JenniferM1234 Member

Different strokes (work for) different folks! As long as, at the end of the day, you have eaten less calories than you've expended (through not just exercise but, you know, through breathing and having a beating heart), you will lose weight. The easiest/most sustainable way is up to you!

Fantastic job, you did all the hard work and now you reap the rewards. 😃

I’m two pounds away from my goal weight and a couple of days ago, I decided that’s fine, so I’m in maintenance now. Changing the daily calories I’m “allowed” has been so freeing, from 1350 to 1499 makes a bigger difference than I’d have thought. I keep thinking I’m going over but I’m not!

I had a Beyond Meat burger with cheese and tomato on a low carb bun. It wasn't the most satisfying because I really associate fries or onion rings with burger meals...but I don't have anything like that in the house plus I'm planning to stay under my maintenance calories today...but the temptation is so strong to eat more,…

Related to what @elizabethkalmbach said, if you're binging and not *gaining* weight, you might have forgotten to adjust your daily calorie goal to "maintenance" from "losing X/week."

Sometimes MFP doesn't load for me, either. But just like we stick to trying to sign in here, we can stick to a healthier lifestyle - part of the larger team here that do, too.

Pretty sure that tea without sugar or cream has <4 calories; it’s 99% hot water and 1% whatever leeched out of the dried tea leaves, after all. I log it as water when I have it!

FANTASTIC!!

If you can budget the calories easily, I've found that Fiber One bars do the trick to resolve that problem. :smile:

😧😧 My heart rate sped up so much reading that, that I think I should log this as cardio.

I’m 5’3” and 118-120 pounds. I know for a fact that 30 minutes of moderate treadmill walking, at my height/weight/age, burns around 90 calories. So unless you’re running at a full-out “gallop” for that same amount of time, I can’t believe it would be a lot more than 200 calories. 🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♀️

I've been with my husband since I was 21, that's thirty years now. And I've been yo-yo dieting since a few years before I met him, so he's seen me gain and lose the same 20-23 pounds many many times. He's gained some weight in his own middle age now, but it's different for him (or maybe for men in general?) - the weight…

On Saturdays my husband and I typically have liked going for a big hike, but it's going to hit 82 degrees by noon today! Mother Nature must have forgotten to check her calendar. That's too hot and sunny for a nice hike. Sooooo, what should we do instead? The backyard could use a good weeding session but I try to stay out…

Good morning. The dogs still haven't adjusted to daylight savings so I've been up with them for half an hour already, the little jerks. Lisa, I'm sorry to hear about your BIL and I hope that you and your husband are doing alright.

Had a date night! We went for Chinese and I somehow, shockingly, am still under my daily calories (by like 15 calories literally haha). Passing on the lo mein and chow fun was hard — love carbs but can’t stop once I start — but I had a nice time and I’m not self-recriminating now.

LOL @Katmary71 and @missysippy930 ! I definitely live in the same city as a couple places that do this. I just only watch Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBOGO. Can't remember the last time I saw a crappy tacky commercial, it's been years!

I have an enormous capacity too, @kellyjellybellyjelly - I have a small frame but can EASILY eat more than a huge man, before my body feels too full. It's hard because I enjoy feeling full. Not just sated, but really full. I don't know why. We have a lot of leftovers in the house right now that are not healthy and I'm home…

You and your spouse are doing WONDERFULLY. The rate of loss isn't as important as the fact that it's happening at all, and you both are feeling better already -- good on ya! And by the way, 12 pounds aint nuthin'. Go find something that weighs 12 pounds, or a few things that add up to that, around your house, and walk…

@oocdc2 Aw. I like some of the fun pages but others make me feel like an old un-fun-loving woman. Like, no, I wouldn't make out with the person who left a message right before mine in a thread...but I haunt the motivation and success story categories like a friendly ghost. ;)

Oof. I hope it's helpful, as that's quite literally the only reason I'm here. I am hoping the support/accountability will finally break my decades-long habit of yo-yo dieting.

What do you recommend for someone who want to start jogging, but has flat feet/weak ankles?Is there a non-specialty shoe like a New Balance that can do the trick?

Do you know when you’ll get the results?

Haven't seen, nor heard of that. Is it some new sort of liposuction they're shilling?

You people all seem to like such fancy coffee; am I the only one here who just grinds Dunkin Donut beans? I feel so basic!

Body frame really is a "thing," not part of HAES. I'm really bird-boned, and my maintenance weight would look malnourished on my medium-boned sized adult daughter. Anyway! I really just came here to laugh at that divorce rate-margarine use correlation, so funny!

@bigjuicy1234 you work so hard, and also, your username described my favorite steak.

Breakfast for dinner is a hallowed tradition in my house. :)

I can't drink coffee black - it gives me a stomach ache. I drink it with a lot of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, and lots and lots of it, too, in the morning. I'm an addict -- when I don't get a morning dose of caffeine I get a pounding headache in the afternoon. But nobody's perfect, lol!

What everybody else said. Think about it this way: you get very few calories per day on your 1200 cal weight loss plan, and you don't technically need to exercise to lose weight, you do it for health and fitness. BUT, if you take a nice long walk, and burn 250 calories, now you get to eat 1450 calories, which, in my…

I'm in my 50s and have been a yo-yo dieter since I was...15 years old, I think. The same 20-23 pounds, up and down, up and down. When I was in my 20s people would be complimentary, but I think by the time I was in my 40s no one I consistently knew bothered saying anything anymore, because it's all "been there, seen that"…