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I have been SO disappointed this winter. I was looking forward to being able to shovel now that I don't get winded just walking to the mailbox. Alas, there has been almost no snow where I am (Anchorage, AK).

I hate math. It's the bane of my existence. But this kind of thing makes math my friend! Today is Day 287, so 41 weeks of this new life. In that time I've lost 66.4 pounds. While it has been creepy off slowly lately, if I do the math I'm averaging 1.6 pounds gone per week. Not too shabby, really. Congrats on everyone's…

Will definitely be doing what the doc says. Thanks for the personal experiences. :)

I had a cheap health-o-meter from Walmart (under $20) that we'd had for years. I had to step on it 2-5 times to see the same number twice. But when we had a 7.1 earthquake last week it started registering 4-5 pounds higher for everyone, even when I changed the battery. I tossed it. Mom bought me a new health-o-meter,…

Nutrisystem was expensive, the portions were tiny and unsatisfying, and the flavor wasn't very good on most of what I tried. I lost nothing. Weight Watchers was good as PointsPlus. I lost 40 pounds, but then I came up on money trouble and had to let it go. Since I had no idea what my calorie intake was, only the points, I…

Okay, who let the cyberman onto MFP? :p

If I'm frying it or using my breakfast sandwich maker, I weigh the whole egg, crack it into the hot receptacle, put the shell back on the scale, and log the difference. If I'm scrambling the eggs or adding it to something I'll put a bowl on my scale, turn it on so it's set to 0, then crack the eggs into the bowl.

My highest weight ever was 272. My painful joints is from arthritis... left knee, right elbow, and fingers/thumbs mainly. Weight loss and glucosamine/chondroitin has helped everything but my left knee. It's weird, 'cause I can go up stairs, walk, and jog with no pain. If I try to use a stationary bike, elliptical, a…

Or when you "stir" your coffee with the tiny measuring cup you used for the creamer so that you get it ALL!

Fresh produce can get pretty pricey in Alaska, especially in the winter. Not always feasible to make up the caloric difference that way. Wouldn't it make more sense to make them cost low points and adjust other things (or allow for higher points) so that people are eating a proper calorie goal?

I've lost 40 pounds on WW previously (PointsPlus version) but couldn't afford to continue and had no idea how to eat since points does not teach you calories. Gained it all back and then some. I've lost 63-64 pounds so far with MFP and am still going strong. Just for kicks I calculated today's food so far with the formula…

Quoting 'cause I'd really like to know.

I've only had one pasty in my life. It came from the Scottish Highland Games last summer. It was dry, tough, and lacking in flavor. Completely not what I imagined them to be. Please tell me that was not the norm!

I've lost 60+ so far. Nothing is off-limits unless I decide it's not worth the calories in that moment/that day. Choose a deficit that will work for your hunger level but still give you a steady(ish) loss. Unless you have foods that will absolutely trigger a binge every time you have it, don't deprive yourself. Want…

Depends on the food/situation. I am almost always slower than my kids & husband (they're often done by the time I'm settling in with my own food), but I am faster than other people I know. When I was a kid I had a friend who would take 30 minutes to eat a freaking sandwich. Like, pb&j. Mine was gone in 5 minutes or less.…

This thread is hilarious! Our raid team (yeah, I play WoW) has an Australian, a gal from England, a gal who was from England but now lives in Canada, a couple of Canadians, and the rest of us are USers. I've heard of many, many things in this thread thanks to those lovely folks, but I gotta say... undercrackers was a new…

I have serious anxiety about being out around people, so we go to PlanetFitness late at night. We leave home between 8:30 and 9 and do our workout while there are very few people there. So far we'd not seen much of a jump. Last night, though, nearly every single treadmill (and they have two very long rows of them) were…

Congratulations on all your milestones! Mine: Got past 60 pounds gone, which put me in ONEderland. A twofer!

A sourdough english muffin w/16g peanut butter and 20g strawberry preserves on it and a Dannon Oikos Triple Zero greek yogurt. 375 calories but tasty and filling.

Bunnies count, right? I can't stand the chicks because they taste funny, but I'm totally down with the bunnies.

I used to enjoy watching it back when I still thought there was a miracle cure for obesity. As I learned realistic expectations I stopped watching, so it had been several years. Well, it just happened to be on last night as we were walking on the treadmills at our gym and even though I was listening to music with my phone,…

Perhaps the best way to explain the sugar pills is just to say they're the hormone-free pills that cause you to bleed for the week between the ones with hormones in them. I understand not being fully aware, but people have explained it multiple times in different ways and you're still not grasping the concept. That's a…

I just used a "cooked" entry. Last night with my salmon and garden salad I had, "Diamond - Calrose Short Grain Rice Cooked, 6 oz."

That sounds awful. I think I'd be ready to rip my uterus out by hand!

I used to be regular. My cycles were 28-31 days. Recently they've been getting weird. My shortest was 25 days, my longest was 51. That could be age-related (41), weight-loss related, or whatever it is that's going on up there. Had an ultrasound last week and the doc wants to get a biopsy of the uterine lining so obviously…

It was!

Reading this topic today was absolutely hilarious to me. I only recently started noticing there has been more fat loss from the right side of my stomach than the left and found it totally bizarre. (I am right-handed.) While I'm not happy we're lopsided, I am happy to know it's not just my body being completely weird. Thank…

Fixed. *sigh* Stupid typos.

I'm lucky if I "release yesterday's food" every couple of days, let alone daily. LOL I get up, I pee, I weigh, I get dressed, I go about my day.

I regret that it's necessary; my satiety cues don't work and I got myself to 272 pounds (on a 5'1/2" frame) by eating until I was full. But this is the first thing that's clicked for me. Counting points with WW helped me lose 42 pounds once. Taught me nothing about what I was truly eating, though, so when I could no longer…