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Is excess skin removal surgery selfish?
I lost 100 pounds and have been maintaining my weight loss for 3 years. Unfortunately, due to all the excess skin I have, I still feel fat. I know I will never be able to move on and be happy with my body until I have surgery to remove the skin. I had a consultation with a plastic surgeon, who confirmed what I was never…
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100 pounds lost, and kept it off for 3 years (pics)
Hello All, I haven't been on the message boards here in quite awhile, but I still use MFP to track my calories every day. I was looking at some of my old posts, and saw that I posted my before and after pics when I hit my goal weight of 140 in September of 2011. Then it hit me that I have now been maintaining my weight…
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Chipotle Serving Sizes?
I've been going to Chipotle a lot lately. I usually get a Burrito Bowl with brown rice, chicken, black beans, tomato salsa, and fajita vegetables. The serving size is huge, so I usually get it for lunch and hardly make a dent in it, and end up having the rest for dinner (sometimes can't even finish at dinner). I've checked…
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Ran my first 8k!
In high school to pass senior year PE we had to run one mile and had it timed. I couldn't even run 1/8th of mile. I had to go during my lunch period so the teacher could run/walk it with me and it took me 25 minutes to finish. Yesterday I ran my first 8k and finished in 44:08, with a 8:47 minute pace! I have also decided I…
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What does skin weigh?
Hello Everyone, I am at 29 year old female, 5'4 and 131 pounds. I lost a little over 100 pounds in the last year and now have quite a bit of excess skin. I know it just comes with the territory and there is really nothing I can do about it, so I am okay with it. My question is about my ideal weight. I started out at 244…
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Goal Weight!! With Pics
So after hitting a plateau and getting VERY frustrated about a month ago, I decided to throw away my scale and just keep eating right and exercising and have faith that I was making progress. I made peace with myself and my body and accepted that if this is as small as I get, I can live with that, even if it is short of my…
