Not a drill: 5 pounds from minimum goal

So happy for you. Promise you'll keep posting once you hit your goal, okay? You're my favorite to read.

congratulations! That line about the pause and another muffin made me laugh out loud.

Good for you. Enjoy the success.

I love your footnotes! I always look forward to the weekly drama report.

Great Work!

amazing!! I'm also unsure what to do with myself now that I'm not focused on losing. I don't know how to live like a normal person without obsessing over food. It's strange.

Cheers on finishing that step. Figuring out how to drop the former self that has vanished is the hard thinking part now, right?

Wait until you decide you like the gym enough to build muscle and have to accept that the scale will go up even though you know it's mostly muscle. Watching the number rise is still hard.

Congratulations!

congratulations! 126 what a number, must feel amazing.

You'll be there in no time. Congrats. Enjoy this and keep reminding yourself you are slim and the scale is correct.

Wow, that's amazing. Congratulations on losing so much. I'm nearly at the same place and hit 125.6 today after starting at 148. If everyone calls you skinny then you really are. During the process it can feel like nothing changed even though clothes fit differently and the scale keeps moving. Seeing yourself every day makes it easy to miss the difference, but old photos show the real progress and that helps keep going. For me the change shows up more as definition and conditioning from daily lifting, so the loss was mostly fat.

That's fantastic, great work.

WOW. This is so great. Thrilled for you.

This post brought a smile to my face. I appreciate the share. Even with severe weight issues plus borderline blood sugar problems, breathing pauses during rest, and elevated lipids my coverage was denied. I considered consuming sweets right before testing in hopes of triggering a diabetic label. Ultimately though I chose not to play around with that condition. Nice work on your changes. I share those feelings too. Right now I'm just a few pounds away from target yet the reflection still looks overweight to me. I'm aware it's mental but it remains tough. Even having mirrors around doesn't change that.

Happy to hear you've reached the stage where the scale trends keep moving in a good direction. Sounds like a perfect moment to refresh your clothes and pick styles that actually suit you now. How are you thinking about holding steady once you get there? From what I've read the meds tend to slow down a lot after a year and a half, so staying at the current level or easing off a little both come up as options. I've looked around the usual spots and hardly anyone seems to have thought through what comes next. The few who mention anything usually say they'll just move more and taper off until they stop taking it. That approach strikes me as unlikely to last, since these meds seem to fix a metabolic issue that otherwise leads right back to the old pattern. I'm also curious how appetite cues even work once the drug is in the picture. Without the big reserves of fat it used to be simple to match what the body needed, but now it feels trickier to keep energy steady. Do you notice reliable energy for the activities you enjoy, or do you sometimes hit a point on a pleasant stroll where you feel shaky and drained even though nothing hurts? Protein intake isn't the missing piece in my experience. Building strength when you're no longer carrying the extra load still requires something extra to avoid that drained feeling. I've been turning over different possibilities for a while. Any thoughts you've come across would be interesting to hear. Nice work getting here, and I hope the updates keep coming because they always brighten my day with that lively tone.

Amazing. You should be so proud of yourself.

That's awesome! It makes me happy to go through so many things you've shared here. It's nice that you'll keep being part of the group. On the topic of looking good at a time when one can still appreciate it fully, when exactly does that period end according to you? 🤣🤣🤣

I find myself in the exact same situation heading toward a significant birthday that arrives much faster than expected. Clearly some kind of temporal distortion occurred.

Love it all of it. Trumpet to every woman, men ain't shit if they can't make your life easier and more enjoyable. You are the prize.

What an adventure! Comments like that come across as rude only when you fail to accept that certain ladies pick paths unlike your own. For those ladies, the man might mean more than just an ordinary person. There's always somebody out there ready to share views on matters they understand nothing about. Every critical remark about my own relationship could have earned me cash... I follow the path that suits my situation and allow everyone else to follow theirs. Party hard!

Congratulations. Great job. Hope to keep seeing you here.

Yay. Great job.

Cheers on making it big we spotted you early before the fame hit marking the occasion I'm getting myself a different guitar some strings and also an amp believe my words 😁

Way to go! By the way, getting a tall mirror proved useful for me, not because of ego but to keep things real. Checking my reflection regularly adjusted my mental image of how big I am. That awareness builds slowly and you barely register it happening. When the weight came back before the shots, I saw how familiar the leaner look had gotten for me. Separate issue entirely.

Cheers to that random poster! I'm nearing the point where my scale dips under two hundred. Thirty more should land me inside the healthy body mass index zone, haha.

Reaching that long-anticipated point after all the effort leaves me in disbelief! I've dropped 95 pounds in the past and now I'm tackling another big reduction, having shed 70 already and needing 20 more. That special occasion is approaching quickly for me too, along with the rest of you.

Can't believe I overlooked that update! Nicely handled. The whole thing really does feel dreamlike once you've reached a smaller measurement after years of fluctuating between strict plans and setbacks. You put in the effort and made it happen. The other day I grabbed a size 6 and was shocked it still worked on me, so I checked several different labels and got the same result. Returning to that measurement from my service days feels odd.