atypicalsmith Member

You are echoing my feelings exactly!

Hah, to be honest, I don't know what I meant! I don't know a thing about them except that they are expensive and everyone complains about them. (Edited to try to bold text. Messed up the first time. Maybe second time's a charm?)

This actually makes perfect sense to me (as I do the same thing, hah!). When I read where people burned 800 calories in an hour, and eat all those calories back, I don't wonder why they aren't losing weight. Lately I've been slacking and not logging - have to stop that!!!

Hmmm, I thought fitbit was the "in" thing these days, but what do I know? Actually, I have no desire to wear any device. Give me a regular pedometer any time! As long as the digital needle on the scale keeps going down, I'm good.

Just to clarify: So you were eating fast food but only 1200 - 1400 calories a day? Like two Big Macs? But now you're not eating fast food anymore and are losing weight by forcing yourself to eat 2,000 calories? Is that correct?

My exercise bike is a cheapie. It gives the number of calories burned, but doesn't allow me to program in my stats. However, it's not recumbent and the handles move back and forth as well. It tells me that at an average of 14 mph that I burn nearly 300 calories in 30 minutes, which I don't quite believe. One of these days…

Took me six weeks to start losing.

Sounds like you've been on Weight Watchers. Fruits have calories too. Count them just as you do fats and protein and stay at your calorie goal.

What are you eating that is healthy that will allow you to only eat 800 calories a day?

Since OP is successfully losing weight by herself using MFP, she doesn't need doctor, nutritionist, OR dietician. She's doing just fine.

Yes.

I absolutely agree; 1200 is way too low. Especially if you are exercising. You want to burn 500-700 calories in an hour? My best guess is the elliptical or a treadmill set on a high incline or running up and down a couple of flights of stairs. Anything that burns over 500 calories an hour would be tough to do for an entire…

An administrator at the Y that I belong to said that if everyone who signed up and paid their monthly dues actually came even only once or twice a week, it would be total chaos.

I hate milk except in cereals or protein shakes, both of which I rarely partake. My mother used to stretch milk by mixing it with the cheapest A&P powdered milk available and force us to drink it while still at room temperature.

I've been on 1200 calories, and manage to find foods that fill me up. Light breakfast (200 calories), medium lunch (300 calories) and large dinner (500 calories) which leaves a couple of hundred calories for snacks. If I exercise diligently, I lose about a pound a week. If I don't exercise, I stall. Quit smoking in 2004…

I love kettlebells.

New red potatoes, boil three pounds with three tablespoons of Zatarain Crab Boil, when tender cut them up leaving the peels on, melt a stick of butter with three tablespoons of finely chopped onion, pour over the potatoes, pure heaven. Chocolate? I can take it or leave it; my problem isn't sweets but savory.

I don't see where this was posted on this thread.

No, no! I visited my sister in Nevada and was never so depressed in my life! The same flat, dry land; the same purple mountains for miles and miles and miles, forever, in the background, the never-ending heat - no, no, no! Give me North Carolina any time, with its beautiful mountain trails, rivers, lakes, beaches, a little…

As long as you have accepted that you are a compulsive overeater, that's what you will do. Instead of eating, go for a long walk or run. Instead of overeating, do some gardening. Instead of overeating, call someone who needs friend. There are lots of things you can do instead of overeating. Use your imagination, and like…

I learned that my whey protein for shakes was causing flatulence. I guess it's the kind of protein and/or fiber. However, of course, my farts smell like roses.

I thought straws were invented so that you could entertain kids by pushing the paper down to the bottom, then dropping water on the paper to make it look like a caterpillar evolving

Wow, wonder if I stink . . . I hope not!

Funny how that works.

Thanks! Apparently "small-boned" etc. is NOT a southern thing, but refers to body size and not the actual circumference of the individual bones.

Gosh, that was hard to measure! Six inches.

Make that "middle fingernail"!!!!

Yep, didn't realize until I posted! My wrists are only bone, not fat. I can put my fingers around my wrist and my thumb completely covers my middle finger, even though I still have about 35 pounds to lose. Meanwhile, people who aren't overweight at my height weigh nearly as much as I do, but there's a huge gap between…

Oh, good, isn't Planned Parenthood nonprofit?

I haven't complained about anything; just stated the facts.