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Trained motorcycle riders know to turn their head and eyes and look at where they want the bike to go. If we look at the curb, we hit the curb. Don't focus on what happened or that is where you will keep going. Instead focus on your long term goals, where you want to go and you will get there.

When I started my weight loss, I weighed myself on the nurse's scale where I work and was wearing scrubs and my work shoes. It was morning after I arrived at work and before I had any coffee. I weigh every day using the same scale and under the same circumstances to keep things consistent.

As a guy, I seem to focus on the same thing whether I'm high or low on motivation so I don't know if that helps you very much. Lol! Actually, when I am low on motivation to stay the course and lose the weight, there is one thing that does help me regain my desire and that is a hard workout, either strength or elliptical or…

I don't like to get overly involved in some of the questions from women because as a guy, it's difficult for me to relate. However, as a healthcare worker, your message raised some red flags in my mind in that you mentioned you have a 5- week old child. Initially it sounds to me like you are trying to do too much too soon…

I wish you well but I won't wish you luck. Someone once told me that luck is the loser's idea of success and you don't sound like a loser. You sound like most of the people I've met here, someone trying to make better choices. The losers are the people who look for a quick fix or say they are not fat, just big boned and…

The people you are hearing that junk from may just simply be jealous. They just don't want to admit that you have the will-power and determination to do what they know they should do for themselves. So instead of building you up, they try to drag you down. There is an old saying.... Misery loves company. Don't let them…

My wife made a dish at home that included ground beef and pork-and-beans. At the end of the day my sodium was over by almost 3000 mg. So canned goods seem to be just as bad as the "eating out" stuff.

Some of the things I've thought about are video games or perhaps riding gear for the bike but my best reward is just seeing the scale go down. Other than that I guess I'm thinking along the lines of Roboguy.

I have a hard time staying out of ice cream so I ask my wife to not bring it into the house. Chips are just as bad I guess so we don't keep those either. Which leaves me with last nights guilty pleasure.... Ritz Crackers,

I was going to say BS to this but it's easy to Google old happy meals and see similar results. I ran across some Jack LaLanne material this morning and one of his quotes goes something like, "If man makes it, don't eat it." There does not seem to be much about the happy meal that is not man-made or somehow artificially…

I think a lot of it depends on what home equipment you have. I have a TotalGym and a CE7.4 elliptical. The TotalGym, like it's advertisement says, allows me to do a broad range of strength exercises but I found that joining a TotalGym website helped me expand what I was doing and work on more muscle groups. The 7.4…

Maybe, maybe not. Depends a lot of the character of the employees. My son worked for McDonald's at one time and he thinks if you are gotting a regular instead of a diet menu item, it was just a human error and not a deliberate act. I got an email once about secrets restaurants don't want you to know. So I did a google…

Thanks for the post and the info. Very useful for those of us trying to walk in your footsteps.

Your bf is right. If you use it, be sure the window shades are closed. This topic was posted recently and someone included a link to the SNL skit. Very very funny. The announcer guy looked a little like the Sham Wow guy too. If you are interested in investing in anything, consider free weights and use them to extend and…

Ok... I saw the SNL clip. I have tears in my eyes.... Thanks for the link ZebraHead. Other than that I think I'll refrain from saying anything other than is that guy somehow related to the Sham Wow guy?

I go to the tab exercise and then "add exercise". Search for Strength Training or after you have used it, just sort by most recent and it should pop up. When you plug in the minutes, it will calculate the burn or you can enter in the burn from your HRM if you have one. I enter in the number that I get when I log my workout…

I have read reviews that say the Ab Lounger is a gimmick too but it's working for me. When I first got it, I could only do 40 crunches. I would add to that each day and/or week and now I can do over 500. Actually, I don't know where my limit is... I've never taken the time to find out because I want to move on to the…

Kayleigh..... I see that a lot here. It happens. Don't beat yourself up and move ahead. As a motorcycle rider, we learn to turn our head and eyes where we want the bike to go. If you look at the curb, you're going to run into the curb. So keep your head and eyes fixed on the place you want to go, your long term goal. Those…

I use to do this too but now when I go home I get on my workout clothes and head to the garage where I have set up my workout room. By all means, I do not turn on the TV. It seems that when I turn it on, my thoughts turn to what can I eat while I sit here.

As a parent of a child just a few years older than you, let me say that nothing would please me more than for him to figure out what would make him happy and then go for it as best as he can and never give up. I'd like to see him happy in life and have a blast! Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

Like many others, I enjoy my coffee in the morning. At one time I began to use Coffeemate thinking it was a better choice than half-and-half but my health-nut stepmother cautioned me that it was full of unhealthy artificial stuff. But wait...a check of the nutrition label says no trans-fats. More study finds that the maker…

As a health-care worker, the thing about your post that caught my attention was the abdominal pain you mentioned. Being a guy I know very little about BC medications so I jumped on WebMD and did a quick check. This report (http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-pills?page=3) says, "It's best to take the pills…

I have a CE7.4 elliptical at home. There is not a motor but rather an electromagnetic braking system. The machine's controller varies the resistance as well as counts the calories and such. I remember when I first got it that even on it's lowest resistance setting, I was only good for about 5 minutes and that was after…

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I don't know if this will help. It looks like a big infomercial to me but a close friend says she likes the program. It appears his focus is to watch sugar carbs. http://jorgecruise.com/how-it-works/ I do not think you can target fat loss to specific body areas. My focus is to lose weight overall and tone muscle at the…

It looks like we are trying to lose the same amount of weight and have had to deal with the same set-backs over time. What got me started was that several months ago, my brothers and sisters decided that in July 2011 we would all take a cruise to celebrate my parents 50th wedding anniversary. I thought it would be nice to…

Cops.... "Bad Boys, Bad Boys. Whatca Gonna Do When They Come for You?" Haha.... I think if I was a cop, they'd have to replace my taser batteries every day.... too many people need a good tasing just for being so stupid.

I just found MFP and I am a long-time TotalGym user. I bought mine on Ebay a long time ago. It is similar to the 14000DLX they sell today. I did have a roller wheel break and it was an easy repair when they sent me a replacement part. I also put the lower end bar on a wooden skid to protect it when I changed angles because…

Great post. I hope a lot of people see this. I tried Atkins some time ago. It's not a life-long commitment diet I would ever recommend. The only thing that has worked for me is to watch what I eat and exercise. The exercise seems to be key and it's a worthy life-long commitment. While I avoid things like potatoes and most…

I'm fairly new here myself by just a few days. I like the iPhone app that lets me keep my diary up to date. I've never counted calories before like this but it must work according to some of the success stories I've seen. Good luck in your efforts.