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You look terrific, I can really see the changes in your arms, legs and face already. You are doing great and you must feel a lot better too. Thank goodness you found Joe.

You look amazing. What an inspiration you are.

Beautiful. Your smile in the after photo shows it all.

I am a sweets eater too. I keep a bag of carrots and cut up celery with me and munch on a few of those along with a lot of water. My best advice is to purge your house of all sweets. For me it's ice cream, love that stuff.

I completely stopped eating all sweets. No cookies, cakes, ice cream, granola bars etc. Not even a nibble. If I eat even a half of a cookie I seem to crave sweets for the rest of the day. I'm losing about 3.5 pounds a week and I'm not really hungry anymore.

You look great. I agree with you on the sleeping. If I only get 4 or 5 hours of sleep I crave carbs all day and I have no energy to work out. We should all do our bodies a favor and sleep 7 - 8 hours every night.

Job well done. You look so fit now and much happier.

So did you win the contest at work??? You look great congratulations.

You look great and so much younger now.

Rather than reach for the pills start drinking water and lots of it. I drink a bottle of water as soon as I get up in the morning whether I'm thirsty or not, even before my coffee. It really helps to curb your hunger.

I am so impressed with all of you. You look fantastic.

I'm on a low carb diet and I've been doing really good. I've also been doing cardio for 30 to 60 minutes a day. I feel great, my skin looks wonderful, most days I'm not even hungry and have to remind myself to eat. Best of all I can work all day, come home and still have the energy to exercise, work outside. Low carb was…

A few years ago I was drinking something with a tsp. of cinnamon in it everyday and my skin started changing color. I do eat a lot of carrots too, maybe that's why I always look tanner than every one else.

I started by cutting out sweets completely 4 days before I got serious about this. That alone stopped my cravings for bad carbs. Then on my first day I walked 1.5 miles on the treadmill and drank 15 glasses of water to further kill my appetite. It really helped to boost my initial success.

Ice cream and sweets is what did me in, besides that I ate really healthy lots of fruit, vegeys, lean meat. But when it came to sweets, I love the stuff. I'd eat a big bowl of ice cream every night and then the pounds just started creeping up. A cookie here and there, candy bar when I grocery shopped. Now all sweets are…

You look great and that baby of yours is too cute.

Sometimes I hover around 1,000 calories because I just haven't been very hungry. Since I cut out breads and sweets, and drink 12 to 14 cups of water a day my cravings have completely stopped.

I usually eat 3 slices of turkey bacon microwaved, a sliced apple or two hard boiled eggs and grapefruit.

It's a shame that some people feel it's okay to post mean remarks. We are all on this site to get healthy, if they can't be nice maybe they need to not say anything at all.

You look great and so much younger now.

I'm eating 1200 to 1350 calories per day and that is just about right for me. I use the treadmill for 45 to 60 minutes a day at a fast walk 3.8 and I'm losing weight fairly easily.

Don't get discouraged by the scale. You could be building up muscle and as others have said when you start an exercise program your body has to adjust. Just keep doing what you are doing. I only lost 1 pound this week and I've been running on the treadmill 3 miles a day, but I know I lost something because my clothes are…

Your face looks a lot thinner. Keep up the hard work and happy birthday.

I have to lose about the same amount so you are definitely not alone. I've already lost ten pounds so it doesn't seem so bad now. Like others said think in smaller increments instead of the entire number. I'm losing ten pounds at a time.

I'm burning about 400 calories a day using the treadmill for an hour and 20 to 25 minutes of weight lifting. The more weight you lose the less calories you will be burning.

My last straw was not wanting to go to work because my clothes weren't fitting me anymore . I refused to buy a larger size because it meant jumping from an 18 to a 20. Last week was the last straw, it's getting warmer and I can't hide behind sweaters anymore. So I started searching the Internet for weight loss programs and…

You look great and so much younger too.