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I wouldn't be surprised if his basal metabolic rate estimate was wrong, on this site it tells me I need to consume 2,200 calories to lose 2lbs a week its just not right, not even close. I had my basal metabolic rate determined by my doctors during a sleep study, they measure your carbon dioxide levels and O2 levels after…

My Fitbit one and MFP are vastly different too, they are both set to 2lbs a week and sedentary, according to my Fitbit I should be consuming 1,500 calories a day, but this site says 2,030 which is a big difference. I manually adjusted this site to match what FitBit says since its actively tracking my movement. My weight…

Thank you, yeah I included the stats because people on this site recommanded keeping up with them as they are a better measure of fitness than just weight alone. I also wanted to show people that its possible to get health stats by being fit and eating right, now I know some people are pre-disposed to higher numbers based…

Thanks and congrats to you as well

Haha yeah that surprised me too, I think it happened for two reasons, 1.) My feet have less...lets call it padding :) around them in general 2.) When I stand my feet no longer spread out as much as they did so I don't need super wide shoes. Like my feet didn't get any shorter, they were probably always an 11 in actual…

I know this is an old post but I can now answer my own question, I really started to notice the change right around the 60lbs lost mark

I used to drink a lot of milk, like a gallon every two days but now I have greatly limited it to a few cups a week if that. The only reason I reduced it so much was because I didn't have the calories available to drink so much anymore. Milk is good for you in moderation like a bunch of different things but you do have to…

I too gave up on beer as well, its great tasting but its just too many empty calories, if I am going to have a drink its usually bacardi silver on the rocks, only 65 calories.

Great job on your success

I have this same scale at home, its accurate but you do have to remain still and it needs to be placed on a hard flat surface.

As others were saying keep strong and make sure you take pictures, I was just like you in June 2013, I had just gone to the doctors because my back was killing me and stepped on the old fashion sliding scale, the kind that goes to 350lbs. When I stepped on the scale it slammed up and the lady was like woooo we're going to…

I have lost 50lbs+ at this point and yesterday as I was at the hardware store I looked at a 50lbs bag of rock salt. Curious I picked it up and was blown away by heavy it was. Hard to believe that 6 months ago a bag as heavy as that was on my body 24/7 Keep up the good work

Thanks everyone its support from fellow members of this site that really help, I enjoy seeing the progress photos the most because it gives me hope that I can indeed keep this up I'm off to go run before it gets too cold and too dark, its league bowling tonight which means 4-5 diet rum and cokes are in my future got to…

I had a month were my weight loss was stagnant despite being under my calorie goal, what finally broke it was drinking 5L of water a day (sounds excessive but not for my weight) and have up and down days, IE some days I went over by 300 calories and other days I shorted, I just made sure to be at or under for the week and…

Thanks the shirt I was wearing on the left was a 3XL the one I am wearing now is an XL, actually the reason I took the pic was because I was looking for a pair of jean shorts to work on house projects with, the only pair I had were from High School 11 years ago, my wife told me to try them to see if they would fit and BAM…

Thanks everyone for replying to my post, its finally getting dark here In Pittsburgh so I'm going to go on my nightly run, I still feel like people are looking at me and laughing if I run in the day but at night its not so bad, plus it cooler which helps since I sweat like a man of my weight would....a lot Have a great…

@adlace, actually what started this whole quest, aside from not wanting to die in my 50's from a heart attack, was this terrible sciatica I have and the CPAP machine I must use everynight. If losing the weight will finally allow me to walk and sit without pain that would be amazing. If I can finally rid myself of the CPAP…

Jenni I never thought of it like that, I suppose now that I think about it the seat belt in my car is no longer chocking me as it once did

The support on this site is really great and it does help when you can see and read other peoples stories. It gives me hope that I can succeed as I have seen others do it

Hello thanks for the reply, at first I thought it was water weight too but since starting I have been drinking 8 glasses a water a day(not sure if does anything but make me pee more). I do notice my shirts don't unbutton themselves like they used to and my belt is one hole tighter now. I think you are right because I look…