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I finally busted through my plateau. Slow and steady wins the race!!!

Any full body workout programs you can recommend?? 😊 I am open to any suggestions lol

Thank you everyone for your insight and support! Being a mama is hard for sure. I also have a 2 year old at home but was unable to breastfeed him so this is a new experience for me. I think for now I will just toss all the junk in my house, try to eat intuitively, and record it before bed so I’m not despairing about it all…

I probably should have mentioned that I am not eating at a huge deficit (1750, then I eat back my bf calories which I guesstimate at 500) I don’t feel like I’m being terribly ambitious or hurting my body. I’m not exercising or anything either. I just feel defeated because I was doing so much better when I was pregnant,…

Hmmm. For me it was easy because although my husband didn’t actively make a choice to pursue a healthy lifestyle with me, I happen to be the family chef and prepare all of his meals so he was forced to eat better by default LOL. But he thought it was nice and he was always supportive of me no matter what we were eating. We…

Chicken noodle soup in the crockpot tonight. Easy. Cheap. Quick. A cold front blasted through here recently so it will be perfect!

Breakfast and lunch are both usually about 300. Dinner is about 400-500. And like 900 worth of snacks for real. I’m pregnant so I’m just in a constant state of grazing. My stomach is squished so eating big meals is difficult. Works for me. :)

With my son I was so stressed out that I lost 15 pounds the first four weeks after he was born (and I didn’t weigh enough to lose that much weight that quickly in a safe manner at all) and my milk completely dried up and I wasn’t able to breastfeed him. It wasn’t something I did on purpose but the others are right, you…

Honestly, I’ve had the idea in my head that I needed to lose weight since I was a little girl. I struggled a lot with emotional eating and didn’t have the knowledge/information or emotional tools to finally work on overcoming it until I was about 19. By then, I had already destroyed my body and psyche with years of…

Heyooo! :)

This might sound crazy but my son got the flu last weekend and I was so worried about getting it. My grandmother suggested taking elderberry syrup a couple times a day. I thought she was crazy but I did it and had my husband do it. The flu passed us right by and we didn’t get sick. I can’t definitively say it works but a…

Mine is open to friends. Anybody else feel free to add me also. :)

Holla! I’m 23. :)

Okay, this was great. I have to add you after reading that.

My mindset. I’ve always somehow believed that weight loss = permission to love myself, when actually it’s the other way around. Now my journey is centered on my spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being, rather than punishing myself for being fat/lazy/undisciplined/whatever. It was a game changer for me.

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

This. I also struggle with chips and these are my go-to. They taste really good but I’m not going to binge on a bag of them like I would Lay’s potato chips, and you get 17 for a serving! Salty and crunchy and yum!

I’m 17 weeks here! I eat maintenance calories (because I’m already overweight for my pregnancy), track my workout calories with my Fitbit, and eat half of those calories back. :)

How small a serving of nuts is Me. I love pecans. I eat them every day, and every time I’m like, “damn, *this* is 200 calories?!”

This will be my first challenge, yay! I feel like I should also mention that I’m pregnant with my second child so I’m not actively trying to lose weight at this point. This is more of an accountability thing for me! Day/Weight/Comment 01/18 187 lbs Today was not a great day, if I’m being honest, but I didn’t binge.…

The most surprising thing I learned was that the journey wasn’t really about losing weight at all. It was about learning how to love myself and care for myself, learning what I wanted out of my life and going after it instead of just tolerating anything from anybody, and realizing that my problem with my weight wasn’t…

Congratulations on your upcoming grand baby! That’s awesome! Honestly my motivation is fleeting. Some days I think, “I want to feel good/look good/be healthy!” Then some days I don’t care about that, so I say, “My kids and family deserve to have a healthy mother they won’t have to take care of.” That one is more of a kick…

I’m not really sure how to do that. I still don’t know a lot of the ins and outs for MFP, but if you would like to create a group I will definitely join!

I started smoking when I was 14. To be honest, when I finally decided to quit, it took me two years to slowly scale back. I used to smoke about a pack a day. Finally after two years I got down to one cigarette per day and then I realized smoking one cigarette a day actually made me feel worse so I was finally able to give…

This will be my first challenge, yay! :) Day/Weight/Comment 01/18 01/19 01/20 01/21 01/22 01/23 01/24 01/25 01/26 01/27

Me. And yes, it’s hard. I’ve had to completely reevaluate my relationship with food, and I still slide back sometimes, but it’s possible. It has to come from a place of love and tenderness, whereas eating disorders come from a place of hatefulness and obsessive controlling behaviors towards yourself. Some days will be…

It seems like the consensus on here is to eat back 25-50% of your exercise calories. Hope that helps. :)

Add me! We will do this together! :)

So true! This probably sounds bizarre but I started thinking of this journey like a marriage. Motivation is a feeling, and feelings are fleeting. You don’t invest 100% of your marriage on how you “feel” because some days that person will make you mad. Some days you will feel disenchanted or bored. Some days it’s hard to…

I really did not want to go to the gym today. I went over every excuse I could think of. But then I changed my clothes and put my shoes on anyway and before I knew it I was walking out the door. And I had a good workout and thought “why was I trying not to go?” And I’m proud of that. :)