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It sounds like the hypothetical situation may be reflective of the cognitive bias/distortion "all or nothing thinking". The thinking goes something like, "I'm not doing everything I can, so why bother doing anything." I can relate to this thought. It's the thought that keeps me from going to the doctor for preventative…
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I try my best to meal prep on Sundays for the week. I pick two recipes that will tend to keep well and alternate them between lunch and dinner. One of the recipes is usually a 'recipe' of salad by formula (a whole grain plus some veggies plus some greens plus some nuts plus some lemon juice/olive oil dressing). Overnight…
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I'm going to start tomorrow. A little late to the party, but would either of you be interested in adding me as well? This is my first go at 21DF. Two summers ago I aced it with 30 day shred twice.
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peanut butter and honey almond butter and maple syrup nutella and banana peanut butter and fresh strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries almond butter and fresh berries
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@twokatlover Did you figure out the answer to your question? If your fitbit is linked to your MFP account, you should see it update your actual activity when the data synchs. Otherwise if you're manually entering from your fitbit, you would enter whatever calorie estimate you get from your fitbit from the exercise. I hope…
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Hi All. I'm 42 (the magic Douglas Adams year!), and mostly common sense cook-at-home, prepare my food a week at a time when I'm on my game type. Nothing fancy here. Just a lot of walking and tracking. Please feel free to send me a friend request. I've been here in fits and starts since October 2012. Started at about 230#…
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You can do it Vincent! How the heck did you go down 23# in 2 weeks??? Feel free to send me a friend request.
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Yep. Keep taking it and get your levels checked. Somehow as I got overall healthier my thyroid straightened itself out and I was able to discontinue the medication and stay within normalized ranges. The hypothalamus releases TRH (thyrotropin releasing hormone) that tells the pituitary gland to make TSH (thyroid stimulating…
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@jenilla1 No excuses! They come in up to gallon sizes! These are "vintage" small mouth sizes. Wide-mouth 64 oz (half gallons) are totally a thing. I'm pretty sure I've seen some 1.5 quart sized ones kicking around at a hardware store, too.
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@dklibert Thanks for the posh upcycle idea on how to keep crunchy bits from getting too much moisture with the reuse of fruit cup. Genius!
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@girlwithcurls2 HA! :smile: There were quite a few days when I worked on the crisis team that I ended up eating straight out of the jar. Once with a spoon (very challenging). If I were going to do it again, I would pack a collapsible bowl in my lunch bag now that I know they exist.
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Sooooo excited to see this thread continue! @U2R2 I bet your taco salads were exciting to think about! It's really hard when you make a good one to not eat it right away for sure! I felt that strongly about the chicken-mango-almond. Since then our household has switched over to just fish (pescitarian), and I have learned…
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Truthfully, the only scale in our house since we moved is the food scale. Went to the doc's yesterday for the first time since moving at the end of August, 2016 and am down 10#. I'm sure some of it is fluctuation scale to scale, but a lot of it is more accurate intake count because of the food scale. Now if I could just…
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4 Dec - 10 Dec 5 a day: y/y/y/n/y/n/y (5 out of 7) 30 a day: y/y/n/n/y/y/n (4 out of 7)
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27 Nov - 3 Dec 5 a day: Y/N/N/Y/Y/N/Y (4 out of 7) 30 a day: Y/Y/N/N/N/Y/Y (4 out of 7)
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27 Nov- 3 Dec goal: 5 + 30 a day for five out of seven days this week 4 Dec - 10 Dec six out of seven days 11 Dec - 17 Dec six out of seven days 18 Dec - 24 Dec six out of seven days 25 Dec - 31 Dec five out of seven days How about you?
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I feel you, Antdowell. I went on a 4 month ice cream bender to try to cope with the stress of moving across the country this summer/fall. I'm working to get back in the habit of "mindful eating" where I enjoy or at least attend to everything that goes into my mouth, plus drinking water then adding an apple or carrot if…
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This is a pic of Nugget being her goofy dog self. She's my service dog and has been a game changer if not life saver!
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I like layered salad in a jar, soup and bread, rice and bean bowls that I make ahead and freeze (southwestern style/Mexican flavors), same with enchiladas (black bean sweet potato are a particular favorite), "chickpea of the sea" mock-tuna salad made with garbanzo beans, lasagne, make ahead burritos and quesadillas frozen,…
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Sept 1: 206
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Have you seen SuperSize Me or Forks Over Knives? That pretty much did it for me.
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I love swellbutrin. They can pry it from my cold, dead hand. You might be one of those people like me whose anxiety responds well to swellbutrin. For some not insignificant number it makes anxiety worse. I have been on this med for ~6 years so I don't remember what the start up was like. I can say that whole grains and…
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Hi Rachel, feel free to add me.
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Feel free to add me. I hope you have success with your goals.
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Great job for getting back on the horse over and over again! Wow. You've already lost 40#. What I hear from the docs I work with is that losing even 10% of your body weight has significant impacts on one's health. Way to go!
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The daily number isn't as relevant as the overall trend. If you are new to losing weight, it's likely you are losing a lot of water, which will fluctuate from day to day. In addition, it seems pretty consistent in my observations here that people lose weight faster in the beginning. Another consideration is that people…
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I've been using MFP to help me both lose weight and retool my eating habits for more sustainable, long-term health. There have been times where I've been tempted to make things more simple by letting someone/some program decide what I needed to eat and/or cook for me. When I was in the middle of a massive job transition, I…
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Sending both of you a friend request. :)
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I like Leslie Sansone as well. You might try Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. It's available for free and has the advantage of creating muscle while burning fat. Because muscle is more compact tissue than fat, your clothes will fit better even if you weigh the same amount. There are lots of groups on here that provide…
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Hi pez37. I'm 41 and keep chipping away at that healthier lifestyle, with occasional bouts of ice cream benders. I'll send you a friend request. Anyone else who is looking for another person who will give you thumbs up and "nicely done" and occasional reminders to eat your veggies, feel free to send a friend request, too.
