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Weekdays: 0500 - I wake, pee, weigh, and stretch 0525 - hubby wakes, pees, and weighs 0550 - out the door and walk 3 miles with the dog 0650 - cook breakfast for hubby (I'm IF, so I don't eat early) 0700 - he eats and yells at people on the Internet, I do cleanup 0715 - hubby is done eating, I do lunch/dinner prep 0745 -…

+1 I ate medium for decades, but I now choose medium rare. Hubby always chose medium well, but he prefers medium rare now too.

http://smile.amazon.com/Sodium-Chloride-Gm-100-Tablets/dp/B000GCN130 I buy them on Amazon.

I have congenital and post-surgery issues with absorbing vitamins, so my quantities aren't normal. Post-Bariatric: 3 Bariatric Vitamins (w/calcium and iron) 4000mg fish oil 100mg Colase 50mg Colase For Keto: 300mg potassium 2000mg sodium 600mg magnesium Because I'm old: 1000mg calcium I also take Biotin and Biosil for my…

Use the recipe builder and weigh the ingredients before cooking. Make sure you choose the "raw" entry. How you divide it into servings is up to you. Personally, I divide all recipes into 100g servings for easy math. Some folks use 1g = 1 serving. Your choice.

I get 1129 per day, which I normally eat all of or at least most of them. I'm 5', 156lbs, 45yo female, and sedentary, so I don't get many to start with anyway!

Buy a new scale that weighs in grams and get it over with. It's $10 and it means you can practice the new skill of thinking in grams. Seriously, under logging your food isn't a good option, because that's still estimating. Buy the new scale, weigh in grams, and tighten your logging. That'll take care of the shrinking…

How do I do it? Practice. I've been practicing mindful eating for almost 2 years and it's a habit for me now. I put a sign on my fridge for over a year that said, "Why are you eating? What are you eating? Is it a problem food will actually correct?" If I didn't have good answers to those questions, I didn't eat. It took a…

And a single serving of nuts is a tiny bowl of sad.

"Mama, it's warm in the sun. Oh wait, were you trying to do yoga? Yeah, my bad. Rub my belly."

mmm Salt. It's a food group for me. We do use a lot of non-sodium spices, but I salt everything. Yes, it would be bland without it. My go-to are cumin, basil, and garlic. I can get a lot of flavor with just those three.

Sadly, the "trust the process" answer is absolutely the correct one and the one I'm going to say. I can say that I've had quite a few friends go through WLS and only a few of us had massive "first quarter" losses. The rest were in the same range you are. We were all reminded that this is a marathon, not a sprint, and slow…

Low carb may help, but sometimes lower carb is a good start. Take a look here at a list of low GI foods http://www.optimalfoods.org/ and see which ones you can cut or limit. While it's not necessary to go keto, because many diabetics manage their T2 with fairly high carb levels, lower carbs can certainly help many T2. The…

This may be the sexiest thing I've read this week. "Fortnight" is very hot. /things grammar geeks think

After a hard workout, your muscles can hold a few pounds of fluid as they take a couple of days to recover. Hard workouts cause small tears in the muscle. This is good, this is how muscle grows. But those small tears cause temporary inflammation.

Congrats on your loss! The "still mentally fat" mindset is real. It's one of the things addressed with me before I had bariatric surgery and after losing 150 so far, I'm still struggling with it. I think people are staring because of my weight and I constantly choose clothes that are too large when I'm shopping. I see data…

I plan, pre-log, and adjust throughout the day to account for what I actually ate or unexpected changes in the meal.

We eat fathead pizza all the time. Yum! And it doesn't jack around my blood sugar like regular pizza crust either.

5-1 and 45yo 1124 (plus some exercise calories) 156lbs and losing sedentary

The measuring used to make @kc4nus nuts. Absolutely bugshitnuts. After a year, he started doing it. He's down 35lbs so far.

@GalgoMomAnita Thank you for that perspective!

Had a few skin cancers removed. The one on my back was stage 2, so that excision went through to the muscle. But they got it all. The stitches are seriously eating into my workouts! These were my numbers for January... Not too shabby, but I can do better in February!

Today, I bought size 8 jeans and officially reached the "150lbs lost" mark.

I bought size 8 jeans tonight. They're a little tight in the tummy, but not terribly so. Also, I've officially lost 150lbs as of today.

Bingo. I've had a few of these, usually from people who later offer me things that they know I can't or shouldn't have. They want me back on their misery train and I ain't getting on board. Later, they'll comment I'm too skinny. Again, they miss me as a passenger on the misery train. Tough *kitten*.

My issue is that there is no pre-surgery education and no follow-up care, which can be issues. Most people need education pre-surgery to learn how to eat properly and manage their food post-surgery. And most people need guidance after surgery as well as follow-up care. There are some that don't and I'm sure there are those…

That and that. ^^ I enjoy IF, as it works with my natural eating tendencies. It also gives me a time to focus on food, which is important to me actually meeting my macro goals. If I have think about food all day, I'm going to have problems meeting my goals. When I know that I can eat 12-7p and I'm going to meet my goals in…

OP, depending on your height, weight, age, activity, and goals, 1200 may not be a bad thing. If your goals are realistic, make sure you're accurately measuring your food. If you are, you can always add calorie-dense foods as @WinoGelato suggested. For me, I use keto and IF. As long as I don't eat grains or potatoes and…

I have... 1. Continue my "give more, do more" personal challenge. I'm finishing January 3 days early, so the next 3 days are gravy. I don't have final numbers yet, but they'll be good. 2. I'd like to get down to 153.25lbs by the end of February. That'll mean I've lost 50% of my mass since my highest weight. I'm down to 1lb…

I do my best to eat all my allotted calories. Sometimes I fail, but I'm much better at it now than I was a couple of months ago. I generally don't eat back exercise calories if they're less than 500. However, I'm now allowed to bank calories over the week, so I can make up a really low day or even out a high day. For a…