JaxxieKat Member

5'5" SW 280lbs, Size 26 pants CW 163lbs, Size 6 (but dang, they're tight) GW 145-150lbs

Mine wouldn't sync yesterday. It's frustrating.

I love Orgain Sweet Vanilla Bean, but I don't know if it has stevia.

I've gone back and forth with WW, but at the end of the day I find with as little as I have to lose to make goal, I can't eat enough to feel satiated and stay within my points. I like tracking calories.

I had fun last week for the 4th, then birthday parties all weekend. I made myself get on the scale and I was up 6lbs. Not thrilled, but I'm back on track. You got this!

Keto is good for a quick water retention "whoosh", but it's not really sustainable as a lifetime dietary pattern. IF is just a schedule. Nothing about fasting makes calories less impactful. It doesn't make you burn fat more efficiently. For me, it allows me to eat more volumous meals later in the day, which tends to be…

IF doesn't do anything magical, in terms of making your body burn calories faster. It can help people stay in their deficit, because you can eat more at meal times. It can also help with digestion, but that's more about comfort than weight loss.

After dinner binge eating. I know it's boredom.

I ate intuitively. My intuition led to an 8lb gain.

I love to drink as well. I budget my calories for a 6oz glass of wine every evening and maybe a nice cocktail or two on Friday or Saturday.

You speak heresies! In all seriousness, I love Halo Top, but my husband hates it. He says every flavor tastes like Play Doh to him. Enlightened is amazing. Aldi makes a great low cal ice cream, but thus far it only comes in chocolate, vanilla, and mint chocolate chip. If you want to splurge a little, the Ben & Jerry's…

This^. I buy their cookie dough protein bar. So good!

I'm not sure I understand. You're clearly concerned about whether or not keto is impacting your health, but you don't want to hear that keto isn't sustainable long-term, because eventually a prolonged state of ketosis jacks the kidneys?

Vinegar is good on salads, bad for your teeth enamel, does nothing for weight loss.

I love their salted caramel bars.

I used hormonal birth control for one cycle (Nuvaring). My eating went totally off the rails and I gained 8lbs. Granted, about half of that was water weight and I shed that quickly, but the other 4lbs I've been working hard the past 2 months to lose. I found that the birth control didn't so much increase my cravings, but…

The mind is a powerful thing. That's why placebo trials are so successful.

It always amuses me when people say things like they never touch chemicals, yet they're using electronic devices that are mostly made of some type of plastic. It's like those people whose blog I used to follow. They lived in a yurt and only ate raw, vegan, organic foods and their kids were only allowed to play with wooden…

I try not to look at it as a cheat. I've learned what lower calorie sweets I really enjoy (like Halo Top) and work a nice meal out every so often into my weekly deficit.

Never tried the PB, but I really like their caramel sauce.

I think if you're managing a diagnosed medical condition you should ask your doctor this question. In general, supplements aren't unhealthy, but with a balanced diet, they are largely unnecessary

Interesting idea. Do you notice the salt?

I took Hydroxycut. Didn't work. Did Slim Fast. Didn't work. I did high carb/low fat vegan. Didn't work. Shacklee 360. Didn't work. Keto. Did work, but I felt awful. 21 Day Fix. That one was pretty neat, because it taught portion control, but it felt super restrictive.

I once had a cashier remark about my Diet Pepsi. She said, "you know these actually make people gain weight.". I said, "how, when they have no calories?" And she said, "I dunno. Something about your brain." I'm thinking, if your brain controlled your weight, I'd have reached my goal two years ago.

Weight loss isn't linear. My weight loss chart looks like a crazy squiggle line. Don't get discouraged.

If SW is anything like WW, you have to watch out for the pitfalls. I'm not a fan of the "free food" mindset. While no one gets obese on a diet of berries and spinach, if you use all of your points on non-free food you may only be eating the number of calories you'd eat when implementing a slight deficit. You pile on rice,…

That's why I used 4 different TDEE calculators be and took an average. Heck, the Bodybuilding forum.TDEE calculator has my maintenance calories at 1345, while IIFYM has them at over 2000.

I put them in dry. I use a Vitamix.

That happened to me with Levis jeans. I wear a size 6. Confident in that sizing, I bought a pair of Chinos from Target, brought them home, cut the tags off and threw be away the receipt. Imagine my surprise when I went to put them on for work one day and I couldn't pull them above my knees lol

As a nice treat I enjoy Harvest Snaps snap pea crisps. I also love pistachios, baby carrots with hummus, and wasabi peas.