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I weigh in daily (when a scale is available) that way when I fall off I can stop the slide quickly and get back on track. While tomorrow might be another day, I find when I use this mentality that tomorrow becomes tomorrow and the next and the next and nothing ever happens, well not nothing the scale loves to go up when I…

I used diet soda to kick my regular soda habit. Bad idea I ended up hooked on diet. Now I keep diet soda in the house but for the most part I only have it less then once a week. I get terrible migraines (not from the diet soda), I take Imatrex and my doctor suggested popping a pill followed by a can of soda or a cup of…

Okay, I know I can be really slow when it comes to some computer things.....But it took me over 4 months to figure out how to search on this site. I was expecting a search bar that is usually located somewhere on the top of the page. When I did not see it I figured all convos were deleted after x number of days. I was…

We had an english setter named Ben (Benjamin Richard was the AKA and mad name) Our Weim is Taylor (Taylor Ann was the AKA and mad name) Our rescue dog/german short hair mix is Baxter (no AKA name and most the time when mad it is Baxter. HERE. NOW!) I grew up with a slew of english setters named Skeeter (Skeeter Sundance…

I love cottage cheese, I always have. I eat it: plain, with a little bit of pepper, with pineapple chunks, with walnut pieces (suggest only 1/2 serving of nuts or it over powers it), with peaches, and my new favorite way is as a salad dressing for mixed baby greens (otherwise I find I use way too much dressing as it is not…

This is me. I could be falling down exausted, up for the last 48 hours, and unless I am going to bed for the night you can forget the whole nap idea. Not only do I feel terrible, I am a grouch and the only thing I want to do is go back to bed. That being said. When I would pull insane shifts and have to do it on little to…

Granny Smith is my favorite but I love to eat any that are firm, crisp and not overly sweet.

Exactly what I was thinking. The black one give better shape and looks like you can move around in it without worry that the girls will fall out.

This is sooo me! Plus I started to sweat like crazy and was always hot. Sweating when you are working out is one thing, sweating when you go grocery shopping sooo different.

I have very young children and only one who is eating table food. She is required to have 2 bites of everything or the plate is plastic wrapped and given at the next meal. I have only had to do this twice and once I think she just was not hungry as she normally loved the things we had for dinner that night. On a rare…

I am in.

When I was pregnant with my first I only gained 12lbs and I had a 8lb 12oz healthy baby girl. I ate healthy, much healthier then I had been and was drinking tons of water. I was also working in a restaurant for 8-12 hours a day. I loved being pregnant with my daughter it was so easy. When I left the hospital after having…

Youtube offers quite a few options as well. I don't go to the gym either I am going to start doing some at home work that I found on a website. I will see if I can find the name of the website and I will post it.

I have always had this problem and it is now even worse than ever. Now the bottom is covered in stretch marks. I escaped my first pregnancy without adding any stretch marks but due to the c-section and the lack of time between both of my children (13 months) I have stretch marks from the c-section scar up to my belly…

My mother and I both did this diet. We both lost a ton of weight. She has managed to keep it all off but only by sticking to it and tracking everything so she knows what she has taken in carb wise. I was not so lucky...I fell off the wagon so to speak about a year after I had started it and never really got back to it.…

I sent you a request. I am a stay at home mother of two one is 22 months and the other is 9 months. I struggle finding a happy medium between what I should eat and what my hubby should eat. He owns his own construction company and is in a physically demanding job and eats very little all day until he gets home then I swear…

I would love to join a gym and have finally found one that offers child care on the premisis. While that is my ultimate goal we can not afford to spend the money for it right now. I am currently doing the Couch to 5k (I just started week three) I also add in workout videos from youtube (level one of Jillian Michaels 30 day…

I am really lucky that I live in Phx. While growing anything can be a challange they have the 3000 club that hosts market on the move. For a $10 donation you can get up to 60 lbs of produce. You are limited to whatever is available but I always stock up and freeze anything that we are not going to use quickly enough. While…

The worst was my co-worker. I am fairly new to this lifestyle change and this actually happened before the change. When I was prego with my daughter I worked with three other pregnant ladies and two ladies that had reciently given birth (with in the last 6 months). We worked in a restaurant and every night after closing…

I am glad that you are going to look into everything so you get all the proper vitamins and nutrients. While this does not happen to most people, my sister played with being a vegetarian and vegan she was getting sick all the time. I say played with because what she would and would not eat changed all the time. Sometimes…

I tried running with a regular double stroller. I found that it was very difficult. I would suggest the couch to 5k program and run in place or in the back yard for the first three weeks of the program then go back to week one and try with the stroller again. I am on week two and run in place in the house or in the…

When I first started counting I would obsess. One way around that is I would write everything down for a week then go back and put it in MFP so I did not worry about the numbers. I did weigh/measure everything but this kept me from knowing exactly what I was consuming until it was too late for me to worry about what I…

I am not very familiar with Insanity but here is just another thought...... Every time I attempt to build up muscle (ie work abs, thighs, arms ect) I am very please with the results for about a month maybe two months. Then puffy fat shows up every where. My doctor said it had something to do with all the extra muscle I add…

The results if any are probably coming from cutting out the dairy and carbs. Still not a great option. They will come back when you add back the carbs.

We do a lot of things with egg plant. I love to make egg plant parmesan and instead of coating in bread crumbs I leave it naked. I also have a recipe for egg plant linguine. Cook lingunie and while doing so pan fry with a little olive oil the egg plant when it gets to the point where it almost looks like butter when it is…

Having had success with a cortisone shot in my wrist I would do it again if needed. I have to say I did not expect the swelling that happened or the pain both during the injection and for almost 2 weeks after the shot. It did remove all pain in the wrist from tendonitis (sp?) and while I never regained full range of motion…

Feel free to add me. I am a stay at home mother to 2 ages 22 months and 9 months. My father is living/staying with us and between him and hubby I have a very difficult time cooking healthy. The guys are running their own business and are very active all day long. When they get home they eat tons and are usually looking for…

This is almost all true of our house. The only difference is I expect and receive 15 to 30 minutes of peace and quiet (when he is home in time) after dinner. We have two children ages 22 months and 9 months and most days by the time he gets home I am ready for some quiet time too. Granted that does not always work because…

Its 10:36 pm right now and I have been smoke free for 26 hours and 53 minutes. So far today all I wanted to do was eat, and smoke of course. Really hoping that it goes away in the next few days but I am going to continue to watch the scale and my food intake for a week or two and see if I need to change the calories around…

I am in! I just finished week one on Friday. My plan is to get all the way through week three then try back at week one with the kids. On Week one Day one I attempted to take my 21 mo old and my 9 mo old with me as they must do everything with me (stay at home mom) I got about half way through day one and realized I had to…