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Congrats to you! I love seeing stories like this. I have kept 100 lbs off for 15 years now - I fully understand the loose skin issue. You learn to embrace it. I used to be set on having surgery, but now, I am okay with it. Glad to see it seems like you are also. PS - I was on Oprah's last weight loss show... crazy how…

Oooh I need to read this!! Thank you for posting it!

Everyone here is exactly right! The first time I went to a class, I went by myself having NO idea what to expect. I missed so many moves and did feel silly... but had so much fun, I didn't care! I walked out, calling my husband telling him I had found a new love... and have been going ever since! You WILL catch on... it…

I love Turbo Fire and The some of the newer Firm videos! Also, Jillian Michaels' Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism is awesome! If you have the Wii, Just Dance is always fun to get the kids involved with, too!

Thank you for sharing this!! I am still scared to eat all of my exercise calories... but I try to eat a little more than half of them! But this just may be what pushes me to eat them all!

Have you checked out your local community center for workout classes? Ours has a big variety for only $3 a class! Zumba, bootcamp, circuit training, etc! I particularly love anything Turbo by Chalene Johnson... Turbo Fire is AMAZING. Blasts tons of calories and the music is awesome! Getting some friends together and going…

I haven't seen any loss here in the past couple of weeks... but it's still telling me the weight I wanna see in five weeks... just don't think that's going to happen since it said the same thing two weeks ago!

I am so sorry to hear this happened to your sister - but glad to hear that she's okay! Hope she is able to recover quickly! Thank you for the reminder!!!! I think we all need it every now and then to keep us going!

I wanted to pop in and say hello! I have been going to Zumba classes since May of 2009 and completely addicted! I have been blessed to find an AMAZING instructor and meet some great friends along the way! My husband actually goes with me, too :) It's so much fun for us...and shamefully, he shakes it better than I ever…

Haha Kelly!! This is our group in our Zumba class! Pitbull is a huge in our Zumba group... and every time we hear a song, we're all jammin' away!

Exactly what deannarey said! It's only 20 minutes - I don't know that you're going to burn a ton of calories during the work out... but the awesome thing with the HIIT's is that the calorie burn keeps going LONG after! If you're just starting out with them, definitely do the low impact. I think if you kept up with them,…

Best of luck!

Yeah, I don't count housework unless it's somehow heavy duty... but that's so rare!

This sounds so yummy! May have some cornbread on the side this weekend! Thank you! :)

Agreed... she's been one of my favorite blogs for over a year! I can't wait to buy her cookbook! I've made a ton of her dessert recipes and they're ALL to die for! No one EVER knows they're vegan!

Gorgeous pictures! Congrats on reaching your goal! Amazing job!

I'm a peanut butter girl all the way.... if I had an extra 100, I use it and just eat a tablespoon of PB :) I don't need anything else! LOL