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OMG girl! Don't beat yourself up. You are going through some tough times, and have been, from the sound of it. If you can find someone to help you learn to meditate and some sort of exercise that you love, those two activities can help turn you from the stress eating. I know that when I eat out of stress, it kind of…
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Hi all! I'm just beginning my first indoor season of rowing. I got a used Concept 2 B machine, and my husband and I did the necessary maintenance on it. It doesn't have a meter on it, and I'm happy about that because I tend to get obsessed by the little numbers on machines. Our rowing club has ergs with meters, so I will…
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When I was on birth control, I kept thinking that it was putting on the pounds, and my OB Gyn kept saying it couldn't. When I got off the BC, I instantly dropped about 15 pounds. (Granted, I then decided I could eat like a horse and put it all back on within a couple years!) Later I heard that it can affect different…
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This whole thread reminds me that I don't have my daughters' newest roommates' telephone numbers. I hope that when your son does call you, you ask for his girlfriend's name and phone, as well as the name and phone of a male friend.
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It's really nice to see the variety of answers here. I have hit my goal weight and mostly stopped logging, but went back just this week to log a day because I went up a pound. It turned out that I was fine, and it went back down again. That said, this summer, I had to take off three weeks from logging because of various…
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This is very helpful...I have just hit the point where I don't need to lose more, and I'd like to stay here. I'm really busy right now, too busy to do the daily log because of family stuff, but I think I'll get back to it when things settle down. I'm concerned because my exercise can't possibly stay up with what helped me…
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Congratulations!!! That is such a wonderful payback, and you are rocking them!
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Bump. Thanks!
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I like this question for those who are up late/early. Seems like it's good to just pick a time as far as food and stick to it, as others have said. I've been thinking about the exercise part of this equation. Often I am hungrier the next day after having exercised, and I've thought about logging whatever exercise I do for…
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Our college-age daughters love to make chili or red beans and rice. Those are cheap and filling, and you can keep them for several days. If you keep black beans and refries around, you can mix them and put them into gently warmed corn tortillas for another complete protein. Keep bags of frozen vegetables in the freezer if…
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You look great right now! I would wonder where 15 more pounds could come from, especially if you want to tone more. If you get any more muscle, you will look even thinner at this same weight. I bet we're not supposed to make that kind of recommendation, but if you were my friend off screen, that's what I'd be telling you.
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I laughed when I read #5! That's me...sit around the house and get hungry just to do something different. I haven't been doing that since I started MFP, because the whole "write it down" thing has worked really well, but just today when I didn't want to do some work on the computer, I found myself wandering into the…
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Look for the thread "Women ages 50+" and you'll see a bunch. The group was setting goals for July a couple minutes ago...
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Thanks for this thread! I want to lose two pounds in July – strange to say, because any other time I was working on weight loss, I would expect to lose that much a week, and would always fail. I'm getting toward my goal weight, and it's actually a lot harder than it was to be on even this little schedule.. Used to be I…
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All I can say is Wow. That's a long time between sizes. Your mouth must have been hanging open! Congratulations.
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I had never thought about it, but you're right! It is like winning some extra money...it's just lovely to slide into something you had kind of given up hope about. Congratulations! I think you're going to have more and more NSV's as time goes on. They come in all different versions.
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We have diabetes in our family. Several years ago our family doctor told me that I had to limit my fruit (it was a given that I needed to limit my obvious sugar). She said that my fasting glucose was too high, and warned me that I could find myself listed as pre-diabetic on insurance if I didn't watch out. That economic…
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I did the same thing (not today) the other day going past Costco and wanting to stop in for their yogurt swirl. The 390-calorie rating, and the memory of how I'd feel afterward (kind of sleepy and wanting to avoid doing anything to "make up" for the excess) made me realize that I really didn't want to stop in. Afterward I…
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I meant...1/2 pound a week...
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If you're looking to lose in such a way that you will keep it off, you're right on track: just about 1/2 pound a month. Give yourself some praise! And keep exercising. Without knowing more about you, it might be hard for the experts on here to offer any more advice.
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Bump! Love it!
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We have three in our family on this diet (well, four, but the last one just started this week). I am trying to lose a stubborn last few pounds. My husband has more to lose, and one daughter thinks she has more to lose as well (all of my children look perfect to me).. For me, eating back calories was a huge teaching tool…
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Good for you getting on here! You've been through enough for ten people, so it's great that you are reaching out to a community who can help. Good luck, and enjoy the journey. We're all lucky to be here and to have support where (and whenever!) we need it most.
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We buy either Nancy's plain or Fage and make yogurt about once a week. I like to make the whole-fat (organic) milk kind because it's so rich and creamy I need just a little, but my daughter makes it with skim or 1% to reduce the calories. For some reason yogurt I make with low fat milk comes out watery. Making it yourself…
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I review with all the folks that say not to start talking "diet" with your daughter. It's easier for you to clean out the house and start making sure that you're all preparing "real" food together. Some of the research on processed foods is downright scary. I'd also add that you might consider not weighing her yourself,…
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Wow. Like many of the amazing pictures here, I am sure that your acquaintances would not recognize you if they saw you in a crowd with that change. You are just lovely, but better than that, you look incredibly happy!
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I love it! In our house, if my mother is coming to dinner and my husband made it, it's full of butter and honey. We're trying to fatten her up! Okay...I will start aiming in the middle. I actually got totally starving today because I got a fair amount of exercise. Suddenly I was hungry in a way I haven't been in a long…
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Thanks! That page is great for portions. I love the ping-pong ball for measuring peanut butter. Now...what to do about when you get served something that you didn't make and you can't really go around asking how much honey and butter they put into the mashed sweet potatoes, for instance. Do you just aim high on a generic…
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Another voice for Michael Pollan...Food Rules is really short and puts all his ideas in one place, though they can be reduced into his most famous line: "Eat food. Mostly vegetables. Not too much."
