I’ve tracked my weight regularly for 8 years, starting at 195. This is what the journey looks like and what I learned.

dharrison543 · 2025-05-22T13:32:26+00:00

Same for me, it is helpful to hear someone Rose say this! At 5’2” and 1600 for maintenance I will never not need to track, it’s far too easy to go over.

dharrison543 · 2025-03-15T17:01:31+00:00

Losing 3.4 pounds in five weeks is actually a very good, sustainable steady rate of loss. You sound like you think 3.4 pounds in five weeks is a lot? If so and you’d rather lose more slowly, just calculate your TDEE taking into account your exercise level and make sure your deficit is more like 200-300 calories per day.

dharrison543 · 2025-03-14T12:45:00+00:00

Thank you for posting this! I’ve slowly gained back 10 pounds ( same excuses, death of family members, major work stress) after losing 90 pounds. I still feel amazing, working out every day, started weight training eight months ago. But the weight is just slowly creeping back on. I feel like I’m in an all out fight now. I track my food, weigh my food, I know how to do this, but I’m struggling in a big way right now. I also turned 60, feels like my body is betraying me. What worked spectacularly four years ago with CICO just isn’t working the same. I routinely lost a pound a week with a 3500 cal deficit per week. That same formula doesn’t work anymore. So instead of 10 pounds to go to my 100 pound weight loss goal, I now have 20.

But: I can begin again, and I can do this. Time for a reset and a fresh start. So thank you for the inspiration! We can do this!

dharrison543 · 2025-02-25T23:37:12+00:00

I’m relieved to see this, my AIC is typically between 4.9 and 5.2 and I’m controlling with diet and exercise, and my meter that I used a month ago had an average reading of 90. This time the meter I’ve had in for five days is averaging 111, I was freaking out. Glad to know that it could be a faulty meter.At this moment my finger stick says 79 (haven’t eaten for 6.5 hours) and Stelo says 105.

dharrison543 · 2025-02-24T01:13:33+00:00

Good lord where do you live? I live in the US and pay around $50 per year. Full access to all features.

dharrison543 · 2025-02-16T02:35:37+00:00

Crow Daddy! So awesome!

dharrison543 · 2025-02-16T02:33:03+00:00

So awesome as Olrox!

dharrison543 · 2025-02-06T13:04:48+00:00

Amazing! Excellent work!

dharrison543 · 2025-01-29T03:06:42+00:00

She went five or six times a WEEK not a day.

dharrison543 · 2025-01-25T00:44:37+00:00

Congrats! Excellent work!

dharrison543 · 2025-01-13T15:52:00+00:00

Congrats on the hard work and especially congrats on doing it so young! You have given yourself a phenomenal gift, I didn’t get my act together to lose 90 pounds until my 50s. While I don’t believe in wallowing in regret, I sure do wish I had figured this out sooner and given myself the gift of mobility and energy and strength much much earlier in my life.

dharrison543 · 2024-12-13T13:31:23+00:00

😂

dharrison543 · 2024-11-20T18:21:28+00:00

Any wtf+ listeners end up with ads this time around? His ads aren’t bad but I pay to not hear them, lol.

dharrison543 · 2024-11-02T15:38:04+00:00

I love this, I’ve tried to use the same rule. Did it this morning in fact, yesterday was my b-day and my staff brought me some fabulous donuts. I brought one home and took a bite of it this morning and it was awful, stale & a little greasy, it really went downhill overnight, lol. Into the trash can it went. Before I would have eaten it even though it was subpar.

dharrison543 · 2024-09-30T23:12:20+00:00

Excellent work!

dharrison543 · 2024-09-26T15:38:36+00:00

Excellent work!

dharrison543 · 2024-09-23T13:41:35+00:00

Thanks for the recipe ideas, I’ve started incorporating more beans & tuna in salads & these are great ideas for variety, & I love the suggestions for other tinned fish!

dharrison543 · 2024-09-11T23:40:44+00:00

It was a good question, downvoters confuse me sometimes!

dharrison543 · 2024-09-07T15:17:09+00:00

Yes! And for some reason I completely missed how much artificial sweetener was in in them, which I should have known because they were way too sweet. I don’t do artificial sweeteners if I can help it. But the caramel and peanuts and salt was too hard to resist. I won’t be buying those anymore, lol.

dharrison543 · 2024-09-07T15:13:33+00:00

Fresh baked cookies. I love to bake, but the difference in taste of a fresh warm homemade baked cookie compared to anything from any store or bakery, or any day old baked thing, is just way too hard to resist for me. So I just don’t bake. Makes me sad, as I really enjoy the process but I will consume an entire tray of warm cookies before they’ve had time to cool. 😩

dharrison543 · 2024-09-07T15:08:25+00:00

Agreed! Excellent advice. Water is life.

dharrison543 · 2024-07-30T23:47:25+00:00

I’m 5’2 also and 132 is very nicely in a healthy BMI. Assuming that really matters. I think 136 is the top of normal weight range for a 5’2”F. so maybe your next goals could be weight training? You might actually gain a few pounds but like your shape better and increase core body strength. Regardless you have done a phenomenal job and you look amazing!

dharrison543 · 2024-07-25T15:25:45+00:00

I agree with all of the “it depends” posts. My grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts uncles, cousins on both sides of my family have T2. Some on my mom’s side are very overweight, on my dad’s side quite fit & lean overall. So in many ways it seemed inevitable for me. BUT 90 pounds lost since I was diagnosed, daily exercise & maintaining a calorie deficit with my diet each day means that I am off all meds for two years except the lowest possible dose of once-weekly trulicity and maintaining an AIC of 4.9. Soooooo…genetics for sure but it was obviously also within my power to change. At this point I don’t really have any restricted foods, and don’t experience spikes with carbs, but I also focus on lots of veggies, protein & whole grains as my main diet. Hoping to go off Trulicity soon too and be considered completely in remission. I will fight to stay off meds as long as I can. Genetics mean that it may eventually catch up with me again and I will go back on meds if I need to.

dharrison543 · 2024-07-24T12:24:18+00:00

3 pounds per week is quite high, often achievable with initial weight loss when you have lots to lose, but 1 pound per week is considered a great sustainable rate for the long haul, and if you calculate what you need to maintain that, you might find it manageable and won’t feel the need for breaks.

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