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5'4 1/2" 138 Shirts: M Pants: 9 or 10 The variety of sizes is interesting. Body shape has a huge impact on clothing size for many of us. I was down to 115 at one point and still could not fit into jeans smaller than a size 8.

I lost about 80 pounds and I'm 64 and currently weigh 115. I don't have any hanging skin anywhere and I don't see any stretch marks that weren't already there from having kids, but my entire body looks like it's in a silk skin suit about a quarter size too big. Some of that is age - I'm not sure gaining back the weight…

I stopped and gained 10 pounds back over a couple of months, the same old denial routine. I'm back weighing myself daily although I won't carefully track once I lose the 10 pounds again. After losing 80 pounds, you'd think I'd learned my lesson but apparently I need some structure to maintain. I don't mind it.

64 yo woman here. In the last couple of years I've lost almost 100 pounds. It's not too late.

1500 Cal a day to maintain 5'5" 118 lb. (go up and down between 115 and 120 lbs). 64 yo female. Lightly active - walk/run bout 10,000 steps a day, sometimes more, sometimes less.

When I was 9 years old (well over 50 years ago), my mother who was watching Miss America on tv looked at me and said, "Your thighs have a gap. You need to fix them so they look more like those women." I was never able to fix them so they look like that. Also I have a round face, a fat neck, short legs and a long torso, and…

Thank you! I read through it, and since I'm below my target weight now (not 5 pounds below but I'm too thin for comfort so 3 will have to do), I'll start eating at maintenance again and hopefully let the minimal gain stabilize. I eat back my exercise calories so between that and the MFP suggested calorie level, I'll…

MFP’s maintenance calories (1330) were too high for me. Within a week I’d gained 2 pounds. I dropped my calories back to 1200 and floated up and down the same 2 pounds for almost 6 weeks before suddenly dropping 3 pounds. At this point I don’t know what my maintenance level is – MFP is too high but I will eventually lose…

1 packet of instant oatmeal - 150 calories 2 cups coffee - 0 2 packets no calorie sweetener - 0 1 tbsp fat free half and half - 10 calories 1/2 tbsp some kind of flavored creamer, sugar free or fat free - 10 calories or less depending The same thing every day. I change to 1 boiled egg white and 2 pieces of 45 calorie…

I hate beans. Huge pots of that slimy stuff - gross. Also not at all into bacon, pepperoni, ham, anything with mint in it, broccoli (although I force myself to eat it), big slabs of any kind of meat doesn't matter what, and tuna fish. I love ice cream unless it has mint - then it can sit in the freezer forever. Yogurt with…

Mine is normal. After losing 85 pounds (and still going), it's 19.5.

Whatever I want as long as I can stand to eat it relentlessly day after day for a long long time, or as long as I don't eat massive quantities of it. Eat ALL the 'junk food' just not too often due to price, both calorie and money. I had to give up broccoli and tuna early on because of the strong taste - doubt I'll ever eat…

Got older, depressed, and ate a lot. I'd been thin my whole life, didn't own a scale, and just somehow didn't believe I'd gotten fat until my doctor weighed me, and the scale said 200 lbs. It was weird - it was like I'd turned into my fat grandmother without noticing. I don't even like food very much. I'd happily take a…

When I started, I couldn't walk across the street without feeling faint. I don't think I'm ever going to be running marathons, but I can comfortably walk and jog a few miles every day. It takes a while. Don't get discouraged. As for the smoking, nicotine is a very addictive drug. Some people can quit 'cold turkey' but many…

I'd definitely find some way to use free, nutritious food. Surreptitiously weigh it, or, if it's free, would anybody even care if you weighed it? Take some home with you every day? (I'd work hard to make that happen - food is expensive.) Just make it your lunch or maybe lunch and a whole day of snacks? I don't know what to…

I was 5'5", 35 yrs old, weighed 140 at the time I gave birth. I lost weight rapidly (breast feeding and had to return to work in 5 days) and any change to my belly was gone within about 6 weeks. I ate anything I could get including Beefaroni, Cheerios, cheeseburgers, ice cream, veggies from somewhere but not a whole lot of…

Learning how to identify correct portions, about nutrition etc is one reason for tracking. There are others. I take help where I can find it. I don't want to slide back into justifying the extra pizza, the extra muffin, and exaggerating the amount of calories I burn. Tracking is a useful tool for me. I've lost the weight I…

I keep some of them to do things like scrub the floor (did that recently with vinegar) or serious knees on the ground weeding. If I can belt up the pants tight enough to prevent them from sliding off, I'll use a couple of them for the really dirty jobs. Same for one or two of the tops. Everything else went to Goodwill or…

Do one recipe, not a whole bunch of them. I work best with small goals, sometimes very small. Use only one tablespoon of the higher calorie coffee creamer this morning. Don't even think about walking/running the extra ten minutes this afternoon until then, then that becomes a goal. Every decision counts. I have to feel…

Even for a colonoscopy, it might be disappointing. I was kind of hoping I'd see a drop in weight (very short term, I know, just curious how much it would drop) after mine, but no. Almost a week of scouring does nothing but make you feel horrible.

I don't bring it up at all unless someone asks and then I just say it's taking me a long time, there's no special food I'm eating, and refer them to MFP if they ask. I had two embarrassing moments with two good friends. My sister in law is excited about losing weight, told me about her 20 pounds and pressed me to tell her…

I'm a daily and public logger. I'm losing weight but I eat pretty much whatever I want and I don't like to cook. If you're ok with the McDonald's sundaes, I'd like to be added!

I'm 5'5" and weigh 123 pounds which is not overweight. A size 10 fits comfortably. I can barely squeeze into an 8 and definitely can't button it. I couldn't get into the size 10 until I got close to 130.

Over 2 years I lost 75 pounds. I'm 63 years old, mentioned because age might be a factor. My stretch marks were pretty bad but they're completely gone. Actually I'd forgotten about them and had to check. My stretch marks from pregnancy faded rapidly, too, so the way skin reacts probably varies. On the other hand, my…

I went through something very similar for a couple of months. I ate more. I ate more fat. I ate more protein. I ate more salt. I drank more water. I cut way down on caffeine. I went through my annual physical at the time and the doctor found nothing (ear problems, blood pressure, etc.). Nothing. Finally it went away on its…

Isn't supertracker calculating calories by TDEE? Doesn't MFP use NEAT? Wouldn't the amount be very different anyway? I'm confused.

I'm 63, don't particularly like meat, don't eat many beans because they upset my stomach, love carbs and fruit and veggies (some of them). I get enough protein. My weight is low normal, my blood pressure low, all my blood work fine, I run a couple of miles a day, I'm perfectly healthy and I do not plan to stop eating a…

I started to lose weight when I was about 198 lbs. It took almost 2 months to lose 5 pounds and that's been the way it works for me all down the scale, no matter how careful I am, despite periods of anger and frustration and frenzied exercise. It was very very discouraging at first. It came off, but nowhere near as fast as…

Definitely serve yourself smaller portions and wait a while to see if you really are still hungry. Then eat more if you decide you are. The food you don't eat doesn't sit around somewhere in the world in a giant unusable mass like the great plastic garbage reef in the Pacific Ocean. It doesn't disappear into a black food…

Motivation: At 63, my motivation has changed dramatically from what it would have been 30 years ago. For example, I really don't care how I look anymore, I'm just too old. These keep me going, though. Health: Cholesterol too high. Trying to get it down and keep it that way using diet and exercise Food: I'd like to be able…