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I know how you feel, I felt the same way. But let me ask you a question: Do you want to hit your "goal" weight and still be fat? Or would you rather be lean and toned? At what you are eating now, your body is consuming muscle along with the fat. Fat is burned in muscles. You are losing your ability to burn fat, and you'll…

I think you are overestimating your cals burned. I'm 191lbs on a stair master the most I can burn in 30 mins on an aggressive interval workout is 400 cals, and I'm drenched in sweat. 550 in 30 min seems very high. Vary your workouts. If you do the same thing all the time, you burn less cals as the body get efficent at it.…

Walks are an excellent start. You should try to do it everyday. As you get stronger you will want to increase the intensity of your workouts (bike ride, elipical machine, etc). BTW - I have a diet Dr. Pepper nearly every weekday. I'm not into self denial. Just moderation.

I'm 45/25/30. It is working very well for me.

Maybe try physical fitness goals. Lifting a certain amount of weight. Run distance with a certain time?

Bike ride. Lift (Squats, Bulgarian Split Squats, Step Ups). Starmaster or just plain stairs BTW - judging from your photos you are right, you don;t want to lose any more fat, you want to tone what you got.

Early on, I weighted myself every morning at the same time (first thing our of bed). Now I'm more in maintaince mode and heavy weight lifting, I weight myself weekly, it is pointless to weight myself daily becasue the lifting is causing my weight to fluxuate +/- 4 lbs due to water retention post lift.

I've found comfort in the planning. I plan meals 2 or 3 days out, and work out 2 or 3 weeks out. I feel like it puts me in control.

NO WAY! I want to enjoy my food. Just eat better food. There is plenty of good food that is good for you. Why deny yourself that?

Relax. The goal is fat loss, right? The one thing we know is it isn;t fat. I doubt you were 21,000 cal over this week. It's water.

I'm at my goal, but still want to take another 5 or so lbs off. However, at least fro the time being I'm in a heavy lift mode, and not losing weight. After a couple of months of lifting I'll take the remaining 5 lbs off. One thing I've noticed, while in weightlifting mode the scale is useless, my weight can fluxuate by as…

You are the captain of your ship. You own the results.

True but don;t let this stop you from lifting. You will still benefit from it, you'll be firmer and stronger. Get away from the machines, lift free weights. Check out the following book: "New Rules of Weight Lifting for Women" It will give you a great program, and I believe there is a MFP group devoted to it as well.

I'm doing New Rules for Men. I don't know what's in the women's book, but they have a full year of workout in it. As for your earlier question. I still do a lot of cardio, nearly everyday and lift 3 or 4 times a week. I'v got about 6 more lbs (of fat I'm tracking lean mass carefully) to go and I'll cut back on the cardio a…

At least half of of this loss is lean mass. You are going to hit you goal weight and still be fat, and with less muscle requiring calories have less of an ability to burn calories, so when you get off this unsustianbale "diet" the weight will come right back, but the ratio of fat to lean mass will be much higher. I really…

Motivation: I can't describe how much better you will feel, but it is true. You will feel better, look better, sleep better, men will look at you differently, random people like checkers at the grocery store or the UPS guy will compliment you. You life will change! the good new is, it really is simple, it just takes time.…

I noticed 2 weeks ago, how completely reprogrammed my brain is. I not primarily think of feed a fuel rather than a source of enjoyment. My tastes have totally changed. Potato chips disgust me. I'd rather have a plate of veggies. The thought of a good IPA still interests me, not everything has changed.

This is true. If you think of the Squat less as bending at the knee and more of dropping you butt back in a sitting motion, it tends to get you deeper and it works glute and quads more than hamstrings....truth be told this i something I struggle with, I tend to bend at the knees more than sit my butt back.

When losing I ate about 1,700 and burned on average 500. Now I'm eating much more (2,500 or more) and burning 700-900 per day. After 7 more lbs I'll add 250 cals per day and may cut back a bit on the exercise. Still kind of figuring out the "soft landing."

Wow.. this is totally shallow. maybe the 6 is a very interesting person, with the kind of personalty people want to be around....just say'n. Sure looks play a factor, but for a lot of people other factors make people attractive....just say'n

Just eat right and exercise.

Attempting to hide something is a sure sign of a problem. Why can;t you be honest with the people you love?

A good IPA.....maybe 2...or 3

Excellent - you will find lifting serves you well.

Save some of your budgeted calories for the evening. I have a small meal at 8:00pm.

Bulk

A month ago when I crossed 195 lbs I started eating more. I currently eat at least 2,500 cals, and changed the nature of my work outs to favor muscle growth. I'm getting a lot more protean to support the lifting. I gained 4 lbs - which I'm certain was mostly water weight due to muscle inflamation. Now I'm losing weight…

Here is how I look at it. We have incisor teeth, which evolved to cut meat. So while we are omnivores who can consume a variety of foods, we evolved (or were designed depending our your point of view) to eat meat.

Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

The rationale behind your workout is sound. Turn the iPod up and tune him out. BTW - excellent before and after Christmas photos, good work!