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Hi everyone!! I haven't posted in a WHILE but always stop in to see what is going on. Made it thru the first half of the year maintaining and now it is time to get back at the LOSING part again - slow and steady but surely so:smooched: Goals for June are to stay at losing calorie level every day Excercise 5 days a week…

add calories in yogurt and peanut butter and divide total by however many drops you make. I am thinking probably around 35- 50 cals per drop.

thanks for the info!! I've been using conservative time estimates and still logging all my food just not worrying about staying at my usual levels for the week. Looking forward to seeing what the scale says after I have been home and back to normal routine for a couple of days))

saving for later! can you freeze them?

there's a "women ages 50+" topic. Search it and go there - lots and lots of support!!

Did you set it up? Go to www.fitbit.com/start/zip it will walk you through you to set it up. Took me all of about 2 minutes. There is some helpful info on the website that tells you how it works etc. It determines steps/calories burned/etc by your height, weight, age, and sex. On the website it tells you how to sync to…

Happy December everyone!!! I did ok on my November goals - survived the holiday without major damage:smooched: . Exercised 4 - 5 times a week - YAY!!! Stayed within my calorie goals - mostly:blushing: The scale went down - a little but it was DOWN!! December goals: consistent exercise - 4 - 5 days a week strict adherence…

Hello all, sounds like everyone had a great TG. Ours was wonderful as well. and now we are back home, safe and sound. I managed to evoke my E's (eat wisely, exercise, enjoy). Probably ate too much - but not as much as I did last year))). It was good for family to notice weight loss - helped with motivation:smooched: Now,…

A quick post to wish all a Happy Thanksgiving. Wish I had time to give personal shout outs, but time is flying and I need to head out to Houston to meet the rest of my family for TG. All siblings, spouses, grands & spouses, and great grands will be there AND MOM - everytime we get to have a complete family get together and…

Happy Tuesday!!! DH made it home from delivering the medical van to NY safe and sound. YAY!!! Now we have a quiet day or two before we head to Houston for TG with the WHOLE FAMILY - :smooched: MSH - love the comments about taking off glasses and house work!! I will definitely be using that one:smile: Liz - and I thought…

Hubby made it to NY with the medical vans and dropped them off. Sleeping there last night and headed back towards the BIG EASY today. Hopefully home tomorrow:love: Up early today even though my walking buddy begged off for this morning. I am going to head out and do my jogging thing again - this will be the SECOND time in…

It's NOT cheating!!!! Weight fluxuates! When I get on the scale if it is lower than what I have previously recorded I enter it and that is my new low weight!! Works for me. That's my story and I'm sticking to it)))

WELL - I was LOCKED out of the group :frown: but WESSECG saved the day for me and told me about that little button at the bottom of the feed. WHO KNEW that we could only put 500 messages on a train!!! Don't they know we are women and we need to get all of our words in EVERY DAY:noway: So between my travel/work schedule and…

I saw a recipe in the summer on here for "fried green beans". Basically it was a pack of frozen green beans (I ended up using the cut ones but the whole ones worked too). Put them in a ziploc bag with 1 - 2 tbls of EVO (depends on how big the bag of green beans you used), add whatever seasonings you want - I am a South…

Hello all! It is always nice to pop in to see how everyone is doing! Just enjoying November in the south - gorgeous day here!!! Nice break from the heat and humidity of summer. Joanna - welcome, always nice to see another NOLA girl here!

Well good morning all! and can I say that while the extra hour of sleep seems nice my body woke up at the usual time only now it is an hour earlier!!!! I don't like changing the time, can we just pick one and stay there :flowerforyou: On the bight side, it will not be dark for my entire walk this morning :laugh:…

I am from New Orleans - still live in the area, wouldn't have it any other way:love: Handle should be WhodatLIZZIE but I fat fingered it when I started on MFP way back in the spring - oh well:blushing: Just call me lizzie or who dat!! Loving this thread. So encouraging! Hope to be able to check it often and get to know…

Hi everyone I'm Lizzie and glad I found this group! November goals average 5 days a week of exercise (cardio and/or weights) declutter BEFORE the holiday madness begins lose 3 more pounds be stringent about staying on my eating plan for this month Nov success already - I have NEVER EVER been a runner (I walk A LOT). This…

The headache may not be a migraine - may be caffeine withdrawal. Slowing reduce caffeine over a period of time!

WOW - you just told my story, well at least the part about being fit but not being able to get weight off!!! In March I had THAT MOMENT when I knew I had to do something different. It is really all about calories in and calories out! Portion control was an eye opening experience. My doctor, female, same age as me,…

If you haven't gone down the sugar substitue route DON"T START NOW!!! The little bit of sugar in your coffee is not that big of a deal. Log the calories and move on.

If you cut out soda it could possibly be the caffeine withdrawal. Have a caffeinated beverage (coffee, tea) and see if the headaches go away.

Gave up diet drinks and took about 95% of the artificial sweeteners I was using out of my diet. It's been 2 and 1/2 years and I have never felt better! After about 6 weeks I noticed definite changes. One of the best being my sweet taste changing. Now a little bit of something sweet (even fruit often) will cut my sweet…

I learned to eat it on a baked potato - to replace the butter, sour cream, cheese... - now I love it in lots of ways - plain, with fruit, with crackers. Try it out. If you don't like it, don't eat it, there are other options!

Have you considered that maybe your symptoms are caffeine withdrawal? If they are, they will subside over time or you can add caffeine in other ways WITHOUT artificial sweeteners. Personally, I took artificially sweeteners almost totally out of my diet (1/2 pack of the pink stuff a day in my iced coffee is all I have) and…

Breakfast - 3 boiled egg whites, fresh fruit - usually berries (60- 70 calories), wheat toast (50 calorie slice), pat of butter (approx 35 calories). sometimes I have greek yogurt (110 - 120 calores) instead of the eggs and toast. sometimes I have a scrambled egg instead of boiled, just depends. I KNOW I need protein or I…

I like them both, but find Chobani to be creamier and I like that "texture" better. Yoplait has a greek yogurt - I love the one with cherries and pomegranate. Fruit is on the bottom but it mixes very well. Texture is more like Chobani than Dannon.

been on MFP for one month - lost 8 lbs. Thought my MD was crazy when she said 1100 - 1200 calories for someone my age. MFP has made it not nearly as hard as I thought. Travel for work so April goals are to lose at least 5 pounds, make time for exercise on the road, be aware of calories when eating on the road (look up…