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Finally Gaining Weight While Losing Inches
So, for the longest time in my life, this has never happened, I'd think I was eating right, I'd work out, and I'd either never see a change in the scale, or I'd gain weight, and just get fatter. I used to think the only way I could lose weight was through massive cutting, like eating 1,400 calories, while working out and…
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Pics Transformation 75 Pounds Lost In Under 6 Months
So then, I'm going to keep my story short and get to the pictures. I've been obese since the age of 5. I tried over 32 diets. At 18 to 19 I went from 280 to 347 while starting a regimen of jogging two miles a day, giving up meat, fast food, and soda. My joints were wrecked for a long time from all the jogging and poor body…
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Intermittent Fasting AT Night Is So Much Easier
Hey everyone, So, I'm 10 pounds of Fat away and 12 Pounds Of Muscle Needed, from getting the body that I want. My weight had stalled out a little, so, I went back to my form of intermittent fasting, which is to stop eating 12 to 16 hours from Breakfast. I find this so much easier than skipping an actual meal. And I add a…
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45 Pounds In 90 Days, 120 Pounds Lost In Total (pics)
Since I was 5 I have been clinically marked as obese. Growing up was hard. I suffered from a deconditioned heart muscle, due to my size. I was picked on and bullied every day, and because I was often the bigger person, I was then punished by the teacher. This led me to eating more and more, while at the same time, my…
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I'm In Onederland
I know this should be in the success part, but, I started off posting in Getting Started, at first, with my own concerns, with my own worries, then as I started getting balance, and greater understanding of myself and got a handle on my weight, I started answering others. So, for this morning, the twelfth of June, I…
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Why Do You Want To Lose Weight
For me this is what changed everything. Tomorrow marks 5 months of my new life of living at my Maximum Potential and Fully Expressing my body and it's capabilities. I went from not being able to do a pull-up, to doing 4 to 6 (depending on if I do a dead hang) not being able to do a chin up to doing 8 to 10. I went from 38…
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What Has Been Your Biggest Issue Losing Weight?
Hi everyone, I've struggled for 20 years to lose weight, when I finally cracked it for myself. My biggest issue was that I began to believe that I was just destined to be fat. That's what everyone told me and I had come to believe it. So, when I'd start losing weight, upward of 50 or even at my peak 100 pounds, I'd look at…
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What's Been Your Biggest Issues With Eating?
As I've now dropped more than 140 pounds--which I like to joke with my best friend, whose weight is just a pound or two shy of 140, I've lost her--I've started wondering what took me so long, and why it was so difficult. It took 20 years of trial and error, of complete abysmal failure, and of minor successes, made into big…
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Making Too Big of a Deficit
So I suffer from clinical depression. I use exercise to balance my mood, I used to use frosting and other sweets to trigger the balancing hormones to deal with my depression, before I discovered the benefits of extreme workouts. Like P90x, Insanity, Tapout XT. I've never been stronger, had more endurance, been more…
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Maximum Deficit Reduction
Has anyone heard of this. It's the process of taking your weight, figuring out your body fat percentage and figuring out how many pounds of fat you have and then creating a deficit based on 30 calories for each pound of fat. So if you're 200 pounds, with 20% body fat, you have 40 pounds of fat on you, and you'd want to…
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Getting Fit, Not Thin
I get so tired of hearing, Oh My God, how skinny are you trying to become. You need to slow down, you're going to look like skin and bones. I'm nearly 6'1, I weigh 212 pounds, I have a 14 to 16 percent body fat. My goal has always been clear in my mind and it's never been to be thin. I once weighed 347 pounds. I'm broad…
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60 Pounds Down and Counting
So, I made my first post back in march, showing off my success at 45 pounds lost. Now, I'm in the second branch of an even more intense workout regimen, I'm eating more than I ever used to eat when trying to lose weight and a lot more than MFP suggest for me to get the weight loss goals I'm getting, so, I felt like…
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Sugar Cravings After Workouts
I've never had a sweet tooth before, I used to be more the sour cream and onion, or Chips and dips type pleasure person. But since I've started working out heavy with weights, after my weightlifting I have a huge sugar craving that I usually take care of with some Jolly Ranchers or Lifesavers, but, it's a total foreign…
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When You Eat Crap Do You Feel Crappy The Next Day
I've been noticing this a lot. I do an aggressive workout, I push my body hard, and I keep track of my progress weekly to make sure I keep growing and keep succeeding. What I've noticed is the one or two weeks when I go off my usual eating. Usually I'm a green vegetable, lean protein, occasional pasta and bread type…
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Favorite Not So Unhealthy Cheat Food
Just a question, always looking for things that might be good to enjoy occasionally that aren't completely unhealthy. For me, my major one is White Cheddar Popcorn, I love it, and eat it a few times a week--the mini-100 calorie bags. How bout you all?
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Is There Anything Better
Than waking up at a new low in your weight. I love that feeling of getting on the scale in the morning and see a new low weight that I haven't seen before. It just sets the tone for the whole day, makes me ready to hop onto my workout, makes me want to eat cleaner, and see if I can push further.
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Anyone Look Back At What They Eat In Shock
When I was eighteen or so, my usual Saturday, was no breakfast, a lunch of Supersized Big Mac Value Meal, an extra Big Mac, and an extra Double Cheeseburger. That means that my lunch was 1,000 calories in soda in fries, 1500 calories in sandwhiches, roughly 2,500 calories just for lunch. Then, I'd go to the movies, eat a…
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Natural Ways To Eat Less By Tricking The Brain And Receptors
Here are some ways that are helping me Trick Myself Skinny. 1. Drink a bottle of ice cold water first thing in the morning. Very important. Cuts out over 200 calories through the day. 2. Eat on smaller plates, your eyes process your hunger, your eyes are bigger than your stomach. The more your plate is covered, the more…
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How Much Exercise Is Too Much Exercise
So, I'm 25 years old, I've dropped 20 pounds in the last month or so, I'm down to 254 pounds. My major question is, how much exercise is too much exercise. Right now, I work out between 50 minutes to an hour a day, usually 6 days a week, in roughly 30 minute intervals, 30 minutes in the morning before a protein meal, and…
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My Birthday Present To Myself
So, two years ago, I had gotten down to 230 pounds and 22% body fat, I was in the best shape of my life. Things happened, I fell into bad habits, I fell into depression because of health issues I didn't know about, and I was using food to treat it, and ballooned back up to 270 pounds. Today, I've cured my depression (as in…
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Living a Fully Expressed Life
I've never been at such a level of effort and never enjoyed working out as much. Right now, I'm using measurements, cause I haven't lost a pound, even though I consume a diet of 50% complex carbs and 20% protein and 30% Fat, a diet, which, when I haven't exercised I've seen weight loss. Nonetheless, I lost two inches on my…
