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Calories-right now it's fresh mozzarella with a bit of pesto. Three little slices is 300 calories but it's 300 calories of yum! Money-Grocery delivery, especially when my kids are both off of school. Either one of my children alone are a delight to shop with. I'm not being sarcastic. My 5th grader is old enough to be…

I actually miss thunderstorms. Here (silicon valley) we can hear thunder up in the hills twice a year or so. Do you have somewhere you can run inside?

I did week 1, day 3 today, and brought someone with me, but my 5 year old was not the running companion I originally intended. :) There was a lot of running in small circles as he biked up and down the grass hills near our neighborhood trail, and then some running up an unexpected hill as he wanted to bike down the…

You're in your 20s. You're supposed to change. Can you imagine someone whose likes, dislikes, opinions, and hobbies were all fozen at age 16? Yikes! Hell, I'm thrilled that I'm not still the person I was at 20.

I've started up again, and I may have convinced someone to join me this time. I finished week 1 day 2 today.

Lol. Not knowing any immigrants would take a serious effort because I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was choosing to read it as space aliens.

Thanks! It's not even photoshopped. My kid received that fortune in his cookie about a year ago. Sadly, no aliens yet.

What's your deficit set to? That is, did you set up mfp with a goal of losing .5 pound per week, 1, 1.5, or 2? If you set up mfp to lose 1 pound per week, and you ate over your goal by 1,000 calories, then you only ate 500 calories above maintenance. That's just 1/7 of a pound and just means you'll lose a tiny bit less…

The meds can help your brain chemistry, but as Kriss said, you may need a second (or different) medicine if this is not helping your symptoms enough. Or you may want to add talk therapy to help your thoughts get out of the well-worn path they've made. It sounds like your brain chemistry has been telling you that you're bad…

When I'm taking the right dose of synthroid my weight loss is pretty close to MFP's calculations for my activity level.

After 13 years of Catholic school, the best thing I learned was that the no meat rule came from a fishermen's lobby in medieval Rome. It must be true because my high school History of the Church teacher told me it's true. (Please don't prove me wrong. I love this story too much to give it up.)

I weigh my food. You get used to it. Just like using measuring cups and spoons probably seems needlessly slow and annoying to a home cook who is used to eyeballing every recipe. I disagree with the posters who say not to eat what the kids eat. I don't eat exactly what they're eating every time, but I think it's important…

I'm 5'3" and started at 202, a size 2x top, and either 18w or 20 pants depending on the brand. I've lost 36 pounds and am generally a 12 bottoms and L top, but some 12s are still tight. I'm very apple shaped-right now my non-stretchy 12 Levi's jeans are tight at the button and loose in the butt/thighs.

This is the newest argument used by anti-vax doctors like the two younger Drs Sears who make money selling bogus medical exemptions to scared parents.

Yep! I definitely wasn't trying to knock gym daycares in general. It just didn't work for me at the time. Now my "little" is in his last year of preschool and I do most of my exercise during his class. I do still take them both to the park, hiking trail, and bike trail as much as I can get them interested because I was a…

We go to the park a lot. It's exercise for them and me. If you don't have a park within walking distance and you don't live somewhere that's safe to bike, you could drive to the park and walk around while there. Depending on the park (and the 5 year old) your 5 year old might be able to stay at the playground while you…

Also if I'm remembering correctly, whole 30 is really low carb. Low carb makes you lose a lot of water weight, which tends to come back when you start eating carbs again.

You've lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks. You're not stalled, just impatient. :) Weight loss isn't linear. Sometimes the scale will go up. Maybe you ate something a little saltier than usual and you're retaining water.

I think everyone's stumbling blocks are different, and figuring out what's holding you back will really help. For me, I've always been the "bad" kind of perfectionist. If I can't do it right the first time, why bother? I'll never be as good as somebody else, so I should just stop, etc. This is going to sound super hokey,…

I think I've posted this here before, but my mom honestly believes that chicken kiev (you know, a fried chicken breast with 3Tbsp of butter in the center) is low calorie "because it's chicken." She also thinks that adding ACV and green tea are all the changes she needs to lose weight.

That article sure does "look sciency," but it's not actually research. It's not peer reviewed. It's not published anywhere other than their own (sales) website.

I'm reading The Girls because everyone else is (and for my book club) and a fluff urban fantasy series for mindless distraction.

Totally a different direction-how's your asthma control? I thought I had bad anxiety and "just a touch" of asthma until my allergist suggested I try pulmicort (an inhaled steroid). I hadn't realized how poorly I was breathing. My FEV tests had always been meh but not awful, and now they're great.

I was going to come up with a snarky quip to shut you down, but then my hot nerdy husband distracted me.

How can people be more ambitious and more laid back at the same time? I'm getting bored of the extremely ambitious people. Not LA, but I live in Silicon Valley where everyone seems to live by the old Accenture motto: work hard, play harder. It's exhausting, and not actually fun.

I was going to say I didn't have one-I'm a New Years resolutioner who actually stuck it out this time. But reading this thread made me realize that a huge push was watching my mom struggle last year walking around Disney world. She's not fat, but she's in pretty bad shape for 70. She has PAD (heart disease that affects the…

I didn't weigh my food but used generous estimates (I've been weighing food for 11 months so I'm reasonably confident that my estimates aren't way off). I'm only 200 over maintenance, and I think that's pretty good!

I tried most of the options available here over the summer when I just couldn't handle one more shopping trip with both of my children. Any one of them is a helpful dream while shopping, but put the two of them together and we are That Family. The one with one kid yelling and the other running through the store. I use…

Both kids are off school, so my goal today is to keep from yelling while also getting them outside and not letting them spend all day with the tv/iPad. I'm thinking library and then ice skating or dragging them to the Academy of Sciences even though it will be mobbed. Stretch goals: do laundry, make a pumpkin pie, brine…

I get 10-11k most days, and use a Garmin vivofit to track. It definitely makes me think more about how much I'm moving (or not), and encourages me to walk farther/more often than I used to, even though I'm still not formally excersizing.