MindySaysWhaaat Member

Congrats on your weight loss!! That's amazing. Unfortunately I'm poor so I can't donate :(

Some people say mederma or cocoa butter. I don't think anything really makes them go away though, since they're essentially scars. They do fade over time.

The good: I've got a candy dish full of hershey's kisses on my coffee table, and I've been able to limit myself to 4 a day. Before I'd probably be drowning in wrappers and regret after eating the whole bowl. So I am getting better with moderation. The bad: I still can't regulate myself around pizza unless it's homemade or…

I think what would upset me more than the school's food policy is wondering how that teacher treated the child when she took away her cookies. Chances are she probably told her something like "You can't have these, they're bad for you." To a small child this is probably very confusing and upsetting because this is a lunch…

I've lost 24 pounds since January (265-241) and the only person who's really noticed is my fiance. Probably because he's the only one who sees me naked. I can't even really tell a difference on myself yet. People who see you every day wearing the same clothing might not notice it right away. Either way, congrats on the…

Congrats. I've been fighting so hard to try to get to the 230's, but Easter and a vacation kind of messed me up a bit. I've been hovering around 241 for the past few weeks.

Yeah, real friends aren't supposed to make you feel this way. Sounds kind of like a toxic friendship. I've had those. The best thing is to cut ties and move on. As for the nickname thing though....everyone has the right to be called what they want to be called, and has the right to say when they DONT want to be called…

I made a homemade pizza with a pilsbury pizza crust, spaghetti sauce, and mozzarella cheese on Monday. I usually eat half the pizza and leave the other half for my fiance. He only ate half of his half, so there was a quarter left. He told me yesterday that he probably wasn't ever going to eat the leftover quarter that's…

Wow, hearing all these comments about Marla makes me really wanna go home and watch the episode. Hope my DVR recorded it.

I can't allow myself buffets because I know I'm going to just give up and binge on all of the foods. If you explain it to your friend, hopefully they'll understand. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you HAVE to eat at a buffet, I would suggest loading up on the salad bar FIRST. Get a plate of salad and a plate…

We live in a society (if you're in America) where people are supposed to be able to do what they believe in. This means you are allowed to believe in whatever religion you want, have whatever political beliefs that you want, and be able to live the lifestyles that you want, as long as you aren't infringing on the rights of…

I don't really think meal timing matters so much. Just eat when you want to. I work from 11am-730pm, and I don't get home until around 820pm. Then if you add cooking time, I usually don't eat my dinner until around 9-930pm. I go to bed around 1130pm. The only think I will say is I do like to give myself at least 1-2 hours…

First thing you have to do is forgive yourself. You can't change what happened or what you did in the past. All that you can do is learn from it, and try to move forward. I went from 253 down to 210, and then all the way back up to 270 in a year. It was very disheartening, but it's not something I plan on doing again. All…

It used to make me uncomfortable when people would compliment me on my weight too. I had to learn to basically not take anyone's comments seriously, and I try not to over analyze what people had to say about my weight.

I'm sorry for your loss. I got to my highest weight after my grandmother passed away in 2013 and I basically gave up on everything. Try not to keep beating yourself up for where you're at and how you got there. Focus on where you're going to go from here. You can do this.

I wouldn't know how to deal with this. All I can say is you need to sit him down and have a serious talk with him about his behavior, because I would consider it unacceptable.

Thanks for your replies. I've been taking it one day at a time, and I know logically it's gonna take a while - and I have to learn to be okay with that (because there really isn't any other option - Rome wasn't built in a day). But it does make me think, because I know we see a lot of people on here who post things like…

I always log before I eat my food, because then I can see what I'll have leftover for later. There have been instances where I've logged something, realized that it took up too much of my calories for the day, so I took it off and didn't eat it (or as much of it) because I felt like it wasn't worthwhile that day.

My scale was up about 2 pounds this morning. I'm not too worried about it.

I choose Subway in this instance. To me a 6 inch turkey with cheese would be a lot more satisfying than a double cheeseburger. If you had compared subway to maybe, a ten piece nugget I might choose the nuggets though, since I love me some mcnuggets :-P

You're pretty tall. Plus I think it's not recommended that women go below 1000-1200 calories. So my opinion would be that you're probably not eating enough.

So, this doesn't really relate a whole lot to your question, but I use Imperial brand margarine instead of butter. The reason actually ISN'T because it's less calories: It's simply that it's what my mom used when I was growing up, and I always thought it actually WAS butter (I actually called it Imperial butter). So…

I drink a 20 oz. Cherry Coke Zero pretty much every day that I'm at work. It's pretty much one of the only things I will buy from the cafeteria here. I don't really feel like it's hindered my weight loss at all.

I actually feel the same way. I was an on and off weight watcher's member (which actually made the binge eating worse, in my opinion) and I NEVER felt comfortable going to the weekly meetings. I always felt like I was being judged. What I like about on the forums is that you can choose what you want to respond to and what…

I've logged on to my fitness pal for 91 days straight now. I did have a week where I didn't log but that was because I was on vacation. I think out of all 91 days, I've maybe had 5 days where I severely overate. So...I think my commitment is at about a 9. I feel good about this, though.

I basically weigh myself whenever I feel like it. Sometimes it's every day, sometimes it's every few days. I don't set a specific weigh-in because I think I'd spend too much time focusing on "one week at a time" and then if I had a bad day, I'd instead consider it a bad "week" and just give up for the remainder of the…

It's hard to explain, but my personal mantra is "There are some things you have to do alone." I spent too many years expecting everyone to "help" me get it done. I spent a lot of time angry at my family and friends because I basically expected them to hold my hand and walk me through the whole weight loss thing. I had to…

I believe it will still sync yesterday's steps as well. I tend to sync mine through my phone most of the time though since it's connected through bluetooth.

I really, REALLY want to know how Penny got past the psychiatric evaluation. You may be right about the drama side of it though, which is really sad.

You're overly complicating it. if it's 25 calories for 19g, that's only roughly 1.3 calories per gram. So if it's off by 2g, you're talking a difference of less than 3 calories. I'd just log it as the 25 calories it says on the package.