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Great post...always been my biggest fear (until recently) that I'd just bulk up instead of get lean and tone...I've got bulky muscles to begin with, but....not worried about that anymore. I know I'd have to do some outrageous training to to from sexy bulky to overly muscled lol

Wow!!!! I am with everyone here don't give up!!! You are so worth being healthy, if we don't have our health, we don't have anything! I'm a single mom, I've got two rowdy kids, I've also recently "adopted' my 7yr old niece and alcoholic/mentally challenged brother, I've got 3 rescue dogs (2 pit bulls and one Boston…

Happy Thursday everyone!!! Its supposed to get to be around 100 today...jeeeeeezzzzzzzz......with no air conditioning in my apartment, we are gonna be a bit uncomfortable. @mamadaisy.....Unfortunately for me, my boyfriend is a HUGE fan of weight training not cardio for weight loss. I think its the ex-bodybuilder in him…

Glad your headaches are gone....killer headaches are good for ruining just about everything. I'm with you on the exhaustion!!! Its pretty dang warm here right now, and with a ton of kids during the day, I'm just wiped out. I walked Monday, but have missed last night and its way too warm tonight to walk and its only going…

I know everyone here will have their own opinions, so I'll just reply with what I have experienced myself in the last few months. I'm 60-100lbs over weight (depends on how I look and feel once I get past the 60lb mark), and got this heavy by "starving' myself most days, then over eating on the days that I was actually…

Welcome Rertazzo!! This place is awesome. I'm blessed I fell onto this site :) Good luck @mamadaisy Man, oh Man was the sandwich YUMMY...probably not worth the calories, but it was good :) and the walking/jogging with the dogs was even better.. Its supposed to be hot today, so I'm thinking its laps in the pool with the…

These Rock!!! Thank you :)

Well...Here it is Monday. My first day "back on the wagon." I've done an ok job with food. For lunch I had a BLT on multigrain at Truffle Hunter restaurant near my house, it was half of their sandwich, which is like eating an entire sandwich. Also had a decent salad with the dressing on the side..of which I didn't even…

Slicing up the apples is a good idea. I'll have to try putting them in little ziplock bags in my pocket or something. When I have the chance and extra money, I go shopping for protein bars to keep in my pockets so that I can grab a bite while I'm running from one room to the next. I'm a CNA (nursing assistant) and I work…

Too much fun :) I've lost a automobile tire (before MFP) and a rack of ribs. Hoping to at least lose an elephant's penis LOL

Sounds like you ladies (Mirlyn and MamaDaisy) are doing EXCELLENT!!!! You girls are doing wonderful. So exciting to get on here and see/hear successes. Congratulations ladies. As for me. Well this has been an incredibly long, long and exhausting week. I have had an up and down eating week. LOL Made potato sour cream soup…

I agree that its good. It has taken me over a month to actually be hungry during the day. Its an odd feeling since most of the time I'm not hungry at all. Today makes 2 days in a row that I'm hungry. LOL NOW I'm sure I will be getting close to or hitting my calorie goal, finally. Which is good since I'm hoping that I've…

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I'm with one of the posters from above...I cook an entire bag of frozen chicken breasts in the oven all at once, slice them up and pop them into a container for a quick grab protein. Usually an entire bag will last me most the week. I will often season half the bad differently so I can have some flavor variation through…

Gotta love cucumbers, tomatoes and apples..those are my go-to foods when, on the VERY rare occasions, I'm hungry. Today is a hungry day strangely enough. My BF just laughs at me and says its good that I'm hungry. Thank goodness I'm not an emotional or bored eater though. LOL

@Mirlyn I'm definitely saving up for a HRM. Right now I'm not super worried about calories burned through out the day. I'm fairly active with the kiddos, but I am missing my walks. (Seriously making an effort to walk tonight!!!) I figure if I'm not meeting my calorie goal regularly, then what good is going to do for me to…

I use half and half, or heavy cream and sweetener...adding a splash of vanilla here and there or maybe a bit of caramel too. I don't drink as much coffee as you do though, so my cals don't add up. Since I rarely eat to my calorie goal sometimes I'm even 500cals short.... I switched to the heavy cream, that helped boost my…

Thanks for the ideas/motivation. :) I kind of already to that stuff with the kids in my house. I have VERY busy 4 and 7yr old girls to watch and my 10 and 14yr old sons. I take the kiddos swimming, and we typically play in the pool for 2-3 hours, sometimes more when its nice out. I don't add in that play time because…

So with my new semi-crazy schedule, the warm (sometimes weather) and my brother and his daughter living with me...I am not walking or getting hardly any exercise in at all. This irritates me because yet again I have put myself and my own personal needs on hold to make sure everyone else is taken care of. I get up at 6am…

Haha Mirlyn... Was going to do the same thing today. The past week or so has been an chaotic whirlly busy mess around here and I've logged on long enough to log my food and any exercise I manage to fit in. Hopefully this week will go a bit more smoothly. I decided to change my weigh-in days to Tuesday instead of Monday.…

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So whenever I get sick, and I have Lupus so its always horrible, I'm a huge, huge fan of Zicam and for coughing I make hot tea (sweeten to taste) and then a dash of plain black pepper...The tea and pepper concoction sounds gross, but you don't taste the pepper and its stops my coughing fits. I personally like peppermint…

oooohhh thanks for the update. I was thinking of getting them, but am sooooooo very short on money this month. I might be able to swing that price though :)

Thanks for the great post, I hope everyone who needs it, reads it. Though I rarely make it to my goal for calories, I am eating, and eating all the time now. I eat whenever I am hungry. I am blessed, incredibly blessed to have my BF/Personal Trainer who has brains enough to remind me to eat instead of starve myself. I have…

For me, eating very nearly the same thing everyday is what keeps me on track. I prefer to eat things I don't have to think too much about. Though I do switch things up a bit here and there, but my choices are basically the same. I choose chicken, fish, shrimp, eggs and sometimes beef for my protein sources. I really don't…

Congratulations!!! How I would love to cut out the extra milk/cream in my coffee.... Though in all honesty I don't drink very much coffee and according to my bf/personal trainer...the fat in my heavy cream (less than 2TBLS) for my coffee is good for me considering that I don' t eat enough. LOL

I, thankfully, am not and never have been a big soda drinker. My best friend is a huge soda drinker, she will buy that even when she is low on grocery money. She, and her entire family, are addicted to it. My biggest sugary downfall is all the yummy flavored coffees out there. Fortunately I just finished up my last…

Welcome to MFP!!! This site is awesome, lots of good tools, and an amazing community of people who are all here to support one another. It is a good place to be :) Good luck in your journey

That is one of my all time favorite tips/tricks that I've used over the years....I can't wait to get to the stage where I don't have to use that anymore.... Major Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

@Mirlyn-- I typically aim for more plain water than crystal light and the other stuff I like to drink. I'm pretty good at boosting up the flavor of my water but when I do that then I have an even harder time drinking just the plain flat water. I have a load of 20oz bottles in the fridge so I always have cold water to drink…