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Thanks for all your shares. JDB, why do you think my pattern is odd? I sincerely ask, since I am always looking to learn, and I am interested in what in my weight loss caused you to see an odd pattern? I started at 214 and am currently at 191.8, my low is 191.2. My goal is 180. This is the third time I have been on a…

Duck was great, ate too much, thanks for the "have fun and fit it into the weekly calories", made good sense. Good thing I don't drink booze or soft drinks. Just my Topo Chico! Lots of calories saved there.

I think 4 weeks is pretty much the minimum length of time to consider a plateau being hit. On my 15th day of one right now, but it was pretty much self inflicted on a vacation where I decided to not make eating so much about me and decided to just enjoy food. I logged it all, blew it out on sodium and calories, and am not…

Why do you keep mentioning your *kitten*?

My wife bought an expensive digital scale, and I was suspect of it's accuracy. I took it to Gold's Gym (that has a scale in the locker room and one up front, both weigh the exact same) and it was not only off, each time I stood on it it was off a different amount from the Gold's Gym Scale (new batteries, new scale). I went…

Try this site: http://www.fitday.com/webfit/burned/calories_burned_Tennis_doubles.html It is the most accurate one I found. Most don't ask your age, which might make a difference. You can pick from a list of almost any exercise.

French_Peas, I love your logic! I feel better now.

Thanks quicksilver, but technically I can't eat all day today if I am trying to chase down those calories that I ingested last night. No regrets though, yesterday was yesterday....

The finished mix should be thick enough that the chips would break if trying to scoop (except Frito's Scoop's ALWAYS hold up), which is why a spoon is necessary. I gave up on Frito's when they did away with the real salt that mixed so well with the sugary ice cream (think hot salted popcorn with M&M Chasers)....that was a…

I thought I was going to get ripped for my post, so when I read the inspiring comments (Especially "Alice Dark's"), I had to do this. I would never have dreamt of being called 'brilliant' for one of my vices....... :)

Recipe: Lot's of ice cream, Lot's of sugar, Just enough milk, As many chips as is necessary. Frigo's Scoop Chips are an excellent alternative to Julio's.....just sayin'

HA!!! As the dust settled I just finished doing a mental inventory of ALL food eaten Wednesday thru Friday, which turned out being my "blow-out special". I guess it is no surprise the my weight is up on the scale this morning due to the sodium. Here is the breakdown of my calories and just sodium intake. Wednesday, I was…

...tongue was 'loosely' planted in my cheek regarding the 'natural' coffee beans....

Good for your bdubois. Whatever works for each person! And I can't quarrel with your results. I do need to ask though, how can 'natural caffeine' not have 'caffeine' in it? Natural caffeine is still caffeine is it not? Maybe just 'more natural' then say coffee beans, which I think are also of the natural variety, at least…

Cass, my friend was finally going to resort to buying me samples for free (which for some of us puts a little guilt trip in the mix and need to repay them later - which I think was coached to him by his 'upload' person, or whatever that person above you is called). (Oh, and she - the Certified Personal Trainer - is also a…

Unfortunately my friend got into this because his sister in law got him in. She is a certified personal trainer. I looked at her fb page. The obvious conflict there is that a CPT has a level of trust assumed in their being in that profession, like a CPA or Lawyer would have in their profession with their licensing. This…

Lol Need2, my friend did that too. Luckily he can only text me. He 'feels' so great, yet can't tell me what is in the product. I don't think he can spell 'placebo'...

Lol Curve, 'sticker', that is a good one I won't forget. It actually is a patch, but I like your sticker reference. The patch is 'supposed' to transfer the goods into your skin and bloodstream. Also (this part was a huge red flag) it is carefully loaded to deliver what each person needs, ??? yet this 'measured amount of…

THAT WAS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!! Thank you Charlie! I am pretty sure my 'friend' has been roped into this, so in a way I am doing a soft help for him by finding out what he should have researched and found out for himself. I am an avid reader and researcher and it looks like he might have gotten in on the tail end of…

Agreed, but do you know anything about Thrive?

Sodium could be the only macro that could blow you up on the scale. This might hit people differently, I know for me if I eat food today that is loaded with sodium (a surprise food that I so far did not know was a 'sodium bomb'), I will weight 2 pounds more tomorrow morning, no matter how much water I drink today to…

Well done Narcissist, which went against your name...

I google "Cost for HRT Therapy" and that is what it came up with. I thought I could trust "The Google", but maybe it is even fake news now.....

Average cost is $17,000, $20,000 for the first 2 years. YIKES!!!!!!

Good point Tim! Better for me to say that my personal pattern is for the weight to come off in chunks on the scale, then flat for days, rinse and repeat. Pav, I don't think my math and stats work better then your way, or others, I just kind of enjoy the data and the process. The more the merrier.

Good for you Catt! I mean that too. My daily and nightly weigh in's, and actually plotting each morning weight on a real piece of graph paper (I know, there is Microsoft Excel), then using a ruler to connect the dots to create lines, and adding more detail to my graph as I see it is interesting and meaningful to me, is for…

Agreed lula! Plus, the more data that I have, like daily weigh in's (and each evening before bed), I have that data to look back on to see things that I would not have known then to look for. And it is all there in the data and then numbers, as long as I have been as accurate as possible with logging my CICO.

It is one of the healthiest things to occupy my slight OCD-ness....other outlets in the past had not been as healthy an option.

Nice comment Cyl. I have periodically heard and read too many news stories about how people take all natural supplements, not knowing that while what they are taking alone might be fine, but mixing it with other regular meds or foods, or whatever, causes them severe problems. The supplement category is just too much a free…