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YUMMY!! I am hungry now.:flowerforyou:

Ah....this is what I am looking forward to. looking good in my clothes.

Don't eat your excercise calories! That is your free fat burning fodder. :drinker:

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I think it is fine to set boundaries. Why are you taking it personal?:huh:

My Nutricianist says that if you can visualize the ingredients of a prepared food in their natural state, then it can be considered a whole food. Example: Ak-Mak crackers; Whole wheat flour stone ground (I have been to a grist mill, this is a real food), clover honey (I have stepped on a bees nest....:noway: Real), sesame…

I hadn't thought about that. I know that we have travel plans for the holidays and it would be nice to fit into some of my old clothes. Maybe I will set the goal to be a size 14 by Christmas Eve. If I exercise, I could do that.

Weighing and measuring food is so important. Keeping a diary is essential. Sometimes you lie to yourself about how much you eat. Don't weigh yourself so often. Weight fluxes so much from day to day. It is the long term that you see the true results. Allow yourself to weight just once a week or every 6 weeks. Often times if…

I live in a small town and the grocery store caters to a large hispanic community. Most everything is loaded with sugar and fat. I go to the produce department and have requested options like rice cakes which the have now....in the sugary flavored kind. LOL! :huh:

WW was great, but this has all the features I need for free. My dietician recommended it. :flowerforyou:

Isn't funny how we lose perspective as we gain weight? I was a healthy eater and very fit before the birth of my daughter. I am tall and big boned. A size 12 is perfect on me. After I had her, I was down to a size 14 in a month....but depressed that I could not fit into my old pants. So I just let it go....in 10 years I…