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i am thinking i should have gone with 30. i am 52. it bothers me that you were both so close. ;)

35?

and both articles and the california law you site refer to riding on roads. i specifically directed my post towards riding only on off-road bike paths.

um, maybe you are the one that should be slowing down in this instance? i never race by people and yell "on your left". i slow down and say hi to them as i ride by.

for all of you declaring riding with earphones on a bike path (i mean one with no cars not a bike path on the side of a road) "extremely dangerous" or even "suicidal" can you please show me that this is anything other than your opinion? i do it all the time, have for years, can still hear outside noise even with earbuds…

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amazing. now on to maintenance which frankly can be just as hard. good luck!

i go with somewhere about 33%. if i am on the mountain for three hours i put down one hour five hours 1.5... 6 hours 2...8 hours 2.5...

i have done very well with my lap band. i did lose most of the weight i lost on the part to the restriction i am at now. i was briefly "over-filled" at one point and was getting stuck too frequently so i got unfilled just a hair. now i get reasonable restriction but also eat fairly normally. a lot of people told me i was…

because of the white rice sushi is neither low calorie nor low carb but its still pretty good for you. sashimi is very good for you.

i don't know who/where someone was saying not to eat below your bmr.

i lost like 15 lbs my first week but i was very overweight.

lol. now i am feeling a little guilty because robin has been a good mfp friend of mine for a long time and i only found this topic because she is in my newsfeed. i do see that i am not alone in picking up on the somewhat condescending tone of the post. that was why i commented. otherwise i would have probably kept my trap…

another factor the "one size fits all" crowd forget to factor in is that all calories are not created equal. by making great choices a person eating significantly less calories than someone eating more can actually be getting vastly superior nutrition. while your body is looking for calories as a part of your total…

mfp sets the sugars very low. i also wouldn't drop carbs for sugar in your categories because they basically go hand in hand. you will get some very different answers to your questions. many on here say fruit sugars are fine ignore them and others won't. in the end i think it really depends on your situation. if you are…

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robin yes i had the lap-band surgery and yes i was under the care of a dr. and a nutritionist. i didn't go into those details because my point was that our situations are not all the same so our approaches do not have to be the same. i guess mfp "has a program" but it is also a calculator tool and support group. there is…

robin you are such a zealot. not everyone has to proceed the way you proceed. if she doesn't want to eat that 200 calories a day and it is working for her than what is your problem with that? personally, i lost a great deal of weight while eating well under 1200 calories per day and suffered no ill health effects from it.…

i did low-cal low-carb for a long time with great results. i didn't adjust my goals on here and didn't really even have a goal. i just kept carbs to a very low number while counting calories and focusing on high protein high fiber.

so, to revisit this topic if anyone will see that i added to it...after i got used to that last fill i actually had another one to put me at 7cc in my 10cc band. that fill i never "got used to" i kept thinking it would "soften up" a little like the previous one did but it never did and i dealt with getting stuck or…

i see you did eat more and you also followed robin's advice and switched sugar to fiber in your top five. i do think tracking fiber is very important but i also think tracking sugar is important too. everyone is different and everyone has different weight-loss goals but for me keeping my sugars extremely low definitely…

the chocolate chip daybreak bars are a snack staple for me. i like the atkins shakes but make my own shakes with light soy milk and body fortress powder (with a little spirulina added) because it is so much cheaper than pre-made shakes.

i used to work for a company that sold that stuff and for the most part they were a bunch of scam artists, although focus factor was after my time. they basically appealed to people's self-esteem problems and desires to improve themselves to sell them over-priced self-help products and programs and then rip them off with a…

i guess so. i try to eat well anyway. just anytime i find myself making a traditional protein shake i mix in some spirulina.

spirulina is an asian seaweed that is considered a "perfect food". get googling and you'll find out all about it.

getting 205 g of protein on 1200 calories is going to be quite a challenge. each gram of protein is 4 calories straight-up so 820 of your daily calories would be allotted for protein alone. 380 calories for everything else would seem virtually impossible to me.

for many years i lived in an old farmhouse. i drove the moving truck and arrived before the others. the first couple of nights i was quite freaked out by the very clear sound of someone walking around upstairs when quite obviously there was no one there. i heard it on and off and eventually for the most part learned to…

i lost 120 lbs. in 10 months. you'd weigh 50 lbs. !

i usually hit 100 g of protein everyday. during the liquids and very low calorie period (600 per day) after my surgery i lost a ton of weight and lost it very quickly. i was also very very active exercise wise. we pretty much had to raise my calories to 1000ish to support my activity level and i still continued to lose but…

this topic has gotten a ton of discussion on here. i am not a "nutritional expert". i do believe if you are trying to lose weight you want to watch your sugars (even natural fruit sugars) very carefully. mfp sets the level very low for a reason. protein on the other hand my understanding it is okay to go over on as it is…