eat it RIGHT NOW the easiest thing to get is something that won't make me feel worse after I've eaten than I did before. Next step is to stop binging. I've noticed in last few…

I haven't broken this habit yet myself. But I've started keeping better grab-and-eat foods in the fridge, so when I do begin to binge or eat from emotion, the easiest thing to grab is mounds of salad or carrots or such. The higher-calorie stuff all needs cooking, so I don't bother with it. Eventually I need to follow the…

I'm 5' 2.5", started 272 now at 216 on way (one hopes) to 140. I set my goal at 1350 and do not "eat back" exercise, especially because my life is more sedentary than it should be. For what it is worth, I have found it pretty manageable with an emphasis on lean protein and vegetables, with high fiber fruit for sweets.…

I started at 272. Nothing saps your motivation like doing nothing and facing the abyss of hopelessness. Nothing motivates you more than each little success. Just record everything. Don't even worry about whether you are below or above your goal for the day. Just record. Resist the temptation to fudge the facts (pun…

272 last year. 258 on Nov 11. 218 today. Hooray. But OMG still 80 pounds to go. Try not to dwell on that. Small goals work for me. Get to below the 5 (like from 236 to 234) or the 0 (like 230 to 229). Each is a yay! Also a yay when my BMI went from morbidly obese to merely severely obese. Am working hard to get under 200…

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

You are liberated! Congratulations. I did this too, about 7 years ago. I was annoyed by the cravings, which would come and go for a month or so, but so happy to be a nonsmoker that I was able to tell those cravings to go take a hike. You will too. Yay, yay, yay!

wow! so many of us! sure - add me if you like. 56 years old. HW 272. CW 228.8 and GW 135-145 so I am right there with you on the "80+ to lose" wagon. This is my second time with MFP. Last time it got me from 272 to 215 but then I backslid all the way to 262 over the course of a few years. This time will be different. I log…

I feel your pain! I also did MFP and lost about 70 pounds, then spent time with my own elderly mother and began stress eating. Alas, even after I returned home, I found myself back into my habits of sneaking food (as if somehow I was getting away with something if no one knew I was eating) and then I spiraled into…

For what it is worth, I often have plateaus or minor weight gains that last 1-3 weeks followed by a sudden pattern of losses up to 5 pounds in the course of a week. I can;t explain it but it happens repeatedly. Maybe your pattern will be the same. I just do what you do - keep at it, focus on better quality foods, and…

I was at 272 (and 5'3" tall) when shopping for a dress on July 20, 2012. It was a horrifying experience. I joined MFP, began recording my food almost without any exceptions, and began going to water aerobics and/or Curves and/or Zumba 2-4 times per week. So far I am down 56 pounds and a couple of shirt/pant sizes. Plus I…

That's inspirational. I'm on a mission to lose exactly one half of my weight (which means losing a challenging 136 pounds) and even tho I am not quite half way through the task, it has made an enormous difference in my mood and in things like climbing stairs. But I confess that exercise is still not something I look…

cheese! and i moved to wisconsin 24 years ago, so limiting my cheese has been a real shock to my system. how can i be an adopted cheesehead if i no longer eat much of the stuff? received a lovely box of assorted cheeses as a holiday gift, and wound up re-gifting it to folks at work. ah well...

family gathering also my wake up call. you are a model of what i hope to achieve., thanks and congrats!

I quit and restarted a number of times over 30 years. But five years ago my doctor gave me a scare (a false alarm, as it turned out, but hey, it worked!). I tossed the cigs while I was still on the phone with the doc, then freaked out at what I had done. But this time it stuck. Mostly because for the first time, I saw my…

I try to avoid eating beyond my calorie allotment for the day, so if I get to my limit early, I look toward zero calorie options (water, diet soda, miracle shirataki noodles) as well as adding some exercise (so I can earn more calorie entitlement). I also try to avoid foods that are calorie dense, except as a garnish (like…

I tend to fluctuate 3 pounds up or 3 pounds down in a day, a total 6 pound spread. I weigh myself every day precisely because I fluctuate. If I were to weigh myself only once a week, I might see a low-end weight on week 1 and then a high end weight on week 2, and think I'd gained weight when actually it was all within the…

hello there from south-central!