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Sure feel free to add. Best of luck

Thanks a bunch and I see you have lost 25 lbs that is an amazing feat too. Congrats to you as well

TY a bunch and that is a good way to put it ha ha ha for awhile I did let it control me.

Awwwww that is awesome to hear! I believe you can do it and it is an amazing feeling when you can! It is hard at times but trust me stick with it no matter how hard it is sometimes (such as during certain times of the month ha ha)

Awwwwww thanks so much ladies!!! Deniseearhear thanks I love my curves and hunny if I can do it so can you. Don't wanna lose the curves we are blessed with ;) Cari that was one of my goals to be able to wear shorts like these too and I am soooooooooo happy I can now and I still want to get one more size less. You can do it…

I used to drink at least 1 can of diet soda a day or 2 and I weened myself off and I drop belly weight (on the scale as well) quickly after. I also make sure I get my 8 cups of water a day and not more. Sometimes I have one can a week or 2 a week but normally I do not drink it and I am fine without it. I feel I have lost…

The machines are always off esp the elliptical. I just burn as much as I would like and then adjust the time via MFP but I feel in the classes I burn harder than MFP says. But again I know I need a HRM to determine that.

Don't take offense to this question but how hard do you guys push yourselves in exercise?

Awesome! In 6 more lbs I am going to get a HRM to see if I need to push myself harder or if I already am. Thanks a bunch!

Well I want to at least reach my goal weight of 160 but I know I will need to surpass that to get to my goal size. I am going to be living in CHI and logging into MFP daily and I paid for a gym there with awesome aerobic classes. Can't wait!

I am the same height and after 30 lbs I am not a comfortable size 10 but I can wear some. It also depends on shape and where you carry the weight. I would say I am a size 6/8 on top but that is where I lose my weight the most and first. I am hips, butt and gut ha ha. I thought at 160 which is my goal weight would be a size…

And I agree with what you ladies say. That is most likely bound to happen. I do think one way to counteract that is to not do it daily...when we switch up the exercises our bodies still get shocked. Then again that is my thoughts ha ha I could be wrong.

First thanks to everyone and your nice comments I appreciate them! I have been diagnosed for 8 years and 4 years ago I was told I am type 1 than type 2 and there was a misdiagnosis. Either way I have been messing around for years and I finally decided to be serious because I do not want complications. Glad to help and I…

Thanks that means a lot. Before I could never wear shorts that length. Definitely need to tone the legs some more

Awesome job!!!!

Can I ask how do you post the pics? That is awesome!!!! Congrats!

How did you post the pic?

That is awesome! Funny you post this because I recently lost 30 lbs and my size 14's started to get a little snug and I refused to go into size 16's (I spent most of my life as a large girl even at one point hitting 275 lbs) and I have started fitting into size 10's. I want to be a size 8 so I have a little bit to go too.…

This may not answer this the best but the workout to me seems fine. I will say that our bodies easily plateau if you do the same thing daily so you may want to switch up work outs and not do the same thing each day.

Jogging yes I am sure that is on point and I know the cardio machines are accurate or I adjust the time to match the calories. My concern is unless you have a heart rate monitor you cannot measure the cals burned in an aerobic or spinning class and I could be wrong but I feel I am burning more than just 300 cals.

Yes and I celebrated by going for a jog ha ha ha instead of eating buffalo wings which I would rather ha ha ha

Cograts! That awesome and an amazing achievement!

Thanks all. I appreciate the responses. I do not have bad knees but after my first 5k I am detecting some soreness due to wearing the wrong kind of shoe and I am looking for a good cardio workout without putting more pressure but that makes sense. Thanks

Love the positive posts!!!! I appreciate them! They give me strength!:happy:

I plan on it and I am interested in the replies too. You just often hear of celebritites or even people I know personally that lose weight and within a year or two gain it back :( granted they did crazy fad diets or weight loss clinics

Thanks for the encouraging words. I am actually good at the 1320 cals(not including the exercise calories I earn daily) i have daily and I do take Saturdays off I am just hoping once I reach it I maintain and not gain. But that helps a lot! Thanks!!

I don't know if someone else posted this but I am due to get one out soon (got all 4 out and then this one I was told is sooooo far impacted it will never grow out...wrong!) so anywho I love snacking on greek yogurt or the dannon lights and they are somwhat healthy so I would say those also jello and there are small skinny…

Ranch has become the new blue cheese ha ha but seriously I am seeing ranch utilized more these days.

Have you tried the food channel network or the cooking channel? Since you have kdis I think something simple such as oven baked chicken parm which is healthy and the sauce has tomatoes and you are using break crumbs. Also try this recipe fairly healthy and delicious…

I would sya walking that way it is not so strenuous on you and also I think if you do not exercise but stick to the calorie counting you should be ok.