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Thank you everyone for your thoughtful insights and sharing what works for you. I'll try dropping off and watching my weight and see. I cook dailyfor my family of 7, so weighing big pots, figuring total gms in servings, entering new recipes.. it's a lot and if my brain+body can handle skipping it, I'll ease off. I'll…

Stopping and then starting again if I creep up over my top range has crossed my mind. Do you cook quite a bit? Part of my problem is that I try new recipes regularly and I don't like having to measure every bit and weigh totals to get serving amounts. It's been my logging bane the whole 2+ years I've logged :neutral: lol.

I second all the advice. A good teacher can't be substituted at the beginning and it needs to be one who answers your questions about poses and modifications. As you gain some experience, there are a wide variety of free resources available.

Awesome! A half ironman is tucked away in the back of my mind for 2020. I'm not a great cyclist and that portion intimidates me right now. I also hurt my back 4 years ago cycling (training for a sprint), and that snowballed 30lbs of weight gain and getting completely out of shape. 2 years ago, I didn't think I'd ever run…

Thank you for your thoughtful responses; I will definitely check out some tracking software, especially as balancing when to train on fresh legs vs when to train on fatigued legs (and then actually doing it) is hard. I'll also scope out my local runners club and ask around about coaches. I haven't done anything with the…

I do active recovery but not quite that active. An easy to moderate yoga class and then a couple miles brisk walking - maybe 5k tops. But I don't train as strenuously as you do, so our heavy/recovery days are going to look different.

My big stone casserole dish weighs 6.8lbs, and I probably use it once it twice a week. My crock pot liner is over 5lbs too. Maybe my bathroom scale is the winner here after all ;)

Re: weighing original product - this has crossed my mind, but my current scales only go to 4lb6oz - some of my stone dishes weigh 2+ pounds alone! Do you have a reccomendation for a scale that goes higher? I haven't shopped at all. I mean, I guess I could bring my bathroom scale down to use ;) ;)

Thank you for your replies - I'll definitely put some of these in place (I need to build meals for sure, I've only used recipes this far). I did chuckle with leftovers... I have a family of 7 so we rarely have left overs ;)

Hateapples - you'll get there. I remember wanting to cry when I thought about how looking it was going to take me to lose weight... and yet, it came off. And I've done it in a way that feels doable.

30lbs since last fall, but almost 20 of that has been since April with MFP. I'm down to the last 10ish.

I'm 5'5 and have lost 25lbs (179-154). I went from a 10-12ish depending on cut (face it - sweats and leggings) to now a 6-8 depending. I've got 10ish still to lose and I'm curious if I venture into 4s. I've never been there before so it's a little (lot) intimidating.

OP, I understand your question... just don't know the answer. :D :D

Just wanted to update that I must be getting something right! I couldn't guarantee myself a long run tomorrow, plus I didn't want to accelerate my mileage much anyways, so I decided to go out today and run 10k. I figured I'd push my pace a bit and see if I could get some solid mileage in. I shaved 4 minutes off. 4 minutes…

I've wondered if this has contributed to a slow month for me, too. There are so many variables that it's really hard to pinpoint things or know when it is things in your control, or things out of your control. Only time will really tell.

The only straight cardio during the week is spin, and I like it because we do resistance (hill) and speed work. It is ridiculously flat where I live, so I seriously have to drive a solid 30 minutes to get anywhere with enough Hills to make it worthwhile. Doing the resistance training it spin definitely helps with hills.…

Adding: I'm very hesitant to dropping either yoga or the core class. I feel like they're pretty imperative to having gotten my back rehabbed and staying healthy.

I thought it did because I've used it as a sub for ricotta before... but it was late and I didn't want to futz. But thanks for reinforcing that yes, it can - it may become a more permanent sub for me.

I'll have to scope my meijer freezer section for riced veggies. The sweet potatoes sound amazing!

That's what I thought... but my Garmin is confusing me. Thanks for the NEAT/TDEE synopsis. I knew MFP uses NEAT, so that is what I do too. I see some people with pretty even daily/weekly TDEE use that average for their daily calorie goals and eat about the same calories every day regardless of workout, but mine varies too…

I'm not very knowledgeable about TDEE (basic knowledge, but I do my calories more by NEAT). But... would the 700cal on the 20th be because of how hard I worked in the morning with my strength training? Is it giving me that magical "burn calories all day from strength training" idea, so bumping the activity calories for the…

I don't have an "i" next to the exercise. Is that a Premium feature? No, my workouts are separate. For instance: Wed 6-20 I had strength training for 390 cal, walking for 165, and then the step adjustment of 778. Monday 6-25 I had yoga for 164 and step adjustment of 50.

Do you have a ricer? I'd like to try cauliflower rice by wouldn't know how to do more. What all do you rice? Cauliflower mashed potatoes a few years ago was an epic fail at my house :wink: I love veggies. Raw, steamed, roasted in oil, whatever... but I glance at my macros and calories before I grab a snack, and get turkey…

I hadn't considered this and i don't give a lot of thought to how consistently I'm moving through the day. The strangest thing about the 25th was when it synced at 11k steps i had maybe 300cal with it? So i had a 200 cal snack to not have too big a deficit. Then when I checked this morning, it updated to show that I'd…

Trying to answer your thoughts/ suggestions: 1) My negative calories are set to default (on?) That's also what gives me my workout calories, right? I want to leave my workout calories on because that helps guide my eating. 2) i hate the predictive/ assumptive calories too. 3) i haven't recently changed activity levels. My…

Sorry, let me clarify. I'm not logging exercise in MFP - this is all carryover from my Garmin (does that make sense?) When I refer to logging walking, I just mean whether I turn my Garmin to the exercise setting or not.

Sorry my phone was going crazy. My veggie intake has gone down since I started logging because I'm always working on reaching protein goals. Not an anticipated side effect of "dieting" and definitely something I need to address.

I have small milestones. 3-400 calories by mid/late morning so I don't overeat lunch. Under 1000 calories by 3 or 4pm so I'm good on dinner, unless my workout was very high calorie burn then I push it back to 1200. That gives me a variety of ways to space my food depending on what I'm doing that day, but I know I'm still…

That would be fabulous if it wasn't already eaten. :D

Ditto the swapping around styles. I changed hair product brands back in February and am super happy with my current brand. I went from having to wash/ condition every day or every other to only washing/ conditioning every week-10 days. That's regardless of working out or styling I do - i just rinse well with water when i…