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it definitely was an eye opener for me too. I never was really obese, from a numbers standpoint, but I was overweight at 203 and 5'11". I sorta knew it, kinda felt like I had a few pounds to shed, but was okay with it, kinda. Then I had enough and started using Lose It and sometimes, I'm almost ashamed of how relatively easy it was to lose the weight by simply counting them calories. I never cut myself of anything I really like. I mean, I still ate wings during football season, and some potato chips on gameday and some Mondays, I had gained half a pound or so, but I got back to it right then and there.
I lost 35 of those 40 pounds before I even started exercising for real (running in my case). I was doing maybe 30 minutes of karate practice per week and about 9-10 hours of teaching karate, which comes to mostly walking around, demonstrating and explaining a technique here or there but never really exerting myself. Then when I got into running, and I was in maintenance, I had to keep on adjusting my budget and started eating back my exercise calories cause, well, I was still losing.
Life is good now, I feel fitter and better than I have in probably 15-18 years.
FM
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