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That turtle must be heavy for that toddler/baby

Sour gummy candies. I love sour candies and every once in a while I'll splurge on a bag. Worth it!

Yea - what the other people said. Log everything, absolutely everything. I'm a stress eater too and it helps to remember that if I want to eat something, but dread logging it that means I shouldn't be eating it. I also plan out my food for the day. By 9 am I will know what I am going to eat at each meal. That way I can use…

I'm at 1100. I'm 5'5" and have an office job and all my hobbies are tech related so I don't need much food to feel good since I don't burn much throughout the day. I hate working out so strictly control my intake. I eat a lot of eggs and veggie soup.

Soda and sugared drinks. I still love carbonation, but cant stand to drink something sweet. I bought a diet Snapple peach tea and it lasted me a couple days because I had to cut it with just over 4 liters of water. I used to drink those things in seconds flat! I also use to be capable of drinking a 12 pack of soda in a…

I do it and track it everyday in a separate app - it helps me realize how my body actually loses weight and lets me see the trends. I find that if I give myself an inch - I'll take a mile and its very easy to convince myself of something that is not true if it means I get to eat more - but I can't lie to the scale, so it…

I have been trying on wedding dresses and not only do I fit in all the sample gowns - most are too big. Only 2 out of twenty were too small and even then they would still zip up. Goodbye worrying about needing to find a shawl to match my gown at my wedding - hello strapless!

Soup, like really. I make a pot of soup on Sunday - maybe 30 minutes actual active cooking time - and have enough food for 6 meals. If you have a bigger pot than I do, you'd make more meals. Its really easy; just pick a bunch of veggies you like, I typically go for cabbage, carrots, celery, squash, tomatoes, corn, whatever…

Oo You should add me. My steam library is overflowing with games, as is my board game shelf. I've been part of a table top RPG group for 6 years (though Im still not good at it) we play everything from Warhammer and pathfinder to home brew games. I love cooking for people and am always in the kitchen making food. I also…

If you're a body builder - then yea the BMI scale probably isn't a super great measurement. If you are like most people who need to lose 30+lbs, the BMI scale is a good way to know how far you've slipped and where you should set your goal. If you really think its wrong calculate your body-fat %. You should really accept…

I want new work pants but cant justify spending money on them right now since I'm so close to needing a smaller size. Hopefully I would just need another pair of new pants in a month or so.

I'm a grazer, I need to eat all day to not feel hungry or get a head-ache so I eat a ton of low calorie stuff many times a day. I learned that if I eat a muffin in the morning thinking I will just adjust my intake the rest of the day it doesn't work and I binge that evening. Some of the best "diet" foods I stick to when…

Welp, back down to .6 lbs within my lowest before the blip and all seems well. I think the lesson is to stay as hydrated as possible so by body doesn't retain water from dehydration. Also, lost an inch on waist, thigh and hips! So maybe it was like "Hold on just give me that and ill do some work, k done NOW look at it"

Hear Hear!

Thank you I will look into that!

I guess all you can do at some point is stay with the healthy trend. I don't know about you but my junk food and ramen intake was way too high before this. So maybe at least eating more vegetables on a daily basis is a positive, even if the weight doesn't shift. Yea?

Woo! Congrats on that drop and thank you for the story - it is exactly what I was hoping someone would say. Now I just have to make sure my tracking is accurate and wait I suppose.

Oh man, I can't wait till I'm confident enough in my habits to get to that point. Right now I need to see the number as motivation. I have to see that cause and effect, eat a big burger - weight is up next day. Eat salad weight is stable. If I can get through every day to see that scale move, even -.2 lbs, then I've hit a…

Ditto and seconded on this - I have a desk job and when I'm not there I'm doing homework - so not a whole lot of movement for me - so my calorie limit is super low because I just don't need it, so I can't exactly eat even less and keep at a safe level. But I can't keep the thought of "Oh I stopped losing weight, let's cut…

I love chocolate chip cookies dipped in orange juice instead of milk. And frozen junk food straight out of the freezer still frozen.

Small town in the middle of Alaska

I confess that it is hard to remember that I still have to eat and going the unhealthy route and fasting is not a good way to maintain the weight loss after the fact.

I learned the hard way you can't make a dish vegetarian by just leaving out the meat. My chicken marsala without the chicken was horrid.

Veggie soup a million different ways. My favorite right now is roasted red pepper. Just season them and tomatoes, roast till a little burned and pop em in the blender. Add a little teeny bit of milk to help it blend and enjoy. Low-cal and very good for you. Or cabbage and white bean. Find some veggies high in fiber and…

I'm back at it after 3 years of not making any progress (and regaining 10 lbs) I need to lose about 35lbs. Let's be weight loss buddies!

I drink seltzer water. For me, the need for soda was the fizz. You could get a soda stream, get a generic mt dew and add only a little of the flavor?

Don't be too hard on yourself. This stuff takes a lot of steps to get where you want to be. Think of it like this: Step 1. Eat healthily - lose your sweet tooth or cut back on snacks. Give up 1 thing a week. Familiarize yourself with nutrition labels. Move more. Step 2. Be honest and log everything you eat. Log the cheese…

I drink a cup of water and find people's progress pics online. Or stories of people that failed and ending up putting on 100+ lbs. Usually, it starts on a spiral down the internet rabbit hole and I end up looking into things that interest me. I've picked up a couple hobbies that way. Right now I am taking a class that…

Sounds like some seriously good lemon bars!

Good point. It will help make it less appetizing. It's just a bunch of sugar and germs sitting on a pretty plate!