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Just curious... how long does it take you to hit that 5mi/day?

Yeh. I was going to say that. When you are sitting around and feel the urge to shove something in your mouth... Walk away. Go outside. Take a walk around the block. Work in your yard or clean out the garage or something. Call your best friend and get lost in the conversation. You already know the urge to eat is an habitual…

Used to be able to get coffee - freshly roasted beans, fresh off the boat. It would have been sacrilegious to put anything in it! The taste of that coffee was almost sweet on its own. Now, having moved almost an entire continent away from that luxury - no bean ships coming in from South America, no roasting houses on the…

ABSOLUTELY! I just wouldn't recommend getting anywhere near me for about 24 hrs!

Heck! I don't know about your Mall but the ones around my (very large, interstate) neighborhood are charted out for "walking clubs". Assuming you enter through X door, you will be able to accurately calculate the distance you have walked (usually about a half mile around, though some are only a quarter mile and one is less…

Beyond what you ate for breakfast or whether or not you had a bowel movement before going to the doctor's office, there are so many possible reasons for two scales to weigh differently. Elevation for one. Is your bathroom scale at home on a ground floor? The doctor's office, maybe, on an upper floor in an office building?…

ABSOLUTELY! I run 3-4 x a week and lifting/iso two-3 x a week, alternating days and totally depending upon how I feel on any given day. After having been grossly overweight, up and down the scales, for far too long, now finally losing the "mini-me" there is a lot of lost elasticity in the skin that needs to be restored as…

THIS is stellar!

Just as a point of order, BMI is as wholly flawed as just about any other "yardstick" by which people try to judge weight. It does not take into consideration the ration of muscle to fat. You can have a person (To borrow the OPs stat) 5'7" and weighing 185 and another weighing 150. The 150 could be soft and rounded and…

Just to try (in a very highly acidic approach) to put this into perspective: Sex is good [Wait... let me rephrase that - Sex is gooooood] but too much of it can kill (yes, really); Water! Can't live without it. But, again, too much of it can kill you. Bacon and other meats loaded with sodium nitrates and nitrites... yep.…

And, too, bear in mind that the fat to muscle ratio will go a long way toward 'manipulating' your clothing size. You can weigh twenty or thirty pounds more than someone else and yet wear a clothing size one or two sizes smaller! Again, don't get too hung up on that particular number. THAT's not what you want to look at.…

Actually, a quick study shows that women's clothing sizes (Men's sizes do not change nearly so frequently as women's so I'll stick to the ladies wear for now) have changed drastically over the past fifty years or so. Starting with the current sizing and going backwards... The current clothing sizes were initiated about…

I, too, am hypothyroid, but that's not the reason for cold hands. Look up Renaud's Disorder. It's a circulatory condition that generally affects the extremities (hands and feet/fingers and toes). Even in less than harsh cold, your fingers can turn white, and blue, and black from the lower temperature. In extremely severe…

Actually, contrary to what some (including many clinicians) say, lo-carb is not necessarily a panacea in all or in part for PCOS issues - even, overweight. Studies have show that, for some, it might be the answer to their problem but, for others, it might do nothing. And... as with all things, however, when you make any…

That's when you tell "Daddy Dearest", Gee! Thanks, Dad! Appreciate your support. And... Is he in a position to make such a rude judgment? Does DD have any poundage HE could lose?

HAH! There should be an AA group for people like her!

HAH! That's what coats and sweaters are for, skinny-minnie!

LMFAO! SERIOUSLY? I love that one! Jealousy is such an hilarious thing to behold. "You can only lose weight because you're a dude". (Maybe she (I'm guessing) cannot lose weight because she's a dud'?) And you are so right. Losing weight, getting fit/healthy is a choice! It's a choice you have to make every minute of every…

too true. I should start calling her out on it :) [/quote] YES! Not suggesting you be mean and nasty to her but... rude deserves to have a spotlight shone on it! I love to shove people's noses in their stupidity at times - especially when they really have earned it!

Y'know, I see that same comment over and over again on MFP. Thing is... my treadmill tells me differently. I always... ALWAYS log a higher calorie burn on my treadmill - by almost double - over what MFP gives me. There are so many things that come into play with something like that. How fast are you walking? Two miles an…

5'6"/size 4 sometimes smaller depending upon the clothing brand or the cut of the clothes. The difference is a matter of muscle mass. The more dense the package, the smaller the package. Also, in the U.S. sizing parameters change almost as frequently as the tv schedules. Consider that what was a size twelve in 1980 is…

And some people just never learn to censor themselves.

"Funniest" comment I ever got after losing weight was, "Wow! You look nice today." My smart mouth came back with, "So... What? I looked like Sht before?" The poor guy looked really caught off guard. Dumb comments? Only one that I can think of. After closing in on the "century" mark in just over a year and going from a size…

What 'they' don't realize is that it is not 'easy' for almost anyone. It takes hard work and dedication to the goal to make anything happen, even weightloss. I recall reading an article years ago about a women who, at 78 and about 80 pounds overweight, decided she wanted to live to be 100 and wasn't going to do that in her…

This. Of course, I'm not a gym-goer myself. I have a home gym, weights, treadmill, etc. (And, at times, my basement smells like a gym!) I do enjoy a good run out at the park with friends but I will never run on the street again! My routine is at five a.m. So, I tend to run when it's dark out. Can't see the streets before…

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Really? Hate to be the one to burst your bubble but fitness and health are a lot more than just a number on the scales. You can be dead on your "ideal weight" but have a diet that packs on cholesteral and diabetes and any number of other maladies. You can stay on your 'calorie limit' but still not have the stamina to walk…

But it WILL affect your health and fitness!

Beer is, in my opinion, some of the most useless calorie consumption ever for anyone watching their weight! It's full of sugars and, as if that's not enough, your body converts the yeast to MORE sugar! Yeh. Just what a weight watcher needs ... more sugar! Beer provides zero energy, wrecks your metabolism, and adds more…

First of all... look at your cheese puffs. Are they all the exact same size? Nope. It's difficult to codify something so inexact. That's why they say "about" on their measure. Secondly... What kind of food scale do you have? Spring and platform? The spring is subject to the whims of nature, so to speak. Hotter, colder,…