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thank you! I know you are right. I know there is a HUGE difference between losing 3 lbs in a week when you are obese and losing 2 lbs in a week when you are in a healthy weight range. I just need reminding, thank you for your comments! I can't wait to get back to being small enough that it makes sense for me to have tiny…

I think this just means we don't realize how many calories it takes to lug around 100-200 extra lbs of weight for Every. Single. Activity. of every day. The calculators are known crap. Fact is it's a lot of work to carry around that much extra weight to do everything. OP kudos to you for having the benefit of a life where…

When I was logging, I had huge daily fluctuations but the consistent trend was downward. I have pretty much always been a daily weigher. Before I started logging again last week I had this oddly irrational fear that if I logged it *wouldn't* drop, but that was 12 lbs ago at this point (water weight for sure, but still for…

Thank you so much for the comments, I intellectually know all these things but it helps to see someone else say them. I'm eating until I am full and eating enough to not be hungry (I hate being hungry!) and trying to keep from lying on the couch all the time. I'll give it a while, I know for sure it's not too much but if…

You aren't warped. I used to be a fit 125lbs. Even when the scale was almost twice that I never saw myself much different. I jokingly said I had reverse body dysmorphia. You shouldn't dislike yourself because of how you look though. The other posters comments about it being mental are totally correct. You can do it, you…

Yes yes and more yes! For a long long time part of my fear of losing was to avoid those comments. Nobody would ever tell me I was getting fatter, but the thought of them noticing I had lost was just a reverse observation of how fat I had gotten and it scared the heck out of me. The reality turned out to be if I wanted to…

I always thought 8 oz was a kinda standard beverage size for things like juice, milk, coffee and such, so would assume a 14 oz bottle to be more than one serving. Unless beer or soda, where I'd expect 12 oz to be a serving. Funny how expectations affect so many things.

I had it not too bad, seems like the worst pain resolved after a few weeks but I only kept to regular daily activity/walking and it was gone maybe within a month or two totally. I hadn't tried to restart jogging again though so not sure if that would have made it take longer to heal. I just did the stretches my Dr. told me…

I've never seen anyone say this. I see people say that they choose not to eat back their exercise calories. I see people say they put their activity level at highly active and don't log their exercise. I see people say they do TDEE so they don't eat back their exercise calories. I have seen people say where you don't need…

no I had the same question

I got past it by saying to myself "I know you are scared and anxious and you don't want to go in, but you are going to do it anyway, because it's not going to actually hurt you to go in and you are just going to suck it up buttercup and feel crappy for a little while." As I suspected, I felt a lot less scared once I got…

I eat oatmeal with oats, water and salt. Usually way more water than called for on the directions, so it's quite soup-y. I love it plain with just salt, but don't favor the texture when it is super thick/gummy. I don't use the kind in packets just plain ol' oats (ingredients:rolled oats). Is there maybe some flavoring in…

um, what? are you 12? it's not about having different values to want to have functional interactions. Who the F*** as a grown up tolerates people they don't get to talk to for several days? That's just asinine. Nobody in a functional grown up relationship has to deal with people putting them on the silent treatment for…

I think mine is set to 2/week now but I eat over it all the time. It was set at .5 for the longest time. I too found the higher calories/slower rate made it pretty painless and easy, I guess the plan worked because I have been on and off tracking since September. I don't have to do it all at once, little by little is fine…

Uh... I may be the world's biggest idiot but can I admit that it actually never occurred to me to "check in" at the same time each week? I guess in my defense my weight goes all wonky all over the place so much I guess I felt like a static same time once a week capture would miss some data, but your comment makes me think…

welcome to MFP and nice to meet you! Wanna race? I am 5'4" and around 190 now so I too have about that much to go to get to where I want to be. I am joking about the race, it's not about WHEN we get there it's just about getting there. I don't diet other than making a weak attempt at keeping to my MFP recommended calories…

you have been here long enough you should know by now a lot of people are going to tell you there is no such thing as a plateau, if you aren't losing you are eating at maintenance. Obviously from a quick glance at my profile I am not experiencing your problem now, but I have some familiarity with it from the past. Have you…

what the heck are you talking about? it's not a caloric deficit if you aren't losing weight. If your weight is staying steady then there is no deficit.

are you just making a joke or do you really think stout has 300 cals per 12 oz more? Very very few beers (those with very high ABV) should have 300 cals in 12 oz, much less 300 MORE cals. Just sayin', in case you are drinking even less that you can. Gotta protect the beer choices. But yeah, I'd go for liquor anyway, even…

OMG I am tearing up. This might be one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Also kit kat. Pears have a gross texture. Unless it's canned, then maybe it'd be ok. Not sure. Still kit kat though. Now pineapple vs kitkat? that's a totally different story. MMMMMMMMmmm pineapple.

I just got my fitbit last week too and that's my understanding and how it's been working for me. I log everything on MFP only. It shows up on fitbit.com fitbit sends steps over to MFP, I don't do anything with fitbit other than sync it up

I don't think "harming" was the h-word they were using there /giggle (by the way, him looking like he was doing something inappropriate to the floor was my first thought too, but the exercise doesn't look very humpy. No worse than a pushup at least, though I'd guess PF doesn't fancy those either)

practice practice practice! This was super hard for me too but over time it sort of clicked. One thing I did was to set my goals way low at first so I had less "mistakes" to make. I set it at .5 per week to begin even though I had at least 100 lbs to lose at the time. As I lost well past that rate it's like I gained…

agreed I either only weigh the edible parts or when in a rush weigh the whole thing. I'd rather go over by a little and it's not going to be much with fruit/veg

bhindi masala is okra, I think in just a tomato based sauce (no cream?). You might investigate that if you like okra. I'm all for just not worrying for this one meal but it might be beneficial for you in future times eating indian. The sauces seem to be the worst so the stuff done in the tandoor with no sauce and the stuff…

I don't know what kind of brownies you like, but have you ever tried the Think Thin Chocolate Almond Brownie bar? It's 150 calories and to me the perfect consistency of the kind of brownies I like, when I am wanting a brownie. I actually prefer it over a brownie, because I like eating it but doesn't make me feel queasy…

I think a lot of us were taught a lot of things about so-called "healthy eating" that did a bunch of disservice. A huge part of me getting my eating under control has been getting over all the crap ideas I had been taught and instead learning to do what works for me. So long as you not eating at work doesn't cause you to…

Jan. 01- 199 Jan. 08- 199 Jan. 15- 199? (who knows sort of flaked out there for a little bit) Jan. 22- 195 Jan. 29- 195 Feb. 5- 192 Feb. 12- 191 total loss to date since 1/1 - 8 lbs Easter goal 179

if you were going to have milk I don't see why you couldn't also have cheese, cottage cheese, etc.

eat less for a little while, tighten up the logging and it'll pick up again. Though I would agree that taking a break and eating at maintenance does seem to make it easier to get back to a deficit, at least for me. I usually eat at maintenance/over a few times a week, just keep the weekly averages down in a deficit. 3…