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I try to get my fat can out everyday for 3-5 miles. The days I don't make it out I am on edge and feel weird. I love it.

I will lose 100 pounds in 2015 or die trying.

Yes, this, exactly what I am doing as well and it works!

Well I started out 4 months ago at 365. I am currently 318 and dropping. My goal weight is around 185 so I'll be at it for awhile. I'm active and committed. F being fat. After 15 years of failed attempt after failed attempt this is it. I count my cals religiously and I walk at least 2 miles everyday (many days I get 4-5…

Avoiding death for as long as possible.

This is me as well. I get where you are coming from 100%.

This. Not all doctors are smart and there is a reason they call it "practicing medicine".

2009. Next 2016 Z06.

Really awesome, wtg!

So inspiring! I would not be able to recognize you as the same person. What a wonderful job. I love seeing success stories like yours as someone who will lose another 127 pounds minimum. Maybe in about a year I'll be able to write a post like yours. You make that hope possible. Thanks!

Good luck but frankly typing you don't need luck. You can do it. Keep your food diary, exercise a bit, maintain a calorie deficit more often than not and you will lose weight. Just don't become discouraged when the scale doesn't move for a few weeks. Your body is changing. Never quit, never give up.

You can do it. I truly believe the food diary is key to success. it is definitely helping me stay accountable and make better choices. And it gets easier as time goes on.

I'm only down 35 but so far... -Waist. I've gone from size 50 pants (actually probably should have been in 52) to being able to get 2 fingers in the waist of my size 46 pants. -Fingers. I wasn't expecting this. My ring is getting really loose. -Legs. 2 months ago I wasn't able to get the size 46 pants I mentioned above…

Time Stand Still - Rush

I am changing my life. I'll be doing this forever. I DO NOT believe in dieting. I now watch what I eAt like never before. I make much better choices. I haven't really cut anything out so I am satisfied with what and how much I eat. And I am down 35 pounds, it is working.

Well i still have a loooooong ways to go BUT I am down 35 pounds from my fattest. Everyhting is better -Back doesn't hurt as much. I know that is only goign to get better. -I can climb stairs without feeling like I am goign to toss a lung. -I can tie my shoes by simply bending over. I haven't been able to do that in 10…

No doubt. I suppose once someone is committed to a lifestyle change they always wish they had started earlier. I was in awesome shape up until I was about 29, if I do say so myself, but evidently I loved food more. I wish I had changed when I hit 225, 250, 275, etc. I've had a dozen (at least) failed starts over the last…

Good for you. You CAN do it. As for me? Oh it isn't even a question at this point. It is happening. I feel so much better than just 2 months ago it is silly. Why would I ever want to go back to my old way? The new way I'm eating is working and TASTES GOOD. I like the exercise. I love being able to go up one flight of…

Progress not perfection

I bet I've had a dozen (at least) failed starts over the last 15 years. I ballooned up to 365. For me, and I don't pretend this will work for everyone, but for me it took being 100% BURTALLY honest with myself and shamelessly admitting that I am not only overweight but dangerously, disgustingly WAY FAT. And I mean BRUTAL…

Sadly I really have no idea. But if I were to hazard a guess I would say 3-6,000 calories a day. There were days I'd have Mc Donald's for breakfast, 2 if not 3 McMuffins, A whole Domino's pizza for lunch or pizza buffet or China buffet and then generally some huge dinner. DAMN! Any wonder I hit 365? Today we went out. To…

Count me in I have a long way to go brother. Feel free to add me.

I'd be a liar if I said I don't think about it but it doesn't really concern me. It took me 15 years to put all this fat on so it is going to take a few to get it off. And I'm not dieting. I have simply changed the way I look at food. I'll be doing this for the rest of my life. The weight will come off in due time.

THIS! This is what I am finding is working for me. Down about 25 since I joined MFP and down 35 overall since July. Yes, I am exercising but it is the calorie deficit that is doing it. Also, I am not really denying myself anything. I am eating way more sensibly than I ever have and finding ways of substituting ingredients.…

Great progress so far. Way to go! You've gone this far so there is no reason to stop now. Oh, the food commercials you mentioned... An interesting thing is happening to me, many of those commercials are borderline making me physically ill to even watch. The stuff looks gross to me. And this is stuff I would have killed for…

Really fantastic! I'm happy for you. And I agree there is NO diet.

It is soooo easy to load up. I was eating 4-5,000 calories just at lunch every day. Then I'd go home and have a huge dinner. I'll bet another 2-3,000 calories every night. Luckily, I guess, I was skipping breakfast almost everyday. The days I did have breakfast it was a trip to McDonald's for 2-3 sausage McMuffins or a…

I am stunned. This makes my paltry 143 to go look like childs play. Thanks for filling my determination tank to overflowing. Way to go! AHTH!

Good day!

That is right. You got this!