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Wednesday wishes huh. I'm new to this thread and this structure might help me participate. First off though, congrats pinkstarberry! That's great! I don't normally spend much time wishing but I suppose we all have the standard I wish I could eat whatever and not gain weight or wish it would be easier or faster to lose.…

Hi Mermaid. I'm 37 and my CW is 323. I do have 2 kids but I have been obese since my late teens. I don't know what I used to weigh as I avoided scales (Denial not just a river in Egypt and what not) but I was more than 250 at 22. I joined MFP 3 years ago and lost 50 lbs before stopping and in the 3 years I gained it back…

I too am starting over after having taken a couple of years off. My sw this time was 340 and current is 325 with my goal being 180. I'm 5'7" as well and would love some friends.

I noticed you said you don't normally eat breakfast and I know that the first time I tried this I was working on the whole breakfast is the most important meal of the day assumption and the problem for me was eating breakfast jump started my hunger and made the day a challenge. This time around I am doing the simple…

stress eating is hard to turn off but I find what you eat doesn't matter it just needs to be in quantity so I buy bags of mini carrots and snap peas and keep cucumbers on hand and when I need to mindless stuff myself I will sit with a bag of peas/carrots and eat til too full without it sabotaging my calories. I know I…

Good point! In fact for the first few years it is cheap to fly so my daughter did quite a bit of travel. Both of my kids are great on planes and have made some international trips, including one last year where they flew just with their dad for 20 hours and it went well (5 and 2 at the time). You will enjoy a trip before…

now I want to go on a cruise. But really I already have kids and we do our trips camping with family, at a lake cabin, or to cool places for kids and such right now (and Egypt every couple of years to visit my husband's family). But... When my kids are old enough to dump on my folks for awhile my husband and I are off to…

I am curious about this as well from a different angle. I assumed sedidentary as I am glued in my seat but then I see people record exercise of light cleaning and such. I don't record exercise unless it is actually a physical activity and then I wonder if sedidentary is basically lying in bed eating or if people sometimes…

my keys in my pockets pulled my jeans down as I was running for the bus. Thankfully I had on a long coat and managed to catch them but it was still an awkward adjustment.

I had gall bladder attacks for years (I was in surgery avoidance) but they were very infrequent, at most 3 a year. When I started MFP the first time and dropped about 45lb I started having them all the time. My own fat was triggering them. I don't eat a lot of greasy foods and so I had been fine while I was large but…

Funny, I don't like to bog down the feed so I often don't close it until the following morning when it doesn't post it, the exception being when I go over to make me extra accountable but aside from a brief holiday there isn't an incomplete day in my diary since I restarted in February. I just assumed that people would…

I have wings for arms. And while I know I can't tell my body where to cut the weight (I have lost inches everywhere except my arms) I have been considering building my arm muscles to provide better tone there in the meantime and to feel like I'm doing something. I have heard good things about kettleballs and was thinking…

I totally understand. I was 340 at my highest and am 290 now. Having made some changes it seems easier now but at the beginning it was so daunting that I could barely start. Now I delay breakfast and just have light food through the day so I can have a big dinner and treat at night (man can I eat at night). But one of the…

You can't be much of a perfectionist if you keep setting yourself up for failure. I get it though, although my thing was avoid the inevitable failure by not starting as if I try and fail that would be so much worse than just continuing on. I know you don't want to set smaller goals but perhaps you just need to rework them.…

This!!! I used to rage rant at the first commercial but I have solved this by recording all shows and skipping commercials.

Ah the evils of marketing. Check out how woman are portrayed in many yogurt commercials if you want to make yourself crazy :) And I've never even tried Special K as my folks were more into whole foods rather than 'dietish' so I grew up with cheerios, corn flakes, corn bran, etc. And while I've been out on my own for 17…

I often do a single serving of hummus with veggies and a babybel and mini peperoni and that comes in around 300. I keep an assortment of things at work and combine as need be but I eat lightly through the day to enjoy dinner in the evening with my family and have room for a treat. Greek yogurt and rice thins are always…

I really need to check the darn dates on these things!

I was the opposite with my husband. He still says love at first sight for him as he saw me and felt instantly that we could make each other happy but I took a little convincing, partially as I was worried that the intensity of the feelings was more lust/obsession than love or that it would burn out but we were married in…

You look great! Thanks for sharing, I need to see these as it still seems so distant. Its nice to see people achieve it.

My father is 'naturally thin'. His ribs have always been visible and as a young man it bothered and he spent years trying to gain weight. And he eats a lot! He snacks and has full meals. And drinks lots of beer. While the food tends to be healthy (read unprocessed) it is often high cal for the main but he also loves…

I love the movie popcorn but my husband doesn't so on our last movie night we tried the frozen yogurt stand inside the theatre (it is crazy how many foods you can buy) and we were in LOVE. He had a large vanilla mango and I had a small chocolate blueberry and they were delish and mine was only a couple hundred calories.…

I would also like to add that the fit people at the gym is actually helpful if you look at it this way - they have to work at it too. Somehow I assumed that MOST beautiful people that weren't packing a ton of muscle came by their bodies fairly easy. I knew they didn't eat like me but I had no idea how much dedication it…

I love this quote, why have I never heard it before?

My ladies only has a board but its not quite the same thank god as I don't want to be crowned Queen or Princess and I am being measured Wednesday and am the opposite of you and don't want my success posted as I don't like too much attention. I do however want to be able to enter the monthly draw for club members who worked…

I love this. This will be my mantra. Not so much my answer but how I think about my weight. If people ask me I tell them (thats a recent thing for me) as I figure I have to own it to change it and its pretty obvious anyways but I do hate saying the number. That said I have found myself volunteering it more often. I am…

I have more than a 100 lbs and would gladly add anyone. Been here once before, a long time ago, and am back and recommitted and on almost daily.

I love it, please include me :flowerforyou:

In answer to your calorie question our target from MFP is for net calories which means you get to eat back your exercise calories. I find that a great way to allow myself a treat, if I know there is a treat I just trade it off in my head if I can fit in a 30 minute work out. That said you want to be careful when eating…

must stop reading, contemplating is just making me want everything! Yikes.