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My NSV today….:getting all excited over new gym possibilities. Who am I, and what did I do with old, fat, lazy, gave-up me? 😅😂😂

Our daughter and her partner just bought a new home. Me being me? I’ve “walked” the area via Apple Maps. No yoga studios (small town, looks like they all closed because of the pandemic) but she’s right across the street from the town SV, a sort of sporting club that is also the home for the town’s football (soccer) team.…

If you’re forwarding to include future days that aren’t logged yet, then of course those are affecting your averages. I generally log several days in advance. If I looked forward to include those days as well, then I’d have really wonky numbers because the food is already logged, but of course no exercise has happened yet.…

Brief hijack…. @dmkoenig every time I make zoodles they turn into a soupy mess. I’ve tried draining, pressing, salting, decanting them into paper towels. If there’s a trick, please share.

And as the Queen Sugar Freak who could’ve run circles around you amateurs, it’s still odd to hear that come out my mouth! It is, btw, Cadbury Crispy Egg season. I would knock down two or three large bags a day til they sold out. I promised myself I could still have one single (really, it’s like three) serving bag a year if…

It’s not that they lose their appeal so much as being healthier is more appealing.

I had a Taylor Farms Mediterranean Crunch salad last night, topped with diced, browned chicken I’d hit with a sprinkle of Lawry’s/ season salt. Half the bag + 7 ounces chicken was 428 calories, a ton of protein, and nutritious greens. And it was delicious.

Beware the tracked, aka Destroyer of Dreams. It drives a lot of people here bonkers because they don't understand that every day is NOT the same as today. You’ve obvs got more sense than that. I’ve found ground chicken works great in Italian dishes, especially lasagna. I mix a generous bit of Italian herbs or herbs de…

Just had the Taylor Farms Mediterranean Crunch salad with browned chicken on top. Half a bag + half the accompaniments +7 oz chicken was 428 calories. (I cut my chicken into small strips and brown it in a hot, dry pan with a little season salt. No oil.) It was delicious! Nutritious! And took all of five minutes to make.…

One of our neighbors owns a Hooters. When I first started working on losing, he catered a neighborhood pool party. I had four wings and thought I’d done great. Came home to log them and discovered the stupid things were hundred of calories each- four of them were over half my daily calorie goal. I just started bawling.…

First of all, asking random strangers to yay or nay you on something critical to your health is maybe not the best plan. This is a personal decision, in conjunction with your doctor. Second, the way you’ve worded it is that you plan to wait til you’ve lost “the majority” of the weight to move and start counting calories.…

It makes me so happy to see someone putting all the tools in place! Go, you!

I’m so happy for you. I absolutely love this post. I did my loss the “hard way”, too. I don’t know what I would have done had injections been available when I started in 2018. Knowing me, I would probably have jumped on them. I can’t judge others, but I know for me. Doing it this way was the best possible outcome. I’m…

Welcome Back @pamelaory Can I make a suggestion? Your words indicate the path you will follow. “Desperation” implies aiming for quick loss. I bet that’s what you tried last time, and gave up in frustration, hunger, anger, exhaustion. Take it slow this time. You have all the time in the world. If you “only” lose half a…

Bunco last night. Goddamnit why does there have to be bowls of chocolates on every *kitten* table????!!!!!! That’s why I don’t keep hardly any in the house. I can’t stop. And knowing it was bunco, I cut loose earlier in the day when I meant to bank calories after breakfast. Yep. Prelogged today and tomorrow and working on…

My general practitioner is a big proponent of functional medicine. Interesting that one of the triggers is food poisoning. We certainly came home with something akin to that on our visit to Uzbekistan, which seemed to have triggered the whole mess, from eye issues right down to foot issues. However, it’s passed now, and…

Hi @kao1 It’s very easy to do. Here’s how. First, the other person must send you a Friend Request and you have to accept it. Their diary must be set to privacy setting visible “friends” or “all”. Go to the main menu and open your friend List. Go through the list and find your friend. Click on the little journal emblem. If…

And welcome To MFP @pitnerm107 !

If you can afford it, invest in a tracker. Mine (Apple Watch) automatically distinguishes a more energetic flow class versus a more relaxed one versus a yin class and records a much more accurate estimate of calories burned. If you’re relying on MFP, it’s kind of one size fits all. There can be quite a difference between…

Ps: Their stir fry kits are in a separate location in most groceries my Lidl and Kroger have them in a completely different area than the Taylor salad bowls.

I absolutely love their apple walnut chicken salad bowl but I usually dump it on top of a large serving of lettuce and stir it up so their delicious dressing hits all corners. Check their stir fry kits, too. I add dry-browned chicken. Their teriyaki sauce isn’t high cal, But sometimes I substitute a little honey-ginger…

Don’t worry about macros for a long while yet. Instead, focus on learning to weigh accurately and log well. I found that as I focused on calories, that caused me to make better food choices, which caused macros to improve. Once I had a grip on the basics, I could allow myself the luxury of focusing on macros- and now with…

I wouldn’t go out and buy it, since I’m personally a frothed milk fan but in a pinch it was fine.

I don’t know if this qualifies as disordered thinking. It probably does. I was so heavily invested in Low Cal!!!!! thinking that the thought never even occurred to me. How insanely stupid is that? I’m going to investigate “normal” coffee syrups. coincidentally, I was craving a Diet Coke at the museum today and treated…

I was all about the middles. Couldn’t have cared less about the rest. 🤷🏻‍♀️

On a more immediate note, what can you do to keep your hands too busy to go to your mouth? My go to is to get up and take a walk, or work on a craft, or even go vacuum something that doesn’t need it. Just move something besides your jaws. Simple but effective.

Some stresses can be removed, as simple as it sounds. Whether it’s a job, a friend or boyfriend, evaluate if the stress created is equal to the return in satisfaction. I’m old enough to be your grandma. When it reached the point my husband called my circle of friends “The Bitter Divorcees Club” and jokingly asked when he…

I second seeking help from a dietician. Look for one who is very familiar with MFP. My original dietician is the one who told me to use MFP. I did a dietician visit, with her replacement, for the first time in several years about a month ago. The new one was so familiar with NFP, she asked me for my phone, scrolled back in…

Also suggest the NSV thread, pinned to the top of the Success Stories board. NSV means NonScale Victory. I’ve read every single one of those thousands of posts. That thread more than any other was responsible for helping me see change the scale didn’t show.

My feeling is, in general but not always, if someone is posting on the community boards, they’re either asking for, or dispensing advice. The nature of the boards is to do both. I’m super grateful for all the advice I got here, even a couple that came acrost as “boy, you sure are a dumb *kitten*.” Sometimes that tone of…