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I've been doing SL for a couple of months. I really like it. I've done lifting before, but I fell off the wagon for a couple of years. I am naturally strong, but I like starting light, with just the bar, because it gives me time to get my form down to a second nature while still progresssing steadily enough to feel good…

Rice cookers are awesome. And someone else on this thread mentioned that you can use them for way more--quinoa, oatmeal, keeping soup warm. Mine also comes with a steamer basket so you can throw vegetables or whatever in there, put water in the bottom, and use it as a steamer. I usually spend about ~5 minutes prepping my…

I did consider that I might not be getting all of my nutrients, but the recommended daily fruit/vegetable intake for a woman of my age and activity level is 2 cups a day, and I definitely get that or more. (http://www.choosemyplate.gov/ ; they re-vamped the food pyramid based on current knowledge of health and nutrition) I…

I don't eat those things too often, except for other fruits. Whatever looks good or is on sale. Or sometimes if I Have a craving, I'll just go buy one of what I'm craving. (Last week, it was a mango.) I've never really been a huge bread eater, and for the time it takes me to make a sandwich I can have my dinner prepped and…

I don't tend to get sick of it that much because there's SO MUCH that you can do to change the flavor. I'm really good with seasonings. And I don't think I could ever get sick of apples. I admit to having it easy, lol! (Though you could easily substitute other hand fruits.) What's your grocery list usually like?

I actually JUST did this, and I discovered that it's amazing. VERY LIGHTLY sweetened Citrus-Mint Green Tea. I boiled about a gallon of water in a stock pot, let it cool about 5 minutes after the boil, threw in 4 green tea with citrus bags and 2 peppermint tea bags. I squeezed in some lemon juice, too. Then I added about 3…

Best tip for "healthier" cheese options? Hard cheeses. These tend to have lower fat and sodium content, therefore lower calories. Also, I find it's easier to moderate my intake because they're more prone to crumbling when you try to slice them, and I get frustrated and quit. XD

I have a hard time with motivation. I tend to use a work/reward system on myself. For example: I think about an outfit that I want (usually from an online store) and think about my weight loss goals. For example, one pound a week = X weeks until I meet my goal. I take the total cost of the outfit, divide by X, and every…

Wanna be friends? XD

I admit it--I sometimes find myself being judgmental of super skinny girls. Mostly, it's models who have probably been photoshopped until their legs look like little more than skin-over-bone. Sometimes, though, it's girls I see out in the world. I see a very thin girl with the "thigh gap" that so many seem to want to have,…

OP, you look amazing, and you will only continue to improve as you continue to work for it. 50 pounds is an incredible difference, and you should be incredibly proud of yourself for all your hard work. I'm not really sure if I'm "big-boned" or not. I'm 5'1, I have broad shoulders and broad hips, as well as very muscular…

Number of people who responded to the thread without reading the OP? All of them. (I don't know, so can't answer the question.)

Moisturizer. I don't care if I skip washing my face, I moisturize every day. (I use Vanishing Cream from LUSH. It's the most amazing thing, unless I Have a breakout in which case I use Burt's Bees Natural Acne Solutions--The only moisturizer I've found with salicylic acid in it. Helps clear me up fast!) Helps keep my…

Still doing good! No fast food since the chicken strip craving. Feeling pretty good about it. :)

I thought of another one, that happened recently and just made me feel awful. It was about eight pounds ago. I generally gain weight in my belly, so my pants size doesn't fluctuate a whole lot. I was wearing a pair of jeans that I'd bought after my housefire, before I gained 20 pounds. I was at my boyfriend's apartment,…

Last summer I went home for my sister's wedding and was staying at my mom's house. I had gone thrifting with a good girlfriend, and I found this -adorable- little pale yellow sundress with little blue flowers on it. It wasn't a flowy sundress, it was a fitted one. I loved it. I loved how it fit, and how it looked. I had…

I've had a FitBit One for about a year and a half. When I decided I wanted to get an activity tracker, I did a LOT of research into them, reading user reviews and scientific comparisons (Where people would wear the gadgets and do the same thing to see where the differences were) and the One came out right in the middle of…

So yesterday was a HUGELY active day for me. I met every single one of my fitbit metrics, and in some cases doubled, tripled, or quadrupled what the daily "goal" was. I didn't have much time to eat, so I wound up consuming less than 1000 calories, giving me a whopping 1200 left to safely consume while still meeting my…

I think I'm about to cheat. Yesterday I was HUGELY active, mostly because of work, but I wound up with a net of less than three hundred calories, giving me about 1200 that I could eat while still hitting my target deficit. I just couldn't eat that much yesterday because I was so exhausted. But today I am SO HUNGRY, it's…

So far I've been doing really well. But today I've done a lot of physical labor so far, and all I want is to get a giant burger and a pile of french fries. Instead, I'm having salmon and green beans and brown rice. But man. It's hard.

I'd like to thank everyone for the continued support and advice! It really means a lot to me every time I come back and see that other people have written to me. <3 I don't think I'm going to use diet and exercise alone to try to control my symptoms--I have some very real issues to work through that go back many many…

Thanks, deksgrl! It's only about 3 weeks old, so I think it qualifies as "new." And I felt pretty that day, so I took a picture. <3 He was appropriately horrified when he realized that his callous, selfish words were that, and were so hurtful. He sent me a long email back, that mostly rhymed with "I'm sorry I keep trying…

Also, @Dagnova: Thank you so much for your support and kind words! I am also in therapy working on it, and taking medication to correct the neurological problem.

So far so good! I did order a pizza on Friday night, but I don't do pizza very often at all, it was cheat day, and I worked it off this weekend through incredible amounts of house-cleaning. Today I'm having an urge to eat all my feelings in the form of chicken strips and honey mustard sauce, but I'm resisting so far.…

I used to take a whole supplement cocktail before bed, including valarian, passionflower, and chamomile (to combat the insomnia), time-release B-vitamins (for mood and energy) and 5-htp. It worked for a while, but it wasn't a long-term solution. I had a really good weekend. My boyfriend was in an unhealthy state of mind,…

Fight the Ruby Weapon, win the Desert Rose, and go give it to the old guy in Kalm. Bam, instant Gold Chocobo!

Just use a chocobo.

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I. Love. Salt. BUT I've been doing surprisingly well avoiding eating a ton of sodium lately. Most of it is eating real food, as opposed to a lot of packaged stuff. Generally lunch and dinner are fresh (not frozen) chicken or fish and vegetables(Edit: I forgot to mention that I also eat rice with lunch and dinner.) I use…