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[mightybill]

It's amazing how a picture  ...or in this case 4 or 5...can destroy all your built up self esteem. I have been on this diet now for 5 months and have lost over 40 pounds. I have been fighting with my weight almost all my adult life and this has been the most I have ever loss. I have to pull my belt so tight that the waistband bunches up. Going soon

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[muffle1969]

Bill, 40 pounds is a major accomplishment. I've lost 22 over the last 2.5 months, and I have to keep reminding myself of that. What you are doing for yourself goes so far beyond what you look like (or think you look like) in a picture. I know not looking the way you want is discouraging, but if you had not been working toward where you are all this time, then you'd be where you were 40 pounds ago, and that much less healthy and further from your goals.

Over the next 5-7 months, you could conceivably lose another 40 pounds. And then another if you wish. No unflattering Halloween pictures can take away any of this. I'm sure you feel better with 40 pounds less weight...imagine how you'll feel in another month, or two, or six.

You are doing great. I'm looking forward to eventually doing as well as you.