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Seeking some professional help, as others have mentioned, sounds like a good start to me. What about after school activities? A sport or any other kind of activity that started as soon as school got out might help reduce the amount of time she was home alone and eating unsupervised.

A couple small tortillas filled with grated cheese and tomatillo sauce, or yogurt and fruit, or making a sandwich with turkey pepperoni.

The potatoes are a good source of potassium. Carrots have fiber and along with peas and green beans are a good source for a variety of vitamins. If someone is going to have a limited taste for vegetables, that's probably a good group to have on their edible list. As long as your diet isn't so limited that it's causing a…

After 3 months, I'm down 17 pounds and I do eat as I please so long as it fits my calorie budget. One thing I found is consistently logging food has changed some of my eating preferences. Calculating how much of a serving the 5 potato chips or handful of peanuts I grabbed got tedious fast so I swapped those kinds of foods…

Congratulations. You're doing some wonderful things for yourself and by example are showing your children how to care about themselves, too. Have a great time when you make it to the beach next year.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." Aristotle as quoted in Grit to Great, page 3. I just found that one last night, but it's going on the bathroom mirror because there's nothing in my life it can't apply to.

Welcome. Changing ourselves and developing new lifestyle habits isn't always easy or comfortable, but it's better than choosing to do nothing and remain unhappy and uncomfortable. Coming here and announcing your intention to do better for yourself is a great first step. I've only been here for a few months, but here are a…

Drinking alcohol was always a naturally rare thing for me. That being said, if I were to have a public food diary and someone bothered browsing it, they'd still find alcohol listed. Everything I consume is logged, even if it's supposed to a 0 or 1/2 calorie item. Being honest with myself about all the calories I put into…

That's the right attitude to have about it. Welcome.

I have actually kicked a man or two in my life, but they had it coming and I'm just not feeling that rambunctious today. So instead here's a picture of a highly motivated person from nexercise.com. Fall means cool, crisp air and leaves crunching underfoot if you're out walking or jogging. It's also a great time to ditch…

This'll be a good thread to follow if the discussion takes off. I'm not a cosplayer (probably because I never met anyone to suck me into the lifestyle) but I enjoyed putting in time in other dress-up worlds as a renfaire reenactor and a traditional bellydancer. Wanting to be lean and fit to look more convincing for the…

It's a lovely dress and I hope it happens for you. If worse comes to worse and it's still a bit too snug, bear in mind that support and foundation garments are entirely appropriate for the era you're dressing for.

Biggest struggle this week: Accepting that there may not be any weight coming off this month. I know it's normal to have bouts where the weight stays stagnant, but a loss of a pound or two at minimum would've been nice. Biggest success this week: Holding the course with my eating and exercise goals. SW: 135.8 lbs CW: 119.8…

No matter what you decide to do for yourself, I wish you the best. Please, do give the counseling a go as you said you might. A trained professional with an outsider's point of view to bounce your thoughts and feelings off of could go a long ways to helping you decide what's in your best interest for the long term. Being…

A friend of mine would sew a couple of inches of gros grain ribbon onto the band near the cups when hers became loose.

For outfits that show cleavage, there are also tutorials online for artfully applying makeup to give the illusion of ampler breasts. Beyond that, as others have mentioned, for those of us deflating it seems to be a matter of learning to love the new body and investing in some good brassieres. But thanks to Dubird, I'm now…

When I went to pick out a multivitamin a couple of weeks ago I compared the labels for the chewable/gummy ones I could find against the traditional tablet vitamins. All the tablets I looked at contained a greater variety of vitamins and minerals than the chewable forms, plus none of the chewables I found had any calcium…

Stir fried chicken with broccoli, chicken and vegetable enchiladas, or grilled chicken that's been skewered on rosemary sprigs and marinated in lemon juice and minced garlic.

My dream bathing suit is an 1890's repro complete with corset and stockings, but I've also already got this retro two piece stashed away for when I get tired of confusing the other people on the beach

Congratulations on your current losses. You're a hair taller than me and your goal of hitting the top of the healthy BMI range was also my initial health goal, too. The other ideas already tossed out about setting in-between goals and periodically reassessing have been turning out to be sanity savers for me. You also might…

Ahhh...the siren call of ginger and walnut with a dash of cinnamon...I love my cookies, too. If the temptation to have more than your calorie budget allows is proving too hard to resist, I'm sure you've got a friend who could "hold" them for you.

For the first couple of months, I hopped on the scale daily because I wanted to see all those ups and downs and let myself get used to seeing how much the number could change.

I make mine with butter and homemade ranch dressing. It never occurred to me to sub out a portion of the potatoes for another food, but since the idea's been floated, I rather like the idea of mixing in cauliflower or possibly even turnips to lighten the calorie load. Next Sunday dinner I'm going to enjoy experimenting on…

@TerriRichardson112 Thank you for the kind words. :) Biggest struggle this week: Even though I've been keeping in control of the calories and started getting some movement in last week, the number on the scale burbled up a few pounds on Monday and stayed there most of the week. It took a lot of restraint not to try out a…

Yep, the only reason I ever ate them is because they were there in front of me. Let me break Dairy Queen's menu down for you into two basic choices: grease and ice cream. I'll admit that the ice cream isn't bad at all. If you go, beware of the chicken basket with the toast and gravy.

French fries. I never really liked them to begin with, so it may not be much of a sacrifice, but at least they're officially out of my diet.

Congratulations on the successes you've had so far. Like the others, I would opt to stretch my clothing budget with thrift stores and bargain outlets. Check the stuff over carefully because sometimes there is a faded patch of fabric or a seam coming undone, but over all, a lot of good quality pieces turn up there.

It actually did take me just about a month before I was able to observe a physical difference. When we see ourselves every day it's normally too difficult for the human eye to register all the teeny tiny changes our bodies are making. When all those little changes have had enough time to add up, then it registers. As some…

I dislike eating out for that same reason. Even though I know it's not going to be an accurate count, if the restaurant isn't able to provide nutritional information I pay attention to the components of the meal and log guesstimates of their quantities. Then I usually add in a few grams of butter or oil because I expect…

Thanks for posting that link. It certainly made for an interesting read. My favorite part was when they tried to downplay how much ownership Coke had over the group by claiming that the only reason the company owned their website was because a group of college professors couldn't figure out how to register it.