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I had to cut sugar this year because I went Keto. I highly recommend Truvia as a sugar replacement for things you just have to have a sweetner for. It's made from Stevia which is natural and herbal, and the other part is Ethritol which is not metabolized by the body. So it's pretty awesome. Just understand that you have to…

I made a group for geeks, pagans, gamers, and LGBT folks. Any and all such folks are welcome to join as long as they're not bigots of any kind. :) http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/23222-lgbt-pagan-geek-gamer-health

Also, avoid fast food and packaged, processed food like the plague. Read labels. You'd be amazed at what is carrying around a load of salt. And you'd be amazed at what's carrying around a load of sugar. Even stuff that doesn't taste sweet.

Get some lite salt or Nosalt to help if you really want to reduce it. It tastes about the same, especially in cooking, and you get some much-needed potassium. Can get it at your local grocery store no problem.

Today I'm playing Sanctum 2 with my wifey and daughter. :) We ended up RPing Saturday then playing 7DTD afterward. Then yesterday we did 7DTD for like 9 hours I'm not even kidding. XD Haha... But I think we're all about burned out on 7DTD for now. And my bro went back home to California so that's sad. But more gaming ahead…

Welcome everyone! nice to meet you all! Of COURSE we love allies and all straight allies are more than welcome. :) I should add that to the front page along with my disclaimer welcoming friendly Christians and Atheists. :) I totally forgot to mention that I'm an artist as well... I majored in Illustration at Academy of Art…

@BEquality Get a wireless receiver for your Mac so you can use your PS3 controller with it :) Or will Mac let you do that? I have a PC and Xbox so I just got a pc receiver (for like $13 on Amazon prime) and now I can use my Xbox controller with my pc games when I feel like using a controller but would rather pay Steam sale…

Nice to meet you all. Hello hello! Benji, good luck with your transition. I've been close friends with several transgendered individuals in the past. I know a lot about it, and am always here to talk if you need an ear. :) I've ironically also identified as almost everything in the LGBTQ spectrum before. I went through a…

Huge nerdy gamer here :) Welcome to add me. What do you play? (I'm a PC gamer these days tho I still have my 360). I like shooters, sims and action games a lot. Are you on steam? :D

If I didn't add you, feel free to add me. I am not sure if I got everyone. Many people sent requests so I accepted them. Glad to meet ya all!

Because I'd rather make friends than awkward acquaintances with whom I share no interests except that we both want to lose weight. I'd rather be able to say things about the important stuff in my life and have others be able to relate. I'd rather read posts from people who have similarities I can relate to. There's nothing…

Hello everyone! Good to meet a bunch of like-minded folks. (Including those who are straight but allies or Christian but not haters. I am not excluding because I'm a hater. I am just tried of haters.) It's amazing how alone you can feel somewhere that seems full of "normal" people until you speak out and ask and then find…

Too messy? Not if you use a proper gravity steeper :) Besides it tastes so much better. Tea loving is a good thing regardless. Tea is just one of my passions. I'm on Steepster. :) @Scarlet my hair is always this color. (Has been for over 7 years). I like to say I'm a natural bluenette :) @Shadow I don't care if you don't…

Lovely eyes, honest smile and wow you're in nice shape :)

In The Hunger Games, they refer to "hollow days". Days when you just can't eat enough, and no matter what you eat, you always feel like you're still hungry, hollow inside, craving more. Yeah I generally call those "Saturday".

I used img in brackets.. why does this not work? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51895171/pics/Food/2014-07-23%2013.19.30.jpg Cottage cheese and apple sauce, toast (light bread) with butter and sugar-free boysenberry preserves and Bolthouse Vanilla Chai Tea protein smoothie. Very tastey, about 400 calories. :)

Arsh, 29, 5'6" and have about 150 pounds to lose. I want my mid thirties to be happy and healthy, not terrified and sickly like my late 20's. I'm a lesbian, been with my wife for 14 years (tho marriage still isn't equal in our state, but as soon as it is...) We have a daughter, 7, who is wonderful and is one of my…

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To the OP: I just wanted to let you know ... that I really appreciate you posting this. I am over 300 pounds and trying to get to 150 healthy weight for my height. It is a long and arduous battle that I have fought repeatedly and lost repeatedly, returning me only to higher and higher weights. I'm determined this time to…

Swimming and walking. Walking is low impact and I can tolerate it to a degree. Swimming is best. I can swim all I want and it wears me out but doesn't hurt. :)

Then why does MFP try to estimate these calories so high? Why don't they use a formula closer to what I see on other sites? Why keep this if everyone knows it fails? Why confuse and undermine unwitting users' resutls? I mean... the numbers here to the numbers on some other sites sure make the difference of whether all that…

Does anyone know?

Well I'm not logging a walk from desk to car, but I do log something like our big grocery trips in which we walk for 2 hours pushing an increasingly heavy cart. I usually cut that 2 hours to about 1.5 hours when I log because we spend some time pausing to look at things and such. But that whole time is on my feet, moving,…

I don't know enough about HRMs to make a good choice. :( I don't know which one to get... My budget can't handle one of the really expensive ones right now but I wanted to get one to log my exercise. Then I thought about the fact that swimming is my main exercise since I'm so overweight that I need the impact taken off of…

My activity is limited right now. I can't control the fact that my life's work requires me to sit at a desk. The biggest issue for me in activity is that my weight creates a great deal of pain and sometimes injury if I exercise. This is why I've taken up swimming. It takes the impact off of my body. If I go and start…

I feel I'm struggling. I need to see some more losses to help me know if I'm doing right or not. If I'm doing it wrong, I don't want to gain weight back or fail to lose... so I'm just checking around to see what the opinion is so I can help adjust my thinking on it.

I has blue hair!

I've had shocking blue hair for the past 5 years. :/ I love it. I need to redye it right now because it's faded but I keep it blue ALL the time. I can do this because I am a student and a freelance artist. I don't have to look normal... I just wish the rest of the world would accept difference and stop disallowing awesome…

I've had that app for years... since I had my G1... And I have never played it. :/ We just don't have a good place to play it where I wouldn't be afraid of injuring myself or falling into a pond or something. Haha... I should really try it some time. :/