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Agreed about Mad Men! I stuck it out for four episodes because of all the rave reviews but one of the main reasons I stopped watching is that I found the constant drinking, smoking, and sexual harassing to be distracting and ultimately, tiresome! Ok, we get it! They drank and smoke and harassed women! All the time!…

Lol. It took me a second to figure out where you were coming from with this comment.

I either bought it on Amazon or direct from Tanita; I can't remember. It was around $500 or $600. My model was the BWB-800S, which has been discontinued. The new version is the Tanita WB-800S plus Digital Scale. Looks like this new version has a BMI function, which mine does not. I agree with the others though that in-home…

I splurged on a doctor's-office-quality Tanita scale about ten years ago, and I love it. It is the kind they use at WW for weigh ins. (The only difference is mine is not legal for trade.) When I had a Polar activity watch last year, I bought the Polar scale that went with it. I had a lot of problems syncing to my watch,…

@crazykatlady820 -- you look amazing and beautiful. So proud of you!

@marykaylady2010: Yikes. Please proceed with caution with this guy. His comment is very much a red flag. Please don't normalize it.

Go Julie go! Yay!!

@dbanks80: "It's like I don't want to go anywhere because I have to deal with the struggle and explaining why I'm not drinking. It's so stressful." Geez, I hate that you and @JulieAL1969 (and others) have to deal with this! Didn't anyone teach their kids manners? When I was an older teenager, my mom was getting ready to…

3 street tacos, either chicken or carnitas. Soft corn tortillas. These tacos are usually just meat, salsa, and cilantro, onion. Sometimes I'll get guacamole too, and just budget for the calories. I agree about skipping the rice and beans. Yes, the beans have fiber, but you rack up the calories very quickly by eating those…

Still seems like a lot of generalizations going on here.

@spvlat : I appreciate your question. I tried to research this very question and could not find a satisfactory answer. I gave up all sugar a few years ago and in so doing, lost my taste for fruit. It all just tastes too sweet. I make up for this with vegetables (I eat 6-7 servings) on typical days. Giving up sugar helped…

Wow, I agree in theory about the need to be a critical thinker and demand sources, but this seems like such an over generalization. Do you really fact check/source check every single food/nutrition film that gets released such that you know for sure they are all "propaganda hack jobs"?

Congrats, @kittybenn!

Wow, @marybethhempel. That is amazing. Great job. And bless your heart for accomplishing that while your husband is still drinking a lot of wine right beside you. That is really impressive!

Be prepared that making this request could cause some tension, especially if you suspect that she is alcohol-dependent. Asking her to go alcohol free for your event might be threatening to her. :(

What if you sent her an email touching upon some of what you told us? Like: I really value our friendship, looking forward to our holiday party. [etc., Bla bla] Thanks for your support for my upcoming plans to abstain from drinking for a while. After thinking more about it, I realized that what would really help me best is…

@MichelleRenee_76 -- oh man! That's tough-- having a partner who likes to drink would make it so much harder to cut back! Environment is so key. My husband very rarely drinks (like, once a year on our camping trip). Neither do his parents. (Who we spend holidays with.) So, as I mentioned before on here, I am "the drinker…

> I didn't say anything about other people being sober. Could not care less. Drink up! Actually, it really seems like you do. Yes, it is your right to post here. All I asked is that you be kind.

"I can't stand to be around drinkers anymore since I quit. They are repetitive and annoying and can be scary, like you said. It's just a dangerous atmosphere. If I go to a party and people start acting intoxicated I leave right away. I don't want to share the road with drinkers. Please get a driver if you're going to…

No sign ups! Just read the thread and post whenever you want to! :)

If you research, you'll see that, the optical heart rate monitors are just not that accurate. (What watches use.) Fitbit is getting sued in a class action lawsuit for the lack of accuracy. I use a Polar cheststrap H10. I love it. I did a lot of research before I bought. I hesitated on buying one because I saw a few…

Thanks for weighing in @cmriverside >> I hope everyone gets what they want out of this exercise in moderation. Yeah, I think a lot of people are getting a lot out of this thread. And I know everyone especially appreciates how it is a judgment free zone! :)

And my 2 cents: I think counting is important and helpful . . . I count and log everything I eat and drink, including alcohol. . .I actually think it's when people don't count that they can get into trouble.

Good for you, @cmriverside!

>>> However, the amount of alcohol I did drink would probably still be a lot to other people. @lporter229: I remember being shocked to read that one drink per day (as in, 5 ounces of wine, etc.) for women is all that is allowed to be considered a "moderate drinker." Once a woman goes over 7 drinks per week, she is…

@lporter229: Great job! :) @JulieAL1969 --- everything is relative when it comes to drinking, isn't it? I have some good family friends that I would describe as a "hard-drinking crowd," i.e., cracking open the alcohol on a regular basis before 11am when everyone is together. Luckily, day drinking doesn't work for me (just…

Good question! I've been thinking about my plan for Xmas day/dinner for the past few days. I will definitely track, but will definitely go over calories. I'd like to try to keep the damage minimal. I've been banking a lot of calories this past week.

@sgt1372: Did you find the Dexa scans to be worth the money?

@crazykatlady820: Congratulations! Day 64, that is wonderful. <3

@MaryBethHempel -- that is great! :)