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First you have to confront the harsh reality of this diet - no caffeine, dairy, or sugar. Those are big challenges. One you get past that reality the weight will leave quickly. First day I had a horrific caffeine headache, but go through it. Then things got easy. Some advice: 1) Don't skip the mid-meal snacks, ever. 2)…

Try the FastMetabolism .... hunger goes away after a day or two. A bunch of folks at my golf club are doing this. I've dropped 36 lbs ... since 11/10/13. http://www.chewfo.com/diets/the-fast-metabolism-diet-by-haylie-pomroy-2013-what-to-eat-and-foods-to-avoid-food-list/#phase1

Hi! I've been a low carb person for many years. But then I usually succumb to the evils of sugar again. Rather than count carbs you can do this more naturally. The key is to eliminate sugar and grains from your diet ... grains include corn, wheat, rice, pasta and other grain-based products. This makes it easy - no need to…

I'm always on the lookout for role models. My wife's 88 year old father is one. I've added you to my list, Swole. I'm 212lbs and look just like your "before" photo. Challenge now is to get anywhere even half-way close to your one-year or two-year photo. Props to you, my friend. Look forward to monitoring your future…

Was doing the daily weigh thing. Realized that the number was the primary focus and that was not right. Decided that how much and what types of food I consume at each meal deserves 100% of my focus, not a number. Decided I need to "be present" when eating and deciding to eat. That is the right thing for me to focus on ....…

Interesting post. I'm not sure how to define "starving" though. I guess it depends on person and activity level. This past week I consumed about 7,700 calories while burning 20,000. I'm a 206 lb man. Nutritional thermodynamics suggest that we cannot be in balance and lose weight. So I'm trying to run a steady deficit. I've…

I was attracted to your post because a few months ago I turned off the feature showing my weight loss on my news feed because while it looked like I was losing it was the same five pounds over and over again, just like Ground Hog Day, lol. Recently I've declared war on food ... have kept calories way down for last week.…

Thirty pounds is about all I have left to lose. Would love to join the team and support each other. Tom

I've been a low carb person for years. Keeping out carbs causes hunger to drop significantly (except for emotional eating). I suggest you go to Wal-Mart, get a glycometer (not very expensive) and some strips and measure your blood each day. Keep your blood sugar below 120 mg/dl at all times. What does that mean? No bread.…

Starting over too. Started at 217lbs last March. Made it to 195lbs. Now am back to 215lbs. But am in "lock down" mode, lol. Good luck! You have to want to do this ... if you want to do it then nothing will stop you. : )

213.4 right now. Started last March at 216, got down to 195 by July, but here I am post-holidays, lol. So I will accept the challenge. I can crack 200 by 2/28 (I think). Maybe create a Group and invite us in and we'll all prop each other up over the next six weeks. Tom

Hi, FMR! I've been carrying around a 30lb dumbbell all day to remind myself of how much this 30 lbs of fat I have to lose weighs. Thing is seriously heavy and a good reminder of the self-abuse. Smile. You can do this. Tom

****ens Christmas Carol ... George C. Scott version is very good. in the 5th Stave the Spirit of Christmas Future has landed Ebenezer in the graveyard and old E.S. sees his own headstone. He has a pretty good reaction to it .... "Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life. Oh, tell…

This is probably not the best idea or suggestion for you, but I thought I would throw something out there. If you are hyperglycemic you would, like me, have raging appetite fueled by a high-carbohydrate diet (breads, cereals, rice, pasta, fruit at the wrong time, etc.). The carbs drive a hypersensitive pancreas to excrete…

SW as of 8/27/2012: 204.4 lbs GW as of 12/31/2012: 184.4 lbs (nice round number) Goal is to be stronger than I have been, to avoid the typical "crash and burn" that has plagued me during Jul and Aug, and to lose a minimum of 1 lb per week between now (8/27) and Thanksgiving. Second goal is to help and support everyone in…

Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye feat. Kimbra) Feel So Close (Calvin Harris) Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People) Someone Like You (Adele) Lights (Ellie Goulding) A Thousand Years (Christina Perri) Mercy (Duffy) Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen) We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe) Fun. Domino (Jessie J) The Adventures of…

Hi Candice. Add me .... I will throw support at you ... here is one of my posts from today .... (Tom) Everyone stay fired up ... AllyBoo, LetMeBeDa1, Des, Scrapatak, Jane, 43ck, Hmr, Angie, KD36, Butter, Heather, dKay, Vy, Seyma, Sue(Sizzy) ... stay fired up. We can do this. You betcha we can.

1300 calories seems about right for losing weight. Since you are active you will lose at a better pace and if you have an off day it won't throw you too far off track. Stick with the 1300 for awhile and see how it goes. My daily calories are 1740 but I'm a 5'10" male and I'm very active. So I'm losing at a good pace. I'm…

I thought I would comment on this too as I'm stuck 10 lbs away from goal. Here is a post I made a few days ago. My current weight is 195.8lbs as of this morning. Perhaps you can see something of yourself in here and maybe it will help: I would like to say I'm back on track but that would not be entirely true. My mindset is…

I'm up for it. Sent an e-mail to my wife with the distances and informed her that she is the enforcer. Lol. So I know I'll cover the distances. Tom

Hi Denise. We're neighbors (Punta Gorda). I started on this journey on March 3rd and am down 23 lbs. Since using MFP I have tried to not let myself get hungry. So when I play golf or do something that is going to take a long time I take an apple or other low calorie snack. For golf I wait until after 9 of the 18 holes to…

Born 1953. Baltimore born and raised, but Floridian now and loving life. Am expert at weight loss and weight gain. Lol. Definitely harder to lose as we get into the prime of our lives ... darn that slower metabolism. Doing okay but currently sort of stuck in "Ground Hog Day" mode .... losing same 3 lbs over and over again.…

Just got the book (also got the Abs version and the ... for Women for the wife). We should start a group and share what we are learning. Tom

Lots of good comments. Not sure I can improve or offer much new. But I got up to 217 lbs (226 lbs at my largest) and doc put me on blood pressure and cholesterol, told me my blood sugar was elevated, etc. And I am just like you. I love food, eat a lot, and don't think about how much, just how good it tastes. But I kept…

Another option is to pick up the book Body for Life by Bill Phillips. He espouses 20 minute weight workouts every other day. So one week it might be like this: Monday: Upper Body (shoulders, chest, back and arms), Wednesday: Lower Body (thighs, hams, quads and abs), Friday: back to upper body .... and so forth. He offers…

You can do this. Consider using help for the nicotine withdrawal, like the patch. The technique I've been using for losing weight ... the one that worked ... is that I kept saying "I'm not a 98 kg man. That is not who I am!" That really motivated me. Since then I've lost 9.5 kgs and am determined to drop another 8-10 kgs.…

OCD can work against you. Perfection is the enemy of the good. The idea is to approximate the calories, not perfect them. Objective is to eat 1700 approximate calories rather than 3000 approximate calories. No big deal. Advice is to relax, track things approximately, keep the calories below 2000 per day and workout at 1000…

I recall a time many years ago when I could not run a mile. So I went out and did a walk/run for 1 mile around the reflecting pool in DC. After awhile I could run the whole thing. I went up to 2 miles starting with walk/run then run, to 3.5 miles and so forth. Eventually go the distance up to longer runs. Then I went on to…

I think it is great that everyone is reaching out. The more friends here on MyFitnessPal the better because we are all in this together. This is better than WW meetings because we don't have to wait a week until the next meeting. If you get in trouble (which is normal for most of us) just shout out and we'll all rally…

Born and grew up in Baltimore (Southwest). Lived in Severna Park for a bunch of years before moving to Florida. You can take a person out of Baltimore, but you can never take the Baltimore out of a person.