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Try skim milk and a spritz of chocolate milk flavoring. That'll add sweetener as well as chocolate flavor. Me, my standard morning cuppa has 1/3 cup dry skim milk, for one of my daily calcium servings, and sweetener. You can't just dump the skim all in at once, but add it in a bit slowly.
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Has anyone gotten MFP, Fitbit and MapMyWalk to work together? When I have both Fitbit and MapMyWalk going, I can't get my Android MFP app to take in Fitbit steps.
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How's it been going this week?
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How's it been going?
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You might want to ask the doc about the occasional hip pain. It might be as easy to fix as, say, using a body pillow to rest your upper leg if you sleep on your side. Or it might be something else entirely.
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How about those Mets? What about the latest presidential debate? Seen any good movies lately? Have you read "Nature's Nether Regions"? (that last is a *super* book - funny, informative, well written about weird, fascinating science. for a more detailed review, https://nothinginbiology.org/2015/08/10/junk-science/ )
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According to MFP, I've varied from about 150 cals under to 100 cals over during the past week. According to Fitbit, i went 3000 cal over, total. According to the scale, I'm maintaining and, if anything, going down a tad. Me, I'll stick with what I'm doing. If the trend continues, I'll either decide to re-set my goal weight…
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Yeah, but I'd rather have my sugar in something else ... like really good chocolate. :) And if you have a Clif chocolate bar, there goes your entire 6 tsp sugar. :smile:
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Bodies do work differently. My usual breakfast is coffee and skim - 1/3 cup of dry skim mixed into a mug of coffee, with a bit of sweetener or flavoring - and one half of a low-sugar nutrition bar. I'll have a midmorning snack of up to 200 cals - soemtimes a piece of fruit, sometimes nutrition bar, sometimes raisin toast…
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Anyone who wants to friend me is welcome. I like to know who's knocking, so just drop a note to say where you saw me. If there's something in particular that strikes you, I'm always up for learning what I've done or said right. :) baharal - sorry that 1derland felt anticlimactic. 31 lbs is great! Given an eastern pound of…
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Whatever you buy, keep an eye on the sugar content. Some "nutrition" bars have a lot. A chocolate Clif bar has 23 grams - nearly 6 teaspoons (about 4g/tsp). Pure and Quest bars are low in sugar. So are PowerCrunch - I like their caramel. I'm not a fan of the Atkins diet, but since its mantra is low-carb, its bars are low…
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I'm just a sample of one ... but since I've gone on maintenance, staying between 140-145 lbs, I've gone from size 12 pants to size 10 and sometimes 8. More to the point, since there's no standard for women's sizes, a pair of size 12 jeans that originally was so tight I had trouble getting my phones (1 work, 1 mine) into…
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What they said, pretty much. FWIW, I lost my first 40 or 50 lbs, starting a few years ago at 213, by cutting out white carbs and paying attention to portion size (trying to stay generally within what I remembered from Weight Watchers 15 or 20 years earlier, before the points system (about 3 servings starch, 6 to 8 oz…
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What they all said. Especially don't panic, and weigh and measure everything. Also, though this is a longer-term thing than one week, remember that muscle weighs more than fat, volume for volume. So you might be staying at the same weight but still losing fat. Have you set up your measurements in MFP, so you can check them…
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Way to go! I'm still logging and probably always will, because I know myself. I find it too easy to sliiiiiiide back. But great to know others can do without. :)
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Lot of great suggestions above. If you're eating white bread, it's a good idea to switch to whole grain - a lower glycemic index, so it stays with you a tad bit longer and doesn't spike blood sugar as much. Open-faced sandwiches. :) In addition to standard bread, there are wraps like Damascus Bakeries and Tumaro's. They're…
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If that's how your body works, it's good to know. Still, even when traveling, you can use your phone to log -- and logging can help you get an even better picture of what works and what doesn't. I logged on the app during a vacation without a scale the first week that I put myself on maintenance, and have done it on trips…
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Congratulations! Ain't it a great feeling? :smiley: The goal-setting dropdown is the very last item on the page that BurnWithBarn2015 gave you. For what it's worth, what I did was give myself a 5-pound goal range. That isn't something you can set with MPF, but MFP still recognizes "maintain" as a goal. I won't set it to…
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Congrats to Ms. Teapot and all the rest of y'all! I don't yet qualify for the National Weight Control Registry - I'm 5 months into maintenance
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I chose 145 because it was near the middle of the healthy BMI range for 5-foot-6 (I'm 63, 64 Saturday). I started at 213, and lost the first 40-50 lbs by cutting out white carbs and paying attention to portion size. After staying about 170-180 for a while, I knew I'd have to really work at losing the rest, and rejoined…
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I've been at maintenance since early November. I eat back most of my exercise calories, often all of them. I don't worry if I go a few over. And lately I've been hovering around 140, the low end of the 5-pound maintenance range I gave myself, rather than the high end of 145.
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I ate enough over maintenance yesterday to gain a pound a week if I kept it up. After losing 70-odd pounds, I don't wanta do that.
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I can understand those worries. This may sound sappy, but concentrate on this: You're doing this for yourself, to lose that ***** ton, a day at a time, a pound at a time. But *you* are the person who counts. Some of those others will be judgemental; some will be understanding and supportive. Prove to yourself that you can…
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The problem is, anorexia distorts your perception of yourself the way a fun house mirror distorts your reflection. You need help to see yourself as you really are rather than as anorexia makes you see. Please find help.
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How much do you want to lose? Me,, I'd say that if you're really having trouble at 1200, let yourself start at a higher level that will still let you lose weight. When you're used to that, you can decide if you want to lose faster and change your settings again. This is a process. You're in it for the long haul, not a…
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What they said. For whatever it may be worth, what finally got me on track, at age 60, was a dr's suggestion to drop all white carbs, going to whole grains and such. Of course, that also meant no more snacks of chips, cake and candy. I also paid more attention to portion size. But for the first time in my life, it didn't…
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I'm a wire service reporter. Each article we write gets a one-to-four-word identifier called a slug line. You try to find one that's punchy and informative - something an editor will see in the long list of stories and pull out for a closer look. Which is why, if I ever write my memoire, the title will be "The Art of the…
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Do find a therapist, please. The groups mentioned can help.
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I wasn't able to copy the url, but the subject is something like "weight loss chart - it's an up and down thing."
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Somewhere in the weight loss forum is a message I posted with my daily weight graph. It goes down and up and down and up &c&c -- but the overall trend was down. I went from 213 to 140-145, where I've been since November.
