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It might seem like it's taking ages, but where will you be in a month or a year if you give up now? Slow progress is better than no progress. That's what kept me going, and I've lost 70 kg or so.
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Heavy lifting during my 150 lb weight loss... still have loose skin on upper arm, but bat wings are better when you have guns as well!
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I have chronic nerve pain, it effects my face, eye, neck, shoulders and arms. I can't do any exercise that puts stress or pressure through my body, and I'm a personal trainer so you can imagine how much that causes problems. My advice is that you have to get food under control first. Think positive and do what exercise you…
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Hiya. I've already lost 150lbs ish, I had been maintaining for 2 years but a little bit crept back on over winter (I live in Australia, roll on the warmer weather!!). I started at 329 lbs and really had to do the lifestyle change, my philosophy is so whatever works for you and you can sustain long term. For me, I couldn't…
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Not quite your shoes but I started out at 329. I've been maintaining at around the 150 lbs lost mark for a few years and I'm now working on losing the rest. When I hit my UGW I'll have lost 176. I just want to send some more encouragement your way; fantastic loss so far!
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I'd like to answer this too. My mother lost 130lbs in her mid-50s and separated from my father. She was really nervous to go about dating at her age and in her words "looking like a Shar-Pei puppy." But if you're with the right person, it just doesn't matter. She dated quite a few men and has been with her boyfriend for…
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I'm 37 and a mum of four - 13 (g) 11 (b) and 7 year old twins (b/g). I work full time. I've lost 150lbs or so and been maintaining for two years. I got qualified as a personal trainer and now I'm trying to also build a PT business on top of everything else, while also losing the last 20 lbs or so that I'd like to go!
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I'm maintaining in a 65 - 70 kg lost range, I've been in this 5 kg weight range for just over 2 years now. My mind still plays tricks when I look in the mirror though, I can't always tell what size I actually am. I can judge my size better when I look at photos, so I've learned to always take a photo if I'm trying clothes…
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Ah, no. I've lost around 150 lbs though and been maintaining for two years. I have loose skin on stomach, upper arms, legs. It has tightened a bit since maintaining but it's not great. Still, I can tuck it in and I'd rather have it than be 329 lbs still.
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I'm 170cm, maintaining in the high 70kg range. I'm usually a size 10 top and a 12 bottom, depending on vanity sizes. Target, Crossroads, Katies, quite a few places I always have to go smaller.
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What others said. I've gone from an Australian size 26 down to an 8 - 10 (US 4 - 6). Apart from one pair of size 26 pants, the only clothes I have are the ones that fit me now and one or two pairs of pants that are a little tight but will fit soon. While I was losing most of my weight I only ever kept sizes that were…
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I've lost an average adult woman and a human head. 152lbs, I like that combination the best.
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Most recently I've injured my shoulder and neck and it's impinging my optical nerve. Think white hot stabbing dagger directly through one eye and sending the most intense pain I have ever felt through my face and head. And for context, I had a 9lb 3oz baby with no pain relief. Now every time I do anything high impact I get…
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Meh. Do what makes you happy. If you don't want your arms to get any bigger then don't do much heavy arm work. On the flip side, having defined biceps makes me very happy and I don't think I look at all like a man, despite being stronger than many of them. Just yesterday I had a guy mention my "guns" (his term) and since…
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I choose to believe my own results. 150 lbs lost over 2.5 years and I've maintained it for 2 years so far. My maintenance calories are more or less what the calculators say they should be for height, weight and activity level.
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Ask me in a year. But at the 2 year point I've been maintaining a 150+ lb weight loss okay while tracking a few days, or sometimes just part of a few days per fortnight. I seem to naturally fluctuate up and down 10 lbs or so without doing much at all, my measurements don't change. I have gone months without tracking as…
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I've lost more weight than my mother has and she's had a Gastric Bypass. I started at 149kg and was offered surgery several times but after seeing my mother's experience I decided that surgery wasn't for me. I started out 6kg heavier than my mother was when she had the surgery done. It definitely was the right choice for…
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My first was a butterfly on my ankle. It was my brother's 18th birthday and I took him in to get his first done and saw the design while I was there and loved it. This was in 2001. The thing is it was never quite placed right, I asked at the time and the guy said it would be placed correctly if I lost weight (which I was…
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(Same top in both photos, first photo was 50lbs into my weight loss and second at goal) 71kg lost (156.5lbs) over 2 years, and I've been maintaining for 2 years next month.
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I find it easier to work out early in the morning but as others have said, it requires going to bed at a decent time and getting enough sleep. I'm not a morning person by nature but definitely have enough energy when I get at least 6 hours of sleep and exercise before work. I've done as early as 4.45am alarm for a 5am…
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Good thread - now try being a New Zealander living in Australia. Both countries have predominantly British names but things do vary, even between the two. In Australia thongs go on your feet, in NZ we would call those jandals and thongs go between cheeks! It took me ages to work out that what we call Swede (both NZ and…
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It's not always easy but it is completely worth it, I promise. You sound like me from 4 years ago, and I've now been maintaining a healthy weight for almost 2 years. When I started out I didn't even know if it was possible to get where I am now, but I was determined and here I am. You've got this!
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I've lost over 150lbs so I have a heck of a lot of loose skin, particularly on my stomach (full term pregnancy with twins, I'm 176lbs down from that top weight). The loose skin is squidgy and hangs, but when I'm bloated my stomach goes really firm and obviously distended. If I measure myself while bloated my stomach is…
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I agree with second hand clothes wherever you can find them. Also clearance sales and anything with a really good price reduction. I went from an (Australian) size 26 down to a 8 or 10, most of the size drop was in the space of a year. There is definitely no point in spending a heap of money on clothes that you'll just…
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Life vs. Chocolate: How I Won at Losing. Because at 150kg and a BMI hovering on 52 I had to learn how to tackle anxiety/depression head on, put down the multiple king size bars of chocolate per day that were both sustaining and slowly killing me through morbid obesity, and kick my own backside into losing weight. I lost…
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Congratulations on your weight loss, I'm glad you found a method that worked for you. Everybody is different though, and it's the calorie deficit that matters most. I was 329lbs, I've lost over 150lbs and I totally ate whatever the heck I wanted, including "junk food" such as chocolate, ice cream, potato chips and pizza. I…
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I just want to add some encouragement in here; lots of you making progress, well done! I've lost around 150 lbs and I'm working on the last 20 or so. I've been maintaining for a while but just decided that I'd like to get to my original goal of weighing half of my starting weight - I was 329 lbs back in November 2011.…
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I schedule time into my week to work out. It used to be in the evening when my hubby was home and I'd go to the gym; now I have gym equipment at home so I get up earlier and work out before the kids are awake. I find it much easier to work out in the early morning before work than I do after a long day. I even did a…
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Not anymore, but 4 years ago I was 329 lbs and working a 60 hour week from home (Technical Writer for a software development company). And I have 4 kids, the youngest at the time were 3 year old twins. I put an exercise bike in the living area and used it each morning before starting work, and then I went for a walk each…
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I know what it's like to walk a mile in your shoes, and I also know what it's like in my current shoes - started at 329 now maintaining in low 170s. It can be done!
