thewindandthework Member

Pogs. Thousands and thousands of Pogs.

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No amen from me; I don't care what people call the occasional indulgence. I'm prone to overthinking, and I suspect that might be exactly what you're doing here.

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A model of the Taj Mahal constructed of peanut shells and chewed bubble gum. It's impressive.

That's the Occoquan, Virginia Emergency Response Line. They do good work. U.A.N.V.I.

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I like to cook, but when I'm not in the mood or don't have the time or energy to put a lot of work in, I usually make some pasta or rice, and eat it with roasted or sautéed veggies.

Agreed. I edited my post between the time you quoted me and the time you posted.

Oh Oh, I can relate to this. When I started losing weight I had only a rough idea of what I weighed because I was afraid to weigh myself. I forced myself on the scale a while after I started losing weight, and I'M SO GLAD I DID. If I didn't know where I started, I wouldn't know how far I've come! Actually I wish I had…

I would do sweet potato fries and a red cabbage lime slaw with cilantro and maybe some roasted corn. Sounds good!

I've never seen it do it automatically. Go to settings and click 'update diet/fitness profile'. Your new weight will already be there, you just need to click 'save' and your calorie goal will update. I go in and do it every time my weight goes down. Normally it doesn't cause a change to the goal, but once in a while it'll…

Your diet is much more important to weight loss than your exercise. Weigh your food, log everything. Stay under your calorie goal. Exercising is good for your health, of course, but its only relevance to weight loss is burning some calories.

You want to control as many variables in your weigh-in as possible. The generally recommended method is to weigh naked in the morning, after using the restroom but before showering, eating, or drinking. In other words, dry, naked, and empty is the way to weigh.

* I'm only just now starting to be able to see it in the mirror, and I'm at 50 pounds down so far. * I could see it in pictures at about 30 pounds, I think. * Other people started noticing at about 20 pounds. * I could tell my clothes were fitting a little looser at about 10 pounds.

I had a feeling that might be the case, but didn't want to assume. Yes, weighing really, truly makes a huge difference. When most people start weighing their food (including me), they find that they've been seriously underestimating how much they're eating. Food scales are cheap, and they make a world of difference. I…

For the record, I have lost a little over 50 pounds in 5 months, which works out to an average of 2.5 pounds per week. I would definitely not want to be losing any faster. However, I started at 281.6 pounds, and the heavier you are, the safer and easier it is to lose weight quickly. Right now you're pretty close to the…

You mention you're logging consistently, which is great! Are you weighing all your food with a scale?

Yes, I completed Weeks 3 and 3.5. The 3.5 I created is a little different than the ones I later realized other people have made, but pretty much the same thing. It's an intermediary week that's more challenging than 3 but less so than 4. I was thinking if I get through W4D3 and can do one of the fives, I'll just repeat W4,…

Three pounds a week is intense, but for some people who are very overweight it's possible. I would want to know more before giving advice. You gave your weight, but without context it doesn't say much. May we know height?

Week 4 is not going so great, tbh. I've done days 1 and 2 and have only been able to do one of the four 5-minute intervals straight through. I'm gonna do day 3 as well as I can, and if it doesn't go better, I'm gonna go back and do my Week 3.5 again.

I definitely recommend getting a food scale. They're cheap and make a world of difference. You're almost certainly eating way more calories than you think. Seriously, weighing all your food and logging accurately will BLOW YOUR MIND. Almost everyone who starts weighing food is surprised at how far off their estimates were,…

Starting weight: 281.6 lbs (04 Feb 2017) Current weight: 227.8 lbs (29 Jun 2017) Total loss: 53.8 lbs Loss last week: 0.00 lbs (Scale read the same today as it did last Thursday, but my weekly average is down a pound, so I'm not worried.) Goal loss rate: 1 lb per week (MFP kcal goal is set to 2 lbs per week) Next…

Born in '83, and I definitely identify with younger Millennials better than with Gen Xers. Tumblr keeps me young.

I've been sort of obsessed with cucumber salads lately. Delicious, refreshing, versatile, and quite filling considering how low in calories it is! Pretty much my only constant ingredients are cucumber, onion, and some kind of vinegar. Everything else depends on what I'm in the mood for!

I weigh daily and log it in MFP every morning. When it's a new low weight, I have MFP recalculate my calorie goal. Usually it doesn't change, but once in a while there's a decrease of 10 calories. I'd much rather do it that way than have bigger reductions less frequently.

I'm 50 pounds into a 101 pound weight loss. It's totally possible! Having friends with similar goals and difficulties has been very helpful and motivating for me.

They're probably asking for height, weight, age, sex.

Yeaah I did a lot of reading about C25K specifically (and beginner's run training in general) before I started, and everything I read told me to literally run as slowly as possible, which is exactly what I'm doing. There's no slowing down from the rate I'm already going. But I'm definitely going to keep doing this workout…

As part of my interval training yesterday, I ran for 5 uninterrupted minutes!! Of course, I was supposed to do it twice, and couldn't quite get there, but 5 straight minutes of running is a huge victory for me! Wow!