PhoenyxHellfyre Member

For me, my body does recognize some of these phases. I get the bloating and temporary weight gain, even though I don't technically get my period anymore. (And then I add a pound from stress from the panic attack when the scale seems to zip up. *sighs*) Voracious hunger or specific cravings are more sporadic, and seem to be…

5'8 here. When I started losing weight, I figured 160 would be my end goal, because it seemed like a decent number to be. I'm 150 now, and am going for a bit more. 160 is a good number to shoot for, then reevaluate as to how you look and feel, then go on from there. (Am I happy here? Do I want to recomp? Keep going?) Have…

I'm autistic. My taste buds also flip lids when it comes to certain food textures. Definitely frustrating. If you're trying to find foods that fulfill your macros, then trial and error is a good plan. Example: I cannot consume turkey, chicken, seafood. Fantastic sources of protein. Can't eat. Red meat is pricy to eat every…

SW: 160 CW: 155 Goal1: 155 Goal2: 150 This involuntary maintenance is proving to be both satisfying and obnoxious. Probably won't make the second goal at this rate. Ah well. Last 30 days will be dedicated to being extremely confused while I make sure I'm absolutely meticulous in my logging.

Starting challenge weight: 160 Goal challenge weight 1: 155 Goal challenge weight 2: 150 Current weight: 155 Total goal loss: 5 My maintain game is apparently strong. Either there is a whoosh coming my way, or I might just flip the switch from weight loss to body recomp. Regardless, I'm feeling pretty good. ^_^

Starting challenge weight: 160 Challenge goal weight 1: 155 Challenge goal weight 2: 150 Current weight: 155 Total challenge loss: 5 My maintaining game is strong. I'm actually pretty pleased.

Saw the endocrinologist on Tuesday. He believes that with all my weight loss, my insulin resistance is under control, and took me off the Metformin. I went from 2000mg a day at the beginning, and was able to slowly whittle it down to nothing. I'll be getting fasting blood tests in April to make sure everything is going…

Definitely on the VS bra train. It fully supports, nothing tries to fly away or fall out, and I can wear it under a shirt or by itself. (That is, if I ever get confidence to let my belly flop around. One day.) They're pricey, but you can always find a sale or a coupon to alleviate that cost. Before that, I wore a generic…

Starting weight in the challenge: 160 Challenge goal weight 1: 155 Challenge goal weight 2: 150 Current weight: 156 Gained a pound in the last week. Yay for a week of sodium and extra carb! It was tasty. I'm getting sick tho, and my shin is doing it's best to approach basketball size. (I tripped, fell, and landed terribly…

I'm sorry you hurt yourself. :( I did a couple things - I looked up proper form, and asked a trainer at the gym to walk me through, and I also practiced the right form using my bodyweight, and slowly added dumbbells until I was using the hexagon bar. (That's like a barbell, but it's in a hexagon-like shape, where you stand…

Hmm...I do have loose skin, but right now, the only problems it really causes is on the vanity front, and the number on the scale. (How much is me? How much is skin?) The latter is taken care of by going by how strong I feel, and body fat percentage, and only using the scale number as a rough generalization. I'm working on…

My only pair of pants are reaching the "don't need to unbutton to put on" stage. It's fantastic, but at the same time, obnoxious, because they are my only pair. (It's difficult around here to find women's pants in thrift stores that are work-appropriate with proper pockets, and my shape is too weird for men's pants right…

These two were around my starting weight of 392. This was when I was around 225. This is about a month and a half ago at 160-162ish. I'm at 155 now - not sure where I'll end up weight-wise, but I'll keep figuring it out as I go along. :)

Two NSV's that coincide: I've lost 2 inches from the hips, AND I can actually see that difference.

Starting weight (for this challenge): 160 Goal weight: 155 Current weight: 155 New goal weight: 150 Total lost via challenge: 5lbs I'm on a two year streak of losing weight over the holidays! :3 I expected to maintain from all the food I ate while in Costa Rica, but I guess the exercise I also did offset that. Yay!

Weigh-in! Starting weight: 160 Current weight: 157 Goal weight: 155 Lbs lost: 3 I'll weigh in again in 2 weeks - I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow. Have a lovely holiday, and keep up the fantastic work. :)

Week 2 weigh-in! Starting weight: 160. (I'm not sure if we were supposed to post the weight at the beginning of the challenge, or at the start of the weight journey. To be safe, the latter weight was 392.) Goal weight: 155 Current weight: 158.7 Weight lost: 1.3 *Technically* I gained since last week. But, I'm considering…

Weigh-in! (Since Friday is my day.) Current weight: 158 Goal weight: 155 Lbs lost: 2 I'll give it good odds that the number will fluctuate up and down over the next couple weeks, now that I'm on the tail end of being sick, and actually want to eat food again. Water weight and all that jazz.

I'll play; might be fun. Although, weigh-in will be on Friday for me. Age: 25 Height: 5ft8. (Or nine, on some days.) Current weight: 160 Goal weight: 155 Good luck and stay warm everyone!

Two Eggo Thick n Fluffy waffles, with a little butter and maple syrup, with black Deathwish coffee. I love Sundays. Other days of the week, it's Kashi GoLean, 2% Fairlife milk, half a serving of protein powder, and the coffee preworkout, and Shamrock Farms muscle protein-drink-thing postworkout. That sounds absolutely…

Rolled my ankle a couple days ago on my way into the gym. It sucked, but I inadvertently discovered how much my balance and lower body strength has improved - I can hop around on one foot without getting too tuckered out.

Pride.

My favourite thing to eat when I had the teeth removed was mashed banana with peanut butter stirred in. Doesn't look terribly attractive, but it's delicious, filling, and didn't make anything worse.

Two NSVs: 1.) I went on vacation last week. Ate all the foods, and did modified workouts. Managed to maintain my current weight. (I guess it's technically a scale thing, but I'm still super proud that I pulled that off.) 2.) My endocrinologist thought my biceps were super cool and referred to them as potatoes. He then…

907 pages of lurking, and now I'm going to try poking in. Hello everyone, I hope your Saturday is going well. Here is a confession: Lately, I've been wanting to take all the training my therapist has been having me do and chuck it out the window. (I'm autistic and a whole bunch of other things.) I'm frustrated by the idea…

I will look into the MapMyRun app, thanks! :) Do you have an opinion on heart rate monitors that also track calories?

I can see why you would draw that conclusion. It's the same concept I used when I was anorexic. However, you need to eat as close to the amount of calories MFP recommends based on your lifestyle and your goal. If you don't eat enough calories, your body goes into starvation mode, and will take everything you eat, no matter…