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"...The trouble is, it's just not enough for me now... " I'm confused over this part. Other than your weight loss, what else changed? Or is this a case where your husband overweight too, and the issue is that you lost weight and he didn't? Just curious. Both my wife and I have lost a lot of weight, but that hasn't made us…
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It REALLY helps when your spouse is on the same page as you with the weight loss. Tracking EVERYTHING you eat, for the first few weeks especially, is really important to getting things under control too. This site is really great for weight loss, just keep at it. Also, you are going to have days when you go over the…
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I always thought it was kind of ironic that exercise equipment doesn't really support those of us who need it the most, 8^(. In my case, walking was the only exercise I could really do at first since I couldn't fit on any exercise equipment (over 350 pounds). I basically stopped taking the bus and walked to and from the…
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I wear the cheap stainless steel rings too (mostly because I keep damaging my rings while working). They work great as placeholder rings. Mine is just a 'plain' band, but they also have some with patterns and stones (fake of course) if that is your preference. I even have spares in the car in case I rush out the house and…
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One of the benefits of bulk cooking, and/or planning the meals ahead of time, is that you also get to log the information ahead of time. I pretty much know what my meals are for the next 2 or 3 days, so I can get them logged ahead of time and only need to worry about logging the exercises and any changes to the 'planned'…
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First of all, congrats on the weight loss and keeping with the healthier lifestyle! I also loved seeing this post since we have a lot of the same cravings for junk food! I have to totally agree with you, it's all about taking it one day at a time. I was really feeling stressed out on Thanksgiving, then I realized that it…
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Was 350 when I started at the beginning of August 2014, just hit 298 this week. I got a ton of nice long walks in while the weather was still nice which really helped out.
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* Not eating ANY of the cookies or cakes that have been brought into the office over the last few months (even those that sit on the sign in sheet 3 feet from my desk)! * Being able to walk up stairs without feeling like I'm going to keel over. This week I started doing my stair training again as well (walked up 20 flights…
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I know you already retracted the question, but still going to respond! We never had any issues before, but since the wife and I have both starting losing weight, we've definitely noticed the Mojo levels increasing. Talk about motivation to keep on losing the weight!
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Alcohol. Just never liked any alcoholic drinks. Not really a big fan of carbonated drinks either. At least that offsets some of my other weaknesses, like sweets!
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Definitely get a Heart Rate Monitor. We were estimating how much we were burning, based on how much we were sweating (ie guestimating it based on other exercises that we thought were similar). We were WAY off... Once we started using Heart Rate Monitors we found out two things: 1) We were burning no where NEAR the amount…
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My wife originally had picked '2 pounds/week' as her goal, but her calorie intake was just too low. She changed it to '1 pound/week' just so that the calorie intake numbers were more realistic (1,000 to 1,200 just doesn't seem safe, even if MFP suggest it). Also, we only weight once a week. They say your weight can…
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Sorry for not catching this before I posted. If you are trying to monitor calcium and fiber, then you definitely want to track your foods. You can go into the settings menu and change it so that 'Calcium' and 'Fiber' are part of the 6 main categories that get displayed in your food diary. I need to track my Potassium and…
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Sorry if this post is long winded, but I've done the slimfast route before (and also the Atkins route), so wanted to see if my experience might help out in your decision. The first time I lost a lot of weight, it was a through a combination of slimfast products (I mixed the powder into shakes and yogurts) and a LOT of…
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These are all good tips. I REALLY love the idea of keeping a set of clothes around as a gauge of when I'm over my target weight, works better than a scale. Can't wait to come back to these tips once I hit my goal weight so I can STAY at that weight this time. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks making this post. I definitely want to share this with my weight loss buddies so they understand WHY they need to take the tracking more seriously.
