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Rapid weight loss and gain... anyone else with this??
So I have been working with a team of doctors to deal with complications from hormones and neurotransmitters that are out of whack and using my diet and suppliments to try and fix the damage that has been done to my body. Which weight is the last on the list but the first one everyone sees when they meet me. At age 13,…
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REintroducing myself
Soooo I have been out way way too long! Ive gotten pregnant, had a baby, lost all the baby weight and then gained it all back in the time that I have been gone and it hasn't even been THAT long! Ok... maybe about a year since I've really been trying. So I guess that's one year too long!! I totally kept telling myself, "you…
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Anyone get rid of a panniculus?
This is a very embarrassing and sensitive topic for me but I have had a fairly severe panniculus since I was in my tweens... I have never been able to get rid of it and have been told that I will most likely have to have surgery to remove the extra skin. I have yoyo'ed in my weight heavily my whole life and now with having…
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Pregnant... now what to eat?!?
A few months ago I really started to feel like crud... I LOOKED like crud all of a sudden. I had deep black circles around my eyes I was showing skin discoloration that most women get after 20+ years on "the pill" and just all around everything was pointing towards hormone issues. So I started researching and I was showing…
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Pumpkin Custard
So I've always loved to bake and cook and with my new low-er carb eating style it's a little difficult to still bake without being insane so it just takes a little more thought. Tonight I wanted custard and in theory without the sugar it should be naturally low in carbs so I set to work and kinda threw this together. 1/2…
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NSV at the office
I am excited and feel slightly awkward as well about this NSV. lol I work as a House Lead for a company who works with Developmentally Disabled adults and out home office is a good hour drive away. In my job the less I see and hear from the office the better because I am doing my job right and no one has to step in. Well I…
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NSV - Legs
I just have to say that all the hiking has paid off and I am loving what I am starting to see in my legs! I have a LOT more weight to lose but I do feel good that my legs are starting to tighten up again. :happy:
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Tiny little NSV
So I have to make a quick preface to this NSV... I have a 2 and a half year old daughter (almost lol) and although I have always been in the 260lbs range even before her 260lbs on my body AFTER I had her just didn't look the same. Skin sagged, muscle tone GONE, flexibility GONE.... pretty much everything that was alright…
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Sick of the mind games
I KNOW I am not the only one out there that is struggling with this but I am SO sick of the freakin mind games that our very own mind plays on us. I've never been thin... ever. I don't even know what it looks like to be smaller than a size 14. I have lost 20lbs in less than 2 months... yesterday I did 25 minutes of…
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Pretty exciting NSV
So today I was hell bent that my daughter (not quite 2 and a half) and I were going to have a picnic and go for a hike. We were going to go to Armstrong Woods and then decided to go to a local park that has some pretty decent trails. The last time I tried to walk any of those trails I was 8 months pregnant and BARELY made…
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Odd question about sucralose/splenda
So I have to preface this by saying that I'm 25yo and I have had heartburn since I was around 11 or 12. So aspertame... very very bad. Causes liver and bladder cancer, which both run in my family, so I stay away from it like the plague. What I do use instead is splenda and generic sucralose that is popping up now nearly…
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My first NSV!!!
Ok so I'm not new to the weight loss game, I've yo-yoed a LOT in the last 10 years (and I'm only 25!!) but today it's undeniable I have my first real NSV this time around.... I have collar bones!!! Maybe they aren't obviously sticking out in every direction but I can see them and I can feel them for sure. :happy: I'm a…
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You might be a little obsessed when...
You come up with applied mathematics like these! Starting weight 257 = base calories to stay this weight 3000 (moderately active) Goal weight 160 = base calories to stay this weight 1800 (lightly active) At a difference of 1200 calories a day how long would it take to lose 97lbs? 1lb = 3500 calories 97x3500 = 339,500…
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easy muscle fatigue/weakness
Since I have been cutting my calories I have noticed a HUGE difference in my muscle endurance! I am a big girl... naturally large frame with lots of natural muscle 19" calves with not a jiggle in sight. I also carry a lot of extra fat as well and that is what I am trying to get rid of but since I have cut back to 1200-1400…
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Don't know what to do...
So I am doing an experiment and a detox all at the same time. The experiment is you take your average caloric expendature and minus 500 calories and you get the amount of calories you should be eating and then add the challenge of keeping 100 or less carbs a day. This is by NO means a formal "diet" but more of a look at…
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Experimenting on humans
Hello everyone!! I have struggled with HORRIBLE ups and down with my weight my entire life. It all started when I gained 100lbs between 13 and 14 years old. Right at the start of puberty which of course was horrifying and embarrassing.... grrr. My low weight after that point was 189 and my high was 305 when I gave birth to…
