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Wow. It always amazes me how much younger people look when they lose weight! You lost ten years! Congratulations on a job well done.

Thanks! I've been wondering about whether I should do this. Do you have any suggestions for a good heart rate monitor that isn't super expensive?

This. Is. Awesome.

I'm a former anorexic, so I try really hard not to go below 1500 calories or I end up slowly moving down toward 0. I'm also finishing my dissertation right now, and not eating enough makes me brainless, so I can't afford to diet really drastically right now. But I do wonder if I am eating back too many exercise calories,…

Thanks! I've never seen this before. Definitely going to try it.

Oh, and also, my boyfriend is dieting too. He has done nothing but switch to diet soda and he has lost 20 pounds. Unfairness of the universe.

Ooh, this is interesting. I do weigh myself with bare feet, and I usually wet my feet if I'm trying to get a body fat reading. But I didn't know that you had to be well hydrated! Maybe I should be drinking more water . . . Thanks!

Thanks, y'all. I was resisting weighing myself for awhile because I didn't want to have the temptation of just starving myself to lose weight. Maybe I should just dropkick my scale! It does have a body fat measurement function, which is one of the reasons I bought it, but I can't seem to get that part to work -- it always…

Yay! I just did Week 6, Day 2 today. On Saturday I'm going to run almost two miles! (I've been going at a 5 mph pace . . . the 6 mph pace is a bit much for me still). And after five weeks and change of doing this, today I had to sprint to catch the bus on time -- wearing a dress, no less -- and not only did I catch the…

Holy moly, you're a hottie!

Your video made me cry. Thanks for that.

201.8! Broke my plateau! :D Also, one-derland is in spitting distance.

Wrap dresses are amazing for this. I'll reiterate the above poster who said that dresses are great. I'm about a size 12 right now but I still can wear a size 6 dress that I got in skinnier days. They're magical that way.

203.4 - I lost a bit, but I was hoping for more. Time to crank it up at the gym.

203.4! Yay! The scale is finally moving in the right direction!

206.8! Finally less than I started!

Sorry for the lateness -- I was on vacation and didn't have a chance to weigh myself. And, being on vacation, I gained a pound, so 208.

207 today. Same as last week despite being really really on track! Maybe it'll all come off at once?

The amazing thing is how the weight comes off once you keep track. I don't feel really hungry in a day when I'm eating according to my goals, and I lose. If I don't keep track, I can think I'm doing just fine and then wake up a month later with an extra ten pounds. In short, by deciding to keep track you've already made…

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point." / "The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing." -Blaise Pascal or "J'aime et j'espere." / "I love and I hope." - from a necklace that Thomas Jefferson had made for his daughter. Apparently I'm all about the French.

This is the best before-and-after I've ever seen. You're super hot! You kind of look like Orlando Bloom. :)

I think this is a nice idea. My first year of my Ph.D. program I cried almost every day. And I'm a pretty well-adjusted person. You might also just want to invite her to do something some night -- come over for a cup of tea or watch some TV. Grad school can be really isolating if you're in a competitive rather than…

How about something like Reduced Fat Wheat Thins, Babybel cheese, and some fruits and veggies? I also really like taking Jell-O pudding snacks, which are shelf-stable and not too many calories.

The best gift I ever got from a boyfriend was a necklace. My best friend told him that we were both reading a story that had a necklace with "J'aime et j'espere" on it, and I told her that I'd love to have one like it. So he went to a jeweler and had them engrave that on one side of a pendant and my initials on the other.…