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I found a rare pic of my highest weight...I've come a long way
I came across this old photo. Im not sure of my weight there, somewhere over 360 but i was not exactly weighing myself regularly. It was before I got on proper meds for my hashimotos thyroiditis, and I was really, really sick. The second pic is from this week. Im somewhere in the 270s now and going down steadily.
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COLD ALL THE TIME
I keep joking w my spouse that I'm way too fat to be cold all the time. If its a little cold in a room ill be freezing. Sometimes I'm just freezing for no reason,like you can touch my nose or hands and they will feel freezing to other people and the other people are fine. Sometimes I just will violently shiver for hours.
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creating an effective recumbent bike routine?
I recently got a recumbent bike. It has ten settings, like a regular bike, to make it more difficult to use. I dont really know what is best- doing it on a harder setting for shorter or a easy setting for longer? For effective calorie burning. How far does one usually go for a biking session? Its my main source of calorie…
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need an inexpensive exercise bike...
I have very specific needs and I'm finding it hard to find what I need- 1)Weight limit-I need it to be safe for someone around 310- 330 to use. Many I see are 220-70 1) price-I'm not in a good financial position so I can't afford anything very expensive. I don't have a car and I live in nowhere new Hampshire so I can't…
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havent lost weight in at least two weeks...
But wear smaller pants... I eat at an absolute defecit. No mistakes. No estimations. I also exercise a lot. A lot. I have been going up and down in the same 4lb range for at least two weeks. I shouldnt be gaining,let alone not losing. I should be losing at least 2lbs per week. I just feel like its too early in the game for…
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how do you decide how much to exercise?
I worked out for 135 minutes today (a combination of a lot of vigorous Zumba,circuit training a la 30 day shred,and some strengthening exercises) and some people in my life are giving me crap because I'll "overdo it". I feel amazing,I almost did another hr of Zumba before bed but one of my kids woke up.
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looking for active friends,preferably needing to lose 5-100+
I just want some more friends who are active,who comment on stuff etc. The interaction is motivating for me :)
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Gluten Free and abscence of any appetite at all
So I've recently switched to removing gluten from my diet in an effort to help with liver damage and inflammation. Ever since I have, I've had no appetite. Like none. Every bite of food I have to force into my mouth. Like, I have to prelog and be like ok you have to eat this. Because I just would literally eat nothing.…
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The sucky part about beingobeset and losing weight...
Is that it doesn't look like much. I've lost almost 40 lbs but its not enough that I can be like WOOT ALL THOSE NOT EATEN DONUTS WERE TOTES WORTH IT. I have a seriously jacked up thyroid and my body tries really hard to be fat. In 2010, I gained over 100 lbs in six months, while breastfeeding, and never eating fast food,…
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What have you NEVER done because you were overweight ?
...that you're looking forward to doing? One thing I've never done is wear single digit pants. The smallest size I ever remember getting I was a preteen and I was a 12/14. I'd love to someday be able to wear a 9. Just to be able to say I broke out of plus sizes for the first time ever.
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Three questions. Are you curious enough to read them?
/1. How do you completely relearn how to eat? I just had my gallbadder taken out because it was completely full of gallstones. I have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (just found out about it) which they attribute to my very close together pregnancies as well as being hella fat. SO I can't eat anything fatty without…
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Hi, I'm new to this way of eating.
I'm finishing a VLCD soon, the purpose of which was to reset my body/mind in relation to portions (I had been given gigantic portions since toddlerhood) and I've found that when I don't eat grains I feel a lot better. I have always gained weight very easily, even when it seemed like I wasn't really eating any more than…
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Starting Paleo diet
I think that when I complete my VLCD I'm going to eat a Paleo diet. I've found now that with very low carbs I've been eating that the horrible craving I used to have (I literally could eat straigh up a tub of frosting compulsively) are gone. It was these cravings that got me up to 355 lbs. Also diet soda, which is out of…
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How do I deal with enablers?
I recently was watching a show about someone very obese losing weight and in one part they were talking about enablers and how they help people to become obese. I've realized that part of my personal problem in being successful is that there are two enablers in my life who bring junk around or will make me really bad food…
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I need mfp. So. Much.
This is a bit of a rant but I need to get it out to move on. I was on here multiple times per day in july and august. In August, my life became a living hell. My partner's grandmother, who was living with us for complicated reasons that I can't get into, went off of her mental illness meds and began verbally attacking me,…
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Is there truth to waist-to-height meaning something?
I found a ton of sites that have BMI calculators that claim that the waist to height or waist to hip ratio shows your risk of getting heart disease and other similar things. My ration was .78. Is there truth to this? They all said having a "pear" shape is different than an "apple" but having a "pear" you don't lose weight…
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Burning muscle/burning fat.
I'm no nutritionist. I'm not completely out of it, but I don't know everything. How do I ensure that what I'm burning is fat and not lean muscle mass? I've seen stuff all over the internet about this. Workout at x time, eat x protein, etc. What really matters? Can I get some answers (and some simple ones :) ) so that I…
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Anyone who has lost a significant amount of weight...
Do you have a ton of sagging skin or anything like that? I'm terrified that I'll lose weight and just look like a deflated sack. My mom (who is very overweight) is kind of against my dieting and has said that I'll look bad because of having been so heavy in the past, I'll just have skin to my knees and deflated boobs, etc.…
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Introduction- Hi :)
Hi, I'm Kasey. I'm 22 and I have 174 lbs to lose. I'm doing 30 day shred and using my treadmill. I don't really have any endurance for running yet, but I walk and will do like a minute of runnning and hope over time my endurance goes up. MY goal is at least 2 miles of moderate or more walking on the treadmill and a session…
