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The beginning of my journey through weight loss and transition
My progress photos so far. I started losing weight back in November of last year when I learned I finally had doctor in my area who would help me start HRT. I went slowly at first, I started going to a gym and doing 20 minutes on a recumbent bike. As time went on I increased the time, resistance and speed. I still ate what…
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United States Supreme Court rules Same Sex Marriage is Legal in all 50 states!!!
I can't even put into proper words how happy this news made me! Love and equality finally won something big! :)
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6'2" • 287lbs • 39yrs • Transwoman • Goal: 225 / Ultimate: 180
If my twin is out there I would very much like to meet you! I fear though I am just to unique. ;) That makes me more valuable right? Just a little bit about me. I am currently 39 years old, but I am told I have not yet grown up. I am a towering six foot two and 287 pounds. I started changing my life style back in November…
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Hello 200 Club!! :)
My weekly weigh-in today was 297.4 pounds! When I started back in January I was 350 pounds. Since I started I have gotten off blood pressure medication, dropped my pre-diabetic A1C to normal level, and went from a size 28/30 to a size 20/22. I am living a life style and not a diet which is leaving be feeling better then I…
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Rachel Bryk, she is not the first or last but this has to stop.
“Guess I am dead. Killed myself. Sorry.” Rachel Bryk killed herself last week. She was 23 years old. Before her suicide she had been repeatedly bullied on-line for being transgender. I read about her death this weekend, but it was in reading a Washington Post article this morning that I felt a rage build in me. I like so…
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Hi hi! Here I go again... And again... Wait this time I mean it!
So this is my third time trying find that healthy body I lost as a child and just can't seem to find. I started at 370lbs, 168kg or 26 stone depending on your location. I am at about 315 so I have done alright so far. I am now 50 days into MFP and this is where I tend to falter. So that is why I am here. And since I just…
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Sports Bras for Big, but Not Big Busted Girls
So the gods of above and below have decided to play a funny prank on me. In that I am a big girl, I am 6'2" and broad of shoulders and chest but slim of hips. Sadly my belly grew, but my boobs never really did. So I am stuck in a 50B bra size. This has left me with a problem. Good bras are very hard to come by. I don't…
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When Losing Weight Is A Bad Thing
I knew it was going to happen. It happened the last time I lost weight. The nice, soft layers of fat that did such a wonderful job of hiding things are melting away. Strength training makes it worse of course, but strength training is part of a good weight loss program and, more importantly, part of a good life style.…
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Starting No Equipment Strength Training, need some advice.
I started out with just watching calories and doing thirty minutes on a recumbent bike five days a week. I then added walking an hour on the weekend and then finally hiking. On the bike I am now up to 21-22mph at variable resistance (highs and lows keep me at a high aerobic heart rate). I also hike on trails with decent…
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My Recumbant Bike
I am so upset at the moment. My recumbent bike is my life line when it comes to doing my cardio. I know I can do cardio without it, but it has been then single most important thing in my road to getting healthy. Every day, Monday through Friday, I get on and do my thirty minutes. I keep a log of how fast, far and hard I…
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Easy, Cheapish and Not So Bad - Food for Forty or less
Unexpected medical and dental bills along with bad debt management have left me with a very tight budget for the foreseeable future. I figured out a way to live on about forty dollars a week and it be enough calories and not terrible for me. I've been looking and searching for suggestions, but all of them seem to be geared…
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Looking for advice and suggestions
I just starting the changes in my life to get my weight under control. But losing weight is really only secondary to getting my blood pressure and blood sugar under control. This started a little over a month ago after going to the hospital for chest pain. Turns out that it wasn't a heart attack, just my blood pressure and…
