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It's really hard to choose just one book. I love a lot of those mentioned. Ender's Game and that entire series. The Harry Potter series. The Hunger Games series. A Song of Fire and Ice series. Most of the books I read are for teens. I love John Green's books. I also really love Carrie Ryan's books. In school, I loved…

I'm doing it right now. I'm still on level 1. On day 1 everything was difficult and I couldn't imagine being able to do everything all the way through. After Day 1 I was miserably sore for 2 days. But on Day 7 I had no trouble keeping up. I still have to do the easy modified version of push ups, but everything else was…

Do what YOU have to do for yourself. Don't put pressure on him to make changes. If he sees you succeeding he might be motivated to make changes himself, but you can't make the changes for him. I've gone on multiple diets trying to lose weight, and most of the time I had someone 'helping' me by telling me what to do. Since…

Thanks everybody for the recommendations! To the person that suggested I look up personal trainers through the acefitness link, it showed me 1 within 50 miles, and then I looked him up and he's moved. So, I'd still have to go around 100 miles to find a PT. I looked in to buying weights to do stuff at home, and it would…

Thanks for the info, guys. I'm going to look into all of the stuff you all mentioned when I wake up. (I'm totally nodding off at my computer right now.) I'll probably scour bodybuilding.com later and try to figure out what to do. I'll probably drag my husband to look into the gyms with me. I'll beg him to help me make sure…

It lost me at eating six tomatoes. I can't even eat one (yuck!) I like what I'm doing now. GM can keep it's tomatoes. My sister was telling me about a woman she knows that went on a diet like this one, she lost down to a size 6 and she didn't like how she looked at that size, so she started eating again to get to a size 12.

I have Zumba on the Kinect. I am by no means an expert, but it is really fun for me. MUCH BETTER than running on a treadmill by FAR! I'd like to go and join the local Zumba classes someday, I want to get my confidence up a little first, though.

I'm cooking right now. I'm having pork chops, mashed potatoes and cauliflower, and a salad.

Me too. I love pickles!

I wonder what the chinese restaurant owners would think if I just walked in there with my kitchen scale... Excuse me. I need to weigh this General Tso's right here.

Bright Eyes radio on Pandora. The current song is actually The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One by Neutral Milk Hotel.

I don't miss any of the foods I quit eating. The only thing I wish I could have is McDonald's breakfast bagels, but my local McDonald's doesn't even sell them anymore. I gave up hours and hours of television.

I'm on Day 6. I was horribly sore for the first 3 days. Now, I feel awesome. I'm actually considering moving up to 8 lb weights. (I use 5 lb weights now.) I still can't do more than 4 push ups at a time. And the bicycle crunches suck. But I always feel much better when I get done.

Oops, my math was bad in that last post. I've lost almost 30 pounds in the last few months, not 40. I miscalculated. Time to go to bed. Point is still valid though.

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Honestly, it's none of your business, but I'll tell you. I started 'dieting' (read: starving myself) when I was really young. At 10 years old, I felt fat, even though I wasn't. I gave away my lunches at school, I barely ate anything when I got home. I could only sustain that for a few weeks to a month at a time. I assume…

I eat when I start getting hungry. I usually get hungry around 1-2 p.m. Most days I have trouble getting to my calorie goal. I've been through 'diets' where I sat around and avoided food and let my stomach hurt and cramp. I probably never got over 1000 calories a day. Eventually I stalled. When I couldn't stand it anymore…

Run a mile. Do a pull up. Shop in a regular size women's clothing department.

Mine are weird, I think. 1. I make sure I eat enough food. Usually, on diets I was on previously, I cut my calories back too much. If I was sitting around with my stomach so hungry it hurt I thought I was burning fat. If I were to add it all up, I would have been eating around 800 calories. I would lose a little at first,…

18) Go to bed hungry!!! 19) Sleep right. Pretty sure these two contradict each other. I can't sleep if I go to bed hungry.

I want to be able to run 5k. It's a matter of pride. My middle school track team was really small, so anyone could participate if they wanted to. I joined because I wanted to get out of class and go to track meets. Everything was taken by the good atheletes, except for the mile run. So, I signed up to do it. During…

I love water. In fact, I had a friend that was always raving about MIO and so I was at her house and put some drops of MIO in my water and I hated it. It just ruined the thirst quenchiness of water to me.

I use Splenda all the time. Well, not all the time, I just put it in tea.

Me. I'm trying to lose 155ish!

My mom doesn't like turkey, so we bought a ham. And my husband and my dad got free turkeys from their work. But I'm really excited about the holidays. I think I'm going to make a lot of healthy sides and try not to eat so much that I can't breathe. I'm also going to exercise in the morning and try to take a walk after…

I'm on day 5! My endurance and strength have improved greatly since day 1. This is the first exercise I've done in years other than walking and occasional swimming in the summer. I hate it when I'm doing it, but I love the way it makes me feel. Still can't do more that 4 push ups at one time though. I have to drop to my…

Wow! Great Job!

I just looked up the Daniel Fast and it said you can eat all legumes and all whole grains (except leavened bread.) I don't see why it would cause you problems. Most of the things you can't eat are things that aren't really good for you anyway.

No. I set my activity level to include some of my exercise so that I didn't have to eat back my exercise calories. Because sometimes at night I might randomly decide to go for a walk or do something extra, and I don't want to have to eat well after my eating window. But I'm trying to get someone to get me a body media fit…

Are you actually only drinking 1 or 2 glasses of water a day, or are you not logging all of the water you drink?