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When I get a sugar craving I have diet soda, diet Dr Pepper does the trick for me

A week is not a plateau. I only eat 1200 calories a day (8400 per week). I never go over the weekly calorie amount. Sometimes I get extra activity and sometimes I'm sedentary so I don't count my activity at all. My weight regularly stalls for a week or more then one day I will lose 3-5 pounds. I didn't lose 5 lbs overnight…

1.What was the turning point for you? It's ok if it was a series of events This last weight gain was a combo of fertility drugs to get pregnant, being pregnant, the "I'm pregnant so I can eat whatever I want and no one can say anything about it" mindset, buying a home in a new city, and becoming so uncomfortable I could…

We would need to know your definition of plateau. A day, week, month of no weight loss. Also agree with pp that you don't need to limit carbs and fat to lose weight, although a diet higher in protein does assist in satiety. My diet has always been fairly balanced, it's just the sheer amount of food I would consume that was…

A roast in the crock pot cooked in an awesome gravy made with a mix of beef broth, cream of mushroom soup, and a packet of Onion Soup. Once the roast is done I cook some potatoes and carrots separately in beef broth and serve them on the side smothered in the gravy. The meat just melts in your mouth it's so soft after 10…

Your sedentary calorie burn rate is less than if you were to add in additional activity ie. walk. It's the difference between me having to restrict my calories to 1200 to lose a pound a week or adding walking and being able to add a couple extra 100 calories and still lose that same pound per week. I personally don't like…

Your body is an effective machine. Fat stores are nature's way of ensuring survival when food is hard or impossible to come by. Each pound of fat contains 3500 calories of fuel your body can use. Everyone burns calories at a fairly predictable rate for basic life functions such as breathing, heart beating, digestion, etc.…

I weigh first thing in the morning every morning, but I'm comfortable knowing daily fluctuations are just that. I look at the week and month as a whole. When your only looking at 1-2 lbs per week, you can't expect big daily losses or gains for that matter. As long as your trend is moving in the right direction.

Had my dinner disappear and re-entered it. I went to check my weekly net calories and had a day last week show super high calories and I knew I didn't overeat that day. The exact same day last week was showing both dinners. Don't know how it switched days in the middle of logging but it did. You might check that it didn't…

Hot Dog Buns, hamburger Buns, smoked Sausage, and lighter fluid to cookout on the ggrill

I don't like being told I need to buy certain foods or invest in a program to do what those in third world countries do for free. I like knowing why I gain weight and what I can do to not only lose it, but keep it off. No program or fad diet is going to get you started on the LIFE CHANGE you need to make in order to drop…

Lol! Awesome

Can you post other options for they're /their/there lol

At the very bottom of the page there is a "reply" box. Another thing I learned when I pressed quote on several posts trying to get the reply box to pop up is every time you hit quote it puts the quote command in the reply box at the bottom. When I finally found the reply box there was a book's worth of quote command lol

As a supplement to my last post, it did take a year for my period to regulate after it came back. The first "period" I had lasted 3 weeks. I went to the doctor several times and was told everything was normal. The bleeding did finally stop but I didn't have another period for 2 months then again bled for much longer than…

I only lost 5 lbs in basic training and AIT in the army and was still 150 lbs after 4 months of training, but I lost my period completely for 9 months. It seemed to correlate with the rigorous training and had much less to do with the amount of body fat available. It could possibly be that your training program is…

+1 ^ Lost 25 lbs with it when it still had ephedrine in it. The appetite suppression with ephedrine is unparalleled. Tried it after, took it for a month and there was no difference between taking it and just taking straight caffeine so I definitely agree...save your money.

If you pay someone else $20 to mow your lawn and that would be a normal rate in your area, I think that would be perfectly reasonable to pay your son the same amount. My kids love Internet games so when they want a new game they get "store credit" for their chores and extra help around the house and yard. Once they've…

The biggest pair of jeans I have is from my in between weight of 170. I haven't been able to wear them since I was 2 months pregnant last August and I just wore them again for the first time for my husbands birthday. I have jeans for every weight below 170. The next time I will buy new jeans is once I get below 139 (my…

If Pinocchio says “My Nose Will Grow Now”, it would cause a paradox.

Reading MFP forums and getting my hair done (first haircut in 2 years)

There is no way to lose fat in targeted areas while keeping it in others. Your fat cell distribution is determined by genetics as well as the areas that gain and lose and what rate that happens. What I've realized from taking measurements is at my highest weight and my lowest, my bust/waist/hip ratio stays the same, it…

Thank you, you're sweet :) I'm more of a "take pictures of everyone else" type person

I don't usually even take selfies but I'm getting my hair cut so I took a before to show my sister

Its not perfect, it never will be. Forget about the fairy tales and appreciate the messy, painful, beautiful, exciting, monotonous, incredible life you're given. It's the hard times that teach you how to enjoy the awesome times. You made it through the worst times that came before this hard time, it won't kill you so grit…

I get nauseous hungry in the morning when I eat a lot of processed sugary carbs the night before, if I eat them in the morning I'm usually nauseous hungry before lunch so I limit my heaviest processed carbs till after 3 pm that way my hunger will coincide with my biggest meal, dinner, and won't effect my hunger in the…

Exactly! If I'm not going to take the time to log it, then I shouldn't take the time to eat it.

Omg lol right on! I didn't sell joints but I was always up for skipping class to get high :)

"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision." Erich Fromm

Madein1994 was above me lol