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Don't get discouraged, if your exercising 5-6 days a week you may be building muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat. Also, make sure you are drinking more than you need, too little and your body goes into camel mode and holds any water it can get. Water weigh ~7.5lbs per gallon. Keep with it and I know you'll see the…

I agree with the others, it will happen, I lost most of my weight in the first month or two, and the weight loss has been slow since then, but I feel better and I know I am a stronger person for this. I definitely recommend cardio, it really gets the fat burning, your not dieting, your choosing to treat your body with the…

"Judge no one until you have walked a mile in their shoes." What a great world it would be if more people could just put this simple phrase into practice in their lives Live your life, no one else can do it for you, so their opinions are just that opinions.

Best of luck, it's 90 days today for me and I love this site more and more. Hang in there and enjoy the results!!

Welcome and Good Luck!!! This site is awesome and the people hear are soooo supportive and helpful!!!

HI, You don't mention how long you are exercising for and how close to your calorie goal you consistently are. Are you logging your exercise calories? If you are not, you can put your body into starvation mode and it holds onto all the extra calories it can get. Check with your doctor first, but ironically it could be your…

Do a search for 'True Body Fat Calculator' or try this site: http://www.healthcentral.com/cholesterol/home-body-fat-test-2774-143.html Or Your Doctor can make these measurements. Unfortunately the BMI calculators do not take into account Lean Muscle Mass. good Luck!!

The daily calorie goals are set to allow for weight loss if you remain within the goal, as long as you are not too far under it's generally okay. You should avoid going below your BMR (Base Metabolic Rate), this is what it takes your body just to run itself. There is a tool to calculate your BMR under the Tools tab. There…

Use the Find Members link on the Community tab and search for people near your zip code. :smile:

Welcome and great start! I joined on 12/30/2010 so I am a newbie too. Isn't it refreshing to find a place where everybody wants to help everyone else achieve their goals! Keep up the good work and you will be rewarded!!

Here's Mine: :flowerforyou:

Don't worry about picking up the pebbles when your busy moving mountains!! Stay focused, otherwise you look all blurry to people. LOL Hang In There :laugh:

I told people, but this is MY decision, MY journey, for MY reasons, so ultimately I don't give a damn what they think or say, I'm not doing it for them, I'm doing it for me!! That probably sounds angry, its not really, just determined. I quit smoking 2 1/2 years ago, I didn't do it so I could become a fat slob. I did it so…

My wife has Zumba Fitness and seems to love it. I like Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures, these aren't really great workouts but keep you moving.

Hi Purplesocks, I would have to disagree with your self esteem statement, you care enough about yourself to try, that puts you ahead of millions of others. For your workouts you don't necessarily need equipment, a great start is walking and dancing. Any exercise that get your heart rate up for a period of time will help.…

I try to keep empty calorie items such as celery that take more calories to digest than are in them. That way even though I might go over by the numbers I know I'm really not. Good luck and stay with it. Check out this site for even more negative calorie foods:…

If I take the Ab Dolly and place it behind my head and do sit ups I find it works great. About the only way I feel an ab burn with it. :)

Calories, Carbs, Fat, Protein, Sodium, Cholesterol. I need to limit my cholesterol and sodium, the iPhone/iPod app can show you all fields for those who have one.

I would say as long as you don't surpass your target goals you should continue to lose weight, just not as fast as if you didn't eat your exercise calories. I'm just starting so time will tell.