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Welcome! I suck at self-discipline. My best success has come from making it EASY to make the healthier choice, and making the unhealthy stuff harder to get. I'm lucky in that my family all creates food separately--so when I don't buy bread, I can't *have* bread (unless I steal it. And I'll be honest--sometimes I do.) I…

Hi! I'm the same, gotta have my coffee and I am not drinking it black. What I've done is tweak my routine, pushing the coffee a bit later. I started out having it at 8, on my way to work, and now I have it at 10, in a natural break in my morning at work. Just something that worked for me.

Hi, @JzzyB4! That's a good reason. there are lots of threads of folks trying to do the same thing, I would recommend finding one and jumping in. People will be glad to give you all the pointers they wish they'd known, good ideas, all that stuff. We are all here to help each other!

My biggest one is to take a well-traveled trail, then you're not ACTUALLY alone. if you get into trouble somehow, someone will be along shortly to help. Every time I go hiking, I am amazed anew at how friendly everyone on the trail is. We all share something, after all--a love of nature and a joy to be out there. It's more…

Hi, @coffeerose55 ! The gang has moved on to the February thread, linked right above your post. I think a lot of us can empathize with consistency issues!

Fantastic job! you have changed your life.

still here, still reading. Still cheering you all on.

Welcome! My best advice would be that if it's hard to figure out how to eat well, make it as easy as possible. I make overnight oatmeal on Sunday, and eat it for breakfast all work week. I make different flavors, so it's not the same thing day after day. Premade, super easy, and I don't have to talk myself out of a…

I just wanna know why I can gain four pounds in twenty-four hours, but it always takes a flipping week to go the other way... *grumble*

You're amazing, OP. I am cheering you on.

Last year I lost 40 pounds and gained a heart condition. And still my cardiologist says in that you're not going to do it but I'll say it way that losing some weight would help. So my goal is to lose 20 pounds by my next visit in March. I'd rather prove him right that it will help, than prove him right that I won't listen.

I am trying to decide if participating in this thread helps me or not (sometimes I avoid posting bc it's too much effort to check in, and then I feel FREE TO EAT WHATEVER) but I am still cheering all of you on!

Met a new health-care provider yesterday, and as she went through my file, she read out loud that I'm diabetic. Except I've never received that diagnosis, so I questioned it (unfortunately, it is NOT uncommon for doctors to not tell me things...) She went and looked at my last labs, and asked "why is that in there? Your…

Grumpy not-tangent: exactly what help do they think yelling at you would be, if you WERE anorexic? No eating disorder (or any other disorder!) has EVER been cured by someone yelling at the sufferer! For fish's sake, people, THINK. @Helen_Xen It is mentioned, sometimes! Try these threads--…

You haven't failed anyone. you're doing what you're supposed to do! It's hard when your body doesn't cooperate. One thing that helped me when I stopped losing, was upping my protein. Not saying that's what you need--but maybe something similar is going on with you? Someone else mentioned their B12 was deficient. Maybe you…

food prep! I got back from an AMAZING trip on Monday where I ate far too much for a month. I didn't manage to eat much better Tuesday. Or Wednesday--but I did make overnight oatmeal for Thu and Fri back at work. And I already had homemade soup in the freezer. Yesterday all my coworkers kept bringing me treats (and…

I did! Or I lost the fat from behind my ears, maybe? Anyway, I notice that my earlobes seem to hang rather than being pushed out at an angle. And at my highest, I always had problems with altitude changes affecting my inner ear. I *had* to wear ear plugs on planes or I would suffer. Now I don't have issues. And the award…

Last minute for a long trip, I jumped on Amazon to get a sun-protection shirt next day delivery. Usually I buy my clothes from Woman Within, but I ordered XXL from two different brands, and crossed my fingers. BOTH fit me.

i'm here and reading. Super busy (and stressed) with getting ready for my trip, and not trying to lose any more weight in the middle of that. Thinking I might do some challenge or something in November, bc I'll probably come home having gained some weight. I'm cheering you all on!

oh my gosh, thank you for this. I think I've been getting glimmers that this is why I eat like I do (I'm much better with material stuff, or I'm getting there.) Thanks for stating it "out loud." Another thing that gets me is trying to plan ahead and expecting lack. "better eat now, might not get the chance later" then…

well done!

Flylady saved me years ago. I'm having a heck of a time getting back on the system, but setting a timer for fifteen minutes, decluttering, and "Do it now" still keep me from utter CHAOS.

They'll tell you that you have to exercise, and they'll tell you that you can't out-train a bad diet. But I don't remember anyone telling me that exercising would make me WANT to eat better. It's so much easier to make good choices! Is it endorphins? Is it not wanting to mess up my hard work? Could not tell you. But I'm…

yesterday I accidentally hiked a lot longer than I meant to, and I *enjoyed* it. Didn't start internally whining I was going to die until I was back on the road walking uphill back to my car that was much farther from the trailhead than I thought. (I think someone moved it about twenty miles farther away while I was…

Age: 52 Height: 5' SW: 266.6 (1/4/21) January 2022: 233.5 February: 235.4 March 230.9 April 226.8 May 225 June 224.6 July 228.6 Aug 1st 223.1 9/2: 222 9/9: 9/16: 9/23: 9/30: Onwards.

i've had four days of just not caring much about what I ate. I don't really know why--I just...ate what I wanted. I didn't get down on myself, I did try to make healthier choices, but I wasn't anywhere close to my budget, and probably over maintenance too (I didn't fully track.) I tried to halt it after day one, day two,…

whoops. seems I left this sitting in Drafts on Friday. Age: 52 Height: 5' SW: 266.6 (1/4/21) January 2022: 233.5 February: 235.4 March 230.9 April 226.8 May 225 June 224.6 July 228.6 Aug 1st 223.1 8/5: 225.1 8/12: 220.9 8/19: 219.9 8/26: 220.2 okay. I've pretty much resigned myself to not losing any more weight before I…

I'm currently paid bc I really love MFP and want to support it. I came here from Lose It! which didn't work for me. I don't plan to pay premium every year, though! So I guess I'll see what things look like when my membership runs out. I already let my Fitbit membership go, because this is the app I mostly use.

. when I got my first pedometer, I found I was walking maybe 2500 steps a day. Now it's a rare day I don't hit 7k. And I'm not really trying.

yesterday was a *horrible* day. I went in search of comfort food. Someone gave me Jack in the Box tacos she had extra from her lunch. I took two bites and decided I didn't want them--I wanted something sweet. So I told myself that after work, on my way to an appt, I would get a strawberry shake. If I'm going for comfort…