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Our typical MWF breakfast: mixed berries, coffee, and a veggie and cheese frittata (mushrooms, peppers, carrots, scallions, zucchini, spinach, eggs, egg whites, cheddar).

The 80/20 rule applies here, as it often does. Health is 80% diet, 20% exercise. You can’t outrun your fork. Let MFP set your calorie goal for you and stick to it. You can do this.

Nope. You don't need motivation. You don't need focus. You do need commitment and self-discipline, and that comes from within. Fitness and weight loss are hard f'ing work, and you can't rely on other people to do that work for you.

I take Wellbutrin XR for seasonal affective disorder. The weight-loss effect is very short-lived.

This. Something, anything, is better than nothing (or as we say on another board, SIBTN). You go, girl.

Read these. All of them. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300319/most-helpful-posts-general-diet-and-weight-loss-help-must-reads

As someone below said, when it's about appearance, no. When it's about health, yes. I haven't read the whole thread, I admit, but what I haven't seen in any of the responses I've read so far is the consideration that one spouse's health can have devastating effects on others. If one partner has, for example, a heart attack…

This. If everybody would approach eating healthy and moving more this way, we'd all have a much easier time. Just don't try to change everything at once; you'll just set yourself up to fail. Pick one small thing to change (say, walk for 15 minutes a day if you're not exercising) - commit to it, and then do it until it…

Grey_1, my husband (62) and I (52) have the "Growing Old is not for Sissies" posters in our home gym featuring Marie Wilcox Little and John Turner. (Google them, I can't get the links to work. You'll find them on northernsun.com.) He was about 67 and she was 73 when those photos were taken. For what it's worth, I spent…

PennWalker, are you that clueless? People do this to young women all the time, no matter what their body type. OP, just remember when people - male or female - pull this kind of juvenile stunt, it says a helluva lot more about them than it does about you. In fact, it tells you everything you need to know about them. Too…

Please don't do this. I don't even think it's possible. You would need to have a DEFICIT of about 2300 calories a day to achieve this.

You're not looking for "motivation." That comes from within. What you're really asking for accountability. That's different. Truth is that being "accountable" to a bunch of faceless strangers on the interwebs isn't really accountability. You obviously know what you need to do but you're not doing it. That's lack of…

Hi y'all. Been lurking but not posting much. After a fun summer of sprint triathlons and 5ks, I went and did it...signed up for a half marathon in April. And an Olympic length triathlon in June. I've lost my marbles. I jokingly asked my 16-year-old, who is, shall we say, not athletically inclined, if he wanted to do the…

Would you chastise a friend as harshly as you've done to yourself for such a slip? Stop it. Focus on your accomplishments, shake it off, and move on.

Age has nothing to do with it. I'm 52, own and run an engineering business with 50 employees, have a husband and teenager at home, and I make it work. You have to figure out where your priorities lie. You've heard the expression "pay yourself first?" Same principle. You will devote time and energy to what matters most to…

Unstoppable by Sia. It's the last one on my Run playlist, and when I hit the wall I fast-forward to it. Works every damn time.

Preach, sister. Most people on these boards will never dig deep enough to find the discipline. They can't accept that it has to be a permanent lifestyle change - as in, for the rest of their lives. That scares the hell out of them. They want to lose the weight but they don't reeeeeaally want to give up the old habits. They…

Do or do not. There is no try.

BMIs are a statistical measure. They don't and can't apply to everyone equally. Talk to your doctor.

Exactly what do you think is way too high?

Sorry, not the healthiest approach. It sounds like you want to lose a lot of weight very quickly, and if you want to gain it all back very quickly, this is the way to do it. Weight loss is a marathon, not a sprint.

No. Support you will get here; motivation you will not. By expecting someone else to keep you motivated, you put the responsibility for your weight loss on someone else, not yourself. The only motivation that works comes from within. When you are truly ready and truly understand why you want to lose weight, only then will…

Don't walk in. Don't buy them. Problem solved. Yes, it's really that simple.

This.^^ And remember it's taken you years to build those bad habits; it will take you years to unlearn them. Self-discipline is a muscle, so start with small changes and build on them over time. Example: eat that chicken curry sandwich but instead of chips get a side salad or an apple. You will not get it right all the…

I gave up on my Misfit. Should have done more research before I bought it; Misfits are notorious for inaccuracy. I can confirm that it can be off by A LOT.

I have a bulging L4/L5 disk which presses on the nerve root, so there were days - and there used to be a lot of them - where the pain would shoot down my hip and into my knee. Lost 25 pounds. Worked very, very hard on developing core strength. (Not just abs, the whole core) Can't remember the last time I had any pain from…

The thought of becoming my mother (diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis).

This. Every bite and sip counts. Weigh everything. Measure everything. if you don't do this, it's so easy to eat an extra 500 calories a day it's frightening. Even an extra 200 calories a day (one Hershey bar!!) adds up to 20 pounds a year. And yes, watch the trends over time, not the changes from day to day or even week…

Agreed. Interval training is awesome. And I even do my races at 3:1 anymore - I'm faster overall and I hurt less at the end. Hill repeats are good training, too. Brutal but effective. Good luck!

....aaaaand sure enough, it's a repeat of the thread that got closed. Read the terms, people.