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@gwewl321 I'm sorry about the fatigue issues; boy do I know about those! Hopefully you feel better today! My whine for today is out of frustration with myself. I'm struggling to stick to a deficit all week this week, going over and nearly up to maintenance just about every day, and its showing on the scale. Its my fault, I…
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I cut mayo without a problem in most scenarios, and can use the fat free when i do use it. And I cut out the cheese as well, as I realized I wasn't really tasting it. But I can't give up some sort of creamer for my coffee, whether it be milk or almond milk or something like that. I did swap out 2% for skim and then went…
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the horse thing made me laugh - I can so see something like that happening here! Anyway, your son is a real trooper and I'm so glad he is having so much fun with it! Gives him something he cna share with mom and gives her a fun activity to do with him :)
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@speyerj A size 10?!!! that's tiny! I'm elated to finally be in a size 18W! And I was thrilled to fit into a 22W when I got into there, as well! lol My brother and I were both built to carry our weight well - you'd never guess we weighed what we did, but at the same time, it also took a massive loss to start showing :)…
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That's what makes groups like this one feel like a sanctuary over the main forums; here we have plenty of people to talk to who are like us and understand our struggles. There, they may empathize and truly are compassionate in trying to be helpful, but having not walked any length in our shoes, they simply can't understand…
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Kudos to your son! That's great to hear! It takes a lot of courage to try again after something like that. I hope he learns to enjoy it! Nah, I don't think you'd look ridiculous! Its just great that you are trying! When I was close to getting to 300 lbs, which was 75 lbs off, I bought me a single speed coaster as my gift…
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@_inHisGrace You've made great progress! the 200's are almost there; that's a great feeling when that first number changes from a 3 to a 2. I must be a terrible judge of age; I'd have never guessed you were 45 from your picture - I would have thought much younger! And I would never have guessed @conniewilkins56 was her…
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Sheets has its self serve tea back! 😄 Sheetz is a convenience store with food like a speedway or wa-wa. When COVID hit they had to shut down their self serve drink stations. I like their tea and it was a great bathroom stop when heading up to one of remote work locations. I stopped in today and was happy to see the tea…
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Iran’s? That was supposed to be “in” -the things that happen when your “smart” phone tries to think ahead of you.... lol
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Ugh -my arm is sore! I stopped in this morning to get my bloodwork done for my up coming annual checkup and the lab tech was a student and apparently a newer one. She tried my right arm, missed the vein, rooted around a little to try to get Iran’s then had to move to the other arm where thankfully she hit it on the first…
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@rieraclaelin Unfortunately, yes, if you have a lot of it, you'll feel that. I compare my body to a deflated balloon :) I can't tell you the science behind it, but your skin was stretched tight across those full fat cells and had stretched as they filled up. Problem is, skin only has so much elasticity, especially the…
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@_inHisGrace no, its has nothing to do with CICO. It's just a label some people use to categorize foods. Some people find if they focus on more whole food sources that they have an easier time sticking to a deficit and they need to avoid some foods that they have difficulty moderating. Others are confused by all the…
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@NovusDies I see the time you posted the above, and looks like you were getting up not long after I went to bed.....this is what happens when you are having a great conversation with your best friend and lose track of time. At least it was Saturday night, though I'm quite irritated that the cats woke me up at 7:30 this…
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@_inHisGrace "clean" eating is a very subjective definition of which you won't usually find any two people who agree. I'm going to guess that because it has artificial sweetener in it, its considered "dirty" food. "clean" eating is like "healthy" eating; what someone considers to be healthy foods and non-healthy foods is…
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fat free cream cheese or sour cream makes a great substitute for butter in home baking recipes. when I get a grilled chicken sandwich at Wendy's, I ask them to swap out the artisan bun for a regular bun - it saves over 100 calories on the sandwich; take the mustard off and that gets a 410 calorie sandwich down to about 260…
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I was diagnosed 15 years ago and put on metformin. I've lost 150 lbs since 2017. PCOS may make it more difficult to lose weight because it affects your hormones which can affect your hunger signalling but it will not prevent you from losing weight. If you do some searches for that topic, I think you'll find lots of threads…
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@gewel321 That would be the perfect T-shirt for my best friend! lol
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Weighed in this morning at 223.1 lbs and my moving average is now sitting at 225.6 lbs. 223.1 lbs is 1 lb above my lowest weight 2 Fridays ago but is the exact weight I was on Tuesday morning, the day I started the camping trip. With the way I was eating last week and the lack of activity, 1 lb may be actual weight gain. I…
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@eliezalot The body changing it mind - ain't that the truth! lol In my case, I think its my body refusing to become predictable and liking to mess with my mind by changing on me just when I think I have it figured out :) I almost ended today under but then I couldn't stop myself from nibbling on my tuna casserole leftovers…
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@emmyjaykay oh, I know that feeling! Shirts, too - most of my t-shirts are 2 or 3 sizes too big now but I wear them anyway and my brain thinks that is the right size. I have a few that are the new correct size, but every time I pull them out of the drawer, my brain thinks they are way too small :)
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And welcome to all the new folks in the last couple of weeks - I was out of touch for a week and missed most of you, but feel free to jump in and join the conversation or start a new one - I'm very chatty at times and can't help but stick my nose into things so I'm likely to respond :grin:
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Welcome to you! And don't worry about writing too much - you don't even come close to my track record; just go back and look at the novels I post in the Reports thread lol :lol: I figure most people get on, see that wall of text, and then just skip it entirely and let me rant to my heart's content without even trying to…
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today is weight record day, and I weighed in at 224.5 lbs, which is only 0.4 lbs over my recorded weight 2 weeks ago. Meaning most of that 7 lbs of water weight/excess food weight from last week is gone - which has dropped off much faster than the water weight gain from my first of August camping trip. The weather patterns…
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amen! Nothing in the store can compare! And I've learned that eggplant is the same way - young, fresh eggplant beats the stuff in the produce section in the grocery store by a wide margin.
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you could, but it may well not be a safe rate of loss for you. Eating in a deficit is very stressful on the body - the less you eat the more stressful it is. You aren't just trying to lose weight; you are trying to encourage your body to use its fat stores while at the same time keep enough fuel to maintain adequate body…
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@bobsburgersfan The sad thing is that even with some good losses in the hips area the last few months, I'm still huge there - thankfully I've got wide shoulders too to at least make me proportional, but there's only so much weight loss is going to do there - I've got my grandmother's hips; its the curse of the family lol
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Nah, its not your fault - its more like I just force you to repeat yourself so much :grin:
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@_inHisGrace @eliezalot Same here - I set 220 lbs as my goal weight back when I set up my MFP profile, but I was starting at 375 lbs and that was so far down the road that I really didn't see it as being possible. I kept other smaller milestones in mind - 350 lbs, 325 lbs, 300 lbs, etc. I'd have small ones and larger ones…
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my grandmother from whom my brother and I both get our tall genes from was 5'9" at her tallest, so I had always wanted to be as tall as her. I actually wanted to get to 6 ft as a kid :) People would ask me if I got bullied for being tall, and I always gave them a strange look because I couldn't see why anyone would bully…
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I was at a DD cup and have deflated down to a C cup (and deflated truly is the most apropos word for it lol) I'm very happy to have lost some there; the relief to my back has been wonderful, but I'm quite happy where I'm at right now - the bust and the high waist, at least, are proportional!
