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barefoot shoes aren’t for everyone. Start with one pair and you’ll know pretty quick if you like them. You either love them, or hate them. I’ve worn a German brand called Leguano for going on ten years, and probably have ten pair in daily use right now (plus backups, they’re almost impossible to get in the USA) in every…
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anything is high in calories, if you eat enough of it, and I could eat my weight in watermelon. As far as late night snacks, it’s a hard no for me. I eat a bowl of watermelon, and in thirty minutes it’s potty time. That’s like deliberately sabotaging my sleep. 🤦🏻♀️
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the fried plantain ice cream is a winner! Tastes like caramel, and came out very creamy. I used plantains, coconut oil,plain greek yogurt, water and a little brown sugar.
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this little gizmo will rock your coffee world. 1/3 cup skim (skim works best) pumped about twenty times, and then microwaved for thirty seconds will render 3/4 - 1 cup thick frothed milk. Other than that, higher quality coffee. I’ve been drinking black coffee a lot- and enjoying it- since discovering quality coffee on a…
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strongly suggest you bookmark the NSV thread over in Success Stories. NSV aka Non Scale Victories helped push me long to success. I identified with each and every post.
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I see it for sure. Your chin and cheekbones are more defined in the face, and trunk looks slimmer. Good job! Carry on, don’t lose too fast, and have a plan in place to keep it off!!!
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yup! You can experience changes overnight, or sometimes within hours. It can be sodium, sweat, bloating from cabin pressure on a flight, lotsa carbs, your period. Get used to it, and learn to enjoy the ride. Your body is a finely tuned piece of machinery. This is me at 5:42 am, and again, five hours later, following two…
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chocolate pancakes with chocolate peanut butter spread, sprinkled with hagel. Coffee with frothed milk and collagen. Right now shows me over on calories, but that’s because I pre-log my days. I’ll have a nice deficit in an hour or so. 👍🏻
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agree with @yirara. How does it know the difference between a great bean soup and a meaty chili? They look similar. How does it know if I grilled a lean steak versus a filet mignon? If I rubbed it down with butter or oil? Used salt and pepper versus one of those rubs that are half sugar? When I make my smoothie or homemade…
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I assume you’re using an iPhone with a fit bit. Try turning off sharing Go to the health app on your iPhone click your profile icon in the upper right corner Go to apps Change your privacy settings for whatever you don’t want to share to MFP, including your steps and probably any other activity line, since Fitbit is…
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and PPS: I’m typing this on my stationary recumbent bike. I love this thing. Fat chance of hurting myself on this thing, and it’s also a great workout and calorie burn.
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and PS, what’s the point of being overcautious about injuries versus saddling yourself with the even more “crippling” prospect of lifelong obesity? I’m saying that as someone who spent decades in those shoes, well, pants.
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Walk. As crazy as it sounds, invest in good quality shoes fitted by a professional at a running store. Good shoes rocked my world in terms of fewer incidents of tripping, blisters ceased, and comfort improved so much I wanted to walk. Yin or beginning yoga. Water aerobics aka aquafit. Swimming laps. Super low impact and…
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I’m going to go out on a limb here. Your mother was watching? She was critiquing your eating? My mom was morbidly obese from the time I can remember. She had a tough childhood, and adulthood wasn’t much kinder to her. . I get it, she compensated with food. Even when we couldn’t afford meat, there was always a stash or two…
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hi @faithroman0703 welcome to MFP! it’s pretty simple- and that watch is going to rock your world, if you choose to use it properly, in conjunction with weighing your food and logging it here. I started at age 58, 225lb, well into obese category. I thought I knew about nutrition (those elementary school health classes, and…
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hi @donnawebster447672 welcome to MFP! I’ll be 63 shortly, and my husband just turned 70. Maybe it’s my newsfeed targeting me, but I’m getting a flurry of articles about scientific research proving that remaining engaged helps with health and mental status as we age, and can help fob off dementia. What’s fun in your mind?…
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So happy to see you back here again. You’re one of the users I most respect, and you’re such a smart lady. If anyone can get control, you can. Pride’s not a *kitten* or a sin. We have to have pride in ourselves to reach goals, to hold ourselves accountable, to stand up to those who think we will (or want us to) fail. Pride is…
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hi, @yogimandy81 Welcome to MFP! I’m going to assume you’re relatively new to calorie counting and watching macros it can make your head spin. Don’t try to make everything perfect all at once. Give yourself grace. You’re showing up, you’re trying, you’ve got time for improvement later on - same as your yoga practice. You…
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my old trainer had me bench with a bamboo bar, using either plates or kettlebells, attached, dangling, by heavy rubber workout bands. The object was to do it with as little wobble as possible, in a smooth benching motion It was like benching a couple sacks full of angry wet cats. But that was my #1 favorite thing to do in…
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seriously, welcome to MFP @KassandraUptegrove read these boards, learn from them, separate the TikTok fast diet believers from the lose mindfully believers, and you will be successful. “Fart around”, as my dad would have said, don’t apply yourself, and you won’t be. It’s got to be a wholehearted effort with an early eye…
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The other 40% of me I left sitting on the curb would say, “Yes, calorie counting in the form of weighing accurately, logging honestly, and sticking to a reasonable goal worked very well indeed.”
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if you ever read the ingredients in sprinkles, it’s enough to put you right off the things. naaahhh, everyone deserves some cake and ice cream sprinkles in their life
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I’d give some thought to what changed in the past five years to make your weight increase? Was it a sedentary job? Family stress? Did you simply start eating more? Drinking more? An illness? What habits changed? What could you do to unwind some of that? Intermittent fasting is not a magic pill some people find it’s helpful…
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and since I had to make espresso in the Aeropress for the granita anyway, I’m treating myself to a mid afternoon black coffee with my Nugo bar. Heaven!
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our wonderful little closet sized Italian bistro, owned by “real” Italians, has introduced gelato, Nutella doughnuts and bread they slip a scooting and then toast in the pizza oven. They also got this granita machine marked “Crema da cafe” (or close enough). Raphael gave me a sample and it was divine, but then he sadly…
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I’m truly surprised. I thought we females got more gorgeous the more you men drank! After a case, they should have all been supermodels! Beer goggle criteria. 🤷🏻♀️
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death by food dye?
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my list of potential honeys, I mean “friends”, keeps getting whittled down. I assume they’re getting reported. Yay, MFP for deleting these jokers.m!
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The AI Photoshop Pinch an Inch app (it’s a boomer thing) the Lazy Chair Yoga Somebody's Gonna Get Hurt Here app the Developers Were too Cheap to Hire a Real Human Underweight Model app the Magical IF is Gonna Solve All Your Weight Problems app (there’s several of these): the 3-Weeks Yoga Results app: this is all the modern…
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There’s so many! The Fat Burning app. The No Exercise weight loss app. The Flat Tummy app. Tons of 7-Minute Exercise apps. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole so you don’t have to: behold, the Shrinking Woman app: The App That Changes Your Avatar The I’m So Happy My Pants are Loose app the Aw, Come On Give Us a Kitten Break AI…
