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Maybe you're on to something! It might be muscle mass that is taking over. Anybody know for sure?

Lost a pound this week, but my clothes are even looser. Go figure!

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I am having to buy clothes monthly! (Ohhh man bummer!!!) I feel an look like the ever shrinking women ..lol..

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I think it's a combo of vanity sizing and wls.

For sure a 10 today is more like a 12 was back in the 90s for example.

But, I also have become very narrow in areas that were not that way the last time I was around this weight. I guess it's the rapid loss.

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(fingers in ears) Lalalalalala. Can't hear you about the vanity sizing.

But seriously, I have old clothes from the 90's. And it's not the sizing. It must be the Protein. My stomach started flattening this week, and it's like I have some alien body now. Thought I'd always be shaped like the Stay-Puf Marshmallow Man. But those muscles are poking out. Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be ripped!

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I have been stalled for a few weeks but I think I broke through since I upped calories a bit. I added so much physical stuff I think I was starving. And I swear my legs are longer. They seem to be longer - hey anything is possible. I am at 270 pounds in a seated leg crunch. Going for 300. That one really gets muscles moving!

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I am right there with you. My clothing sizes are going down fast, which I am loving! The scale just doesn't move very fast!! I am loving the smaller sized me though!!

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