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Belated happy birthday and welcome Becky!

I don't have that problem yet! Probably because I'm wearing stuff that was too tight to begin with! I love buying/wearing new underwear. Its such a relatively inexpensive way to make yourself feel happy!

This happened to me - except I accidentally found out instead of my husband telling me. Its hard to explain how hurtful the cheating was. Even though we were not doing so great, I never thought he would betray me like that. Its been 6 months since I found out and although we went to counseling initially, we are no longer…

A skirt that I have been wearing unzipped for the last two inches finally zipped up all the way today! I can't see any difference in the mirror, but my body is changing....

You have a great attitude! You have come very far and are still young - hope you can achieve all your dreams.

Everyone looks great - so much progress and motivation on this thread. I would like to thank everyone for being brave enough to post the pics!

I think I would give the award to my younger self in my twenties. I was so clueless - dieting to the extreme, exerting my iron will power (which I think I burned out on ) over myself to eat low fat (popular at the time) laden with high sodium and sugars meals, then yo-yoing up to a high weight - I seriously could never…

Congratulations! You have come a long way from your before pics!

Wow I am admiring all your dedication to exercise - walking, strong lifts etc. I am keeping up with the elliptical about 4-5 times a week and I've added squats to that for now !

I feel the same way!

Aww I confess that touched my heart. Give it time - hopefully you either get over her or get back together :-)

Congratulations! You don't look like you have another 75 to go!

Can't believe I'm posting on here for the world to see but here goes.... My husband cheated on me and I found out last year. While we've been to therapy (briefly) and are still together - I secretly fantasize about cheating on him/leaving.... Not so black and white once you have kids.....

I realized last night that I really need to get control of what I'm eating. "Everything in moderation" doesn't work for me - probably because I have an addict's mindset and food is my drug of choice. For me, atleast for now, its going to have to be diet rules such as "You cannot eat X thing" until I feel like I have better…

hi everyone! Currently I am just trying to increase my speed and time spent on my elliptical trainer. Yesterday, even though I was very tired, the only time I had to do it was at 10:30 at night, so that's what I did!

I pushed myself harder than I ever have on my elliptical last night. I was feeling great - out of breath but not as much as I would have been 6 weeks back and not feeling like I couldn't do it!

You look awesome! Congratulations!

Congratulations!

hi Amanda, Kirsten!

Your words really hit home with me - especially about losing slowly the first few months. I need to get real about what's going in my body. Congratulations on your weightloss - you look awesome!

Welcome Laine!

Momo - don't feel bad - you know you ate 5500 calories - so that means you tracked which itself is an achievement. And if you weighed yourself after a day of overboard eating - the weight gain could also just be water weight from sodium in snacky foods..... Glad you're doing better today!

I hadn't really thought about rewards this time around. In the past I've written down rewards for when I reach a certain weight and just disappointed myself when I didn't reach that weight. This time around, I'll figure out what my reward is, as a surprise when I get there!

Today has been a tough day. It was my weigh-in day and I gained a pound from last weigh-in. I know all the reasons why I might have gained that one pound - its that TOM, ate something with high sodium in the days leading up to it etc. More than likely its because all through the last week, I was at maintenance calories. It…

---and thanks for the welcome! Its good to join such a nice group working towards a common goal!

I have all kinds of thyroid issues as well - been diagnosed with hashimotos/hypo, then went on meds and went hyper (but was among the 1% of population who gain weight while being hyper) then on meds to combat the hyper - which made me gain 40 pounds. Also left my metabolism and muscle tone in a terrible state. Currently I…

hi everyone I'm Joy and I just joined this group as well! I turn 40 in October and would LOVE to reach this goal by then. But I am a really slow loser - some due to my metabolism and condition of my muscles, some due to binge eating which spoils my efforts. I weighed in at 234.4 today (started at 240, 40 days back) and am…

I love your story!

Your story was very inspirational to me - especially on a day like today where I'm feeling like my weight loss is so slow as to be practically non existent!

Me me! I live close to Boston and work in the city!