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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good job, you!  I haven't lost two pounds in one week since I was obese a year ago unless I was basically losing water weight from eating salty foods earlier in the week, so to do that in the 130s is amazing to me.  That's fantastic!  You must be working hard -- keep going, you![/quote]

Thanks. I’ve actually been pretty consistently losing 2 pounds a week since I started. Next week will be 6 months, so if I divide it by 26 weeks, I’m averaging 1.7 lbs a week with still a week to go. I have been working very hard, building my fitness level and challenging myself to reach goals that are fitness and health related in general, not just weight related. This is really the first time I’ve done a wholesale reset basically of my life and adjusted pretty much everything. I mostly cut out drinking, mostly cut out highly processed carbs, swapped a lot of poorer food choices (I really like blue cheese burgers) for big salads and lean proteins, took up running, cut back significantly on eating out, honestly record every bite I put in my mouth, significantly increased my water intake, and started (light, very light) weight training.

I realize that conventional wisdom says habit change is a hard way to maintain weight loss, but I feel really good about how I feel and don’t have any desire to go back to my previous ways. Just the benefits to my chronic asthma and plantar fasciitis alone are enough to make me stay the course. It’s also helped to really understand that a day or weekend of not great choices shouldn’t send me into a defeatist mindset and then pile on more poor choices. The me from 6 months ago would not recognize the me from today. [/quote]

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