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Right now, tracking my calories and being able to go for long walks outside (weather permitting) are the only normal, routine things left in my life. The days of, "oh, rats, we need paper towel. Let me run to the store and grab some" are on hold. Living in a multi-generational household of 8 people, one of whom is 84…

Our local news channel shared a very disturbing story tonight of a local couple who both ended up in the hospital and tested positive. The husband caught it first, went to the ER, was misdiagnosed with the flu. A week later his wife developed a little cough. The following day she was ill enough to go to the hospital. On…

Reporting from just outside Atlanta. Our confirmed cases are now in the triple digits with the one death being the only one thus far. One of the early confirmed patients is deemed recovered and should be released from quarantine this week. I went to Kroger today to pick up my elderly aunt's thyroid medication for her.…

I hope you feel better soon. If it's any consolation during these unsettling times, I've heard lots of reports that it's unusual for a sore throat to be the first symptom. Only 14% of patients even reported having a sore throat over the entire course of their illness. 💙

The county I live in here in Georgia currently has the highest number of confirmed cases in the state (which doubled overnight). I had to go to the grocery store yesterday morning. Given how packed it was, I'm hoping the speculation that it isn't spread through casual contact, rather prolonged exposure, is accurate.

I went to Walmart this afternoon. No flour, no sugar, no mac and cheese. Lots of canned goods were sold out. No bleach. No Clorox wipes, no Lysol spray, no hand sanitizer (plenty of toilet paper, though). All workers were wearing latex gloves and some were wearing masks. The shoppers were going about their business like…

We have the first confirmed case in my town. A daycare worker. The next county over has a fire station that is under quarantine, because they attended to a teacher at a middle school who fainted on the job. The teacher tested positive in the hospital and that entire county's school system is shut down today.

I live one county away from where 2 cases were confirmed last night. I'm not worried for myself, but I do worry for my 84 year-old gramma who has had an aortic valve transplant. I went to Walmart this past Saturday and people were going crazy buying water and toiletries. It's frustrating, because it makes it difficult to…

I always work a tall soy flat white into my calories if I want a SB treat. I always log it at 140 calories.

The BMI is mostly rubbish. It doesn't account for anything like lean muscle mass, activity level, or a person's general health. To put it into perspective, I was considered "overweight" at 150lbs, although I looked very slim (I had a few folks I'm close to ask me if I was ill, because my face became so gaunt) and was…

Or you could, ya know, scroll on if you see something you've already read. Sheesh, people on these forums need to eat a snack and check their attitude.

Couple of reasons. First one being that my day-to-day energy expenditure on the job can vary. Second is that I find my Fitbit seems very enthusiastic about estimating my daily calorie burn (some days just getting in 10k steps and no extra cardio it says I burned 2900 calories). Since exercise calorie burn is such a finicky…

I would just let it go unless you're hungry. I would advise not to leave hundreds of calories over at the end of the day, but a small handful is fine to overlook.

Food is neutral, unless you have a legitimate medical condition or allergy that requires you to abstain from certain foods. Fear of certain foods or guilt/shame over eating certain foods is one sign of disordered eating, so it's best to nip that mentality in the bud ASAP.

The reality is that your body reaches a point where is doesn't want to let go of any more fat. There is a point where your body starts to think it needs to lower its BMR to meet you where you're at, calorically speaking. Case in point, you're losing weight eating 1700 calories a day. At some point your body gets really…

I am an office worker who also spends about 3-5 hours a day manually moving boxes that weigh 20+lbs around a warehouse, so I consider that lightly active when combined with my exercise, but I don't log my exercise.

Food is neutral. There are no moral or immoral foods. No clean or dirty. No good or bad.

I'm an oddball who doesn't love the GS cookies, but I always give a cash donation to show support.

The Denise Austin 6 Minute Slimmers booty workout from her 25 Days of Fitness Challenge.

I don't plan on tracking or really working out Christmas day, but I'll get right back on my game the following day. Weather permitting, I'll go for a nice midday stroll, so I'll be moving around, but I'm not going to be strict about it. I also don't weigh myself the following day, because I know the water weight gain will…

If you aren't hungry, don't worry about skipping breakfast. Breakfast being touted as the "most important meal of the day" was a cold cereal marketing ploy. I usually only have coffee in the morning.

I saw an anti-vax person claim to be a Registered Nurse and told someone to drink organic grape juice to cure a stomach virus before running a 5k.

I know one day I'll need a new kitchen scale, but my circa 2009 Weight Watchers food scale is still hanging in there like a loose tooth.

Give it a shot I use it in protein smoothies for the lower calorie load. I find it doesn't really taste like much, but it does tend to satiate me better than when I mix protein powder with just water.

If you haven't already, it may be time to invest in a food scale. I weigh most non-liquid foods on a digital food scale and log it in grams. I use measuring cups and spoons for liquids. The only thing I just sort of eyeball are leafy greens.

I eat two main meals a day. I rarely eat an actual breakfast. I drink coffee in the morning and usually have a light snack around 11am. I typically won't snack between lunch and dinner. I like to plan ahead the day before, pre-log everything in my food diary, then leave about 400 calories open for any evening snacks.

In total, I've lost a baby giraffe.

Do I ever say, "hear, hear!" to this! I've been "losing" the Final Fifteen for over a year now lol

Just a heads up, Thomas Delauer is a hack. He puts out some good info, but most of his stuff is bro science and quackery.