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yes. I lost the first 30 lbs without much "formal" exercise at all, and when I did "exercise" it was pretty much just walking. Park far away, take the stairs, take the long way around the grocery store, pace while you are on the phone, do more activities with the kids that involve you walking/standing/stooping whatever…

What the heck? Don't you realize that you don't know the actual calories/fat/carbs when you eat out? I assume someone has already mentioned that but it bears repeating. It really really doesn't matter where the calories come from. Unless the calories come form some place where you don't actually know what they are. If you…

it shouldn't be a struggle. Find a way where it's not so difficult and you'll be golden :) and welcome to MFP!

oh wow 126 grams of grapes is one serving? had no idea, been eating 150 grams of grapes recently cause that seemed like a round number, and well ,grapes YUM. 0% yogurt is gross and I'd never eat it if trying to cut calories to the minimum because I need my potential fat sources to actually have fat in them if I am keeping…

I had some tooth issues and after about 5 days of yogurt, etc resorted to baby food. It was actually quite tasty! do you like cottage cheese? that's so yummy to me and doesn't actually require chewing

Welcome to MFP!! I am on my second year and still learning :) My best advice is to read read and read some more, and do it with an open mind. There is a lot of information out there, but there is something about this site and the vast amount of experiential knowledge those that have been around here a long time (and had…

My mom gets weird about it too, she wants me to lose weight but I'd imagine she has a pretty firm thought in her head about how much it should be. More than where I am now and less than where I plan to end up if I had to guess. My tactic since the beginning has been to be vague about it when with them. Thankfully I don't…

I will somewhat disagree in that I don't believe you need to be consistent. You can just get all the calories on there somewhere and work out averages for the week. I don't really eat meals. My diary is set up from long ago when I had a different schedule. If I change it now it messes up past data so my logging is all over…

did you mean does? cause mine fluctuates hour to hour, not to mention day to day :)

a sure there is a way, you could just have a relatively slow metabolism so the averages used in the MFP calculation are not accurate for you. Or you could have your activity level set too high if you are not set at sedentary (which if I remember my stats from back then it sounds like you might be set at sedentary). Just…

I added myself to the bottom, hope that was ok

I kinda spaced out there for a while in January and stopped logging but I'm not so far behind, 25%! That's almost 30 :) Gotta pick up the pace a little bit though! I love the spreadsheet, can't believe I've lost another 8 lbs since this group started! It amazes me to creep closer and closer to goal weight. I had at least…

this is awesome, you look great! congratulations!!

some individuals will report perceived health implications they feel they experience with skipping breakfast (fogginess/tiredness/irritability things of that type). Many people (me included) don't like to eat until hours after they wake up and feel perfectly fine doing so. But as you can see from the posts so far I don't…

That OP in that link probably should specify that VLCD means very low calorie diet. I'd bet a lot of people looking for cleanses aren't aware of the acronym, and for whatever reason people seem to be adverse to just looking things up sometimes. ETA: apparently I am interweb challenged and don't know how to double-quote,…

I'd say people could offer suggestions were these questions ever able to be answered.

congrats on first week success! What matters more than any individual day in isolation is averaging at the appropriate calorie value over time, so being under a few and over a few will still result in weight loss if your overall intake stays low enough. I had been set at sedentary for the longest time, and started with a…

It sounds an awful lot to me like your issue have a lot more to do with a mental battle you are playing with yourself than anything else. Since you are sick of this horrible cycle that is making you miserable why not just try the strength training and see how you like the results you get? It's not like you are going to…

I don't know what's funnier, OP's post or the way people are reading it. OP no. No it's not true. Because I get the impression you might not have been able to figure that out from the other posts. Cold water will in no way stop you from losing weight.

oooh forget predictions, lets START ONE!!! We should all come together and start promoting said new "diet" to all the posts asking about gimmicks. I bet our new fad would blow up the internet in a matter of weeks.

I just got a fitbit yesterday, so far today it says I have gone 15,253 and I'd imagine I'll have a few more thousand in before the day is over. I walk *a lot* at work on days I work, so I am thinking my idea of the challenge for myself will be to keep up the numbers on my days off. Not sure yet but like the idea of this…

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 total loss to date since 1/1 - 7 lbs Easter goal 179

If you get the scale and it turns out you are still having the same problem it is easy to fix, just eat foods that are more calorie dense than what you are presently eating. For example, you can eat around 15ish nuts (almonds, cashews, etc) and get 100 calories. Surely you can manage to add in 15 nuts at some point during…

for me personally, eating soon after I first wake up has the same effect. Some days I'd go all day without eating and then eat my 1700 calories (or whatever my target was that day) in the last few hours before bed. It took me a long long time to stop worrying about silly advice regarding when to eat. I eat whenever I feel…

OMG I flaked out and forgot about MFP bingo at first and thought that was some euphemism for poop. I was like "bingoing twice a day doesn't necessarily seem healthy?!?". Was quite confused for a moment.

I do not enjoy the taste of fat free cottage cheese and therefore do not find the 20-30 calories it "saves" me off full fat (4%) cottage cheese to be worth it. I like store brand large curd cottage cheese- store brand because it is cheapest and has the same amount of calcium (the main nutrient I care about in cottage…

are they really allowing bariatric surgery for people who have less than 100 lbs to lose? That sounds so crazy to me! Granted I may just be horribly uneducated. I'd never give up all the eating you have to give up to get that surgery, and it sounds terrifying to me in general (I am horribly afraid of throwing up, so…

multiply your daily calories by 7 for the week and eat that much for the total 7 day period? (or whatever other number of days you need to average it over, doesn't need to be 7)

I don't know what "quitting sugar" means, but I personally do tend to avoid things I think of as "sugary" - candy, sugary flavorings to drinks, sugary baked goods. I do eat them quite often but when I do I do it with the expectation of having a very high calorie day. Whether it is legit or just in my head, when I have more…

thank you to those who also remember the association of rice cakes and "diets"- I still picture the spandex-clad aerobics going person eating a rice cake as if the rice cake was what made one thin. I just discovered something called "deli pop" - O. M. G. it's got some wheat in it so won't work for those needing to avoid…