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Eating more calories than your metabolism can handle is sabotaging yourself. I know because I did that for years and years.

Get your vitamin B levels tested; it's a simple blood test. If they are low, try a good B12 supplement first.

I weigh daily. IMHO, it's the only way to prevent myself from gaining weight back. That being said, I've had to come to understand that once I started lifting weights a year ago, the scales did not always register fat losses; I had to rely on how my clothes fit. As far as your last question, people are not honestly looking…

Here is a link to an MFP blog post about whether or not you should eat back your workout calories. Here is another link to another MFP blog post titled "5 Unusual Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight".

Yes, completely. I frequently feel let down now that my journey is over. I no longer feel that special feeling I got when I was losing. Nowadays, I took pleasure in meeting now fitness goals, like climbing over 300 floors for the first time on StairMaster or lifting over 250,000 pounds in one week's lifting workouts.

For what it's worth, I've learned in the last 2 years that I succeed at what I make a priority.

I guess there's one other thing I should add. In the last year, I've added a lot of new muscle from weight lifting. Not only has my weight loss and exercise completely resolved my diabetes (I no longer take any diabetes medications), I actually have trouble now getting my BSL above 120. Even 30 minutes after a meal, my BSL…

I have no regrets, and I was well prepared by the staff of the center where my procedure was performed. I would have the surgery again, without hesitation. If there was one thing I wish I had known, it would be this: the pain meds I took after the surgery constipated my badly, the worst I've ever experienced. Over a year…

Persistence is key to success.

Nuts... They help with satiety.

Honestly, I have gotten a ton of useful benefit from my Polar heart rate monitor. It gives me an extremely accurate reading of the calories I burn when exercising, and it gives me my average heart rate, my max heart rate, and workout load. I considered the FitBit, but choose the Polar and have never regretted it. I have…

Hi, @Klolittles! Baby steps are a good way to begin. If you're looking for good, low impact cardio, may I suggest the elliptical? It's how I got started 16 months ago. Once I was in decent shape, I started doing high intensity interval training, and my weight loss and fitness really took off.

Welcome to MFP! What are your goals? I've more or less completed my goals, and am now focused on staying healthy and fit.

You're on the right path. Eat less, move more. Starting slowly is smart. Push yourself at every opportunity though. When I started using an elliptical, I could barely do a 1/2 mile in 10 minutes. Now I can run over 6 miles in under 35 minutes. I can also play racquetball for over an hour and do over 250 flights on a…

The best thing anyone ever said to me was, "You are not losing weight because it is not a priority for you." It was difficult to hear, but it was exactly true. I don't know you, so I can't speak with any authority about your situation, but I found it to be true that people succeed at what they make their priorities.…

Motivation is great, but I've found determination and persistence to be absolutely unbeatable and indispensable.

Eating less and moving more is the only formula for losing weight.

I failed several times before I succeeded. Ultimately, I had to take full responsibility for everything before I could succeed.

@Kalikel, trouble is, the doctor I see for my weight loss management tells me it's okay to lose some more. My regular doctor just happened to ask me how I felt about my weight loss. @galprincess, I did ask for clarification.

@SOOZIE429, I weigh 210. I don't know what my LMM ratio is (dying to know, but it's hard to find a place that can measure it), but my BMI is 29 or less. I hate BMI because it does not take into account muscle mass.

I've never belonged to an Anytime gym, but I belonged to a Planet Fitness for over a year. I suspect most of these chains are very similar to each other; otherwise, how would they compete. I was very happy with PF, but there was very little help in the way of training. I had to do all my own research and plot out my path…

I keep my FL small so that I can interact with my friends here. MFPers who have a lot of friends in their list are generals "friend collectors", and I avoid them. Periodically, I go through my FL and remove inactive members or members who haven't so much as "Liked" anything I've done in a while. That being said, I…

When I weighed almost 400 pounds, I was sure that I looked pathetic to everyone else at my Planet Fitness, but I got in there and exercised anyway. Over time, as I lost weight, random strangers would come up to me at the gym and tell me how good I was looking and that I was motivating them to work harder. I now play…

I was ready after 2 weeks, but was not released to return until after 3 weeks.

I do very well with Optisource Baritric chewables. I think it's important to take them with food. It may help you keep them down, and some vitamins can only be absorbed with fat intake.

Not an expert, but I would it would depend on your body composition. Generally though, I'd think waist and thighs would be the most obvious places. I just weigh every day, recording the losses and shrugging off the gains unless they continue day-after-day. New research suggests weighing daily helps lead to successful and…

Welcome @TISquirrel, it's a simple equation... eat less, move more, repeat.

For what it might be worth to you, I don't look to motivation much myself. Instead, I focus on persistence. I have found that dogged persistence overcomes everything. "Persistence can turn failure into extraordinary success." - Matt Biondi

No longer diabetic, no longer have high blood pressure, and I'm able to do things I haven't been able to do for years, like play racquetball for almost 2 hours.

Glycogen is made and stored primarily in the cells of the liver and the muscles, and it's unlikely to cause any noticeable change in appearance. Water retention, depending on much, may be noticeable.