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Thank you for saying. It really really is. I don't feel like I can talk about it because I can just picture all the eye rolls. I want to ask my coworker that has always been this size if this is normal or if it might settle as I go, but it's an awkward conversation to start. It might explain why she wears so many dresses.…

Thank you for this thread!!! I have one. I love being being a size I've never been in my adult life. I'm thrilled! And proud! I'm also so frustrated. What is with it with small clothes? I'm at my goal weight of 120 lbs (5' 3") I'm a perfect size 2 US but I still have daily fluctuations of 2lbs up or down from salt or…

I saw him! It was like he was dead. LOL All three challenges complete! I used a kitchen chair as my drum and the floor on either side for extra deep bending. I have two left feet and little rhythm so on the second time through I gave up on following along and did it free form and it sounded a little better. My dog decided…

Thanks for the heads up. I went and looked and it's the challenge points that are making and breaking the teams rankings. I did half of the drumming throughout the week and I'll be sure and finish that up today. I always start out with the attitude of "taking one for the team" and then end up enjoying them. @hawkins410…

That's too funny. I've been getting up to pee too. My goal for the day is to drink more in the am and not before bed.

The spreadsheet is here. You need google docs and possibly and invite from MissionEnforcer if you can't get in. On page 3 we enter our daily minutes and also that we completed the challenges. When completing a challenge also post in this thread and earburn MissionEnforcer, who will then change it from red to black and we…

@MissionEnforcer I've sent everyone a friend request. I live in Raytown, Missouri, a satellite town to Kansas City. The pioneers and travelers moving westward down the Three Trails discovered an area of high, wooded ridges, in the Raytown area, that reminded them of their former homes in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The land…

If you click on each person's name in the spreadsheet it takes you to that players homepage for easy friending. @MissionEnforcer, You are AWESOME!

I'm Sherri and I live in Kansas City. I telecommute for work and I have a passion for food, cooking, knitting, and teaching my dog as many tricks as possible. I started MFP in January and reached my goal weight in July and I'm now maintaining. This is my first successful weight loss of my life and I'm quite pleased. I'm…

Hi. Welcome. My pup is my exercise buddy too and we get out every day. He has just gotten old enough that we have started the C25K for this challenge.

Hi! Welcome. I'm returning too. @glossysweetums and @BJerzy summed it up well. All I have to add is information about the spreadsheet. I advise to login and update it at least three times a week. Waiting until Sunday night means if you forget or the system goes down then the whole week is missed and as a team we need all…

I love Savers! Nice to see it mentioned. I bought my new wardrobe 3 lbs from goal. That sounds safe, right? I reached goal then lost 2lbs more figuring out maintaining. Those 5 pound all came off my rear and I dropped 2 pants sizes. 2 !! Get a thing or two now but wait as long as you can, and then wait a little longer, for…

I would buy a new scale and start fresh. Moving and storing have always killed my scales and I could never get them accurate again and I ended up buying new anyway. Maybe I'm a horrible packer but I've lost three this way.

I did. I was hungry so jumped right into maintenance. By day three my scale has spiked up seven pounds. It was hard emotionally but I trusted the math and kept eating at maintenance and all my Fitbit exercise calories too and the extra pounds were gone in ten days.

I find maintaining to be exactly the same as losing but better. There are just enough more calories that I'm not hungry.

To answer your question of what is normal for other people, when my muscles hurt from a new exercise I can expect a 1.6 lb spike on the scale.

I hear you. I can't have bread at all. Most of the time it's fine but there are days I miss hot fresh from the oven bread so much. There are other things I can eat but it's not the same.

I'm one of the people that the Fitbit HR works perfectly and I lose as expected eating the adjusted amount. Walking 11,080 steps earns me 600 calories. I love my fitbit so much, because of it I'm eating more than I ever guessed I could. But it does overestimate for some people. The only way to know it to test it out for a…

I eat my first and largest meal at 10:30-11:00am. I love it. It keeps me me full and full of energy until supper.

The really gorged feeling almost never. The next few days don't agree with me to the point I avoid doing it even on Thanksgiving. The lightly stuffed feeling I go for as often as I can, as much as two times a week. Lunch out with friends on Saturday and Sunday dinner with family. I really enjoy that happy, warm, but also…

My puppy is also too young, but my last dog was my running buddy. We had a harness that was only used for running. He knew when he was wearing it we would walk a block and a half so he could pee on every post, then once we started no stopping or pulling was allowed. If I got tuckered out and needed to walk he could stiff…

I find the food in the mfp database and choose one of higher calorie options. It's an estimate but better than nothing.

I'm another person where the fitbit is accurate and I eat all my adjusted calories. You will have to test it and see. I believe the more accurate your logging the more of those calories you can eat.

I have a rule that I can only eat on break and only if starved. Work is work. However, I am preheating the oven so I can bake a cobbler as soon as my shift if over.

Confessions: Even bobbling around in the same 2 pounds I still get unreasonably thrilled when the scale shows a loss from the day before. YES! 0.2lb dooooooooooooown! and I do my naked victory dance. I've decided to embrace it as a cute quirk.

The math didn't work out for me week to week because of normal fluctuations but it was within 10% over 30 days. It takes careful logging with a food scale for accurate numbers. As I got closer to goal the math still worked, but I got hungrier and it was harder to stay on track. MFP kept removing calories and I kept putting…

140 cal of dark chocolate two or three times a week and 400-800 cal dessert once a week, so every other day. I have fruit everyday, which I like even better than the chocolates and I should think about that, but nobody is taking away my weekly extra large serving of dessert. Chips, fries, and other high calorie salty…

It whooshed off overnight after holding onto it for 7 days. I plan to have ice cream tomorrow... for science. edit to add: I'm on day 3 of the calorie cycling so just finished a small and large deficit days.

I'm only on week 2 of maintenance myself. Even though I fluctuated upward and put in my current weight, MFP didn't increase my calories from the weight when I set it to maintain (goal weight). For me it only changes the caloric amount when I go into settings and change the goal weight. I have a plan to track my calories by…

@@sijomial, I'm going to do the mixture of maintenance days, slight deficit, days and large deficit days. That will work with my natural way of eating and I'm excited to make it a more planned event. So far it's day 8 of maintenance and I'm holding steady at 3lbs above goal. The last two days I've been at a slight deficit.…