re: PuttaDaForkDown

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Myth I'll see you 160 if I don't get back on track.

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Football weekends have been your nemesis.

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The only part of a weight loss goal should be the weight, not the date.

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Yeah, I'll pretty much stay with the same diet but sometimes I'll lose weight faster than other times and after about 5 months or so I am getting used to going without nearly as many carbs as I used to eat/drink.

The hardest part of losing weight so far has been managing my friends, to be honest. If I could do like Myth and be in hermit mode, I'd probably be way better off. But I just can't. I'm 23, I have something of a social life, and I really enjoy it. So, I overindulge too often. That being said, I'm still down 70 pounds in 9 1/2 months. I've taken the low carb diet and turned into a life style, and although I do tire of eating so much of the same food over and over, I realized that I did that with carbs too.


Ha, I have now motivated my uncle to lose weight, and he wants to do it on Atkins. It's funny how your own success can motivate others. I told him if he needs coaching, I'm more than willing and experienced enough now to coach. He's done south beach before so he's pretty familiar with low carbing. He's really not all that big, maybe needs to drop 30 or 40 pounds. I told him that'll be done in 6 months easily if he sticks to it.

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i hope we had something to do with this. :bats a tear out of the corner of his eye:

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most definitely. There's been a time or two that venting here single handedly save me from quitting.

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friends and family offer 'helpful' advice on how you're doing it wrong

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Yep. I dealt with this at first, but I think I've silenced even the toughest of critics with the losses. Results tend to silence them. Weight loss is all that matter.

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inadvertent (or on purpose) sabotaging your eating plan

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This is what I deal with the most. They always want to go eat out and just assume that I'll be able to get a steak or something and it'll be okay no matter how much I tell them eating out is just a bad option for me. I deal with it because I can't expect everyone around me to bend to my diet.

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especially trying not to look like a weirdo because you're the only one not stuffing your face with nachos and cupcakes at a football party.

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Honestly that doesn't bother me, never did. I'm gonna do what I have to do to make it work. When I went to my best friend's family reunion, I bought a rotisserie chicken and some pork skins and coke zero, and I didn't cheat that day. I had to deal with a lot of questions (and other people eating my chicken) but while they were eating potato chips I was eating pork skins.

What I struggle with is drinking. I don't like Michelob Ultra all that much, but it's the only beer I can really have and not go crazy on carbs. I can do like jack and coke zero, but that's expensive as hell unless I go to someone's house with a fifth It's best to avoid drinking altogether, but again, I do have a semblance of a social life and usually once a week or so get presented with a situation where I'd like to be drinking. I can pass up a lot of those or go and not drink, but every now and then I do. And when I do, it ain't pretty haha.

And CT riding my arse helped a lot tbh, and I love CT for it. She's like my weight loss mom Cracking that whip.

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I have lots of fun on the OT cad. Sorry for partying I don't encourage anyone to snoop except paige because she's low carbing and trying to lose weight

As long as there is no flour and no carb sauce I don't see how chicken wings would be an induction problem.

If they're not breaded, they're fine. Just watch the sauce because some have sugar and stuff. Most hot sauces have 1-2 carbs/serving, so a batch of 10 wings could have 5-10g carbs.

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And even if it says no carb, they're allowed to put 0 carbs on the label if they have <.6g carbs/serving, so most likely each one has .4 or so and they say 0. it sounds negligible but when you have 10 wings or so, it adds up.

170/153/145

shedding

Haha, CAD.


70 lbs, Hulk!!!!! Keep on keeping on!

251.4

Went up almost 6 lbs over the weekend

Water weight, that'll fall off