Posts by sarah859

NAME: Sarah

STATE OR COUNTRY:  Alexandria,Egypt

HEIGHT:  5'4'

SW:  207.8

CW: 202.4  (5.4 mainly due to a horrible cold but still YAY!)  oct 5th

CGW: 187 (modified to be more realistic)

GW: 140

DAY YOU'D LIKE TO WEIGH IN  Saturday

It usually works this way. But as you said it is a very gradual process and if you increase your level of activity and build more muscle mass as you lose more, it will be easy to maintain a decent loss on the same amount of calories.

1800 is certainly not extremely low for a male of your size but you probably shouldn't go lower until you have lost a significant amount of weight to maintain a proper level of nutrition and energy to carry on

spring scales - or dial- are known for their lack of reliability, which means exactly what you describe , different results under same conditions .

The best way is to measure once per day - thus avoid the effect of repeated strain on the spring -and really it is about trends over time more than the actual measurement though believe me I know how these numbers can frustrate us .

another option is to invest in a digital quality scale

good luck on your journey

I would really like to thank those who took the time to respond to my rather depressing post. I really appreciate all the valuble advices you wrote.

to make up for my depressed rambling last time I am happy to say that the minute I posted this topic it finally hit me that it was really silly winning about everything when am the one to blame so I decided to start right there at exactly 3:13 pm , I took a new scale- digital one measuring fat that I got as a present from daddy as a hint to lose weight i guess and didnt even bother to get out of the package go figure- I found that I was actually 217 so it is really square one with 51.3% fat I know it is not accurate but still to frightening since 32% is considered dangerous.

any way to cut to the chase , I stopped snaking and binging right then and started counting cals religiously as I once did . this is an accomplishment for me since for the last 10 months at least it was almost impossible to commit myself to it .

it has been only 2 days but I already feel different and motivated and I decided am in for the long run and I think my goals are ambitious but doable . I really love this site and this community and I owe it a lot though I gained the weight back since it was me who deliberartly quit it last time. Just crossing my fingers that this will last for good since I fully understand that this is a lifestyle change.

hi am happy to b back here i havent done much in the past 6 month in regards of weight loss , gain 10 lbs then put them right back on

now am really comitting and hopefully ll stick to it

i want to give myself my 25th birthday present to get below any weight i ve ever been since junior high which is below 140 lbs specially that am starting my internship in two weeks

CW 189        GW 139      (that is 50 lbs in 33 weeks)

really need the support of such groups to get me going good luck for u all

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i d like to join and really commit this time

i really in desperate need to lose 20 lbs at least in the next 7 weeks

hope this time i ve a really inspired team that i can really contribute to

oh god ur story is really amazing and very inspiring i cant tell u how touched i am

am also 5'5" and am 24 years old

so i can see in you that my goal of 120 is not impossible

starting at 217 can make it seem real hard but u starting at 295 must have been so tough

keep up the good work and looking forwards to seeing u celebrate 5 yrs of maintanace

u go girl

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go green team

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