Down 28 pounds! Feeling great!

Thanks for the inspiration, everyone! I'm going to check out some of those standing ab workouts. Fitting exercise into a busy day is always a challenge!

Excellent work! Very similar here. I'm 51, started at 325 in June, down to 250 now. 3X was tight, wearing 1X now. Small things like tying shoes without twisting to the side. Sounds silly but made me smile. Keep at it. Lots of healthy years coming.

28 pounds from 247 is a solid first chapter - the rate concern is worth watching as a pattern, but early-phase losses tend to run faster because of water weight and glycogen reduction. The pace usually self-corrects once the initial drop normalizes and real fat loss takes over.

the inflammation reduction piece is genuinely undertalked compared to the weight number - the difference in how joints feel, how puffy you look, and how much energy you have daily is substantially inflammation-driven and the GLP-1 mechanism addresses that directly, not just as a downstream effect of weight loss. 28 lbs is solid progress regardless of starting point