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I agree it sounds stupid and I also can relate and have done it too! Lots of times! It is not happening as much presently because I set my goal less aggressive. Right now I do gain some pleasure from staying within goal so if I am going over I also have an inclination say f* it and stop paying attention altogether. So I…

OMG I have a cat figurine head (which I am pretty sure came from Darkshore, can't remember good, never really played alliance and it's been years) that came from one of my besties from WoW- that kid went and got it for me as a pretty low level Horde. Man I love that boy. He went to claim said head as a present because he…

Of COURSE it's fluctuation! Don't be crazy.

I'd *easily* be bulimic were it not for the fact that I happened to develop a phobia of throwing up. So as it turned out, I just got the health problems of being fat and not the health problems of purging (which honestly given what I understand about purging I think I am safer being fat). So to echo what others have said,…

I've not read a thing on this thread (including beyond the OP sentence that I have quoted) but I am 100% sure that if there are articles that say such a thing, they are not to be believed. NOTHING is going to make fat magically fall of anyone. If that were true everyone would know about it and everyone would do it and no…

^^ This. It's nice of you to want to congratulate him/offer support, but as someone else said some of us losing weight DO NOT WANT to be noticed. I "yell" because that is how strongly I feel about it. To the point where for a long long time I didn't lose any weight because I lived in fear of people commenting to me about…

I think I said it to some other poster the other day about 30 seconds after reading something they wrote. Does that count? 30 seconds? I tell random people I love them not infrequently. Depends on how it's said and whatnot. But yes, too quick can be a huge red flag. Unless they said it accidentally when getting off the…

speaking of meaness (and looking at how this thread has grown and thinking of rolling) did we ever roll that ketones thread? I got distracted. also that f-ing cat made me want pizza. thanks. I HAVE NO PIZZA!!!

I second the + A MILLION sentiment. It is SO hard to see the errant thinking when you are in the middle of it. SO SO right that we NEED to speak truth to each other and not just assume everyone is fully appreciating the potential pitfalls of things they are doing. Beautifully written post!

You are right to be worried about an initial "gain" on the scale. It may happen. But you also know that if it does happen, the "gain" is not fat gain so long as you have accurately tracked your calories. Eating does affect scale weight (like, the act of just having the food in your tummy). If you have a 1 lb potato and eat…

I'm going to venture a guess and say she doesn't care whether it's fat or water or unicorn farts she's just glad to see some progress. At least that's how I feel about my 8 lb loss in 2 weeks. I am not an idiot I know it's not fat loss but the "fast" initial water weight or whatever it is has to come before the real loss.…

oh yeah the coleman's (or whatever the brand is, something like that) powder- that's a good idea!

Today my goals are to hit day 14 of consecutively staying under my calorie goal and to prep some veggies so I have them ready to eat. Also to walk at least 1 mile.

sorry I know this post is not about how you cook them but you put the mustard IN the eggs? Like while it is cooking? I love me some mustard and some eggs but never thought to try them together. I am intrigued. Also no 21 eggs in a week should be fine so long as you like eggs. I'd figure if it was bad for you at all it'd be…

congratulations you look great!

I think OP meant more "yay I am so excited here's what I did that worked for me that I am excited about" than "do it this way", but yes the advisory intention of the post did get confusing with the "tips" added in so it came across looking like a "look how successful I have been my way works try it". Surely OP knows that…

If you are happy together with the actual long term sustainable reality of what you each are then sure. If you are happy with an idealized version of either of you that you are not going to keep up for the rest of your life, then not so much. I had an ex of 7 years and another of slightly shorter duration. Not only do I…

That should not be a remotely realistic fear. It would take more than a month to put on that kind of weight eating 1200 calories a day even if your daily calorie burn was ZERO (as in, you were dead). Eat 1200 calories/day one week. If you don't gain weight, or if you lose, add 100 and eat 1300/day the next week. Rinse…

the only thing it sounds like you could be "doing wrong" is not properly tracking your food (or overestimating your exercise calories if you are eating any of them back). So long as you are accurately weighing solids and measuring liquids and using accurate entries from the MFP database you should be fine. If your tracking…

our stats are almost exactly the same! (5'5" 231lb 37yr old)- I set my goal to .5 to start and it's been pretty easy so far. My calories are at 1930 and I am not having trouble staying in there, I still eat the usual foods I used to but I eat less of them and a lot more veggies with them. I am not exercising either and by…

Hello! I don't think I have posted in this thread before, and if I did I forgot about it :) I need to lose right about 100 lbs. My ticker shows a mini-goal so as I don't get so discouraged with the enormity of it all :) Please to "meet" you all! My weekend went well and I am almost back down to what I had lost earlier in…

ok given that the 5 lb is an estimate, we can still deduce something about the 6 potatoes 5 lb is 2267 grams. Someone else said russets are about 80 c for 100g. That'd be about 1813 calories for 5 lb of potatoes, divided by 6 should ballpark your potatoes around 302 calories each. Now if there were actually 7 in the bag…

I hear she's at the doctor

does the entire bag not have a weight on it? normally I thought bagged potatoes are sold in 5 lb bag, or 10 lb bag, or what not.

I thought this diet generally referred to the sacred heart version, which I think is one that supposedly was used for pre-op patients who needed to drop a lot of weight fast. You don't just eat cabbage soup, you eat different things with it each day (beef, rice, fruits- depends on the day). Long long time ago I have done…

yes that's why I asked. If you only ate 126 calories over what MFP has you set at, and your MFP goal is maintaining or losing (not gaining), then you didn't gain anything over the weekend. No worries, it's just scale fluctuations.

good thing about MFP is you can come here and depress all over the place and people are free to read it or not so you aren't really imposing. Between your wall, the message boards and the blog feature you should have many options to vent/share, and you may just find some support along the way. Keeping all that stuff inside…

I went to Vegas for almost 2 weeks after losing 10-20 lbs, ate ALL the foods drank ALL the free drinks I could manage, even beer and the fruity ones and the ones that are a virtual milkshake with some alcohol dumped in for good measure. The food was free and I ate anything I wanted and in quantity. I'd guess I was easily…

awwww does that mean we are done? But OP is coming back any second now I'm sure of it!

You look great StaciMarie1974! I remember years ago when I did pretty much the same journey you just did (similar starting and ending weights) but at the time I wasn't weighing myself at all when I started so I have no frame of reference for how fast the weight initially came off. To make it clearer why/what I am asking,…