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What are you doing to lose it?!
Share what you're doing to lose the damn weight! What are you eating? What's your budget? What kind of exercise are you getting? How's it working for ya? Right now i am doing things the easiest/laziest way possible: eating what i want and gettin 'dem steps. I have about 85lbs to lose and i'm at a 1,000 calorie deficit. I'm…
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To those that kicked butt and lost the weight...
Now that you've lost the weight, how do you feel seeing old pictures of your fat self? What goes through your mind?
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Is there any way to know if I'll have a bunch of loose skin?
I have another 87 lbs to lose. Is there any way to tell from the way I look or anything whether I will have a bunch of loose skin when I get all skinny and sexy?
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Fitbit help: big problem! What the heck?!
I have a fitbit flex and when I went to sleep this morning, I had about 5,000 steps. I put that sucker into sleep mode and went to sleep. No problem right? Then I wake up, put that sucker back into regular mode, check my steps on the fitbit app and it says I have 11,000! Whaaaaat? Either I'm one hell of a sleep walker, or…
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I feel so bloated!
I had a horrible 3 day binge a few days ago that I'm recovering from. Still. Still! After 3 days? Come on man. It doesn't usually take this long for me to go back to my sexy non bloated self! How long can It take for all the retention to go away? Would eating a burger help? If someone says it will, I will get in my car…
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This verge article says calorie counting is bad science?
Sometimes I have to do a double take of what I read online. What do you guys think of this article? http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/3/5763960/calorie-counting-leads-to-bad-science-and-worse-gadgets
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Do you think my calorie budget/plan is ok?
I just got done falling off the wagon and i need a seatbelt to help keep me in next time. I think part of the problem is that i don't have any solid rules. When i don't have anything set in stone, i start getting too relaxed and making little excuses of "ahhh its just 200 calories over today. I'll be fine". Then the next…
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Do you ever change your deficit on different days?
I got soooo hungry after I came home from a 12 hour shift and gobbled up a pizza. But I didn't overdo it. BUT it also wasn't my usual 1000 calorie deficit. I decided to do a 500 calorie deficit because I'm a hungry man! Anybody else ever do this?
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Help me not binge. Right now!
I just did something that's not horrible but very frowned upon. I had like 800 calories left for the day but my girlfriend surprised me with combination fried rice from a pho tai place and I couldn't resist. It looked so delicious and it was begging me to eat it! So I did :-( and I don't even know the calories of it. This…
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Do you ever feel forced to have a cheat day?
I'm feeling like that and it probably sounds so ridiculous to anybody else, but I'm taking a road trip to visit my mom in June and I almost feel obligated to go out and eat like a pig for a lot of reasons. One being since we are all going (me, my girlfriend and daughter) and we never go on trips, I feel like we are…
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Who has lost weight NOT eating clean?
Just wondering. I hear "ya gotta eat clean!" Drilled into so many people's heads around here I wonder if anyone just sticks to eating fewer calories than they burn and losing weight that way. For now at least, I'm not worried about what I eat so much as how many calories I go through in a day. If I want a bowl of cereal in…
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Help...I feel like I want to binge! Hard!
I just...oh godddd. I just got real bad anxiety at work when someone new came over and then the boss came down and wanted me to explain things in a super professional way and I just came off like a stuttering nervous goofball. Convince me not to eat my feelings. Please! I so want to right now! I'm gonna eat everythingggggg…
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Most amusing response to "you've lost weight"?
As my weight loss is becoming more noticeable, I'm trying to figure out how I should react to people commenting about it! And the usual "thanks I've lost a few lbs through calorie counting and exercise" just seems boring and stale. What could I say to really mess with people? Ex: "Yeah. Cancer is great for weight loss.…
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For those that lost it, do people think of you as skinny?
There's a similar topic about this on reddit so I'm totally stealing it cause I wants me some answers! I have been with my job for about 2 years and in that time, everyone has known me as a fatty. If everything goes according to plan (damn right they will!) I'll be 100lbs lighter this year than when I started so it makes…
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For those that get serious anxiety, did weight loss help?
I've had some serious anxiety my entire life. Hell. I'm having it right now while I'm at work! And in my entire adult life, I've never been my goal weight. Always struggled with obesity and my pathetic struggle to lose weight to improve my image and confidence. I wonder if I'll feel differently when I'm 80lbs lighter. Or…
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Cheat days are just weird to me now
I just had a cheat day on my birthday (feb 27th). A planned one I totally worked for. And afterwards I felt like toasted ****. I felt like I got nothing out of it and set myself so far back that it's going to be about a week before I'm losing again. I'm not a clean eater so I'm perfectly fine on a day to day basis. I don't…
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Who JUST goes by their fitbit calories burned?
Just wondering since some people consider fitbit to be a little more accurate since it's tracking your actual movement instead of just information you typed in when you set up your account. Lately I've been logging with fitness pal and going off calories burned from my fitbit one and it's made me more confident I'm eating…
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What do to do with your big clothes when you get small?
Do you set fire to them? Donate them? Set fire to them and then donate them? No. That wouldn't be good. Do you keep them? Or just get rid of them? I'm 80lbs from goal but I'm thinking real hard about it. On one hand, when I get to my goal weight I don't ever plan on being big ever again. I want this to be a forever thing.…
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What's a weight fluctuate look like? Like this
Ahhhh man. The scale, as I've said before, is a dirty freaking liar. I've been sticking to counting my calories and exercise for more than a month straight without screwing up once (go me!) and these nutty fluctuates are just a part of life I've learned to just live with and work around. I was 231 last Wednesday and…
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Will starting exercise stall my weight loss?
I'm sticking to counting calories and walking like a boss and losing at a great pace. I want to start couch to 5k soon but I'm worried if I do, somehow I'll retain that dreaded water weight and the scale won't show me what I wanna see. Do I have anything to worry about?
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How much has your shoe size changed along the way?
Especially for those that lost a bunch and got to their goal weight. How much smaller are dem feet? Was just thinking "since I'm on my way to lose 80 lbs this year, maybe I shouldn't go crazy on buying a bunch of shoes"
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NSV: I fit in my old jeans! Jeans! Not sweat pants! Ahh
I. Wow. Oh my god. This is a moment. This is a freaking moment! I might pass out from excitement. I, "that fat dude", after sticking to my calories and exercising perfectly for only a month, now fit in my old jeans. Whaaaaat? This is huge! Ever since I can remember I've been wearing sweatpants or baggy shorts or hell, I'll…
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Guys around 5'8 and 150ish help! What size are you?
I know I know. Different people have different bodies and different builds and frames and this may change when I hit my goal weight. BUT! Just to temporarily satisfy my own curiosity, what size shirts, jacks and pants are you? I'm dying to know. My goal weight is 150. A weight I don't remember EVER being my entire life and…
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Can you anticipate weight fluctuates based on feel?
Maybe this is all in my super imaginative head. Maybe is a placebo effect. Maybe it's confirmation bias. Maybe I say maybe too much and need to find a new favorite word to overuse? Banana pants The days leading up to an annoying weight fluctuation that's most likely water weight, I feel puffy. My face feels fat and I could…
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No. That weight on the scale is mathematically impossible
This...is so frustrating. Isn't this frustrating? Grrrr it's frustrating!! Why can't weight be more linear? Why can't I burn 3500 calories and boom plow see a pound gone on the scale? Instead, almost a week later not only do I not see a pound or two lost. I gained 2 lbs? That's mathematically not possible! After burning…
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Has losing weight changed you?
Are you the same kind of person? Do you have the same traits and personality or have you changed at all? Were you shy and now you're not? Did you have anxiety and now you don't? Or did you lose weight and were exactly the same, but smaller? Share your experience!
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Is there a good pedometer app that sync with fitness pal?
I have a fitbit, but lately I just don't feel like wearing it. Are there any apps for iPhone that count your steps and sync the data with fitness pal for calorie adjustments and whatnot? Or do I just have to stick with my fitbit?
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Guys who don't go to the gym: what's your calorie budget?
I'm personally not hitting the gym til I get to my goal weight. All I'm doing is working, walking and counting calories. On days I work I'm eating 1800 calories and days I don't I'm shooting for around 1500. I'm 5'8 and 240lbs. What about you fellas? How tall are you, how much do you weigh, and how many calories are you…
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Calories in vs out? Didn't lose weight. Look at my fitbit!
So I wear the hell out of my fitbit everyday and although it took a crap ton of willpower, I waited a whole week to weigh myself again. Today I weighed myself a week later and I'm the same weight. I know weight can fluctuate and blah blah, but I'm trying to calm myself down by thinking logically I HAD to have lost weight…
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Why do I feel so bloated even losing weight?
It...doesn't make sense. I'm in a -1000 calorie deficit. I'm not eating a ton if carbs. I lost a couple lbs this week! So why do I feel so bloated? It doesn't make any sense to me. And my fat feels squishy. Like everything is more loose
