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You need some rest. You can have some 'active rest' but you need rest. I vary intensity all week. I walk about 100k steps. Some days are 20k or more steps and a few are just 10k steps. I only do an intense hill hike once a week. I do Zumba twice, yoga twice, and lift on two or three days. I always wait a full day before…

I bake mine. A little melted butter is added ~hangs head in shame~ I usually mix tapatio with sriracha for the sauce. May need to try Frank's this year. For the dipping sauce I combine Greek yogurt, mayo and Pt Reyes blue cheese. Serve with carrot & celery sticks on the platter. So good. So, so good.

Thanks you guys for all your kind words! It is so fun to spread the encouragement around & hear about real people's real progress.

Great!

Yay to you both! We have a problem with over-inflated notions of what 'success' really looks like and feels like in our larger society. Lots of adults gain 3-5 lbs per year over a long spell of years but losing weight that same way would feel shameful. It's really too bad. Perceived failure stops people in their tracks…

High five!! People just give up too soon, plain and simple. And they want an aesthetic result in three months that it will probably take closer to three years to craft in terms of fat loss, muscle building, and gradual skin tightening.

People are missing the point here: she's reminding MFPers to look at their own personal time allocations & make sure they are putting the appropriate time into meal planning, nutritional upgrades, and calorie calculations. Food is fuel & first response medicine for our bodies. It is paramount. I work seven days a week…

23.6 lbs in 170 days doesn't sound very successful, does it? So many people jump on MFP expecting to lose 30-40 lbs in 2 or 3 months... But when you work it out it's exactly the right pace. Don't listen to those little voices in your head! Buggers!!

You can't stay motivated in any open ended way! Instead work on routines & rituals that carry you through the normal ebbs and flows of motivation.

Way to go @CoffeeNCardio!

That was me... Now it's not! B)

healthy can always kick skinny's shriveled little *kitten*! be strong! be beautiful! choose healthy

You need a bigger data set. Two weeks is nothing. I just made a post about the crazy zig zag 'progress' I have made over the past 170 days and how when you crunch the numbers I've lost .966 lbs a week like clockwork. I would have never guessed that! Your work is to improve your execution of your program; your body's job is…

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I weigh every morning upon rising, but I use Fitbit's weekly average as my 'official' weight. I also delete the highest weight of the week, so it's a six rather than seven day average. Works like a charm for me!

Jumping in here to say I agree: your deficit may be narrower than you think. The calorie burns we are are all given by devices & calculatiors are just approximations to use as tools. It's not like we're in a lab hooked up to extremely accurate monitors. So yours may be a little lower than you are being led to believe &…

Excessive exercise is a sub group of anorexia... Please check in with a healthcare provider to make sure you're not dipping back into dangerous waters. That aside I'm a regular middle aged lady who has long recovered from teenage anorexia athletica. I give myself free range eating days on Christmas, thanksgiving, immediate…

Yeah mine are off too. Just pick one & go with it...

I love tacos. Breakfast lunch or dinner.

I weigh every day, but only first thing in the morning. I know I get heavier as I eat & drink. I really just care about that first fasted number. And I use fitbits weekly average as my official weight. I collect seven days data, delete the highest number & an average of the remaining six days creates my weight for the…

I have an aria. I love the tight weight range it gives me. It feels very accurate. The BF readings are a joke! I ignore! It was slightly better when I just owned the scale & could keep my settings on a male frame but now I wear an HR & like to track my burns so saying I'm a dude would throw that too high. I have broad…

@banshee70 Rock on!

166. Haven't missed a day yet. And I've got some embarrassing 4K days in there.

FYI: calorie requirements only go down very slightly & progressively as one ages. So check me out! I'm an OLD eating these amounts and losing weight! Maybe a freak show in Florida will want to display me!!

Wow... I'm a food bragger? LOL No, I just walk a fair amount. Do a little Zumba and yoga. Just started strong lifts 5x5. You know, average middle aged lady things. But I like that... 'food bragger'... Yeah, mine's bigger than yours! Dinner that is! Hahaha

Also I popped back in to say we have almost zero food waste. I clean, cut & vacuum pack all veggies, freeze leftovers, make stock from bones, etc etc. About all that gets composted are the tail ends of a bundle of cilantro, or something that came damaged like one avo out of the bag from Costco.

Well, you've identified the problem with dieting for a very specific goal or date! In that case, dieting is just an inconvenience one endures to secure a specific 'product,' eg a goal size wedding or class reunion dress, a bikini for a cruise, a particular size of jeans... To lose weight and keep it off you have to learn…

I base what I eat every day on what my Fitbit HR is telling me I am burning. It has been very accurate so far. I aim for no more than a 500 per day deficit. If I have done really big workouts during the week and have a bigger weekly deficit than 3500 I eat some of those calories back on Saturday. Being very moderate really…

Great job!!

Sorry, but bravado a priori doesn't mean much. Create a plan for yourself & stick with it. When you succeed everyone will be very happy for you....