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I'm up 0.4 pounds. Just bouncing around in the same range these days without having my head in the game. I've been pretty distracted with getting ready to move and spending pretty much all of my time cleaning our house out (we're moving from a house to a small two-bedroom apartment). I'm getting a lot of steps in, at…

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I was of healthy weight growing up, but probably starting with the "college 10," put on a few pounds here and there. It became more significant after I got married, but what really got me ballooning up was a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, with multiple courses of steroids. Each time I had to take steroids, my weight went…

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My meals are really "scheduled" around the rest of my schedule. For example, I go to synagogue in the morning, then I go out for a run, come back and shower and get dressed, and then I have my breakfast. Dinner happens either right before or right after evening synagogue services (that time shifts through the year, so my…

I'm down 0.8 pounds, though I still don't have my head in the game. I am doing too much evening snacking and drinking and blaming it on "stress reduction." To be fair, I am feeling stressed as we empty out our house and get ready for our move…there's just so much work to be done and so many deadlines to meet (e.g., the…

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I have terrible sleep patterns and never get the recommended amount of sleep. Does it effect me in negative ways? Yeah, probably. Does it change my appetite? I have no idea as I don't really have a comparator.

It's sad, sort of. IMHO, WW had a great concept and operationalized it well—providing an easy way to count calories and provide caloric/point goals made weight loss simple. Like many businesses, however, they lost sight of their purpose (when they became more focused on lifestyle than weight, and complicated their system)…

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No celebration here.

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We eat a lot of leftovers. Since it's only the two of us, if we cook chicken, it's just as easy to cook enough for a couple of days rather than one meal, and that's the same with any meal we make. I'm not sure it help with portion-control per se, as we only ever serve ourselves single portions regardless of what we're…

I'm down 1.4 pounds, but I'm actually struggling with not having my head in the game. I'm roughly 10 pounds over my personal goal, and I am snacking too much and rationalizing too many glasses of wine. I am definitely stressed out with the mad-rush of trying to clean out our house in anticipation of putting it up on the…

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It's hard to compare "appetite" then and now (at least it is for me). There are a few points of comparison I can make, though. First, it's pretty rare for me to go completely wild and stuff my face silly these days. Way-back-when (even after starting WW), there were times where I felt out of control and ate way more than I…

This has to be one of those "does it pass the 'make-sense' test" issues for me. For someone with no major medical issues, it's hard to argue that any fruit is bad for you. Sure, overconsumption of anything isn't great, but I think this is one of those cases where the concerns they raised are just such a non-issue that it's…

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In the beginning of my weight-loss time, I devoted a lot of mental energy towards managing my intake. The learning curve was very steep and it was pretty impressive how little I know about what was "healthy" (i.e., lower in calories) and what wasn't. Each meal was such an effort to figure out, and going out to a restaurant…

I'm up 2.4 pounds—eek! I'm hoping this is just some "post-wedding-attendance" residual. At the same time, I have been a little off my game in recent weeks, and so it's time to get refocused. We had a lot going on with my daughter's wedding a few weeks ago, then Passover, etc. Now those things are done. However, we have a…

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