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12-19-2010, 08:14 AM
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Token rooster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,508
Height: 6'2
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Goal weight!
Just a few days ago I was lamenting the fact that I wasn't able to update my "current low weight" for about 2 weeks even though I've been pretty good (under my calories almost every day and getting plenty of exercise). In the past few days, my weight has dropped just about 4 pounds and out of nowhere I'm suddenly under 180.
The moral of the story is to trust what you are doing food/ health wise and just keep at it no matter what. When you least expect it, the "whoosh" will happen and everything will be caught up.
I'm going to continue what I'm doing. Nothing for me is going to change and if I end up losing more weight, that would be fine. Right now I want to just focus on body fat percentage. I eat healthy (usually 1700-1800 calories) and get plenty of exercise so I'm not very concerned about being "underweight". For my height, that would be a weight in the 150s and that will never happen.
I'm not ruling out upping my goal weight if I add more muscle and my body fat percentage goes down. To me, health more important than the weight. For right now, however, I'd like to keep 180 as my "red line" zone. I'd love to maintain long term in the low to mid 170s.
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12-19-2010, 08:17 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: East Coast US
Posts: 2,440
S/C/G: 195/180.2/165
Height: 5'9"
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Awesome!
What changed on the day you started? Did you wake up and say "no more of living like this?" Then what did you do?
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12-19-2010, 08:35 AM
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I Will do this....
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Belgium
Posts: 1,090
S/C/G: 298/see ticker/165
Height: 5ft 7
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Matt - Same for me last week - did not think there was a remote chance of getting below 200 and then whoosh 6lbs off and at 197! You are so right, stay on plan, trust it and work with it!
Congratulations on your incredible acbievements.
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12-19-2010, 08:37 AM
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Calorie counter
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 5,679
Height: 5'4.5"
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Matt, amazing! I am tickled pink for you! There aren't words to describe how incredible your accomplishment is and I hope you have been able to soak it all in. It has been a pleasure to have been able to watch you come to this day and this post.
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12-19-2010, 08:39 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: N.C.
Posts: 186
S/C/G: 250 / 210 / 210
Height: 6' 4"
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Yea, breaking a plateau is kind of like stepping through the ice on a puddle... you suddenly lose a couple. Congratulations!
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12-19-2010, 08:42 AM
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I'm a SWIMMER!
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,767
S/C/G: 209.4/149.2/150
Height: 5'9
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AMAZING Matt...simply amazing!!! Congrats!!!
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12-19-2010, 08:46 AM
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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Fremont, CA
Posts: 388
S/C/G: 249/ticker/149
Height: 5'6"
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Congratulations!!! Thanks for sharing...it's incredibly helpful to hear about successful people also going through stalls (especially for those of us currently stuck in a stall for a couple of weeks )
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12-19-2010, 08:49 AM
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Shifty Werewolf
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Vermont, USA
Posts: 1,168
S/C/G: 285/209/165
Height: 5'5"
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Congratulations! How'd the weigh-in at WW go yesterday? Did you make goal for them as well?
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12-19-2010, 09:01 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Just moved out of denial
Posts: 881
S/C/G: 298/238...285.5/217/150
Height: 5'5"
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YEE-HAAA!!! That's great!
YOU ROCK!!
Chic o-Boom-Boom!
TAH-DAH!!!
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12-19-2010, 09:04 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 554
S/C/G: 325/125/maintaining
Height: 5'6.5
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Congrats, Matt!!
You're right about keeping at it. I was just complaining yesterday that I had stalled for a week and worrying over what to do, then this morning, whoosh, 2.2 pounds down.
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12-19-2010, 09:12 AM
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unabashed
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 2,709
S/C/G: 344/321/220
Height: 5'5
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Congrats!
I needed to read this. I am so bloated today! I know it's because I have been pretty badly dehydrated for days. Sometimes I go through periods where I just don't drink. then when I do, I boat and even my fingers swell. Well, I'm totally there are up 2 lbs today even after being very under cals for 3 days.
Sometimes you just can't win. I plan to drink tons today. and hopefully tomorrow the scale will be more cooperative.
again congrats!
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12-19-2010, 10:02 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: IN
Posts: 396
S/C/G: 304/186.0/150
Height: 5.0
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Wow congrats man, you are amazing!
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12-19-2010, 10:21 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 2,112
S/C/G: 278/see ticker/150
Height: 5'4
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That's awesome Matt!! Congrats!
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12-19-2010, 10:31 AM
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slim endgame
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Alabama
Posts: 579
S/C/G: 255/see ticker/150
Height: 5' 4"
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Matt- Congratulations! You are so right about hanging in there and then the whoosh. Thank you for all the motivating post you make- you are amazing!
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12-19-2010, 10:36 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: London, ON
Posts: 1,631
S/C/G: 354/342/250(for now)
Height: 5'3"
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Woot! Yay Matt. You are a hero
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