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I canceled after the free trial. It wasn't bad, I just didn't see the value of it, for the cost. I went into it knowing that I had a lot of food issues, after dieting and maintaining for quite a few years, and wanted something to address the mental aspects of weight management. Noom had some nice tips, but I found…

We continued to eat out during the pandemic (just did drive through/take out). We've been eating inside restaurants for a while now though, as our states restrictions are pretty much done with. I'm still frustrated sometimes when grocery shopping though, as there's definitely still shortages happening with some products.

I've read a couple of the intuitive reading books out there and tried it for a while, but I wasn't able to hit my weight management goals doing it. I like to snack, I like the taste of certain foods and will continue eating them just for the experience-which has nothing to do with hunger. Yesterday for example I opened a…

I'll have to look for that at Sams, thanks for the heads up!

When I was very low carb I had this happen quite a bit and sometimes it was quite painful. Never able to pin down to what was causing it, but know it was diet related because it started when I made the drastic macros changes, and then went away once I went back to eating a higher carb diet. Now I'm eating pretty SAD…

OP, I'm glad you found something to be excited about :) However, just realize that you're still in the 'honeymoon' phase of the plan. I lasted two months on WW, before I hit a wall hard and ended up quitting it (and lost money in the process because I had to pay the early termination fee). But that first month was amazing,…

I found it at Meijer this afternoon, excited to try it 🙂

I need to look for this, thanks for the info!

I am entering into a very busy season-we have gatherings every weekend for the next 5 weeks, (numerous cookouts/family reunions, a family wedding/we're hosting the pre-wedding get together etc etc). On top of that we're in the middle of a complete kitchen remodel, I have chaos on top of chaos over here right now :p I…

Well I ended up canceling after day 4 of my 14 day free trial. I didn't like how the group coach/guide would send me a message, I'd respond, and then immediately would get a canned response. So obviously an automatic system, I wasn't actually connecting with a real person. Their food database was very lacking as well. I…

Calorie 'zig-zagging' is a thing and some people find it helpful, especially if you know that you have a special event coming up and want to have a buffer of calories available. Just make sure you're not undereating to a point where you're not getting enough calories to fuel your body. If you start out at say 1,200…

Pfizer will most likely be approved yet this summer though. Moderna is not that far behind them in the process as well. It will be interesting to see if FDA approval will actually make a difference for those not vaccinated yet though. The handful of people I know in real life who refuse to get the vaccine keep moving the…

A few years ago one of my kids had a freak accident and ended up in the ER for a small skull fracture/concussion. She needed staples, a CT scan and one night in the hospital for observation. All said and done that hospital experience was over $20,000. For less than 24 hours of care (we went in at around 9pm, were out the…

This was one of our deciding factors in getting the vaccine, we just can't afford extra medical costs due to getting a bad case of covid. We know several people who had hospital stays due to it, their medical bills are insane.

As a side note- so many employers are switching over to high deductible HSA type insurance plans. My husband has a good job, with one of these plans through a good insurance company. I'm getting ready to have out-patient cataract surgery, which is going to set us back around $4,000 out of pocket. We automatically have…

This. Op, sounds like you're still in the weight-loss honeymoon phase, where you've made big changes to your way of eating and are temporarily feeling full on lower calorie foods (in part because all those veggies have fiber and high water content). I actually went through this a few days ago, when I started a weight-loss…

Northern California is what the article was about.

It's so wild how much stuff fluctuates based on location. I'm in the midwest and we're still under $3 a gallon, which is very normal for our area. I was reading an article this morning though, that said CA could hit $7 a gallon this weekend?!!

Just renewed my Sams Club membership, after taking a year off, to help offset the rising costs. It's also almost farmers market time where I live so for the summer months I'll be getting most of my fresh produce locally, which tends to be cheaper. Normally I only do this a few times a summer, mostly for the experience, but…

100% this.

It's not a positive/negative thing, it's a fact and it's real life. Remove feelings and look at the data. We all face an uphill battle for long term success. eta: I'm not saying it's impossible, (I got through almost 10 years of maintenance before I had my first major weight creep happen, last year). But, being realistic…

Well, to be fair the long term success rate for weight loss adherence is pretty dismal, regardless of which approach you do.

So I just signed up for the 14 day trial. I had a friend over on Memorial Day and she's doing it (her doctor recommended the program to her), and she showed me around the app. Some of the things my friend said really clicked with me-I know how to lose weight and I even know how to maintain-for a while. But along the way…

I know that night time eating can be an issue for me, so I try not to eat food after supper. But, when I do want something I'll have a kcup hot cider, hot cocoa or cappuccino. These range from 60-100 calories and give me something to sip on, without taking up a lot of calories.

Growing up we were really poor and didn't have a tv, and I was taught at home so very isolated from other kids/outside influences. We gardened and canned, my dad hunted and we raised pigs and rabbits for some some of our own meat. We never ate convenience foods or went out to eat, because it was expensive. First time I…

For myself personally I found out that being more active has been more important for maintenance, than during my weight loss phase. First time through I lost a big chunk of weight with no extra exercise at all, (improved my health markers/corrected a health issue with just the weight loss). Started walking after I started…

Op, it might be helpful if you made your diary public so we could take a peek and get a better idea of what's going on. My diary is open but I've only been back to logging since last week, so there's not a lot to see yet. I just went with the default macros setting and set my goal for .5lb a week loss. I don't really pay…

Anything else.. please help :) Thanks! From my own experience, having some sort of accountability is pretty necessary to make this whole thing work long term. I maintained my weight loss for around 7 years by being on and off of MFPs forums, and then following the parameters of my weight management plan, (which I developed…

I was just comparing the two ways I did things-when I was very low carb I got to the point where I was almost completely animal based/pretty much no veggies or nuts etc. I was following Shawn Bakers way of eating :) But yeah, there's such a spectrum of ways to eat, even under umbrella labels such as low carb, vegan etc.

I've done both ends of the spectrum and cost wise I didn't find my very low carb 'carnivore' phase any more expensive than my WFPB phase. I bought my meat from a local butcher shop that sourced their products from local farmers, shopping their weekly sale meats, and then I bought freezer beef in bulk, (ended up to around…