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  • Thank you for sharing. I can completely relate. You just kind of give up on yourself. Everything will change "when I lose the weight" as tho, then we'll be worthy. I'm also trying to look towards other ways to care for and about myself. It's so easy to go down the rabbit hole of letting yourself go. I'm trying to get up…
  • I used Herbal life way back when it first came out. It made my heart race so bad, I thought I'd jump out of my skin. I stopped drinking it, and it went away. Maybe check the ingredient list and research to see if there's caffeine etc in it.
  • I love my Fitbit. It definitely keeps me focused and has increased my "stepping". My friends and I do challenges all the time and are very competitive with it. I average about 16,000 to 20,000 steps daily and feel king of naked without it. It pushes me to hike, run, walk more. I didn't want something with all the bells and…
  • After I wrote that....I thought maybe I should've said 100. I know some very healthy and active 80 year olds who've taken care of themselves and probably feel better than I do :) Thank you for the good thoughts. This too shall pass.
  • Hi Christie, I'm Jenn. Congrats on your weight loss so far! You sound like you really have a handle on it. I have been in and out of MFP for years, but not very active on the boards and always dropping out after a few days or weeks. Lots of personal stress going on and at my highest weight. Today I woke up fiercely wanting…
  • I do one cup steel cut oat to 3 cups water (recipe calls for 4), because I like it thick and chewy. I use long cooking steel cut. It cooks for about 35 minutes and then I cool and put it in Tupperware and heat it with milk and frozen blueberries every day. Keeps for about 5/6 days.
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