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One Year of Photo-Logging (PICS INSIDE OBVS!!)
Ok, a little backstory that I'll try to make as short as possible. In 2011, I saw pictures of myself from my sister's baby shower and realized just how much weight I'd gained. I probably got up to about 285 pounds, but my highest known weight was just a few ounces shy of 265 pounds. So I got my wake up call and decided to…
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80lbs lost - progress photos inside!!
I am 9 months into my second attempt at losing weight. In that time, I've lost 66.4lbs. I'm down 80.7 pounds from my highest known weight, I only started taking progress photos about a month into this second attempt, so the weight difference between the following photos is only 53.6 pounds, but it's still a significantly…
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Worth it to change to TDEE -20%?
I lurk more on these boards than I post, but I notice that a lot of people swear by TDEE -20% as an excellent weight loss method. As such, despite my own personal success, my curiosity has been piqued. Currently, I manually set my calorie goal to 1500 calories/day and, yes, I do eat back my exercise calories. I am 32 years…
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7 months of progress - photos inside!!
In the past couple of weeks, I finally hit the elusive and so-called “Onederland” - I am under 200 pounds for the first time in 9 years and I don’t plan on ever weighing that much again. My body composition has started to change again and the difference between last month’s photos and this month’s is pretty obvious. While…
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Is it possible I'm eating too few calories?
Before I elaborate, you'll all be happy to know that I have my daily calorie goal [manually] set for 1500 cals/day. When I re-committed to MFP in July 2013, I weighed in at 250.4 pounds and set my goal for losing 2 pounds/week, and MFP automatically allotted me 1530 cals/day. This worked as intended and weight was lost.…
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6 Months of Photo-logging Weight Loss *PICS!*
I started my weight loss journey initially in July 2012 and lost almost 32 pounds - then I was fired, which killed my motivation. I ended up only gaining about half my weight loss back, which was so outside my normal vicious cycle of losing weight, hitting a plateau, getting discouraged, quitting and gaining back all the…
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I need help determining my activity level!
When I first started here on MFP last year and input my info, I think I basically fooled myself into lying about my activity level and input that I was active when, really, I spent a good chunk of my day with my rear end seated as the receptionist at a veterinary clinic. Despite lying about my activity level, I was losing…
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Transitional Clothing.
Just yesterday I realized I have absolutely no clothes in which to transition to during my weight loss and I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to buy new clothes just to transition as I go down in size, and I know that consignment shops are an idea, but there aren't any in my general area. Anyone have any ideas?
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Seeking more active and motivational friends!
Okay, so I know there are a trillion topics like this and I apologize for adding to them, but I just re-started using MFP again about a month ago, (31 days, to be precise), after an eight month hiatus that started when I was fired from my last job in November last year. I got a new job in December and spent the following 7…
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Burning too many calories.
I just finished reading a number of posts on the forums pertaining to following the MFP formula of eating as close to the assigned calories based on your personal goal, and I noticed that the theme of the discussion was to eat back your exercise calories. Here-in lies my problem - currently, for my goals, I have been…
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How do I break a plateau?
I've been going to the gym every other day and tracking my food for about a month now. How I eat has changed drastically, and I've increased my workout time from an initial half hour to anywhere between an hour to an hour and a half. I started out with mainly elliptical and recumbent bike, but have now expanded my regimen…
