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      05-15-2013, 11:12 PM   #72
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Originally Posted by mmahany View Post
It’s completely normal that your progress has slowed. If you think about it, you’re changing one variable (your weight) and keeping another (your caloric intake) the same. When you lose weight your body will become more efficient and need fewer calories to sustain the same level of activity. At 300 pounds you may have needed 4000 calories just to sit on the couch and watch tv. However, at 200 pounds your body may only need 2800 calories to do the same thing.
Your weight is a quantitative measurement to measure your progress but do not consume yourself with it. Do you really believe that your BMI is a good measurement of your progress? I’m an excellent example (in my opinion) of why is completely useless. I went from a BMI of 35.2 down to 30.1 between the two pictures below. According to the BMI I went from “Obese” to “Obese.”

I laugh every time I see those two pictures because they were taken at the exact same place (Margaritaville in Jamaica) just at different times. I was also sucking in in the first picture which is why my chest/ribs look so much bigger in the first picture.
Wow man congrats huge difference!!! The way I look at it I'm 30 and been fat all my life and have gotten progressively fatter. My goal is to drop 100lbs by the end of the year, however if I didn't drop a single more pound I'm still 50lbs better off than I was before and I intend to keep it that way. However so far so good still dropping. I've fallen off the wagon a lot, but where as before it would simply be an excuse to quit and go back to eating whatever garbage I felt like, now I just get back on. That's why I don't really give myself "cheat" meals or day because I know I will mess up at some point. When I do I'll consider that my "cheat" and move forward the next day.

I don't know if my plan is perfect, but in 30 years it's the only one that has worked and that I have been able to stick with for more than a couple of weeks.
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