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I love sweet potatoes!!!! I made some brown sugar-cinnamon butter (with a dash of vanilla extract) just for my sweet potatoes. I'm not as adventurous as y'all. I just like them baked with my special butter.

This is sooo awesome! It's probably going to take some time for your mind to catch up with your body. Try not to let it overwhelm you. You've done an amazing thing and you need to enjoy your new life and your new body.

I loved games, but this is the one I hate. I played this game all of the AM hours. My husband asks, "well, why don't you get up and work out?" Well, because I'm praying that I go back to sleep! Yeah, I've been better about putting away the phone and tablet 30 - 60 minutes before bed. I even listed to Forensic Files on my…

I did have some grapes available, but soooo much sugar and it kills that part of my goal. I also had some butter crunch cashews at my desk from Target. Those are the big guns and I use those in case of emergency, and that's exactly what it was. I'm better now that I have gotten up and out of the office. Picked up some…

Ugghhh yes, benadryl! And you're right. It only helps me get to sleep, not stay asleep. I'll try switching to liquids. That just may help. Thanks a lot. I'm just wanting lunch to get here so I can go walking or shopping, or something.

Are they OTC?

My Dr prescibed benadryl. *sigh* :\

I do have a semi-set bedtime. It's between 9:00 - 10:00, almost always 9:30. I sleep good for 3 - 4 hours then wake up and can't really get back to sleep. Then during the day, I am finding myself grazing, almost unconsciously, during the day to stay awake.

I have taken melatonin and Valerian root when I have been having insomnia for a few days, but this is the first day in the cycle, so I was kind of caught off guard. You know, I can't take that stuff at 1:30am, if I do, I wont be making it to work, that's for sure.

All I'm going to say is to be careful with them. I have a friend who used to be on the chia seed kick for a while back about 2 years ago. It didn't give her the "magical" results she thought she would get, so she increased her portions. Well, she ended up calling in to work one day because she couldn't leave her…

When I first started here and shortly afterwards got a FitBit, it was a reality check. I knew I wasn't getting many steps in, but it was crazy to see how little I was walking. I started a thread just like this one to get advice from people here on MFP as to how I could get to 10K steps. I've started walking around the…

This is awesome and I love the pic of you and your mom. Stories like this is why I love MFP!

I also read the post of someone who ate the same thing for 5 weeks to test the theory and they said it didn't work for them. Personally, I know that I'm not going to eat exactly the same and do the same amount of exercise exactly the same every day for 5 weeks. It's nice to see the message, but I don't ever note it or take…

I have the regular Charge (not HR) and mine is very accurate. I have it synced to MFP and I have it on my non-dominant wrist. It sure as hell subtracts calories if I am not active enough and it will give me calories when I have walked. I have never gotten extra calories or steps from driving - not even playing Wii. I guess…

Wow, awesome tats in here. I see a lot of American Traditional. I have 9, 4 of them are butterflies - none of which are on this computer, but on my phone. I'll have to find a way to get them on here. However, I do have a picture of a back tat I want once I meet my goal weight.

Thanks for all of the input everyone. I've started walking 2 miles after work in the evenings, but today I decided to walk our office park for my entire lunch break, so now, at 2:44pm I am already at 9,753 steps! Score!!!!!! Thanks everybody. I'm going to try all of your suggestions. The variety should keep me from getting…

I appreciate the OP's point of view on this. In a sense he's right. I'm new here and lurk around the threads because I just don't want to get caught up in the differences of opinions here. I love his honesty. For me, what he said was true. I had to get up off my *kitten* and try to make things happen. I was one of those…

Thanks for that!

Because I have some errands and groceries to pick up. I try to do that stuff on my lunch so that I can go straight home to get a walk or work out in then. Plus, I hate coming back to work sweaty.

Guess I'll go walk around walmart on my lunch break.

Try Bed, Bath & Beyond, they always have a 20% off coupon floating around, and they even let you use expired coupons. Also, try looking at Best Buy and Kohls. When I was looking for my Charge, I was looking everywhere.

Bumping this because I also work in an office and I am trying to get my steps up. I would like to make 10K at least 3 time a week, but with rain in the forecast for the duration of the week, I don't see outside walking as an option.

It's separate, I hate holding my phone so I have had a Bluetooth for years.

I bought a FitBit Charge and I love it. I am on #TeamSedintary. I haven't been moving very much and I have a desk job where I don't get to do a lot of walking because I am needed to answer service calls. When I bought it, I had no idea how many steps I was taking a day, but I knew it wasn't enough, and I knew I wanted to…

Yes, yes, and yes again, and I have tight little spiral coils/curls.

^^^What she said. It had me crying laughing!!! That was one of the realest things I have read on here! How many of us have been there but would rather die than tell anyone. I know I have. Shoot, I'm happy that I am at the point to where I can pull my jeans all the way up and over my thighs, hips and tummy without having to…

It's easier in the warmer months. I usually just wash and go every morning when I shower. I don't heat style my hair, so I don't blow dry or use curling/flat irons. I plop my hair from a t-shirt or towel. I have to make sure I deep condition though or else I have a dry frizzy mess on my hands.

A thread after my own heart boobs. When I lost weight back on 2009/2010 I lost some boobage. Didn't really care to see my girls swimming around in a bra that didn't quite fit anymore, but it was ok. I just reinserted the padding I had previously removed from the bra. That worked fine for me. Frederick's has bras with those…

Hey, just an FYI, Bed, Bath & Beyond sells FitBit, and they ALWAYS have 20% off coupons via email and regular mail. I saved about $60 in an envelope, used my coupon, and "paid" for the rest out of my bank account when I got my Charge. Took me a while to save too, because Christmas had just passed, but I deserved it!

How. In. The. WORLD. Do you get 20K steps a day in????!!!!!!!!