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I am sort of proud of mine - I carried a 10 pound 11 ounce baby in my belly! I was 61" around! Though now that I'm losing weight, they are becoming way more pronounced - My belly is so bumpy feeling - like a textured globe!

Thanks everyone! I just can't believe the difference in how high my stomach is compared to how it was when I started!!

I could see it counting as exercise if you were to do it fast up and down and for a bit of time, but just going up them to get to class, I'd just think of it as a small daily "bonus". I work my hardest at level 3 of the 30 Day Shred and only burn 210 calories (and I'm 210lbs), so I doubt walking up 3 sets of stairs would…

The first week, I was weighing every day, but now, I only weigh once a week - on Sunday's. And I have to force myself to remember before I eat breakfast. For some reason, I became less obsessed with what the scale said as soon as I started seeing inches melting away and I started fitting into clothes I haven't worn in…

Sounds great - is there a separate group for the Ripped challenge?

The Starting Block looks like a great place to start! Surely I can make it into the city before spring! Thank you so much!

I have this problem too, but something I had to realize, is most people in the real world aren't petty and looking to put you at the end of a joke. Sure there will be jerks, but ones that go out of their way to make a stranger feel bad about themselves are few and far between. The best way to learn how to act confident is…

Hun, sometimes you gotta fake it until you make it. I am not a very confident person either, however back when I was still working, I couldn't act not-confident at work...so I pretended I was confident. I pretended I was the fittest, prettiest, smartest, and nicest person at work, and I held my head high - all while…

Are you eating your exercise calories back? Do you have a heart rate monitor to make sure your exercise calories are accurate? MFP doesn't consider exercise into your activity level, but instead you add it as extra. Also, how long have you been stalled, and what is your weekly goal? I see you are fairly close to your GW,…

Twenty-two days. I've been doing this since the first, and I'm down 10lbs from when I started. However, I dropped 5 overnight (water weight) right in the beginning. I also started at 220, and I'm only 5'1", so I have quite a bit to lose.

Yeah...I tried it too, and it sucked. It didn't even taste like "sucks, but still chocolate", it was just nasty.

I'm so IN! I like that we get the 31st as a rest day too (for those of us that started on the 1st). How cool would it be to do a different program every month? That's my plan anyway! I can't wait!

Hehe thanks! Let me know how it goes - I betcha your legs BURN!

I googled it for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+grams+are+in+one+cup+of+chocolate+chips%3F+ And got: 182.4 grams Or you can check the packaging? :happy: (I've always wanted to use that. hehe)

Nope - not as many planks at all - it works the legs a lot. I LOVE it! I did it today for the first time!

Just looking at your diary, I can see you probably aren't eating enough. I know sometimes it is hard to eat your exercise calories back, but as long as you feel they are accurate (using a HRM), then try eating 50-80% of them back if not all of them. Some days you have a huge amount of calories left over. Try nuts - just 7…

Not all turkey bacon/turkey ham is puree of the unusable scraps. Just like I don't eat mystery meat hotdogs, I only buy good quality turkey bacon with no nasty by products or chemicals - the person who makes our turkey bacon uses thigh meat for his bacon. It actually doesn't even taste like pork bacon, it taste more like…

Yeah..because our bodies inherently know how to tell time! As soon as 7pm rolls around, it goes, "Metabolism, STOP!" Day lights saving really throws it all off! </sarcasm> It makes no difference when you eat - you can eat your entire daily calories at 11PM and go to bed as soon as you are done, and the only thing it…

I got my FT4 on Amazon.com for only $60, so maybe you could save up?

They are very right - switching when you eat isn't going to do anything... Of course, if you wait it out, you'll probably overcome your plateau anyway (sometimes it happens) and so think that changing the time you ate helped. lol. I'm sure lots of people can help though if you open your diary - how many cals are you on?…

I like blueberries, or the Weight Watchers Frozen Yogurt Bars! I ate 3 yesterday. :blushing: They are only 60 calories each though, plus they give me a little extra calcium (that my body definitely needs!)

I agree with the pp! What I plan on doing when I'm pregnant again is set myself at maintenance for the first tri, and then readjusting manually as needed (per my doctor recommendation) for the second and third. This next pregnancy will be a whole new experience, because we don't plan on getting pregnant again until I lose…

I think healthy is a relative term (some would consider what I eat healthy, whereas others would still consider it unhealthy because I still eat a few processed foods), however, I think eating in moderation is definitely healthier than not! I just never realized that "healthy" food could actually be so good! I always…

It depends. Low fat dairy is fine (as long as it's still real dairy), however, you are right about the "low-fat" and light, etc. processed foods. I try and stay away from most processed foods, and I have to be really careful with the "light" stuff because a lot of the time they take out sugar and add artificial sweeteners,…

That's what I did before I got my Danskin Now ones! It wasn't perfect, but it was a good temporary solution!

I'm cursed with this as well, though at the beginning of the year, I was an I. Since, I've actually gone back down to a DDD. I found that the "High Impact" Sports Bras at Wal-Mart (believe it or not! lol) work really well. They are Danskin Now ones. I started in a 2X, but now I'm already in an XL, so you should be able to…

It depends on how much/what you are eating. You are likely either eating too much or too little. If you open your diary, more people will be able to help.

I'm 5'1" and 210.5lbs, and I burned 700 calories doing level two of the 30 day shred and then Just Dance 3 for another hour. It was combined time/cals, but I average about 220 calories for the 30 Day Shred. So for a little less than an hour of Just Dance (ONLY the time I was actually dancing - I paused the HRM between…

When I made my omelets, I use 3 white and 1 yolk. The other two yolks I scramble for my toddler. She loves them, they give her much needed calories, and they aren't going to waste. I'd freeze them otherwise and just use them for my husband's eggs.

I'm so glad someone else is doing this diet! When I started it people said it wasn't healthy, but I just explained to them how I was going to be soaking the twinkies in food colouring each night so I get a variety in my diet. You could try that! Also, someone else suggested if you INJECT cat pee each morning, it would…