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First of all - 45 lbs lost - WOO HOO!!!! Good for you. It is ok to have a day or two that you don't eat exactly according to plan. You should never, ever, never starve yourself for a whole day to save up for a cheat meal. This puts your body into a starvation mode and it will hang on to the calories that you consume with…

Some people seem to need the next best thing or the magic pill that is going to totally transform them. I would much rather put in the work and change my relationship with food. Surviving on 500 calories is not something that I am interested in even attempting to do - even for a short period of time. How some people think…

My massage therapist who is also a trainer and avid runner gave me an amazing stretch for shin splints. http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cybertherapist/front/lowerleg/shinsplints/stretching.php Here are several that you can do. Pain is your body's warning system. If you ignore it you can cause yourself further damage.

For me I need to make a commitment to the exercise. If I am spending all the effort at the gym it really makes me think twice about picking up that chocolate bar because it is really no longer worth it because I would have to do so much more to work it off again. You should be changing things up every 6 weeks or so because…

That's 106 pounds - good for you!!!!!!

I am a Canadian girl too. My start weight was 215 and I am 5'7" tall. I am currently at 197. Feel free to add me.

Those are great suggestions. Granola bars I find are not that satisfying.

Anything that you can hold in your hands that has a little weight to it. Heavy books work too but depending on the exercise that you are doing could be awkward. Just make sure that you are balanced weightwise on both sides.

Buying candy you don't like is a really great trick and I do that myself every year because I know when it comes to chocolate I just can't resist so I would rather get something I don't like and not worry about it. The bigger problem is staying out of the candy that comes back into the house when you have kids. Eating…

I have had to tell myself over and over again that chocolate is poison to me. So long as I keep telling myself that, I can avoid it but as soon as I give myself permission to have that chocolate I don't stop and end up with a chocolate bar a day when I am on my way home from work, which just recently packed back on 10…

There is another side to people in offices who comment on people who look thin and thinking that they need to lose weight. How thin people perceive themselves in the mirror when they think that they need to lose weight can be very skewed. There is a woman in our office that is a perfect size 3-4 who is extremely thin but…