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Meokk - Welcome! Each day we report on the following: Calories - (are you over or under/ how many- how ever you want to report) Water - did you get in 8 glasses or 64 oz??? Exercise - did you get in any exercise today? Proud - one thing you are proud of! On Fridays we weigh in and tell how much we lost in the past week and…

Yep that's it! 2/206.2 = .009699 or .97% ! lildeb............. - 1.3 = .46% bluenote......... - 3 = .67% Positive......... -2.5 = 1.17% jlb123............. -0.6 = .28% hajohnson24...0.0 = 0% mstahl...............-3.8 = 1.94% Cogirl.................0.0 = 0% Cris20056........-3.2= 1.33% Mari ..................-0.6 = 0.24%…

There's a current study underway that looks at the health impacts caused by restricted calorie diets in NORMAL HEALTHY ADULTS - it's not a diet-to-lose-weight study. The NYT had an article about a few months ago. Healthy adults were restriced to about 75% of their maintenance calories for an extended period of time (one…

lildeb............. - 1.3 = .46% bluenote......... - 3 = .67% Positive......... -2.5 = 1.17% jlb123............. -0.6 = .28% hajohnson24...0.0 = 0% mstahl...............-3.8 = 1.94% Cogirl.................0.0 = 0% Cris20056........-3.2= 1.33% Mari ..................-0.6 = 0.24% Snowflakes......+1.2 = 0%…

I'm glad the snow is fun for you jlb123! I have to admit that I love the snow! It's a pain and I hate our long driveway and the dirty snow that slushes up the streets a few days after it comes, but over all it's just beautiful! I was doing pretty well yesterday... For our weekly dinner I made stuffed red peppers…

:heart: :heart: lildebbie:heart: :heart: - you might be "pretty happy" with your weigh in and think it's "nice" to see your ticker move but let me tell you, my dear, I AM PUMPED TO SEE YOU LOST WEIGHT AND YOUR TICKER MOVED!!! :drinker: FABULOUS!!!!!! :bigsmile: YOU ROCK!!!! :flowerforyou: YOU ARE DOING THIS!!!! Now shout…

I had my ovaries and tube removed in August of 09 - I was expecting to be up and around in a couple of days and back to work in a week. It wasn't horrible but I didn't bounce back as quickly as I'd expected. They move your organs around during surgery. My bladder and bowl didn't really seem to settle in for a few weeks. I…

Awestfall, ColoradoGirl and all the rest of you that are struggling this week... WAKE UP!!!:drinker: IT'S WORKING!!!:bigsmile: Take a moment and think about how STRONG you've become! About how much BETTER you feel after you work out! Our bodies are mysteries but they're still ruled by the physical laws of the universe and…

I made the hot spinach dip mentioned here for a party Tuesday night - and it was a big hit! Unlike my usual spinach artichoke dip with lots and lots of fats in it, this tasted fresh and the spinach really comes through (for better or worse). 1 package of frozen chopped spinach thawed and squeezed of water 1 regular tub of…

MariSama44- at night, under the covers... I keep feeling myself up :embarassed: I find the whole weight loss impact so fascinating! My boobs are smaller (deflated really) and that feels weird and I have a waist!!!! See- before I lost this weight, I had an hour glass figure - with an extra hour. :laugh: I find my thighs…

A nice spoon full of peanut butter will make your body happy and give you great fuel for a night time rebuilding of muscle! I've done the best when I eat most if not all of my calories!

lildebbie- I'm so sorry you're having a really rough week! I'm in a similar spot at work but now I'm at the slap-happy stage (not sure if that's good or bad :laugh: ) If there's any way you can muster it - try to get in about 20 minutes of Wii Fit or some kind of aerobic activity to get your blood pumping and your heart…

Hello all! Welcome Nia! It's another snowy day here in Northeast Ohio! We have the equipment to deal with it but none the less roads were bad last night. We had a party at our house and 20 people had RSVP'd but only 8 made it here through the storm. OK it wasn't a party, it was a little concert. Four bands, traveling…

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: YOU'RE BACK!!! WE MISSED YOU!!! WE WORRIED!!! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :cry: please don't leave us again!

Tiger - great goals! I didn't get to bed until 11!!! (toasting marshmallows was involved *hangs head in shame*) So I checked out today's work calendar and decided to go in a little late. I set my alarm for 6am instead of 5 am and still got in my 45 minutes on the elliptical machine, stretching and crunches - and now I'm…

Hi! Checking in! Tiger- I think 1.5 lbs/week is a good guide - remember you're lose more at first. I need to lose around 70 lbs- I'd like to lose 50 by July/August and then the last 20 I am planning to take much longer - probably another six months. I found out today that I job i really wanted, but thought wasn't going to…

Elliptical - I have never come close to burning what MFP estimates on the elliptical machine. I use my HRM to track calories burned and I work up in the high 70s to low 80s (% of max) I burn about 100 calories every ten minutes! I burn a little more than MFP estimates at a moderate walk (3.5mph) and less hiking- I think…

Yes - it will get better! Find dense, nutritious, low calorie foods you can eat that will fill your stomach, take a while to digest and give you a feeling of being full! Here's my list of favorite snacks (sometimes these are meals!) 1. Small apples - I was never an apple person but when you are really hungry these are…

OK Positively_Me and ColoradoGirl! Here's our goal (because I too am not working the plan).:bigsmile: We will get into bed at an early hour (tell our family we've developed migraines if we need to). We will get up at an unreasonably early hour and we will exercise for at least 40 minutes even if that exercise is just…

I've had to deal with this too! In college a group of us went to the 6:30 AM step class and looking in the mirror I would see four beautiful, healthy, glowing young women, and me -frizzy haired and blotchy red face, and sweaty! UGH! In college I had time, and didn't really care about how I looked in a morning class. As a…

Remember you can always walk in place in front of your TV while you catch a program at night! I used to get the grand-kids to "follow the leader" and we'd march around the house while they played drums (pots with a wooden spoon) and we'd pretend to be a band -goofy but it got all of us moving!:bigsmile:

Thanks Bluenote :-D My husband and housemate both like to giggle when I miss-pronounce Greek or Latin words but will they take a turn reading? NO. :grumble: When Beth left for a Superbowl party she said "And DON'T finish the book without me!" - she's read it before... I gave in to tradition today and made 'conductor's…

breakfast - FiberOne carmel cereal (omg so good!) mixed with 1/2 cup vanilla lowfat yogurt. lunch - deboning a roasted chicken so a couple oz. of snitched chicken plus a hard boiled egg. dinner- Lentil and sausage stew (carrots, onions, garlic, beer and thyme w/ pork sausage and beef poslish sausage which I smoked first…

YAY!!!! CLEAN OUT THOSE CLOTHES YOU'RE NEVER GOING BACK! Congrats!!!:flowerforyou:

Are you eating your exercise calories? If so make sure you are SURE about how many you are actually burning. I was WAY overestimating my elliptical calories because MFP uses an optimistic number. I bought a HRM and found out how few I was burning. Now I eat my exercise calories - but ONLY the ones I'm sure of. I don't eat…

BUMP! I'm planning a Valentines meal using red peppers :bigsmile:

Checking in! Calories - way under, but since I've been over for the last two days I don't need to worry about going into starvation mode! Water - bad... Exercise - 90 minutes walking on the treadmill (just 4 miles). Proud - today is my "endurance" day and I didn't want to do it! But I made myself go for the minimum of 90…

jlb123 - oh how I love thee for thou's chili recipe! I shall endevor to do it justice this week with venison of course! You rock!:bigsmile: :glasses: :flowerforyou:

Friday - Breakfast - 3/4 cup Pumpkin, 1/4 cup cottage cheese, cinnamon and splenda Lunch - Grilled chicken salad, steamed carrots and snow peas. Dinner - Wine and Eggplant Frys (oops) Snacks - small apples (2) lots of green chai Saturday - Breakfast - Fiber One carmal cerial (1/2 cup) mixed with lowfat vanilla yogurt Lunch…

I know you weren't asking me, but just my two cents- I was losing the most when I was eating most of my exercise calories. That being said, I am careful to only enter the exercise calories I am pretty sure I burned through real aerobic exercise (breathing hard and sweating) rather than the misc activities I might count as…