Dang.
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Truth!
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I’m a 5’0 midget and do sumo 
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I’m 5’4 and have never broken 200. Say what you like but I remain thoroughly impressed.
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Hmm… maybe wouldn’t go that far. Just hate seeing indviduals spinning their wheels and possibly being misguided. Other wise im a asshole.
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FIFY.
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Well shoot. Knocked me right out of the running. Thanks a lot Alex. 
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I don’t know about that. Definitely grumpy on occasion. 
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Also jumping in to say same.
I think that happened for me during the 2022-2023 challenges we had.
I’m literally the rudest person to myself that I know. At least here all of us are like “Yeah same.”
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Funny you should say that. I just had a conversation with my husband about how much I diminish my own accomplishments. I quit smoking, quit drinking, lost about 100 lbs by eating well and exercising, I lift 4 days a week. But if you ask me, I will tell you that I have no self control. I mean seriously. What more do I need to do to give myself some credit?
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Incredible! That’s very impressive
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Would have been more impressive had I never gotten to the point where I needed to do all that. But thank you. 
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Well, if you hadn’t needed to, why would you have bothered? So you totally score the W.
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Miles ahead of me. I exchanged paper cigarettes for vapes, and made it that much harder to stop. I rotate every other day between gum/patches and my vape. But some days I just literally can’t.
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This is where a lot of my disconnect happens. When I see you and other ladies posting the weight loss, I’m like “Yay! That’s the stuff I should be doing right?”
Of course that’s not to diminish your hard work and the mindful effort you’ve put in throughout the time given.
I’m always torn between more laser focused weight loss, and all out strength chasing. Genetically speaking I think I have like 2 inches away from the very short end of the genetics pool. I can gain muscle just fine, but for every pound of muscle I gain my body is like “Ah yes, you also need 5lbs of fat to round things out.” Lol
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I had about 3 years of false starts. I would quit for a month and then back to a pack and a half a day. Then my father-in-law threatened to tell my dad on me and I quit cold turkey. Lol. That was 22 years ago and I was 25 at the time. The good thing was that I quit long before we started having babies so that was one less thing to worry about.
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I’m hoping I can have at least some catalyst like that. My mom realized she was pregnant and without missing a beat she just stopped smoking. After the first year of breast feeding and weening me she just became a chimney again lol.
I really don’t mind what gets replaced with the smoking. I’d prefer to just perpetually chew gum for the rest of my life or be those folks who chew pen caps or whatever else.
So far I’m starting to understand that the issue with nicotine consumption comes from me really zoning in on that rush I get. So there’s dopamine involved.
Yes, but I had a truly horrible diet. It took me forever to lose the weight because I just kept on making micro changes. For example, it took me about 2 months to go from full sugar oatmeal to plain oatmeal in tiny increments. Once I got that down I moved to improving my lunch. A month and a half later I moved to dinner and on and on.
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I had a doctor tell me I might have throat cancer and that wasn’t enough. But tell my dad on me? No thank you. Lol
I’m glad to hear that worked for you.
Unfortunately I have such a warped relationship with food from mental illness stuff (I keep it in my log so as not to clutter up other places).
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