94 lbs down || Sure is weight loss around here!

Mm, I was thinking I should take the calcium ones at least. I do try to get a good portion of nutrients needed in a day, and I switch around what I eat pretty often. Also for a better understanding of my size, I am 40" bust, 35" Waist, and 41" Hip. In the before pictures, I was around 53" hip and 46" waist I think? Can't remember bust. I guess it's just my body type maybe...or you might be shocked when you get down too. I remember thinking the same thing of somebody's pictures I saw, who had similar starting weight and height and age to me, and I remember seeing her pictures at 200 even, when I was at 240-250 and thinking, oh god will I ever be like that! And it just so happened I am, lmao.

And I know they mean well - but I hear it enough from relatives xD And I know people don't want me to encourage "bad behavior" (though imo it's not bad at all if you have the body type which is okay with it.) so eh, I donno.

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I admit it takes some willpower at first. I don't think the rare occasion you have junkfood will hurt you too much. For that just mind over body, lmao. The only junkfood I can't resist is pizza, but even so it rarely pops it's delicious head around. Just practice willpower, and keep some healthy snacks with you.
 
Hey, I just want to let you know that I too figured that eating low calories was the only way I could lose weight. Guess what happened when I tried to eat maintenance calories? I gained weight back like a maniac. Seriously, I come from experience. What you're doing to yourself is only going to make it impossible for you to eat normally in the future. I'm now 20 years old, female, 215 pounds, and eat 1800 calories a day losing 2+ pounds a week. My headaches are gone and I can think clearly and feel so much happier every day. I seriously think my low calorie (around 1000 cals) diet was making me depressed.
 
JacJac said:
Hey, I just want to let you know that I too figured that eating low calories was the only way I could lose weight. Guess what happened when I tried to eat maintenance calories? I gained weight back like a maniac. Seriously, I come from experience. What you're doing to yourself is only going to make it impossible for you to eat normally in the future. I'm now 20 years old, female, 215 pounds, and eat 1800 calories a day losing 2+ pounds a week. My headaches are gone and I can think clearly and feel so much happier every day. I seriously think my low calorie (around 1000 cals) diet was making me depressed.
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You have to keep in mind that I DO balance it. Some days I do eat 800, other days, I eat 1100-1300. I never, EVER let my body feel like it's suffering from the way I eat. When I was in Finland, I actually ate a bit more than I usually do - probably between 1200-1500 calories on average per day, since I was drinking a lot of juice as well as eating a bit more, and guess what? I still lost 15 lbs there within 3 months. A perfectly healthy speed of losing weight.

My body will lose the rest of the weight, and when I get to a healthy weight, aroudn 160 for my height and build, it will stop shedding and start maintaining on it's own. I do not PLAN to go back to ever eat 2000 calories a day. My body type simply does not handle it very well. And when I do go back to eating a little more - 1200 -1400 per day, I will do it slowly, in a way that my body can adjust to, and with HEALTHY foods that I currently eat now.


Again, I hate to sound rude, but I am getting a little bit fed up with all the lectures. I posted the pictures here to encourage people, because when I was just starting out, seeing others who could lose a lot REALLY helped me, just to know they could do it, I felt I could too. I check the thread to see if people want help with nutrition advice or just general advice, since I did read up quite a lot on nutrition through the entire process. I don't suggest to anybody else to eat as low calories as I do, because...I DO NOT know their body TYPE, I don't know what is best for THEM personally. I only know what is best for myself.

I post for that reason, not to reply to have to defend myself against people lecturing me, who think they know how my body is. =\ If it keeps up, I will remove myself and my pictures, which I do'nt want to do since from some comments, I see people have been encouraged adn it makes me glad. I just don't wish to continue reading posts where I feel I have to defend myself. X_x

*edit* Also, so I don't have to explain in the future, this is how I know that my body is not suited to eat normal portions.
I really only ate bad when I got into college, but when I was growing up adn in high school, I ate 1800-2000 calories a day probably. I exercised in P.E and walking a mile uphill ont he way home and even then, I generally weighed 210-220. The most I had ever gotten down to was when I was 15 or 16, and had managed to get down to 208 on average, and one magical day 203, but then I never saw that weight again until now. I haven't been this weight since probbaly 11 or 12 years old.
 
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I cannot say how amazing you look better than everyone else already has, but you really do look wonderful. You sound like a very intelligent young woman, too, so I'm not worried for you at all :) I wish I could be as strong as you.
 
Yeah, you sound exactly like me, haha. I used to think my body was different from everyone else's too. I found out the hard way that I was wrong. Good luck to you.
 
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