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Marking Your Success
I know this topic has been covered ad naseum on the MFP message boards, but I think it can be particularly meaningful for those of us with high numbers to lose. Are you going to do something special when you reach your goal weight? I have a tattoo planned. It will be a quote by Oscar Wilde. "If you are not too long, I will…
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Just hafta say...
...I weighed myself this morning and I am officially no longer obese. Woohoo! I am overweight!
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What are your long term goals?
Other than weight loss, do you have any long term goals? I have a couple. 1. Once I have been at goal weight for a couple of years, I want to scrape together enough money for the body lift. 2. In 2019, my husband and I are planning on walking the Camino de Santiago. It is a 300+ kilometre walk.…
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What is the strangest thing you've seen travelling?
The strangest thing I've seen travelling was the fertility festival in Kawasaki. I wrote about it here. http://dianegallagherphotos.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/festival-of-the-steel-phallus/
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A Question About Skin
I am still waiting for my surgery but I was wondering if those of you who have lost their weight could talk about the issue of excess skin and the surgery that goes along with it?
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It's amazing what the flu will do to the scale!
OMG, I am just getting over the flu. I could barely eat for two days. The scale liked it, but I reeeaaalllyyy don't recommend flu as a way of losing weight! LOL. Stomach is still not happy but at least I can eat again.
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One week in with MFP
I've been doing MFP for a week now and I just called up a report on my progress over the past week. Without realizing it, my calorie intake (which was higher than I thought) has been dropping daily until it levelled off over the past couple of days. It is interesting what actually keeping a record of food and exercise does…
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Still Waiting...
Hi, My name is Diane and I have just really started using MFP in the last week. I live in British Columbia where, in spite of a good medical system, the powers that be don't seem to believe that WLS is a priority, therefore, in the part of the province where I live the doctors are only give 80 OR times for WLS a year. In…
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Hi everyone - another newbie here
My name is Diane and I am 52 yrs old & weigh 241 lbs. I am down 31 lbs from my peak weight just over a year ago. I am on a wait-list to have weight loss surgery and my surgeon and dietician wanted me to start logging my food and exercise to make sure I am aware of calories in/calories out. I have been battling food…
