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I love these tips!! Perfect!

I'm 5'7" and started at 304. Here is my before picture: And here is a picture of me at 204, about 14 pound heavier than I am now: The key for me seems to be exercising regularly, but not killing myself doing it... just being as consistent as I can be, and logging every thing. EVERYTHING! I try to keep my fiber intake up,…

Congratulations!!! Doesn't it feel awesome!

Also, I fight with food the whole day if I skip breakfast. I fight with food the whole day if breakfast isn't mostly protein! I have food issues, so in the beginning, I wasn't willing to make many food changes. I was willing to try some exercise and see what happened. Then I was willing to swap some foods for other foods.…

I think that for me the exercise component has been incredibly important. But it may not contradict what you are saying... I've noticed a huge difference in my ability to control my eating habit when I exercise intensely. Going for a walk or something along those lines helps some, but intense exercise changes my…

I've lost about 118. I lost 90 the first year, 100 took 14 months and 18 the last 6. Also, the last 10 pounds I've lost have been with very little exercise, so I've lost 10 pounds and NO inches. I've not been measuring my thighs, but I think they may be bigger than they were 10 pounds ago. I'm doing better than I thought I…

If I average it all together, it is almost DEAD ACCURATE. Generally, it is within .1 pound, and I figure that is likely to be user error. The totally OCD way I calculate it is I add 5 weeks of my calorie intake and average. Then I do the same with exercise (I do it this way so I can see the average of exercise on its own,…

I struggled with this question for a while. After researching it and analyzing how various sugar intake levels changed my weight loss, appetite, etc, I found that fruit sugar really doesn't seem to make much difference in my long term weight loss. However, if I eat a whole lot of sugar several days in a row, I tend to…

Mine has come down a little bit. I've been on BP meds for, I think, the last 4 years. When I started them, my BP was in the high 140s over something around the 90s. Sometimes higher, but that was the average. When I started the meds, it came down some, but never down to normal. I think it dropped to the 130s over the high…

:) Yep! I should have looked for the update first. :)

I agree with this! I LOVE your dress! I was watching one of those bad cable wedding dress shows last week and I remember one dress where they decided to add a ribbon belt with a sparkly rhinestone "buckle" and it just MADE the dress! It was an ivory lace dress also. I wonder if a bridal shop would have something like that…

Are you around 5' 7"ish?

That's the same size my best friend wears! She worked as a bra fitter at Belk for a while and still had a hard time finding bras to fit! That is a crazy size!

I'm now a 36DD and I can't find bras easily. It isn't that I don't SEE bras that say they are a 36DD on the rack... although there seem to be fewer of those than other sizes. But there seem to be two types of 36DDs. There are the ones that are 36Bs, cut larger, for a 36DD, but still have skinny straps, two little hooks and…

I completely get you about the bra thing and not wanting to pay LB prices and knowing a new one will only fit right for a few months. But after doing this for the past 18 months, I have to admit that having a good bra really improved my life. And I shrunk out of a bra about every 3 months, even if the scale didn't seem to…

I take the Metformin AND Spironalactone. They don't treat the same things. Spironalactone is an old BP med that slows the growth of facial hair.

I've been on it for 6 or 7 years. I was shocked in the beginning because the weight just dropped off like crazy. I lost somewhere around 25 or 30 pounds. But every few months the dose had to be increased. I hit the max and was stable... not losing weight or gaining, for about a year. Then I started gaining again and…

Another vote for the weight training. Honestly, I haven't actually tried any oils or creams. I've read about several kinds but they just don't seem for real. From my belly button up, I've been absolutely floored by how much better I look than I expected to. I still have a bit of the bingo wings, but much less than I…

Measuring wouldn't help here if you didn't know which one was right. The last three show that: 4.7 ounces is 231 calories, 4 ounces is 100 calories and .25 lb (4 ounces) is 58 calories. The first one of those (the 3rd one down) is the only one that falls in a range of possibility and is measured precisely.

I was so frustrated with the chicken entries on MFP because there is a huge variance between them. Most of them are incorrect. Skinless roasted chicken has around 46 calories (45 to 55) per ounce, and about 8 grams of protein per ounce. 1/2 a breast, in most calorie counting books, is about 3 ounces. A breast without skin…

Thank you, all! It's a struggle, but I'm not losing ground yet!

Yogurt with live probiotics in it, as most of them are nowadays, IS an active culture. I usually use yogurt as a culture, instead of buying one, when I make it. If you make it frequently, you don't have to buy yogurt anymore... just use the homemade yogurt as the culture. Although after 8 or 12 batches it makes the…

You could always drink it with a bowl of oatmeal and maybe they would counter balance each other! :)

Have you experimented with different kinds of tea to see if some are good with less sugar? I am a serious, SERIOUS tea addict. Mostly just black, orange pekoe, unsweetened. I used to drink sweet tea (southern belle here) and it took 9 months of cold turkey to get past that addiction. But sense then I've found that if I mix…

This reminds me of a radio show I heard one time where they were discussing processed foods. There was a Dr of nutrition being interviewed and she was discussing the difference between eating an orange or drinking orange juice, and similar sorts of things. She said that things that are "toxic" to us on some level are often…

This is a term I've struggled with recently. I've modified my thoughts on what processed means, but it is still hard to define. I tend to think of unprocessed foods as things that haven't had anything AT ALL done to them. I think of cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, and whole wheat flour, ground beef and tea and things…

Great job following up on that! I ate somewhere recently... IHOP maybe?? That said that their egg substitute had 130 calories when it was substitute for 2 eggs. I was thinking that sounded crazy because the eggs would have about 130 calories, so why would the egg substitute have the same?! But in some of their dishes, if…

It has worked for me sometimes. In the beginning getting into the smaller clothes was a big motivator and it seemed to work pretty well for me. But now I find that I sometimes lose weight in places I'm not expecting to, but not in places I am expecting it. The last few times I bought something small so I could shrink into…

So awesome!! Overweight is my next goal. 7 pounds to go. You inspired me... I'm going to make plans now for a picture!! I was going to wait until I had lost 125 pounds (overweight will be 114 lost), but I'm going to do it sooner. I need motivational things more often these days. You look amazing!! Those 33 pounds made a…

My daughter is gluten, dairy and soy intolerant. Issues with soy knock out about 3/4 of the gluten-free processed foods for us. In order to not spend a fortune, I have to cook. I make dried beans, frozen veggies, fresh veggies, eggs, grits, lots of grilled chicken and salads with oil and vinegar dressing. She eats a good…