ekaustin7 Member

This post is absolute nonsense. There is no place for "I'M GIVING UP" threads on a support website. Make good on your threat to give up, and take your crappy attitude with you. The rest of us will use these threads as they were intended to be used.

The best thing is getting to buy all new clothes! The worst thing is having to buy all new clothes...

I am technically in maintenance, and have been for about 2 months now, but I have lost 5 pounds since then. Since hitting my goal weight I have added 100 calories to my goal on the first of every month until I hit the maintenance number. You may be over your calories one day, but if you look at it as calories eaten per…

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Increase your calories slowly so your body gets used to having more food without feeling like you're overstuffing it. I have been increasing towards maintenance for 2 months now, 100 calories a month. It doesn't seem like much, but it gets me used to having more food a little at a time versus feeling like I immediately…

I would increase your calories to ~1500 and start doing heavy lifting. When I began to plateau, weight lifting was what broke it. As for eating more, any healthy snacks will fill up those extra calories you're not used to having. Slice a red bell pepper into thin strips and dip them in hummus, celery sticks dipped in…

I make this recipe all the time and it ROCKS. I like to add some Rotel tomatoes w/ green chiles for an extra kick. Also, two cans of black beans is a LOT of black beans. I usually only use one and it is more than enough. I could eat the whole pan myself!

Just entered the maintenance phase on September 1st! My original goal was to lose 28 pounds but I have lost 38 total now. Feel free to add me, I'd love to have friends in maintenance as well!

Hi there! 24 here (well, 23 until next week) and I was a biology major in college and plan to go back for a master's in biochemistry. Let's be friends! :)

To no longer be the "girl who graduated, went off to college and got fat." Now I'm back to my high school body and I feel great!

I'm in, add me!

It's better than the alternative.... looking heavier than you actually are! When I started losing weight, I was 173.8 lbs (I'm 5'8"). When people guess how much I weighed, they thought about 140 lbs. So I, too, was heavier than I appeared. In fact, when I hit the 20 lbs lost milestone, I told people that I lost 20 lbs…

Me! I just hit my goal weight last week and am slowly increasing my calories until I get to maintenance. Feel free to add me as a buddy, I'd love some friends who are in the same shoes as me!

I'm not worried about making it to 1800, I'm worried about getting up to 2000. There have been days where I feel like I'm stuffed full and haven't eaten back any of my exercise calories yet (I burn on average 450 calories per workout), so I'm still in a 500 calorie a day deficit even though I don't want to keep losing…

I have been eating about 1720 for the last two months. I raised it to 1800 last week, and plan to raise it 50 calories a week until I hit 2000.

This is probably the most advanced one I have seen, thanks for the link! But it put me at ~2600 calories. I don't know that I could even think about eating that much in one day, especially since I have found ways to stuff myself to the point of discomfort and still stay under 1800. I think I'll slowly increase to 2000 a…

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So true! I gave up meat for Lent last Spring and never looked back! So much easier to not eat it :)

If you're not able to eat often during the day, make the times that you actually DO get to eat count. Fill those meals with calorie dense foods... peanut butter, almonds, olive oil, etc. With the crazy burn you're putting your body through doing insanity, you NEED to fuel your muscles with food to allow them the energy…

She's probably just jealous because she: a) sees you're being healthy and losing weight, while she isn't b) doesn't have the self control that you do My boyfriend has said the same things to me in the past, calling me a "calorie nazi" and other various things. He once gave me a hard time for doing 5 minutes of jumping…

Yes, as long as you're sure the number of calories you burned is accurate. MFP overestimates, so do ellipticals/treadmills/bikes that tell you how many calories you've burned. They don't know your body type, how tall you are, or how much you weigh, so the calories they tell you you've burned are likely off. Get a heart…

To be honest, I still can't tell, and I've lost 34 pounds. I feel great though, and all of my pants are two sizes too big, that has been my biggest measure of success so far. My family and friends from home that I don't see that often notice right away, but people who see me every day didn't know I lost weight until I told…

I think I was meant to read this thread... I'm 5'8.5" and just hit 140. I started at 173.8, my heaviest ever. It took me from January 1st to July 30th of this year to lose 34 pounds. When I first started, MFP put me at 1200 calories, but I was just starving. I'm pretty active, have an active job and workout 6-7 days per…

There's your answer right there. Measure everything. Weigh everything. and LOG EVERYTHING YOU PUT INTO YOUR MOUTH. Easy as that :)

Congrats! I was very excited when I hit the 30lb mark, too, so I know just how good you must feel! Keep it up, you'll be at your goal weight in no time!!

Every morning... which I know is bad, but I'm always just so curious!

Get a heart rate monitor. That's the most accurate way of determining how many calories you burn doing various exercises. I swear by mine, it has taken my fitness to a whole new level.

I never knew this... I'm a terrible biologist. Anyway, thank you for this! That's a really great explanation. I will be sure to increase slowly :)

You could accept it while the student is there, then "accidentally" spill it into the garbage when they're gone :)

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