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NSV!!
Ive been back with myfitnesspal and going to the gym for a whole week now. I've hit 10,000 steps every day, never missed a workout, and my clothes already fit better!
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New to the Gym
My husband and I have decided to start going to the gym together. I haven't lifted since high school which was over 6 years ago. I don't even know where to start on setting up a workout other than kill myself on the elliptical and try not to die under the squat bar. I have 3 weeks until school starts and I'd like to be…
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Starting over
I used this site a couple of years ago and dropped a few dress sizes. It's been about a year and a half since I quit and I've gained back a size. Maybe it will stick this time. I'm trying to get my husband convinced to use some wedding money and get an elliptical or something.
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Going numb?
So I've started walking rather vigorously in an effort to get myself down another dress size. For 2 weeks with was going fine. Now, without changing anything in my walking routine, I've started getting extremely painful cramps in my calves early on in my walk. By half an hour in my feet are numb. I pushed through this…
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Plateaus?
How long can these monstrosities last? I have a doctor's appointment in a few days and I'm really afraid that the scale hasn't moved in the months since my last one. I feel great and my boyfriend says I look amazing, but part of me still wants to see the magic number get smaller. It's seriously been at least 6 months since…
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Did this work for anyone?
So everyone is really into all this clean eating lately. Not bashing it, I have an insane amount of respect for your ability to commit to that. I, however, can't. Vegetables make me gag. It's a texture thing. I can manage carrots if they are cooked to smush and I put A1 on them, but that it's besides green beans and corn.…
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Scale troubles and sad faces
So after a month or so of pretending my scale is wrong, I've come to the conclusion that I started off heavier than I thought and that mean 203 is actually what I weigh. I'm still 25lbs down from where I think I started and am back in the sizes I wore in high school, but I'm not where I want to be. I started in March and I…
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Transformation Tuesday
Not sure exactly how much I am down, but I feel so much better and can do a lot more much easier than when I joined this wonderful website.
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Didn't realize this til now...
So I was under the impression that my face wasn't really THAT fat and wouldn't change much. I was wrong. This is me before I seriously thought about starting this journey. I'm in the neighborhood of 230lbs. This was me a couple weeks ago when my boyfriend and I found a slightly mislabeled costume in WalMart. I'm in the…
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Stupid freaking scales
So I'm beginning to get frustrated. Every scale I've been on lately gives me a different number that varies by 10 pounds each time. I'm really scared about going to the doctor tomorrow because what if I'm not as far into my weightloss as I thought? :( Nervous
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No responses the first time :(
So I've been having scale drama and I think I'm just going to give it up for a while. My normal bathroom scale gives me a different reading every time I'm on it, by 10lbs in either direction. When I got on the digital scale at my doctor's yesterday it said I weighed 20lbs more than what mine at home averages around. I've…
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Successes?
So I've been having scale drama and I think I'm just going to give it up for a while. My normal bathroom scale gives me a different reading every time I'm on it, by 10lbs in either direction. When I got on the digital scale at my doctor's yesterday it said I weighed 20lbs more than what mine at home averages around. I've…
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Super Fantastic NSV
So for the first time in my memory (including high school, eek!) I can wear a dress or a skirt without pantyhose or tight and not chafe until I literally bleed. In fact I don't chafe at all now. Never ever thought this would happen, so excited!
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Progress Photos!
This is my awful before picture from my amazing Spring Break vacation to Tampa with my university's concert band. I was a whopping 228 lbs. This was my first gutsy progress picture at 207 lbs. This was about 5 minutes ago I'm somewhere around 185 lbs. My scale doesn't want to fully cooperate anymore.
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Too much too fast?
In the last month, without changing any of my eating or exercising habits, I've lost 12 pounds. Don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic that the weight is coming off but I've lost about 5lbs in the last week since I started student teaching. I don't know if I should try to slow it down and eat more or what. I'm a little anxious…
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Really unexpected NSV
So since puberty I've had these awful, deep red stretch marks on my entire stomach, even when I wasn't grotesquely overweight. Without doing anything besides getting un-fat, they are slowly disappearing. Not turning silver and being less visible, disappearing. I couldn't be more over joyed. It's weird but makes me very…
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NSV with pictures!
Okay, so I've been holding off posting pictures because 1) my before pics make me want to throw up and 2) I haven't seen a drastic difference yet. Well I've been holding off buying new pants until I fit into my smallest pair of jeans, a size 16 from Maurices (they actually say 18 but I have other 18's and there's no…
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Is MFP cheating me out of food?
First off. my stats: Female 5ft 7in 207lbs (well around there, bloated and retaining water for lady reasons) 22 years of age I have already lost 21lbs (woot) but since my second calorie recalculation my weight loss has drastically slowed down. Right now I'm allotted 1860 calories, down from 1930. Most days I don't even eat…
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NSV Oh it feels good!
I am just getting ready to get back into my size 16 jeans, well once that TOM bloating goes down all the way. I have not comfortably worn this size since my high school days. I thought this would be the smallest size I would even get to (I started at a snug 20), but I'm not even halfway done with my journey yet. I wonder…
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Kind of gross but here it goes...
So I've been doing this a little over 3 months and I've noticed that my BM's are umm different. Not as compact or frequent and the smell is different. It's as little as every 3-4 days and not even half as much. My diet hasn't really changed much except that I'm eating less. Is this normal or at least not freakishly weird?
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In need of a good kick in the pants
I've been using this site for 3 months. 90 solid days of logging the good and the bad. I've made huge changes to my lifestyle and feel better than I ever have, but I'm not seeing the results on the scale that I was hoping for. In 90 days I've only lost 15 lbs and one pants size. My week of feminine ickiness throws things…
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Ladies...
Does anyone else have a terrible time with the week before a certain natural event that disgusts most men? I'm struggling hard. I want to eat everything in sight and then eat more chocolate. Normally this is the week I bloat up, but the 2-3lbs I put on goes away immediately after the icky week. But this time around I don't…
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Skinnier what?! Woot
I'm almost down a jean size and it's only been about 3 weeks! Huzzah! Okay they're still what I consider "fat" pants for me, but it's progress!
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Water amounts?
When MFP says I need a minimum of 8 cups of water a day, does that mean literal cups and in 4oz=1cup or 8 glasses as in an average 8oz glass? It's extremely ambiguous and I've done a calculator on another site that told me I needed about 75oz a day. I'm rather befuddled, ha.
