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Not if it fits in your calories.

Cottage cheese?

GOD ME TOO

You DON'T have to go balls to the wall hard for every single workout. Just do your best. Sometimes your best tomorrow will be less than your best was today and that is okay! Don't get down on yourself and most importantly, don't quit!

Protein is good for post workout recovery. Add a bit of fiber, like a Fiber One bar and you'll be satisfied for a while. Protein gets you full faster, fiber keeps you full longer.

I had the SAME bias til I tried it and surprise, I LOVE COTTAGE CHEESE. BUT you gotta have the full 4% milkfat one or else, no. I'll make it a meal and have it with roasted garlic Triscuits, grilled chicken, avocado, and maybe an apple. Or treat myself and have it with guava paste.

Today I was approved for a loan to cover the plastic surgery to have my extra skin from the weight loss removed so I am going to make EXTRA sure I don't put on any holiday weight since I'm gunning for Jan 2nd!

That exact thing happened to me and when I switched to Insanity Max:30, the weight started to just melt off and my body recomped in the most amazing way. I think the same will happen for you. Are you getting enough sleep and hydration?

Down with lap band! In my support group there were soooo many people there who had to have theirs taken out and were now in the process of doing either the sleeve or the RNY. I had RNY because it's the most drastic and I felt like it was only one that would work long term for me. I don't get dumping syndrome, I had it once…

"If you can't stick to the pre-op diet you're really going to struggle afterwards", but I don't see how this is true. You are forced to stick with it afterwards and have an absence of the usual hunger as well as a smaller stomach. It's totally different." Yes this is absolutely true and no, it is NOT totally different. At…

In chicken salad!

I agree with what someone previously mentioned about trying home workout DVDs. For the last year I've been working 60 - 70 hour weeks and the only way I was able to get myself to work out was to get that DVD on because it was 30 minutes and I was already home. Going to a facility really eats up your time. I don't meal prep…

Around 30lbs or so is when people started noticing it on me. It'll come. And you're fabulous regardless.

Arugula and prosciutto is LIFE

So many people have had to go through this but my pre-op liquid diet was only for the day before my surgery! I had to drink a laxative in the morning and another one in the afternoon, no liquids after midnight. That's it!

Semantics. If that's your opinion on my opinion, then that's what it is.

I specifically wrote that that's what I thought, not at all that it was a fact. And what I think IS my opinion.

You mean posting an unpopular opinion in a thread about unpopular opinions is snide? Weird.

Oh no, you're ABSOLUTELY right, they don't. I never said or implied that was necessary. It was her snide comment in her original post with the photos that got me. 'Come talk to us.' Who is the 'us' since it can't be you because you don't even do yoga. It rubbed me the wrong way when I read it but I let it go initially…

...You've never really done yoga but you can sit there and say to me to 'come talk to us' when I can do certain poses, poses you yourself can't do and from what you say, you don't really try to do anyway? That's rich.

@quiksylver296 Vinyasa you say? I'll look into that, thank you!

Good for you. I'll stick with what another person wrote, we have a different definition of exercise. It would also appear that our goals are very different as well.

I respect that.

@sardelsa @SezxyStef @quiksylver296 I absolutely have done and currently do yoga. I love bikram but I don't think it's a fat burning exercise as much stretching. And sweating a lot is not a gauge of how many calories you're burning, it's your body cooling down. I think my definition of real exercise is when my heart rate…

I don't think yoga is real exercise or actually burns any calories.

I'll be real. A chopped cheese and cookies. It was just called for.

Yep. "No one will care or even know if I don’t make it to the top." Not true. The most important person will know; you.

All of my immediate family is/was overweight/obese at one time or another.

Personally, I think they're better. Home workouts often tend to be on the side of total body workouts whereas, at the gym, you focus on one body part per machine.

I have BOD and absolutely LOVE it. The unfettered access to so many different workouts is amazing and honestly, it's really allowed me to find workouts that WORK for me. I love working out at home too and it's great to have so much variety. I highly HIGHLY recommend it.