MindySaysWhaaat Member

Every Monday I make taco meat, and we make our own version of Chipotle burrito bowls at home with black beans, taco rice, and sour cream.

I weighed 220lbs when I met the guy who I'm going to be marrying in August of this year. Throughout the eight years we've been together, I've gone up to 250lbs, down to 200lbs, and then I shot back up to 265lbs. I have asked him if my weight has ever bothered him. He always has liked somewhat chubbier girls, and I know I'm…

I've been there with the love-hate relationship with food. I can honestly say that these past two and a half months I've been on MFP have been the most successful I've ever been at dieting, and I can attribute that to having changed my entire outlook towards food. I had to realize that food is not the enemy, and there's no…

Everyone has bad days - what you can change is how you react to them. Some people overthink and obsess about the fact that they had a bad day, and it ends up affecting their diet all over the place. The best thing that I've found is to forgive yourself and move on. Take it one day at a time, and don't be too hard on…

Exercise and genetics might help, but the unfortunate truth is that there really isn't any other kind of good fix except for surgery. Like others have said, you can try coconut oil, it's good for skin in general, but I don't know about how much it will help with loose skin. All I've ever heard is that it's supposed to help…

My fiance once told me jokingly that I looked like the marshmallow man from Ghostbusters. We both understand each other's humor, so I knew he wasn't truly being a jerk, and I wasn't hurt by it. When I started this on Jan 2nd, I was also at my highest weight after having fallen off the wagon (a few times...) Just try to…

The livable wage debate kills me. I can agree that people in general need to get paid a little more, but things like the "fight for 15" bug me, since I make just under 15 and I do a job where if I mess up someone could potentially die, and I have to handle HIV blood on a daily basis...

I weigh every morning after I pee. I've started to notice it's becoming a little obsessive for me so I'm actually going to try to wait until April 1st to weigh myself next. I can't do weekly because it reminds me too much of my weight watcher's weigh ins where I'd find ways to cheat the system. If you think you can do it…

This is one of those situations where there's no win. So, you either make her upset by telling her that you're not attracted to her in general, or you tell her you're not attracted to her because of appearance, and she'll get mad and call you a shallow jerk. Guys are the same way when you tell them you're not attracted.…

Everyone has preferences. If someone asked me out and I didn't find them attractive for whatever reason (weight, appearance etc) I'd probably just be polite and say "I'm sorry, I'm just not interested in you that way." I wouldn't tell them a specific reason because even if I don't like how someone looks, I wouldn't want to…

From the two lines I have put in bold, I can guess a couple things. Please tell me if I'm right or wrong. I can assume that you have foods you consider "good" and "bad" and chances are when you are on your healthy mode, you are restricting yourself from eating a lot of things. I had this exact problem. For me, when I was…

So, apparently I'm different because there were three pictures that showed up for the height/age/weight I am, and all said pant sizes that were at least a couple smaller sizes than me. Good to know I must be bigger than most people who weigh what I weigh. Gonna have to give this website a :-1:

I love potato bread. I think the brand I buy is brownberry. It's around 90 calories a slice.

I know where you're coming from. When I went from 254 down to 214 everyone else saw the difference, except me. I am pretty sure I've got that body dysmorphia thing going for me though. I ended up back at like 265 pounds at the beginning of this year, and I'm currently 244. I still can't see a difference, but last night my…

That is interesting. See, I've got an iphone 6 plus and it actually tracks steps and stairs like that, and it can be hooked up to my fitness pal, but i don't carry my phone on me all the time (it's the plus so it's huge - it ends up chilling on the side of my desk at work). I can see why the battery is a positive thing,…

If it's not a medical issue, then I wouldn't worry too much about sugar.

I've also been looking at different kinds of monitors like this. I had an UP band, but I type for a living and I was noticing that it was counting my keystrokes as steps. For me it's between the fitbit zip and the fitbit one. The zip is cheaper at around $50 and the one is about $100. The difference between the two is that…

I'm kinda with the other people who don't view foods as "danger" foods. I understand where you're coming from though. I can't trust myself to moderate oreos yet, so I don't buy them. Same thing with other kinds of baked goods. However, the first thought I had when reading the title of this thread was this:

About a week after I started on My Fitness Pal, I got a notification that I had a message. Someone had looked at what I had been eating on my FIRST week starting here where I was just trying to get a hang of tracking, and they judged me for it. They wrote me a four paragraph essay about how I needed to "cut the crap" out…

I like it because it keeps me hopeful, but I also am aware that in most instances it's not accurate.

If you're looking to slowly quit drinking soda, I would look at how much overall you are consuming, and then every week cut it back by a fraction until you no longer need it.

I got this message yesterday. I went and ate an ice cream sandwich. Yay no more message!

Hm. My carb intake has been WAYYYY over 30% (More like between 50-60%, and I've still managed to lose an average of 2 pounds a week in the 71 days I've been using MFP. That's just my observation :)

Pretty much any fast food restaurant you go to will have at least one or two things on the menu that are lower calorie. I would definitely spend some time online researching your options and just browsing over the nutrition info.

I imagine it this way: the people who have kicked their smoking habits usually are the most critical of those who are still struggling with smoking. So people who've gotten past their internal demons or whatever caused them to have emotional eating problems can end up the same way, extra critical. I would suggest focusing…

I'm getting married in August, and while I know I'll still be chubby by then, I don't want to be a gigantic bride next to my 135 pound fiance....

My problem has always been that I am a volume eater. I remember when I was on weight watchers the first time when I was 17 I would constantly be telling my mom that "No one really lives on this much food a day, this is ridiculous!" and I would pretty much throw tantrums about having to log my food and whine about how…

Ahh spoilers! lol. I have Joe's story recorded and I'm going to watch it after I get home from the gym tonight. I feel awkward myself because I usually eat my dinner while watching this show.

My best friend just started trying to lose weight. She's 6'0 and was 415lbs (now she's about 390lbs I believe). I do want to ask how she could possibly let herself get that big, but the thing is, she has ALWAYS been overweight. When we were in high school she was already almost 300 pounds. One thing she mentioned is that…

I agree with this statement. When I've watched shows like these, I am always rooting for the person to be successful in the outcome, and I'm sad when they don't succeed in the end. I don't like the idea of people watching because they like the trainwreck situations. That being said, I'd be lying if I didn't say there was a…