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Yup. When I rode my bike to school for 4 years, I went from "skinny girl whose pants don't stay up" to "skinny girl with HUUUUUGE THIGHS keeping her pants up."

You're right; I'm not seeing your point. I wasn't pregnant with another guy's child from a prior relationship. I entered into a surrogacy contract to carry someone else's child (not related to me). Theoretical boyfriends would only be "affected" by my surrogacy in that they couldn't share their sushi with me, they'd always…

I wasn't "worried" about dating while I was pregnant as a surrogate. That's like worrying about dating while I'm donating blood, or while I'm out singing karaoke, or while I'm reading a book. Why should doing something I enjoy or something that is part of who I am prevent me from dating? My first surrogacy I started dating…

I had a guy ask me out after we talked for a bit. Not 3 minutes into our "date" he told me he doesn't date single moms. Then he tried to sell me on using his company for my church's newsletter printing. I ended up making sure I talked about MY business so I could at least write off the drinks as an expense because he…

I had this dilemna when I was pregnant (as a surrogate). How much to explain on the profile vs. when to bring it up when messaging back and forth. I didn't want to arrange a meeting for coffee and show up visibly pregnant and have to explain as quickly as possible before he ran off. But when I put on my profile that I was…

My worst date was set up to be great! We got along well online, chatting for a few weeks about normal life - even talked about what furniture I was buying for my house and still stupid people at our jobs. We decided to meet for a movie and then drinks after. He told me to pick the movie and time. I sent him my choice and…

I use online dating because I'm a divorced mom and this is literally my life: Monday through Friday I'm up at 6, have my daughter to school by 7 so I can be at work by 8. Leave work at 5, pick up my daughter at 6. Take my daughter home, cook dinner, check homework, do some housework, get her in bed by 8:30. By the time…

Thank you!

Which company do you go through for your subscription box?

"I can see you...."

Toned down: to become or cause to become softened or moderated.

This was me yesterday! I actually RRRRAAAAAWWRRRRed (and scared the crap out of my 9yo) when I did my 5th rep deadlifting my bodyweight! I'm only 2 months in, but I'm LOVING it!

I'm at 59% BW (100/168), but I've had to deload once because I have garbage for knees and I didn't want to blow them (walking downstairs hurt like a MOFO!) I'm almost done with week 8 of SL.

I tried, but got the "this photo has been removed" when I put it in.

Well, that explains why I kept feeling extra hot during my C25k training the last few times. Delestrogen injections screwing with my internal A/C!! Gah!

Work in progress. Not much, just a 3.5 pound loss. Looking to lose 20 more.

I'm a single mom to one 9yo. We leave the house at 7AM, I get to work at 8AM, leave work at 5PM, pick her up around 6PM and we're home around 6:30PM. As soon as we get home, I change and work out. I alternate between weight lifting and running. If it's a running day, I'll use my rice cooker to cook rice, veggies and meat…

My daughter is almost 10 and we just started random room-checks. They started because she'd come out to the living room to grab her water bottle after having been "asleep" for an hour - except there was no part of her that looked "just woke up." I asked her what book she'd been reading (really hard to get mad at a kid…

Congratulations on the loss! I love seeing stories like this.

The ashes are from burned palm fronds from the previous year's Palm Sunday celebration. Christians of various denominations (not just Catholics) use them as a reminder that we were created from dust and to dust we shall return, and as a reminder of the trials that Christ endured in the times before his crucifixtion.

SW: 174lbs CW: 171.8 lbs GW (for Feb): 165 lbs 2/01: 171.6 2/08: 171 2/15: 169.6 2/22: 168.2 3/01: 168.8 Not sure what I was thinking. Oh well.

I take mine every two weeks when I do my measurements for SL 5x5. Even every two weeks I can see a difference (if my kid actually focused the camera and didn't wobble when she pushed the shutter. ;) )

SW: 174lbs CW: 171.8 lbs GW (for Feb): 165 lbs 2/01: 171.6 2/08: 171 2/15: 169.6 2/22: 168.2 Finally seeing that scale match what I'm feeling!

I'm assuming you calculated your TDEE not including any exercise activity? If you tell those calculators you work out 3x a week, then don't eat back the calories you "earn" from MFP after doing those activities. If you calculated at sedentary, then eat back some or all of the exercise calories. That's my understanding of…

There are various apps that you can download to your smartphone for couch-to-5k programs. I use Endomondo, which I have set to sync to MFP; the app itself is just a run/walk/bike/whatever-cardio tracker, but it has Training Plans you can use (might cost you a little bit) for C25K. Other C25K apps are likely free; it's just…

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Oops, forgot to post on Saturday! SW: 174lbs CW: 171.8 lbs GW (for Feb): 165 lbs 2/01: 171.6 2/08: 171 2/15: 169.6 I'm losing inches (keeping track), but the fat loss is turning to muscle gain/water retention from strength training. We'll see if I actually hit my February goal. :)

I use Endomondo. It links to MFP.

If your normal life includes the walking to work and the walking around for 7 hours, then make sure you adjust your MFP settings to show that you're more active. You're body's used to that, so you want MFP to be giving you "credit" for any exercise OVER your normal expenditure.

She knows my knees are crap (she actually called the sound they make when I do squats "gross"), so she knows it's my fault we're slow. She's a pretty good running buddy, actually.