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Rosemary, pepper, salt for mild eggs. For spicy, Sriracha! I've also recently fallen in love with argentinian sauce; there is a brand in CO called chipporo that you can buy online at least in the US. http://www.chiporro.com. I like the uchu sauce, my husband likes the cilantro jalapeno. Both are extremely low calorie. Both…

Thank you everyone! These are all really great things to hear. I am probably taking this way too personally. I realize how much of my self-esteem I hung on my job and being good at it, and getting appreciation from it. What I realize is that I have to find these things in myself; not outside myself. Taking small steps…

Please do not beat yourself up. Just start now. If you don't think you have the willpower, read this. Mind-blowing in my opinion. If you think you can do it, you can: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2011/01/10/how_your_percep/ What I took away from this is that if I replace "willpower" with willingness my "willpower" is…

I work out in the evening usually after a quick 15-20 minute power nap. I recently learned a really nifty trick that works for me...in an article about how "willpower" is depleted throughout the day, we use "willpower" every time we keep from flipping someone off, or working hard at work, or just generlaly living life, so…

35 forever...because 35 is the perfect age. you know yourself well, your metabolism is still decent...before then your brain is underdeveloped and after then your body starts to go downhill! LOL

!! I was talking to my doctor about how I find it almost impossible to control my sugar urges with willpower after I get home from work, but feel totally in control during the day, and she mentioned this which I found fascinating: "One of the most replicated findings in the field of willpower research is that people who…

I think its unrealistic and unhealthy. No one has 4-6 hours a day and a fitness coach living with them. It also focuses too much on weight loss versus body fat percentage and measurements. As you lose weight and work out more you gain muscle which weighs more than fat, so the people who are gaining good amounts of muscle…

its important to eat regularly to keep your metabolism "stoked", and to eat the minimum number of calories you should for your weight & activity, as much as it seems counter intuitive. Truly think of your metabolism like a fire; if you don't eat for a while it doesn't try to burn anything because you are not feeding it…

I totally got jazzed on lifting about 10 years ago...I had always done just cardio and focused on numbers until my husband, a bodybuilder, convinced me that the better way to go was to stop focusing on numbers and cardio and start focusing on body fat and lifting with cario. So I took swimsuit photos, eek, did 12 weeks…

so over 40 and OVER 40, friended you. This is one of my favorites about working out in your forties: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exercise_response

HI Sarah there is a fitbit group here; it really gets into the technical weeds but its great reading! LOL.

are you talking about saggy skin from weight loss or facial anti-aging? for face, retin-A (encourages collagen development, need to get from a dermatologist), TNS Serum (its very expensive but very worth it, totally gross ingredients), regular IPL facials, and do facercise (see amazon). The former three will firm your face…

THIS! ^^ Do photos and BFP! You can really visually swap out a lot of fat for a much smaller quantity of muscle because muscle weighs *much* more than fat. When I first started trying to get into shape some years ago, I did body for life, which has kind of fallen out of fashion, but it was based on a bodybuilder's starter…

Hey guys! What a positive and happy group. This is awesome. I would LOVE to be part of this group if anyone is willing to add me. Morning checkins are awesome. My weekend was ok...I blew it on Friday with mexican food; pretty sure between chips, margarita and a cheese enchilada I ate umpteen jillion calories, but I tried…

Right!? At first you may not want to do something like getting up early and working but if you can be willing you will probably slowly find rewards that help you want to do it.

One other thing to consider if you want perhaps a positive thought to help you: it only takes a minute to get into exercise and then you're doing it. you're in motion. Its not like, say, not eating chocolate cake if that is something that taxes your willpower, where you have to say no to that internal demon over and over…

I think a lot of people have a really hard time doing this, including me, so don't beat yourself up. My experience is that in order to stick to working out I have to do it when I am consistently willing. For me this is either on my lunch break or after work (after a short nap). I alternate days...cardio one, lift the next…

Another article with the same researcher: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur Anyone else feel this seems suspect?

Kate Siegel

Just...wow. Phenomenal change. Congratulations!

I watched my family live through the cycle of shame about eating, and eating to feel better, and then feeling ashamed again. My mother abused food (and still does) and my father emotionally abused my mother for being heavy and abusing food. It was this awful, terrible cycle and it created - for me- a very negative…

When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

What works for me is to to plan and track both my eating and my workouts, and to take photos in a swimsuit every 2-3 months so I can't fool myself into thinking I'm in fine shape when I am not.( I do wish MFP had a "planner" as opposed to just a logging tool.) I don't keep foods in my house that I know are pitfalls for me…

yup, this is by far the TASTIEST way to make brown rice. It tastes a billion times better. I've used stovetop, rice cooker and there is no comparison to rice done in the oven (I thought Alton Brown originally perfected it?). Also you can cook other things at the same time like socajam says. I'll suffer a hot kitchen for it…

Udi's gluten-free has 80 cals a slice

I have this problem when I eat refined flour. Research points to round up as a dessicant in wheat flour...dries up wheat, can't imagine it wouldn't dry up your digestive tract: http://inhabitat.com/roundup-bread-the-real-reason-americans-are-intolerant-to-wheat/

But you clearly have MUCH more muscle than you did when you were 120-something.

yes, hormones are a *kitten*. Happening, slower than when younger. I used to be able to do cardio at my own pace but now I have to follow a regime or I don't really get my motor running enough to make a difference. I also get accpuncture which seems to help my hormonal stuff.

If you can get your hands on the P90x3 videos there is a series called Dynamix and another called Isometrix, both of which are that is really wonderful and easy on the back. Some is on the ground and some is standing. About the first 15 minutes of Dynamix is done on the ground and I find if my back is tweaky (I have old…