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ED's been telling me i'm Too Fat for my favorite treat at starbucks for weeks now. i finally told it to go screw off & got my caramel macchiato on! and i refused to feel guilty, so i didn't! it was a rare, beautiful thing.
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Not a stockpile, but I definitely crave junk food *less* when I have it around, so I always have a few goodies available at any given time. Honestly lately whenever I crave chocolate sweets I'll have half a Think Thin or Luna protein bar (salted caramel e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g) and it satisfies my crave 'cause they're just so…
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5'7" here, medium frame. My whole adult life I've yo-yo'd from 145-165, with 150 being my "happy weight". I let myself go (mostly due to anxiety/depression, tons of sugar and alcohol & no exercise) for about 2 years and ballooned up to 181 by Nov 2014. I immediately got on the MFP wagon, and dropped down to 131 by July…
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I cut out alcohol in order to lose weight (even straight liquor is caloric! One shot of gin = a decent sized snack). I only started incorporating it again after I reached my goal, since I now need that extra "snack" to maintain anyway ;)
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Here's my Cautionary Tale, if you will. I started out this year at my highest weight in my adult life. After 5 months of logging and sweating, I reached my goal. I was ecstatic to say the least! But then I got a mean case of the "what now?"s. I'd never reached my goal weight my entire life. I literally didn't know what to…
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I would just like to throw out there that the underlying psychological cause for obsessive behavior can & perhaps should be discussed with professional. Find a counselor or psychologist. just started therapy myself this year & it's helped me tremendously. It made me realize I'm stronger than I let myself think I am, and…
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not if you set your MFP goal to lose 1lb a week & stick to it :wink:
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If you are using the MFP diary, set your goal to gain weight. The healthiest way is to gain 1lb a week, which is an excess of 3,000 calories a week, or about 430 calories a day. MFP will do all this math for you. I trust MFP's calculations, as they have aided me in both loss and gain. But the body's natural fluctuations of…
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I'm 31, 5'7.5", 134lbs, MFP gave me a maintenance mode at 1645 cals being "lightly active", even though I lean towards "moderately active". I eat back all of my exercise calories now, I've noticed if I don't I lose more weight. So I net about 2000-2300 cals. I've never reached my goal weight before, therefore I've never…
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Oh I absolutely know. I guess that's where trusting your loved ones comes into play. I think if your fiancé says you look great, he really thinks you look great, and therefore you look great :)
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Let me start off by saying that I did NOT have negative adjustments enabled and I lost 40lbs in 4 months just fine :wink: Having that said, I'm in maintenance mode now (I actually lost 10lbs more than I meant to, so I have ample wiggle room) & I decided to experiment with negative adjustments on starting yesterday. It…
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I'll throw my story in! I've never put in such hard work to reach a weight goal in my life, and I finally did it about 2 months ago. I completely relate to that "what now?" feeling, because what I did then was...nothing. I just kept going. My body would quit on me if it were exhausted, right? I must have more to lose...…
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Thank you for this post, I'm glad I'm not alone! I'm 5'7.5", turning 31 soon, and just went from my highest most unhealthy weight since reaching adulthood at 182 lbs to being in the best shape of my life thanks to 5 months of hard work (MFP, yoga, & running! also gave up booze for personal health concerns) at 143 lbs. I…
