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For me, eating back exercise calories (or exercising to burn off calories when I overeat) is working. I'm not losing very quickly, but I figure I didn't put the weight on overnight, and if I lose it too quickly I'm afraid I'll gain it all back! What works is not the same for everyone, of course, so I would suggest trying…

Ok, so if your calorie goal is 1200 net calories, you want your final net number at the end of the day to be as close to 1200 as possible. If you eat 1200 calories and burn 1000 through deliberate exercise, your net is 200, and that's very bad for you. If you burn 1000 calories in deliberate exercise, you need to eat a…

Depending on what your calorie goals are set at, it may be beneficial for you to actually increase your calorie intake for a few days without burning those cals through exercise (by a hundred or two, not a thousand!), then drop back down. It's worked for me a few times in the past year. Plateaus suck, and so far that's the…

I eat out a lot in my line of work, because I take clients out in the community. I've found that the easiest thing for me is to find something similar in the database to what I eat (for example, if I order a steak meal from a local restaurant, I'll put it in as an Applebee's meal). If there's absolutely nothing even close…

Honestly, it's pretty difficult to maintain an active social life (at least the kind most of us were used to before starting this journey) and be fit. I'm sure it's slightly easier for women to maintain friendships that don't revolve around food and alcohol, simply because we commiserate with each other about the battle of…

Also from MN, though much farther north than most of the other posters :-) it's cool to see so many other people! Love visiting Duluth and the Cities too.

This happened to my sister a few years ago. To make it worse, she had left her towel on the rack in the shower area in the locker room... and didn't realize what had happened until she saw herself in the mirror in the locker room. As for me, I'm a walking embarrassment at the gym. Just today, I tripped over myself at…

Awesome! I bet it's a great feeling, for both NSVs!

Try eating more. It sounds to me like your body is in starvation mode, especially if you exercise daily. What does MAP have your calorie goal set at, and are you meeting it most days?

I've always been told to do more reps with less weight. It's working for me so far!

Don't let her get you down! One thing I'm learning with this journey is that there are a LOT of people who won't be as supportive as you wish they would be, for a number of reasons. I just use them as fuel to keep my determination up! 27 lbs is awesome, and no, I'm sure it's not all water weight :noway: keep up the hard…

Thanks everyone! One more thing I can add to my list of motivators now :smile:

Welcome to MFP! I'm working on losing 100+ lbs and I'm 23. Still struggle with some binge eating, but this site has really helped me realize that what I'm putting in my mouth has consequences, and become more aware of what foods are worse than others! Feel free to add me as a friend.

I think he is aware and wanting to make changes, but he needs to make the decision to put the effort in. All of us on here have made that decision, and while quite a few of us (myself included) have a long ways to go, I remember that the first couple weeks were the absolute hardest. I still get frustrated with the 200…

Welcome to MFP! Friend me if you'd like :-)

Good for you for taking your health into your own hands. Like many people before me have said, this is one instance where you have to be selfish, and chances are your family is jealous. My family is less than supportive as well, but in a passive-aggressive way. I still have a LOT of weight to lose in order to be healthy,…

I will have to try working out right after I get home. I've been worried about not being able to sleep, but I know there's going to have to be a sacrifice somewhere!

I work with developmentally disabled consumers in a home setting. The consumers I work with are older and not as interested in going for a walk, even if I push them in a wheelchair, but I have convinced them a few times now that the weather is nicer, so that helps. Hopefully I can work up to making it a daily thing with at…

My days off aren't usually the problem (other than not having enough of them!). We don't get breaks where we can leave the workplace due to only having one or two staff on each shift. And I know I have a tendency to put working out on the back burner on days I work, and tell myself I have too many things to get done before…