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179lbs lost in one year - with pics
What a difference a year makes! Last March 9th, my wife and I made the decision to join a gym a get healthy. It was probably a life saving decision. At that time, I weighed a staggering 471 pounds. Now, I am 6'5" and have a large frame, but I was deluded into believing that I just need a "little" bit of work and I would…
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2012 Goals and a little backstory
So with 15 days left in 2011, I think that it is appropriate to not only look back on my acheivements this year, but to look forward to what I would like to accomplish in 2012. In March of this year, I stepped on the scale to see that I had ballooned up to 471 pounds. I used to think that since I was so tall (6'5") and had…
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Question for the runners...
So I have done a few 5k races and I run regularly, and I am now looking to take it to the next level. My question is - what is the best way to work up to a 10k? I've read some bridge to 10k programs, but it doesn't seem very helpful to me - essentially just saying to run for x amount of minutes on y day. I'm more…
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151 pounds lost in 8 months!
I finally hit the 150 pounds lost mark this week. I started taking back control of my life on March 9th, and am now over two thirds of the way to my goal. Next up, 5 more pounds and I will weigh what I did as a senior in high school (in football season before I had to lose weight for wrestling). I am setting a goal of 200…
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I need suggestions on how to spend my exercise calories...
So I got a little carried away this morning and ran/walked 10 miles in 2 hours (Im 6'5" and currently around 325 pounds). After I input the information into MFP, it told me I needed to eat 5430 calories today to stay on pace for a 2 pound weight loss this week. Now, I've been averaging a little over 3 pounds of weight loss…
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Remembering my first workout
It seems like a no-brainer now, but 32 weeks ago I was so intimidated by the task in front of me. My wife and I had made the decision to join the gym and spend a good chunk of time there. That was the easy part - the hard part was this beast of a treadmill standing in front of me, a torture device if ever there was one -…
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110 Pounds gone - halfway to my goal!
5 months of weight loss, the last 70 days of which using MFP, and I am finally halfway to my goal. I feel great, am in so much better shape (ran 3 miles this morning), and cannot believe how much energy I have now. I am looking forward to getting the rest of this weight off, and figuring out how to do "maintenance mode"…
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Accuracy of MFP numbers put to the test...
So I started using My Fitness Pal on May 26th of this year as a tool to help with the lifestyle change (not a diet) that I began on March 9th. At that point, I had already lost 67 pounds but I was becoming very uncomfortable with my eating. Not that I was eating too much, but that I was scared to be put in a situation…
