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I had one from costco that pulled out. It was higher capacity too, but it died after just a few months. I was super bummed.

IME cooking changes the weight, sometimes pretty dramatically.

Thanks for taking the time to explain your method! I had no idea when I started looking that this would be so difficult, lol. What you explain will work when I meal prep, but I frequently cook for up to 11 people, so large batches and everyone just taking what they want from the pan/pot. I don't know that my family would…

I just want to say that losing weight definitely boosts fertility. I have pcos and when I lost 65 lbs I gained my period back, which allowed me to track it all and determine that I wasn't ovulating on my own. I did one round of clomid last January and I now have an almost 4 month old baby girl sleeping next to me. Also, I…

I'm pregnant too, and I've been logging the whole time. I already lost a lot of the weight I had to lose before I got pregnant, so it's just been trying to keep the gain to a minimum. I've been -almost- successful. 33 weeks and 24 lbs gained so far. I know it would be a lot more if I wasn't paying attention. Idk what…

Thanks! I don't necessarily trust my hunger signals...that was always my biggest issue. It's gotten better with pregnancy though because there's no question when I need to eat. It's basically all the time. Ha! It's funny, I was losing weight all this time so I could get pregnant and now I am and I'm worried about gaining.…

I remind myself of this every time the scale bumps up a bit. Lol. It's still nerve wracking to see it going up when the goal for so long was for it to go down...But I'm surely enjoying the extra food. :#

I know it takes a lot of energy...I don't get though why even the American Pregnancy Association (or whatever it's called) says to eat your pre pregnancy maintenance in the first? I would think, if you're throwing up especially, you would need more. That's a different topic though I suppose. I don't know why I didn't think…

Thanks! I went here before and with the activity levels it didn't give me much to go on...There's a big difference between their sedentary and lightly active. I averaged them and that's what I've been eating though, so there's that. Seems like that's the only calculator of that kind to be found online.

I have PCOS. I lost about 65 lbs not eating any particular diet, just tracking calories and keeping my protein up. I don't have the insulin resistance, fwiw. Anyway, I am currently pregnant after just one round of clomid. I don't ovulate so I needed help, but it ended up being much easier than I was thinking it would be.…

I'm still logging. I've been on here logging for almost 560 days now and have lost 65 lbs, don't really want to stop logging now... I'm only 5 weeks 4 days right now, eating maintenance, plus extra some days. I think it's great to keep track of your food, as long as you don't get too hung up on the calorie side of it. I…

My husband bought me wooden spoons for my birthday one year. That's all. And not like nice ones either, cheapies from the dollar store... Apparently I had mentioned that I wanted to see if that trick of putting a wooden spoon over a pot of water will keep it from boiling over was actually true. So, thanks, honey, for…

I was having terrible back and hip pain. I got out of breath very easily and I couldn't keep up with my fit husband anymore. I was sick of shopping in the plus size clothing section, trying to find anything flattering was a huge chore. I also want to have a baby and I have fertility issues that are made worse by being…

I remember a few months back I reached to open the medicine cabinet and saw a skinny(ish) arm in the mirror as I went for the knob and it freaked me out because it didn't look like my arm. My family catches me staring at myself in anything reflective a lot because I catch my reflection and I have to stop and look because I…

Uhh...I dropped two lbs on Sunday, but I can't recommend the process. I saved all my cals on Saturday to go to a party, went and found that they had no food, drank too much, made an *kitten* of myself in front of my husband's work friends, threw up in the truck on the way home, then passed out. The only food I had was four…

My average currently is 9,000...but it's usually more like 11,000. I was hungover Sunday... :( Sidenote: Don't save all your calories for the day to go to a party, only to get there and find out they have nothing to eat, but copious amounts of booze, then proceed to drink said booze. You will have a bad time.

I lost about 30 lbs before I did any sort of purposeful exercise and was pretty sedentary. Now I walk quite a lot, but I have to say the result is that I'm pretty squishy. I tried to keep my protein up at a decent amount the whole time but because all I've done is walk my upper body is soft. Legs look good, though. Lol.…

Jumped up 6 lbs over night in the middle of October and I still can't figure out why that happened. Never have had that much of a jump for my period, which didn't come for two more weeks anyway (it was late), and I had already ovulated, no extra salt or carbs the days before... and it took 3 1/2 weeks to get back to where…

Ugh yes. I can't tell how many times I've walked laps around rest stops trying to get her to go. It's infuriating. Last time we got to my parents house and she took the most massive crap as soon as we got there. Unfortunately it was in their dining room...

Yeah but when you have two dogs and a cat that have to go too, flying gets way too expensive really damn fast. And one of my dogs won't poop while traveling, hence the no stopping unless necessary. I try to get there as fast as possible so she doesn't just explode.

43 hours with only gas stops, one hour rest at a rest stop in Illinois. I don't recommend it. ETA: I was driving from Virginia Beach, VA to Parma, ID. I've driven it several times now, by myself and with my husband. I hate it more and more each time.

Oh no I get that diet soda isn't good for everyone. I personally don't have any issues drinking it, but I know that's not the case for everyone. I usually don't have anymore than one can a day, tops. But she wasn't referring to secondary reactions from artificial sweeteners, just the carbonation. It was kind of funny…

I might check that out. I talked to my mom today and told her I thought that her drs carb limit seemed too high and she did agree with me. My sister is helping her a lot...but then again I was talking to her the other day and she told me that diet soda isn't any better for you than regular and it's the carbonation that…

Thank you, hugs to you too for taking time out if your day to chat with me! Trying to get my mom on the right track diet-wise has been a struggle. The first time around she thought if she cut out sugar it would be enough, but was eating a family sized bag of chips every two days or so. I kept telling her those definitely…

Thank you everyone. :) I am working on getting disenrolled from Tricare Prime and defaulting back to Tricare standard at the moment. It has a deductable and copays, but I can choose my own doctors. Better than free service that is useless to me. I just have to wait until that all goes through, as I can't afford to pay it…

My fasted insulin test was in the middle of the normal range with estimated average blood sugar of 100. I know that's probably not the whole story, but that's all I got from them. Also, I never had any issue losing weight when I started trying to. I was never taught or shown what a healthy diet looked like was when I was…

Regarding thyroid they tested t4 free and tsh plus triiodothyronine, whatever that is. Both were normal. I've never really been concerned about my thyroid. Thank you for your kind words. :smile:

I've been buying cheap t-shirts from the Walmart juniors section to get me by until I'm finished shrinking. I'm in a large now and I still hold them up when I go to get dressed and my brain insists it won't fit. They look so small. Then I put it on and there's room to spare...it's baffling to me. I've just come to the…

My husband and I went to Sonoma, California and went ziplining in the redwoods, to the six flags there and then to San Fransisco for a day.We had a good time and it wasn't super expensive.

My dad has no idea about calories. He thinks because he buys the keystone light that it's fine to drink 12 because, hey, it's light beer. Then tells me I shouldn't eat my pudding because I'm on a diet and it's bad. Doesn't matter how many times I tell him it's accounted for in my day, he just doesn't understand. Then my…