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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Congrats and may you have a long, happy, healthy marriage. :flowerforyou:

I read about this in a different thread today. If you want to validate the numbers that MFP gives you, try doing this: Go to http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/mbf/ and let it calculate your military body fat count. Then, go to http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/ to calculate your basal metabolic rate. That page will…

I've seen it said so often here NOT to weigh yourself daily. When I stopped, and switched to weekly weigh-ins combined with measuring inches, not just weight, I realized that getting close as possible to the net goal was working. I don't know why we seem to gain or at least not lose pounds at first - but I sure lost…

Hi Caroline, You are such an inspiration! I mean, look at the difference in your neck and your waist alone. And you seem genuinely happy in the "after" pic. You have good reason to be! Thanks so much for sharing your story and giving hope and encouragement to us all. :flowerforyou: Schelly

Broken foods have no calories, because they leak out of the broken edge. So if you do bake the cookies that you intend not to eat, if one or two break - those may be eaten. Few know of the food-color-correlation. Foods that are yellow (i.e. yellow cake) have a corresponding quantity of calories as other foods in the same…

I think I would keep getting as close as possible to the NET daily recommended calorie budget, which is a huge adjustment in itself, and continue to learn what affects your body. For me, I have learned so far that sodium and sugar are not my friends. That doesn't keep me from working a treat into my budget once in a while…

You are adorable - and look how bright a smile you have. Thanks so much for posting and I hope to see your goal-achieved pics in the near future! Fantastic achievement!

Just in case anybody checks back - I did do my EA Active routine today. I included one set of 12 reps of two kinds of lunges; front lunges and side lunges. Wed. it had me do 3 sets of 12 each. I really do like the game - it makes working out as fun as is can be. I also got an app for my Kindle Fire for core workouts that I…

I'm learning to plan in advance, but more importantly - so is my husband. He wanted honey walnut shrimp for tonight's meal. So I plugged it in this morning and told him what it would cost him in workout and meal portions for breakfast and lunch. He was good with the trade-off for a little mini-splurge, so that''s what…

I believe that's 2 servings, or 1/2 a pie. :-D

What's beautiful in these pics? YOU are - and look at that smile. You are genuinely happy - and it shows. So fantastic - thank you for posting this for those of us just starting. Highly motivational! :flowerforyou:

Agree! And you are really doing fabulously - keep it up!

Good heavens, you look AWESOME!!! NSV indeed!

Thank you, Dwitham88. You hit the nail on the head, of course. I honestly thought I could do a 30 min. circuit and obviously I was ridiculously optimistic. Believe me, lesson learned! After reading Amdahwd's advice, I thought it would probably be a good idea to do something reeeeeeeeeeeally light just to loosen my muscles…

Okay - that's what I want to do, but the Hubs says I should rest. I think he's factoring in the cold/fever I caught, but I can work through that. I just don't want to do any real harm to my muscles. Thank you so much!

^^^ This! Cook the eggs in sauteed minced onion. Just before you take the pan off the burner, add some minced tomato (patted dry with a paper towel). When you plate the eggs, add 1/2 avocado diced. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons salsa (you choose how hot). I sometimes have this for supper instead of breakfast. Very tasty stuff!

This is how I've always thought of it, also. And I have both of plenty to work off. LOL! Can I borrow the phrase from time to time? :happy:

It really is - thanks to all who answered. I always had this condition (though I do not blush easily) so I think there may be different types of causes. I believe the superficial blood flow is the most common type, and that would include people who are extremely fair and blush easily. I think the 2nd type is the people who…

Just love yourself. You're a work in progress, just like me and everybody else I know. You deserve your best, so accept yourself as you are right now. That way, you can accept the changes as they come. You're doing GREAT - give yourself that acceptance and that victory!

I must be in an emotionally vulnerable spot right now, but I could completely feel your tears and I started tearing up as I was reading your post! Well done - what a fantastic milestone!

You're joking, right? You don't see how much smaller your tummy is? I see you are making progress! Are you measuring yourself? I didn't believe I was losing anything because the scales weren't moving at first. A good MFP friend suggested I measure myself and sure enough, that''s where my progress was. But c'mon - you…

Thanks for the confirmation! I'm just trying anything that I can enjoy enough to sustain it over the long term, and this game reviewed really well, so I tried it. I do think this plus "Walk it Out" and "Wii Fit" for ab/core work will be my trifecta of fitness. For now. LOL! To answer questions: No, this isn't the second in…

You look absolutely stunning - well done! <standing ovation>

I used to be super-insecure about my body. I turned it into a joke... told people I was so modest, I had to go into another room just to change my mind. I've become less so over time, but I think childbirth had a lot to do with that. I still hate wearing bathing suits. But I know it's my own insecurity, and I do overcome…

We all survived our parents' mistakes and it's up to us to learn to do better than the generation before. Besides, if a parent didn't screw their kids up some way, what would they have to talk about with their shrink? Joking aside (because it really isn't funny) - we can't raise other people's children. We can work to…

It happens to ex-smokers, too - believe me. You just discover this great knowledge and you feel kind of stupid for not knowing it before. But now that you DO know it, you think absolutely everybody should know it, too. So if they don't "get it" - then it's easy to judge them. I'm glad you've recognized that you're doing…

Eh! Or Amen, as the case may be. Thanks for sharing your story, OP. Fabulous breakthrough, and it can apply to so many things we self-medicate with! :flowerforyou:

It happens to me, too. I wonder how many other characteristics we have in common. If you like, would you answer the following? Are you a "furnace" - for example, do you feel so hot when you sleep you kick the covers off? Once you begin sweating, do you sweat long after the workout is done? Have you ever had heat exhaustion…

Please don't be hard on yourself - everybody has "weak days" - the trick is not to let them turn into weak weeks or weak months. I learned in an unpleasant way not to weigh myself every day, too. I weigh myself once a week, max, and measure myelf then, also. It's working for me, so hopefully you can pick yourself back up…

Hello lovely ladies, This is my first time posting on this thread, and I have to admit that it's the most unique thread on MFP, I think. Please give me a few days to read through the pages of previous posts and get to know you each a little better. I have to start cooking for the hubs here in a few minutes, but I didn't…