dawnda1234 Member

I live in a Detroit suburb. Lol. 95% of the people at my gym are exceptionally nice. I get flack from a very small percentage of woman there that weight train. They can be very competitive and critical of their own bodies. Many of them have a negative attitude toward doing cardio, which they see me doing a lot of.

I have heard nightmare stories about woman in the work place. I have a beautiful girlfriend who was bullied by woman at work. They punctured one of the tires on her car at work and it blew up going down the highway on her way home. They literally could have killed her. Stay strong. You look beautiful! We need to start a…

Congratulations! I lost 118 pounds last year myself and am also looking for friends. I would love it if you added me. I am still logging maticulously and excercising even more because I have so much more energy and subsequently eating more. It's a vicious cycle of health and fitness. It's going to be a great year!

Maintance is not that different from weight loss. Your just adding a few extra calories. You might want to try a Fitbit and sync it to fitness pal to measure calories in vs calories out. This way you can figure out a diet that includes daily "snacks" rather than bingeing off the grid and gaining weight. It's all about…

OMG! Where does this teacher get off making the children eat healthier! This form of dictatorship in the public school system is just appalling!

I find that by eating healthier foods prepared at home I can eat more everyday, plus some not so healthy snacks. I want to maintain my new healthy body / weight far more than I want my husband's leftover double layered birthday cake with homemade butter cream frosting that is sitting on my dinning room table. You have to…

I just got one 3 weeks ago and synced it to my fitness pal and it is amazing! I have read they are very accurate. It is a fabulous device that helps relieve weight gain anxieties. It also emails you weekly report summaries. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

I have only been maintaining for 3 weeks and need some friends. Please add me too!

Name: Dawn SW:262.5 CW:143 Start date January 4th 2016 - November 30th 2016. I lost 7 pounds trying to maintain in November because I was afraid to eat my exercise calories. Three weeks ago I got a fitbit and synced it to fitness pal and solved the issue. The fitbit is amazing! I highly recommend it it for people…

I had to read your post over again slowly, (Winogelato) but I finally get it. That calorie adjustment enabling is pretty cool. Thanks for your patience. I think fitness pal and fitbit are the best thing to ever happen to diet and fitness. I can eat healthy and indulge guilt free from time to time. I love being able to…

I have lost 120 pounds naturally through diet and exercise. I started maintenance the first November and co time continued to loose 6 pounds because I was freaking out about eating my exercise calories. A friend suggested the fitbit to track calories in vs calories out. I have had it for a week and a half. I also log my…

Thank you so much. I am 45, 145 pounds. I do an hour of weight training 3 days a week, 40 to 50 minutes of moderate cardio a day and a half hour walk most evenings. Also, I am averaging 16,000-20,000 steps a day. The lightly active setting gives me around 1840 calories + between 600 and 1000 exercise calories a day from…

Thank you! What is negative adjustments exactly? Can I set myself at sedentary and enable negative adjustments?

Take baby steps. Start by just committing to eating healthy.

I do not believe this is just a calorie counting site. If there wasn't a psychological component to eating, everyone educated on CICO would eat healthy foods within their caloric range all the time. They wouldn't need any of the motivation or support the other users of this site provide.

Would love to talk food and help motivate!

I have lost 50 pounds in 5 months and have 70 to go. I started with just wanting to eat healthy. I googled healthy dieting and read everything I could about eating healthy for weight loss. The key is to educated yourself and then pick the healthy foods you like to eat and track your calories. You will learn to tweak your…

Way to go! I'm down 50 pounds and have 70 to go. Would love to have you as a friend.