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I have much greater willpower if I get properly full at meals. For me this means eating a smallish breakfast and a rather large lunch and dinner, complete with a small dessert. When I do that I hardly think about eating until it is the next mealtime. In the past I have tried to stretch it over several small meals, but I…

My vote is on the tape worm... B)

If it were me I would totally go out and get a hamburger, small fry and small shake. You are trying to teach yourself how to live healthier long term, and to deprive yourself of occasional treat meals like this may actually cause you to fail. Moderation works.

I am going on 4 weeks soda free ( except for a can of sprite once every couple weeks on our pizza night ). I used to drink crazy amounts of Coke and Mountain Dew. I replaced it all with one large glass of sweetened ice tea per day. It helped with the headaches in the beginning. I am slowly decreasing the sugar I add by 2g…

Thanks everyone, looks like it could be any number of things. I haven't been stretching because I didn't realize that stretching was necessary for just walking. I will go ahead and look up proper ways to do that.

I chose a goal weight of 125 which is about 10 pounds heavier than I was before having children. I figure that this number should be fairly attainable, and once I get there I can decide whether or not I would like to go down to my previous 115.

Wendy's, Taco Bell, Burger King, McDonald's, KFC, Checker's, Arby's, Subway, Blimpie's, 5-Guys, Sonic, Pizza Hut, Little Caesars, Dominoes, Hungry Howie's.... Fast food every day, sometimes twice a day. That and all the soda I could drink all day, every day. I was a skinny kid and a healthy young adult. I got depressed…

Absolutely!

If chewing shaped our chins, most of us would have quite enviable chins. ;) I hate my double chin but as I get thinner it gets less noticable.

Yes, this. Recently switched from eating several times a day, to three: a smaller breakfast (under 300 cal) a larger lunch (around 700 cal) then a med dinner (around 500 cal). Usually lunch and dinner include a sweet treat. I rarely snack anymore, I'm just not hungry during the day until it is mealtime. My energy levels…

Is it safe to assume that the lowest weight you see during the week is your "actual" weight?

Our family only eats full-fat dairy, including milk. In fact we recently moved to the country and will be buying our milk from a local dairy farm. Fats are good for my kids growing brains, taste better, and I make it fit into my goals.

I allow myself to eat at maintenance one day a week. This allows me a special dinner out with the hubby, pizza (and soda!) night with the kids, etc. I am sure I would lose quicker if I ate at or under goal all 7 days a week, but this maintenance day gives me a little mental health break. Its usually only 400-500 cal over,…

For caesar, Ken's Steakhouse Lite Caesar tastes identical to the full-cal version.

I honestly feel going low carb was why I gave up the past couple times I tried to lose weight. I need carbs to be happy. I love bread, fruit, pasta, sugar, etc. While I did lose weight, I was cranky and resentful. There is no way I would have been able to make a long-term lifestyle change going low-carb. This time around I…

Thank you both. I was debating on Lightly Active and Sedentary. I will do lightly active and see how that works.

The only vegetables I don't weigh with the scale is the leafy greens I use for salad as a serving size is much less than the two big handfuls I eat. I still enter it in my diary as a single serving though.

Do you weigh your food? If not, chances are highly likely you are consuming much more than 1200 cal a day and your husband much more than 2000. Which would make much more sense than this thread, honestly.

5'4" SW 160 CW 155 GW 120-125

I personally tried to taper off on sodas but kept failing. I was drinking many sodas per day. So a week ago I decided to just quit cold turkey. Yes, I did have headaches, and still occasionally do. I combat that with a glass of tea once a day, but you could do coffee instead. A week later, I am surprised at how little I am…

Fresh apples.

My husband and I watched this documentary together a couple nights ago. We both walked away with a different impressions. He is now pretty convinced that sugar is "evil" and refused to even drink milk today because the label said 11 g of sugar. I did not get that impression from the program. My impression was that they…

I just want to say thank you for this post and for reporting back. I could have written your initial post and am so happy to hear there may just be hope for me. :)

Hence my daily tea. ;-)

After multiple trial and error's of "cutting back" on non-diet sodas, I have come to the conclusion that I just have to give them up completely. I am extremely addicted to soda having drunk at least 2 to 3 per day for the past several years. I am on day four of no sodas. One glass of sweetened tea per day is barely helping…

AlatarieI74, I gave up looking in the database after I found that most if not all were calculated from uncooked portions. And then those that said they were cooked had quite the discrepancies. Then whenever I did some research I learned that the longer you cook it the heavier it gets due to water absorption. So even the…

I had spaghetti last night. You're right, looking online did not tell me how much cooked spaghetti was one serving, except for one cup. So unless you weigh out just one serving before cooking and cook separate, you are going to have to use a measuring cup... So far it's been the only food that I haven't weighed on a scale.

Im on day 3 too. :-)

Chocolate pudding eaten s.l.o.w. Around 100 cal. Or a few semi-sweet chocolate chips.