atypicalsmith Member

It depends on your height and your weight. Your profile says you need to lose eleven pounds. At half a pound a week, which is a LOT given your current weight, it will take you 20 weeks to lose ten pounds.

I am so sorry for your loss. I joined MFP since then, and it has helped me tremendously. Welcome back!

Good luck, and welcome back!

Lots of calories there!

Because you aren't photogenic. Neither am I! I knew a lady once who was slightly overweight, not much, had long brown hair, and a relatively plain face. In a photograph, she looked like a beauty queen. It was unbelievable. She was photogenic in droves. I would rather look worse than my pics than better, because then when…

I bought a fitbit zip a couple of days ago and only use it for counting steps. Having a pedometer helped motivate me in the past, but they kept breaking, so I quit. Since getting the FZ, my motivation has returned. I'm doing everything I can to get past those 10,000 steps a day!

ROFL!!!!

How did you get overweight if you cannot eat 1200 a day?

I weighed between 105 and 110 my entire adult life until I quit smoking in 2004. Then I somehow managed over the years to hit 169.8. My ultimate goal is 110, but I make mini-goals of "decades". Getting below 160. Getting below 150. Now I'm just three pounds away from getting under 140, yes! I accidentally saw a picture of…

I don't do ANYTHING MFP (or any other app) with my phone! Sheesh, I hate texting, much less entering recipes! I go through my PC for everything.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks, OP, for posting this. I hadn't been weighing anything that had the calorie count on the package. I will now!!!!

Fat cells, when you lose weight, are converted to carbon dioxide and exhaled. That's where your weight goes. So I guess that's why breathing would measure your metabolic rate.

I've lost nearly thirty pounds and have a little over thirty pounds to go, and when I think about carrying around a sixty-pound lead jacket on me now, I shudder. I still have another thirty to go, so I'm still carrying THAT thirty-pound lead jacket. This morning, without thinking about it, I bent down and tied my shoe. Oh.…

They are the multitudes of people who say stuff like, "I lost 85 pounds but then life happened and I gained back 105 pounds." If you read the forums often, you will see that the term "life happens" is mentioned frequently as a reason as to why people gain back part, the same, or more weight back. I don't have a perfect…

That's a myth. I can't tell you how many times people told me that the reason I wasn't losing weight was because I was gaining muscle, which weighs more. And it does. But it takes a heck of a long time of weight-lifting to get there, not just by dieting and doing a few hours of cardio a week.

No problem seen here either.

When people ask me why I don't have a tattoo, I answer, "Have you ever seen a Rolls Royce with a bumper sticker???" That's how I feel about tattoos. Sorry if I offended anyone; I have lots of friends with tattoos and it doesn't bother me what other people do :)

Until you really, really want to do it, it's not going to happen. There are always excuses. When you really, really, want to do it, you will find a way to make it happen. No matter what.

I am not necessarily low-income (although it definitely seems that way sometimes), but while cutting calories, I have saved a lot of money. As others said, buy foods when they go on sale because they are close to their expiration date and freeze them. Also, most grocery stores throw away the bread at the end of the day…

My stomach is the first to gain and the last to lose. At my highest weight, I looked like a seven-month pregnant grandmother. But it's definitely going down, nearly 30 pounds later. Still a little over 30 pounds to go . . .

Every single day, but I don't log it into MFP until there's been a definite loss.

You are eating more than you think you are. Weigh and log EVERYTHING you eat. If you don't know how many calories are in it, don't eat it. I suspect you are still eating out a lot and guessing at the number of calories. Stop eating out. Restaurants can take something as simple as a one cup serving of green beans, normally…

I had never heard of gluten-free or Celiac's until a few years ago. Now I know at least a dozen people who claim to have Celiac's. It's like autism - my daughter is truly autistic, and was born at a time when nobody ever heard of it. Now every kid who can't quote the dictionary by age 2 is autisic.

Several months ago I started a thread titled but I don't have TIME to exercise and you wouldn't believe the nasty comments I got, hah

Not quite sure why MFP has this, unless it's to inspire you or deflate you, depending if you go over or under your calories and exercise. I just ignore it, as most people do.

What exactly does "life happens" mean? I see that written here so many times as an excuse as to why they go back to getting overweight. Life happens ALWAYS - otherwise you are dead. While you are alive, you can control stuff like gaining or losing weight, helping others, or planting gardens and giving the fruit of your…

Unfortunately, doctors nowadays are so afraid of malpractice lawsuits that they rarely give good advice the way MY doctor did for me 36 years ago. "But my doctor said it was okay to eat ice cream!" screams the patient who ate a quart of ice cream every night and blames the premature birth because she ate a quart of ice…

What a sweet baby you have!

Always use the same scale at the same time in the same scenario. Best is as soon as you wake up and pee. If you are at someone else's house, their scale may not be the same as yours. My old digital scale broke, and the new one I bought had me at a pound higher. This same scale travels with me once every two weeks to a…

I agree. No matter what you weigh, if you're pregnant, you need to at least eat your maintenance calories plus more for the baby. I don't know how much more; that's for your doctor to tell you. But it's perfectly fine, and in the baby's interest, AND yours, to exercise. I don't mean cartwheels or jumping jacks, either.…