Jennaissance

Thanks. I'll try this!

What motivates you? Figure that out and always keep it in sight. For me it is fitting in my old clothes again. I keep them in the front of my closet and try them on all the time. Take that 5 pounds and set a goal for how many of them you'll lose this week. Plan it out and stick to it. I'm sure that after one small success…

Thanks, everyone! I'm glad to hear there are people happy with the results of the resizing! I'll try all the temporary ideas for now. I'm so sick of having to take the P trap off the sinks when I forget to take my ring off before I wash my hands!

I know what you mean. My husband is a stick and I watch him plow through 2,000 calorie pints of ice cream and entire bags of chips! Not that I even would want to be able to do what he does but man it makes it hard sometimes. Especially when we eat together. Dinner for him is at least 1,000 calories and maybe I have 300…

People really try to sabotage? That's just downright mean!

Start off by setting some small goals for each day that you know you can attain. You can start setting bigger, harder goals and building on these victories. After a while, you'll be back in the swing of things in no time! Push hard, but don't set yourself up for failure by trying to do too much at once. You CAN do it!

It's amazing how much younger both of you look! Congratulations, and I needed a little boost. You inspire!

Oh, I get that kind of thing all the time and it bugs me! I once had a co-worker tell me I might as well just kill myself now if I wasn't going to have kids!

I wasn't going to go to prom because my date got grounded so I was home in my PJs and all these popular kids I didn't know too well came to pick me up. We went to prom and hung out in their hotel and had a little to drink afterward. Finally, I asked why they broughted me and one said, "Well we just look so much better when…

And don't forget a lot of those quick frozen things you can make yourself. When I had a waffle iron I'd find an awesome, healthy waffle recipe to make for breakfast and then freeze the leftovers... just pop them in the toaster oven and it's like they are fresh off the griddle!

Oh, I totally forgot kefir!

My breakfast is always quick and easy by necessity: plain oatmeal and 0% plain greek yogurt smoothie with fruit, juice and 0% yogurt whole wheat toast with neufchatel and a poached egg fruit and yogurt unsweetend applesauce and oatmeal whole wheat graham crackers with peanut butter brown rice cakes with raw tahini and…

One other thing is that I really don't think people need to eat meat for health reasons. I get just as much protein on my vegetarian days as I do on days I choose to eat meat. There are only a few things I've heard of that are only found in meat. So anyway, I think the decision should be about what you like and what makes…

I was vegetarian for 12 years and vegan for about 5. Now I eat anything. I just try to take some vegetarian/vegan principles into my eating like eating meat less than once a day and really caring where it came from. I don't think I did anything special to add it back into my diet, but I'm pretty sure I went from being…

I had to google it, too! That's the best NSV! I never thought I'd be overjoyed to get rid of $200 jeans... now nothing makes me happier!

Oh hell, thanks for the belly laugh! Both of you!

I'm so glad I don't eat at Subway, or any restaurant, really!

teacher: shiny hair!

Sorry! Nice eyebrows!

Fitness: Nice Halloween costume!

A lot of these comments are just absurd to me! Losing weight is about changing your lifestyle and how can a person do that without informing people in their life about their new lifestyle. It's like if I was a smoker and wanted to quit, I'd go out with all my smoking friends and let them blow smoke in my face the whole…

In the beginning I didn't want to tell anyone I was trying to lose because I didn't want them to judge me if I didn't! That approach didn't work very well. Now I'm in a biggest loser contest and 20 people I work with know how much I weigh. Since that started, I've lost 20 pounds. Until you admit you want to lose, people…

All the machines should have instructions on how to sit. Adjust them to your body and pick a starting weight. If you can't do 15 reps it's too hard. You want to do 3 sets of 10-15 reps. Free weights are better. I was so scared in the beginning. Finally I just ask some people and boy were they flattered and helpful that I…

I've seen people do it, but for many others the numbers on the scale aren't the most important thing. For a lot of us, there is a fitness aspect and some are here for health. I think you need to decide how you want to look and feel, not how much you want to weigh, and then figure out how best to accomplish that.

Technically, you could eat up to 1,200. If you aren't hungry maybe you don't need to. If you don't eat up to the 1,200 today, see how you feel tomorrow. If you are starving for breakfast and having a hard time keeping under tomorrow then you'll probably be wanting to eat most of your calories. On the other hand, if…

It helps to wear cross trainers instead of running shoes. A store that specializes in shoes for fitness activities can do a fitting for you. That should really help.

Cute. I want to see! Mine is a '65.

Oh, and I didn't even realize I was injured until the people in the car took off really quickly and I looked down and realized I was standing in a giant puddle of blood.

One time I was biking and I rear-ended a car, hit my groin on my handlebars and had to get 18 stitches "down under." That was bike accident number four.

I think it's good to write out a list of all the reasons you want to quit (to save money, to live a long healthy life, etc.) and keep the list on you at all times. It's also a good idea to write out some activities on it that you can do to relax or distract you from cravings. Patches, gums and pills are just tools that…