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During the summer I love to have strawberries on top of plain greek yogurt. It's got protein, it's fairly low in calories, and it satisfies my sweet tooth so I don't feel like I've had to skip dessert.

At my heaviest in college I was a size 16 and about eight months ago I fit into a size six, smaller than I had ever had as a goal, but I still felt fat. Then about two or three weeks ago I was walking down the hallway at work in my stupid black pants that are too tight and always feel like they're going to explode and…

I've cut out ice cream a few times, and I find that the first four or five days are the worst and then I don't even really want it after that, so if you manage the 3 days you might want to try stretching it out for a few more. The money you can save when you're not buying ice cream every week is incredible. :)

I'm 5'6", pear shaped, around 150lbs now and wear size 6 pants (sometimes a 4 depending on the store) and I just fit into size 6 dresses this weekend when I went out shopping. Last time I was at this weight (at 147) I was squeezing into a size 9, so I'm all in on suggesting lifting weights.

This month I set up an exercise schedule for myself and I'm not going to weigh myself until February comes along. I'm giving myself a goal that doesn't involve my weight and I'm going to concentrate on that success. Exercising is something that I have control over, whereas the number on the scale is affected by so many…

5'8" and 112 pounds is underweight on all three of the charts that I looked at. You might want to talk to your doctor to be sure that you are at a healthy weight for your particular body. That way someone will be looking at you and your lifestyle and not just an overview of the population. Still, my guess is that you're…

Try emailing Fitbit customer service to see what they suggest. It's their product, so they would know what is/isn't safe to try. I hope you get a solution soon.

The basic calorie recommendation is set up for a person that is not exercising at all to still have a calorie deficit and still lose weight. When you workout, log what exercise and for how long and that will add calories to your daily goal.

I have a desk job, so when I started here I had myself down as sedentary. I didn't take into consideration that "sedentary" was being calculated as someone walking from their house to their car, driving to work, sitting all day, and driving back home. When I got a fitbit I found that it was adding 500 to 600 calories that…

If I were you I'd step back and take a breath. It's one day. Some days you'll be full of energy and ready to go and some days you'll be exhausted. It's called life. Part of this whole process is learning how to work with the ups and downs, 'cause if you don't then the second you stop pushing pushing pushing you'll gain…

I did the slimfast program for a few months, but I think the reason I was able to stick to it is that I was in grad school and it was easy to just slip two shakes into my bag when I was going to be out of the house for fourteen hours. Plus, it let me eat chocolate for almost every meal, which helped with my stress from…

I've been eating a lot of strawberries dripped in plain greek yogurt. It's satisfyingly sweet, takes awhile to eat, and is fairly low in calories.

I love Cindy Whitmarsh's 10 Days to a better body. There are two workouts, one upper body and one lower body, that are about 30 minutes of interval training--one minute alternating intervals of strength training and cardio. I've had it for about six months and this week is the first time I've gotten past day three. What's…

The chart shows your current totals vs your goal. So you have burned 515 calories of your goal of the week.

It really depends on where you hold your weight. I've gone from a 12/14 to 6/8 pant size but I'm still in the same dress size because my top half doesn't have that many inches left to lose.

I have that problem when I'm not at work drinking hot water to attempt to stay warm. What I try to do on the weekends is fill my water bottle right after I get dressed and then sip on that while I'm moving through my morning. That starts my day off as being used to drinking water and usually makes me drink more throughout…

11 pounds is great for a month! Congrats! If it helps you, think about it the opposite way. If you put on 11 pounds in a month would you be saying, "wow, that's a really slow change in my weight"?

I raised my calories about a month ago after getting a fitbit and realizing that I was more active on an average day than myfitnesspal thought I was, leaving me netting 800 or 900 calories a day. In that month I saw maybe half a pound loss one week, though I was happy enough that I didn't gain anything. It was a little…

I was 18 years old and I found the scale going over 180. That was the last straw for me and now, almost ten years later at 151, I weigh less than I did in 8th grade.

Last week, after jumping up four pounds in one day with no sign of it going anywhere for a week, and I ended up eating an entire batch of frozen cookie dough balls, a medium pizza, and a stuffed cheese bread in two days along with who knows what. I finally realized that watching those numbers on the scale was driving me…

I was in an angry, gaining weight place the last two weeks, so I set myself some new goals. Forget weight loss, instead I'm going to be able to do 100 push ups and be able to run a 5K nine weeks from now. It's only been a few days, and it's desperately hard right now to stay off the scale, just in case it inched it's way…

I love my shoulders and I love how amazing my butt suddenly looks. ;) And despite how large my hips are, I love how small they make my waist look.

That looks great! I've been looking for something new to eat, and this might just be the key. Thanks for sharing.

I just finished W1D1 about an hour ago, and I'm amazed by how it didn't kill me actually. In my head, running is such a fun thing to do, but my body has never agreed, so I'm trying to find some sort of compromise for them. Plus, watching the scale was driving me out of my mind, so I needed a new, non-weight based, goal for…

MFP Name: Ladyeliah Real Name: Amy Goal Weight for 03/31/2012: 150 Weigh In Dates: Thursday 3/1 - 157.9 Monday 3/5 - 153.9 Monday 3/12 - 155.2 Monday 3/19 Monday 3/26 Friday 3/31

I totally understand where you're coming from. My last semester of grad school was a roller coaster of emotional eating and being annoyed that I was gaining weight, but I finally made my health a priority in my life last month and now I feel amazing, not just because I've lost a few pounds, but because I have control over…

MFP Name: Ladyeliah Real Name: Amy Goal Weight for 03/31/2012: 150 Weigh In Dates: Thursday 3/1 - 157.9 Monday 3/5 - 153.9 Monday 3/12 Monday 3/19 Monday 3/26 Friday 3/31

I see them almost every day either to or from work. Luckily, the cookies sell for $4 a box in Boston and I can get them for $3.50 a box if I wait until my niece is selling them again. :)

Jennifer Galardi has a workout that's standing abs, so you can work your core without ever lying on the floor.

I eat right when I get home (after my commute I want to do nothing but eat) but then I try and exercise within a half hour of that before I have time to turn my mind onto the rest of what I want to get done that night. I also exercise for 15 minutes every morning. It's not much and usually yoga, but it puts me in the frame…