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Sodium can affect my weight loss as it makes food taste better for me and thus I want to eat more of it. But sodium itself will not change more than the amount of water you retain. One Clamato Ceasar and I can be up five pounds!

I have been quite successful not weighing myself for the first month or two but then I find I get curious and then I get disappointed when the number is not lower. I also find it is easier to derail when you aren't weighing...small bad choices don't seem that big of a deal at the time but they add up and it's easier to…

The closer you get to goal the more a loss will show. Most people will notice if you lose 10% of your bodyweight. As you get close to goal, 10lb will show, and then 5lb. But 5lb won't make a visual difference on someone who is say, 250lb.

I try to look at my calories as a weekly amount instead of a daily amount. once a week I add up all my calories for the week and divide by 7 to get my average daily amount. By sticking to 1000-1100 through the week I can have an average daily amount of 1400-1500. I also skip breakfast on the weekends and have a light lunch…

you need to find your comfortable pace and the previous poster who said to stop comparing is right. I actually hate running with other people because I feel like I need to match their pace and that removes all the joy from the activity. Last year I ran a 15K and a half and was well over 200 when I did them. Pace improves…

I have hashimotos but my blood levels have always tested fine, I only know hashimotos due to a biopsy on a large nodule. I have always been able to lose weight at a steady pace but this time around I seem to be losing in plateaus and whooshes (waiting on a whoosh right now...9 day plateau at a strict deficit with activity…

I skip breakfast and have a later lunch that is on the smaller side so that I have budgeted for a larger dinner and/or an evening treat. I also find a glass of red wine in the evening curbs the urge.

Give yourself a few weeks of weighing all food and see what happens. If the exercise you are doing is making you happy and feels like a sustainable amount stick with it, otherwise try changing it up, try some new things, maybe switch out a zumba with an elliptical day or try running or run walk intervals. Definitely don't…

It does sound like a self control issue. You need to figure out what areas of dieting you have a better time controlling. for some people that might mean exercising more to give them more calories, for another person it might mean a reduced eating window (like skipping breakfast or dinner in exchange for larger, more…

Don't add dressing, nuts, meats, or salts to it and it should last. add those things before each use. make sure it's in a sealed container too :-)

I found it really hard to get exercise consistently when my kids were pre-preschool. When I am exercising I need to get into the headspace to do it and having my kids asking me to do things for them or trying to work the exercise into daily tasks didn't work for me until I had already got my groove. Things I found that…