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Do you have access to grass clippings? I pile my clippings 6"-10" thick. The thicker the better! The grass will create a nitrogen rich hot compost that will not only burn out/rot and light starve any weeds, but will form a solid barrier that wont allow weeds to pop through. When it's time to plant, I just clear out just…

If you have a good food scale, measuring a single serving out of entire package is Math 101. If a whole box is 8 servings totaling 1600 calories, just weigh the cooked amount before adding sauce or anything else and figure out your portion. You could get fancy with the exact number in grams or just make it easy and figure…

The bad news is that I live in US Zone 6b and it will be 2-3 months before I can even think of moving them outside. :'(

I've had great luck with 25¢ seeds from Dollar Tree. I'm not trying to grow huge prize winning produce and things like squash and beans seem to be able to thrive no matter what. I also sometimes save seeds from grocery store produce and kitchen scraps and have had good results there. I've found growing peppers from seed -…

I almost never feel full. It would take an extraordinarily large amount of food to achieve a feeling of fullness... as in an entire extra large pizza or whole chicken. That feeling of fullness would quickly dissipate within an hour. For that reason, I don't gauge fullness as a sign of anything.

I realized several years ago that rich women never have bad hair. Pretty much every woman I work with has a little extra extra. ;) I was late to the party, but now love "doing my hair" in under five minutes. Best of all, I never have a bad hair day.

Lost weight. Invested in good store bought hair. :D

All the time! It really helps me stay on track.

Dollar Tree seeds are out. 25¢ USD a pack! I've mostly had good luck with with them.

So who here can't wait to start seedlings? Still about a month away here in Zone 6. Peppers and eggplant usually take forever to sprout and seem the hardest to keep alive. Lost them all last year and had to buy nursery plants. I'm thinking of growing broccoli this year, but have zero experience there. What are your 2024…

Makes perfect sense. Were I to eat ~1400 calories a day, the scale would not move at all. At 1280, the scale might move, but at a glacial pace. For me, good results happen around 900-1000 calories per day. That does become wearisome and to avoid burnout, I go to 1500 for a day or so every few weeks to avoid feeling…

For me, jogging in place most closely matched the motions I do on the rebounder. Mostly it's a fast high knee jog with intervals of side-to-side squats, skaters' lift steps and some fast feet drills that have me breathless. I never jump and always have one or two feet touching the canvas. The coolest thing about the…

I rebound and use "Jogging in place" to log my daily exercise. I generally do 20-30 minutes every day. I think the above captaincalculator link might skew a little on the low side. Maybe that calculation is for just bouncing on a huge competition sized trampoline. Odds are if you are rebounding, you're probably moving much…

I didn't do the branded Michael Mosely Fast 800 - but after a recent re-gain in the amount of Far Too Much, I spent two weeks doing IF (16:8) and keeping to about 800 calories. Keep in mind that I am older, female, short and rather sedentary most of the day except for ~15-20 daily minutes of medium cardio while low calorie…

Will be trying smelts in the air fryer for the first time on NYE.

I slept in WAAAY too late today, noon-thirty! So it turned into an OMAD kinda day. Coffee, an orange, and a two egg, mushrooms, onions, peppers, chili sauce, queso panera, and bacon on rye sandwich. 800 calories of very filling yum!

Greatly reducing your sugar and highly processed foods intake is probably the best thing you could do for yourself.

Oh believe me, I know. But the scale is the scale and that's been my experience. The OP was asking about initial weight loss rates - which can be dramatic, but not reflective of the classic formula for CICO. Eight days in, I'm down 6.4kgs/14.2 lb. That was likely mostly water and waste. I now expect any additional weight…

I know there is absolutely zero scientific proof, but I have long believed in "new fat" that is not as tightly ensconced as "old fat." Recently, I had 24 hour access to free unlimited high calorie indulgence for a whole month... and indulge I did! When my largest trousers began to feel very tight, it was obviously beyond…

In my younger days that was certainly true. I've always struggled with my weight and just came to accept the 7-10 days of zero progress or even a small setback. Then magically, things would get so much easier for two weeks.

Umm... maybe wrong thread?

It's only two weeks. It isn't as if you will gain major weight during that time and odds are the weight you might gain will fall off fairly fast once you are back on track - even if you have have to throw one or two aggressive fasting days in the post-vacay mix. That said, eschewing any mindless high calorie offerings…

For me, the difference between the two lies in having a sense of control. If I order a decadent dessert or have pizza out with friends, that's a splurge. I'll enjoy the treat and go back to plan the next day. A binge is feeling compelled to eat until there isn't any more. That can be a particular food or worse, any food. I…

I am older and have double hip replacements; so a fall is the last thing I want to risk. I also have Meniere's and before taking up rebounding, I would lose my balance often and nearly fall just getting out of bed. They make rebounders with a balance bar that one can hold on to. My rebounder is nestled in a corner, so I…

I started from a very sedentary zero exercise and being very obese. I like exercising to music and got a rebounder (small trampoline). The rebounder provides a super easy way to work your whole body, burn calories with what feels like very little effort. Plus, it improves balance.…

I hear ya! It's soooo hard to climb out of that hole, isn't it? Whether it's a case of the "misewells" AKA "I've eaten this, so I misewell eat that since I've blown if for today" ... or the never ending quest for the perfect tomorrow start, restaring is the WORST. Plus, now it's the holidays where all sorts of goodies…

Gonna have lots of December peppers and tomatoes!

Once a year, I treat myself to a Costco pumpkin pie.

Oh yeah... I totally forgot about the knee pillow. That's the only one allowed to be foam.

Total Princess and the Pea here. Stoopit dear European down that MUST be properly fluffed and placed IN ORDER amongst lesser down.