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Congratulations on your success. :flowerforyou:

Good morning everyone...it's cloudy again in the Pacific Northwest. I don't know if it's going to end up raining again, or if the sun is going to peek out, but off the Columbia River Gorge I go to find a trail to hike. I'm hiking every weekend now rain or shine...my goal is to get to the top of a mountain some time this…

I love to hike, I do it EVERY week. We have lots of beautiful hikes here in the Pacific NW...I feel so lucky that I live in a place where there's the mountains and the ocean on either side of me within an hour or two. :happy: Anyone out there near Portland that wants a hiking partner...just contact me.

We've all fallen off the wagon...you just pick yourself up and keep going, don't look back and obsess over it. None of us are perfect, but the fact that you recognized it is the first big step. Ask your roommate for support and to take the chocolate somewhere else. Let her know that it's your weakness and at this point in…

Dear Ex-hubby, You can have her fat *kitten*, now that she has gained the 60 pounds that I've lost.:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Great job!! :smile:

Wow...you look GREAT !!! You have such a little waist. I only have 10 pounds to go, but I can't get my waist to go down so I'm just straight up and down. I would do ANYTHING to have a l tiny waist like you. :drinker:

Congratulations!!! Hang in there. :flowerforyou:

Like msarro says, "You can tone and build muscle in a targeted area, but you can't target fat loss". We're genetically dispositioned to be a certain way. Pear shaped people have a harder time losing in the hips and thighs, and apple shaped people will always loose their belly fat at the end. You can't target where your fat…

I wonder how she cooked the chicken...fried???:laugh: :laugh:

Thanks pmkelly409. You're right, most tend to forget to stretch. Flexibility is one of three important component that we forget about. The 3 components are cardio, strength and flexibility, most forget about the flexibility and only work on the first two. Flexibility will help prevent injury and stretching after working…

Yes, Fat Dancer is right, enter your weight training under "cardio" and it will show calories burned, you need to eat those calories to fuel your body.

I just started 3 days ago, don't know that I've gotten any results from it yet, but I'll keep you posted. I got the Bragg at Whole Foods, it's the only place that I've found it, I put a little organic honey in it to cut down the acid taste. I had a hard time getting it down at first, but it was OK this morning. :drinker:

Water w/a slice of lemon or lime is my drink of choice at a restaurant.:drinker:

Hey Joanna...you rock!!!:flowerforyou: You have been an inspiration to me since I've been on this site. You share so much information and knowledge with us...thank you, thank you, thank you. One day, I hope to post my success story, I have less than 10 pounds to go, it seems it's been the same 10 pounds for months. So…

If you have trouble sleeping and it's not something that you have encountered before, you may be over training, as that is one of the early symptoms of over-training. You may want to take a couple of days off and rest your body, or take a easy for a few days and see if you can get back into regular sleep patterns. It's…

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Missed you, glad to see you back !!

Yummy!!! I'm going to have to try it with Mozz & Parm next time.

I'm sure that you will see the difference once you start putting in your exercise calories and eating them. It's critical that you do that especially if you do F&F 2 to 3 days a week, and boot comp 3 days a week, that's a lot of calories burnt. I would wear my HRM if I was you, because it is much more accurate than just…

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I love it, and it's sooooo true.

I take a whole wheat tortilla, brush it with sauce, then top with low fat mozz, veggies and turkey sausage. This this filling and curb my cravings for Pizza

I agree with valgreg, apple and cheese or banana & peanut butter works best for me. Fruit for the sugar = energy and protein for the muscles. Good luck !

You log in the calories that you eat, then you download the bodybugg nightly so you can do a comparison of what you ate compared to what you actually burned. It's a lot more accurate since it's really only an estimate of calories burned the way we log our exercise now, as everyone burns at a different rate. And you can…

You're right as I shrink, they just look bigger and bigger, I HATE IT. I don't understand people that want them bigger. I get guys talking to them all the time, they just can't seem to find my eyes. And if I can trade some of mine for someone's hips, I would gladly do it myself. At least when I was fat they weren't as…

I would definitely report this to the police, just so it's in the records, in case you catch this S. o. B. then there would be record of prior incidences. Then I would set up a couple of camera around your property so you can see, webcams aren't too expensive, and you can keep an eye on the place. I've had a Rhodesian…

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We all want what we can't have. I lost 60 pounds and everyone told me that my boobs will get smaller, so far...still DDDD (that would be a G), have not lost one size...that's where I want to lose it the most, I've always been self conscious of it :sad:, since 4th grade when I got on the school bus and all the boys at the…

I don't have that problem anymore. I found that the trick for me is to log my exercise that I'm going to do that day first thing in the morning, then I know from the get go how many calories I need to plan to consume that day, then I plan my food accordingly. Of course, the trick here is to make sure that you do the…

I had the body bugg and lost 60 pounds wearing it. It's great, it even breaks down how many calories you burned at any given time so you will be able to figure out which workouts are the most effective. There's so much information that you can get from it, it's amazing. The trick is to wear it ALL the time, except for when…

Sounds good, there's none near me.