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Just keep at it and eat the calories the system tells you and it will slowly come of in the coming months. You can't rush it.

Why not do both. Follow your diet/fast and also track calories. Problem solved.

Walk 5 miles a day, or as much if you can if that's too far physically. If your calories are controlled, weight will melt off you in coming weeks/months.

Whole fruit may be slightly better for you than a blended piece of fruit, but blended fruit is about 10x better than what most people would otherwise be eating... a lot of processed food. Myself and a lot of others drink almost daily green smoothies as a meal replacement, because there is no way I'm eating 4-5 cups of…

Congratulations! Quite the transformation.

I really believe that when people see "big folks" exercising, lifting weights, etc. they are truly thinking one of either two things: 1) Good for them for doing something about it. (or) 2) I wish X (another big folk they know) would do the same. They aren't judging.

I say learn to enjoy your alone time. Find something you can do to celebrate your new lifestyle while she is out with her family. Hell, I'd pay cold hard cash sometimes to not have to go out with my inlaws. Go hiking, do a yoga class, see movies, read a book at a coffeeshop, whatever. Stay strong and on it.

What is sufficient? You aren't trying to maintain, but to lose weight. Eat what MFP tells you to do, including exercise calories, and reevaluate after a full month. It will get easier.

I think it's fine for a breakfast. Try it for a couple weeks and see how it works out. Surely it's better than cereal.

Try it and see if you can do it. Maybe after a few months your Cardiologist says you can do meat twice per week or something. Everyone should eat mainly fish as their animal flesh of choice.

Secret is to cook a LOT less in it than you would think, cook it super hot, and cook it fast. Fewer ingredients the better, which is counter to US "wok" thinking. One meat, one veggie. Such as beef and broccoli, chicken and green beans, shrimp and mushrooms, etc. Sesame oil for cooking is outstanding, soy sauce near the…

If you need protein in your smoothie, add greek yogurt. It will really make it taste good, and adds a great deal of protein. Never... meat.

If you set a goal to lose some weight, whether .5 per week to 1 or even 2 per week, and it told you to eat 1990, then eat 1990. You WILL lose weight over time. Don't try to rush the process... that way just leads to failure or health problems.

If you are first incorporating greens, I recommend you stick with baby spinach. It will absolutely taste the best of any greens out there, and is loaded with nutrients. Second choice would be parsley and mint. Kale sounds great, is great for you nutritionally, but it's strong taste can turn anyone off green smoothies. I've…

How completely SMALL the portions that normal BMI sized person eats. It at least feel like I was eating 4x the food when I started. Not tracking food and eating whatever I wanted was glorious, but the health consequences ended up just being too high.

Every single day, it will get just a tiny bit easier. And then someday, if you eat that whole pot of brown rice and veggies, you will feel kind of sick and icky. Just stick with it. It works.

Terrific work! You must feel great.

Good for you to make a commitment to getting a lot more unprocessed plants into your diet. If anyone does a study, you'll generally find that the "common denominator" of all the diets that most nutritionists agree are reasonably decent to good, is "eating leaves." If everyone new to MFP just ate within their calorie counts…

Congratulations on your loss! Good luck with the rest of your path.

I weigh daily versus auto-linked scale, but I only post a weight loss to my friends list if I've lost 5 pounds from my previous announcement... those posts have been months in between, unfortunately.

The health benefits are relative to other fats. Doesn't mean you need to add extra of it. Just substitute other vegetable oils especially with olive oil. Hard to use much oil and hit calorie targets though.

What people don't get is that a LOT of people on MFP did a cleanse not so much to cleanse their liver, but instead to reset their appetite BEFORE they started a lifestyle change. I did, and many on my friends list. After 3 days, the calories and foods that I started eating tasted like the best food ever, and allowed…

You've come so far man. And now inspiring other.

I have found it to be a complete fail with green smoothies. Non-green, maybe. But I find I enjoy the calories more when eating anything peanut butter away from a drink...

YOU may not be counting calories but your body is. It always was, and always will. If you want to lose weight, so will you. BUT, if you just want to be healthier, then of course eating better foods and exercising more will do that. Just don't be sad when the scale doesn't go down.

Your clothes won't lie to you. When they feel looser, especially when they start looking "too big" then you'll KNOW you're making progress. Keep at it, log your food, stick to your plan, and it will come.

If they are tracked and accounted for in your calories, they aren't bad. If you have a 400 calorie smoothie, it should probably be a meal. If you are eating high calorie smoothies as a snack or on top of a regular set of meals/cals, THEN that's a problem. If you really want to make them healthy, add leaves into them.

I actually think that it's kind of brilliant. If I had done this, I would have avoided a lot of over days.

Short answer = yes.

Order a small bag of chia seeds. Drink them in water each day. Tons of fiber, along with other health benefits. And you'll hardly taste them. Or, just eat a ton of veggies. Almost any veggies, especially leaves, will do.