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  • Limiting food is working for me, too. This summer, a friend started losing weight (successfully!), with her only exercise being walking. I couldn't believe it... but she was doing something called 'intermittent fasting' - there's an article explaining how not eating from dinner to lunchtime puts the body in a fat-burning…
  • I have ONE pair of jeans that I can fit. One. Ninety percent of what's in my closet, I can't even wear. I'm anxious to be able to put on some of those things.
  • I'm in, too! I need to hit the elliptical, ever day for the 12. Might even start a habit!
  • @chnkysoup - You said "I started packing on weight after deciding to get on the Depo Provera birth control shot." That was when I started, too - they say you gain about a pound a month. I was on it 23 months, and gained 25 pounds. That shot was convenient, but at a price. Of course, then I took it FAR further. They say you…
  • I'm a little frustrated. I have this e-penpal, and he learned that I'm really trying to take some weight off, and he challenged me to a 'race' - ten pounds by New Year's. Whoever gets there first, OR whoever loses the most by 2016. I wasn't going to do it, because I started in July, so I lost my 'easy 10' back then, and…
  • Sounds good. Most of the other groups I've been on have done Google spreadsheets, and they always work so well. It's a great idea. If you'd like to send me the link: annamtrx@yahoo.com
  • I'm thankful I didn't gain from it - does that count? :smile:
  • May I join, too? My name is (also) Anna, I'm 42, I'm from Michigan, and I'm not terribly happy with the way I'm looking, lately. I've carried six babies in this womb, and I *look* like I've carried six babies in this womb! Even though my child-bearing days are over, I kind of kept 'padding' myself. In July, I hit the…
  • Help. I'm looking to join a group for 2015 motivation, but I... don't know what SWFL means. I thought 'single white female: larger and over 40', but it's run by Todd... and now I kind of feel like an idiot and am wondering if this might NOT be the place to be. Can I just ask?
  • South side of Grand Rapids.
  • ●☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● STARTING STATISTICS NAME: aNNa HT: 5'9 SW: 197 GW: 175 WEDNESDAY WEIGH-INs ~~ 11/06/13 - 197 lbs ~~ 11/13/13 - 196 lbs ~~ 11/20/13 - 196 lbs ~~ 11/27/13 - 196 lbs ●☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● Oh, HEY! Am I doin' swell, r'what?!?!
  • I don't weigh in until Wednesdays, either... but HOMIGOSH, this week is scaring me... because it's Thanksgiving for you guys, and Hanukkah begins for me. For those NOT acquainted with Hanukkah, it's the 'Eat Fried Fatty Foods' holiday. It starts with the feast (which... cuz it starts on T-day with be our big turkey…
  • ●☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● STARTING STATISTICS NAME: aNNa HT: 5'9 SW: 197 GW: 175 WEDNESDAY WEIGH-INs ~~ 11/06/13 - 197 lbs ~~ 11/13/13 - 196 lbs ~~ 11/20/13 - 196 lbs ●☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● No loss this week... I've a visit from Aunt Flo going on, so... meh. But at least it wasn't a gain, either. I'm grateful for that, at…
  • ●☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● STARTING STATISTICS NAME: aNNa HT: 5'9 SW: 197 GW: 175 WEDNESDAY WEIGH-INs ~~ 11/06/13 - 197 lbs ~~ 11/13/13 - 196 lbs ●☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● ☆● I should probably admit something up front: I have a wonky scale. I have to step on it probably nine to ten times, and I go with whatever weight comes up…
  • Hi, I'm Anna and I'm 40 with five children, and RIGHT where you are - needing to lose about the same. Feel free to friend, if you'd like, but it looks like you have a fair number of people here who are interested in it, already. I couldn't resist replying, though, because I'm one kid and one year shy, and you SAID you were…
  • Hello! My name is Anna, and it's actually been exactly a year since I found MyFitnessPal, and last autumn I lost 15 pounds between Halloween and Christmas. But since then? I got off the weight-loss bandwagon. Oh, we hiked five miles every week this summer, camped and biked, but... it's fall. That stuff is over, and it took…
  • My husband and I are doing level one for 30 days. We figure we'll do level two for 30 (January), and then level three for 30 days (February), and that'll take us longer/farther. So yup, we're still chugging, but we're doing it differently than everyone else.
  • I log it here at MFP, under their tab. I inputted the Shred on there, and just tick the box every night when I finish doing it.
  • I joined a New Years' Challenge in October (my first day at MFP), and saw weight loss (or maintaining) every week. Then I joined this 30-Day Shred as a way of kicking up my challenge for the month of December, and my weight ROSE significantly this past week... and I was really upset. So I thank you for this article - it…
  • I have a few days to go before completing the 10 day challenge, but... I'm thinking about NOT moving up to level two. Reason being, level one is still whuppin' my body. And if I do a month of level one, then a month of level two, then a month of level three, it'll make it last longer. I'm thinking of treating Level One as…
  • Well... I feel a LOT behind everyone else when I look at our Shredder Board, but... slow and steady can still win *my* race, no? Day one I was hot, red-faced, like jelly when I finished, taking shaky steps... and when I tried to take stairs the next morning, I almost collapsed! My legs were like rubber, and SO achy. By…
  • Do I still get a gold star if I drank the 8 cups, but lost every one of them to the flu? I think this challenge was a bust, even though I met it... :sick:
  • Don't feel badly. I got the flu yesterday just about lunchtime, and didn't start yesterday, either. For obvious reasons. I don't even think I'll be past the nausea enough to start tonight, so I'll be starting Wednesday, and two days behind. So you're not alone.
  • Very excited - there seems to be a LOT of energy, here... it's motivational!!
  • Heeeere we go......!
  • Hello! My name is Anna, I'm a homeschooling/homesteading mother of five in SW Michigan. After six pregnancies (one baby didn't make it)... a WHOLE decade of either being pregnant or nursing, I am finally able to start shedding the weight. I joined MFP in October, and immediately signed up for a New Year's Challenge. But…
  • I'd like to join, too, please. Name: Anna Age: 39 Height: 5'9 Current Weight: 200 By 2013: 185 Goal Weight: 165
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