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First of all, let me once again congratulate you for being a military wife. I spent 3 tours in Vietnam, I was in the first Desert War, Bosnia and many other places around the world and had it not been for my wife being there managing our lives from far away I don't think i would have survived some of the things I had to…

sometimes the slow weight loss is due to repetitive routines. the body loves routine and quickly adjusts to it, for example if you are an early riser like me you go to where you workout and you do your stretches, some time on the bike, a bit on the elliptical and some free weights. Then you go home to breakfast. I fell…

That sounds like a motorcyling woman I know who keeps getting helmet hair and complains about it. Try wearing hats!

After reading an article about vitamins and their non-impact on a person's overall well being I've avoided them myself and have just gone back to eating the foods that will provide me the right balance of nutrients my body needs to be in balance each day. By the way, congratulations on your kicking the smoking habit. I…

You could be going through a physiological change not related to dieting and I would recommend seeing your GYN or GP to have your hormones checked. My wife has been struggling to get her hormones in balance for the past couple of years along with genetically high cholesterol now that they've found the right combination of…

Good for you. It gets more addictive as time goes on and the calorie burn gets higher too. Just don't push too hard too soon and undo anything. Congratulations:flowerforyou:

I often find out that if I work out while I'm under the weather that I seem to beat the illness quicker than if I just sit it out and suffer. But that's working for me and I believe that you need to temper your workout with how you feel as you get into it. Don't push yourself just do everything at a lower impact, slower…

Yes, the ads are alluring but the reality is that there's no miracle cure to losing the weight that took years to put on. Even if there were pills that helped you lose weight there would be a lot of negative health effects and as it stands now most of those pills and cures out there do have a detrimental affect on a…

You're going to have a day like that now and again just log it as it happened and move forward. Even when I'm sick I'll work out but at a very slow pace and for the full workout period that I would do normally. The concern is not falling victim to successive "bad days" and that is a mental conflict I don't know how to…

You may have been dehydrated and that may have caused your nausea. It's tough trying to come back into your routine after such long break so don't push yourself too hard or you could injure yourself and undo anything you've recently accomplished. Good Luck.

I eat Ghirardelli 70% or higher dark chocolate and I read the labels each time to be sure I'm not doing the wrong thing by picking up a couple of Snickers bars!

This is a tough question to answer since the motivation has to come from within instead from outside. A real mind game! The only thing I can suggest is what I do and that's getting on the exercise machine (bike, elliptical, etc.) and just going through the motions at a much slower pace than normal and I try to go for the…

It all depends on what you're targeting. I started my program using an exercise ball to target my mid section, lower back and such through various "crunches" and managed to lose 7 inches. In addition to that I started using free weights concentrating my exercise on each muscle individually (one hand weight vice a bar…

It gets better. Soon your rings will fall off while in the shower or when you go to point out something and it nearly comes off your hand. It will give you a whole new reason to go shopping. Congratulations!

You, like many of the rest of us, have gotten into a routine and when you leave the comfort of the environment where you did so well your mind (and body) now look at it as a vacation so they both drop the need to stay focused. You will, again like so many of the rest of this, have to fight both your mind and body to make…

First of all you're not the only person in the world who despises working out. When we were younger our activities and metabolism helped to keep most of us looking good but as age and a more sedentary lifestyle entered our older years the weight didn't come off as easy. In fact, food took the place of exercise and…

My daughter just had her second baby and breast feedin as well she says that losing weight for her this time around seems to be going unbearably slow. Unfortunately as a guy I lose weight differently so I'm not the one to be offering advice so I'll pass on what my daughter has told us she's doing. She keeps lots of healthy…

If you are exercising the same way each day then your body could have adjusted to the routine and is not cooperating with you. The body needs to be challenged and you can do that by switching the way you work out and what you work out with. I usually do 90 minutes on the elliptical three days a week with 30 minutes of abs…

WARNING: Not everything that you cite in the link to Mr. Banks' article is entirely correct. His research was done entirely from the internet and not from paying attention to the growing volume of empiracle data being provided by MFP members. There are many of us who have eaten to the exercise bonus calorie level and have…

Unfortunately there are too many things that can cause shin splints for any of us to give you a direct answer. I too would suggest checking the runner's forum and this website (http://www.thestretchinghandbook.com/archives/shin-splints.php). If your situation persists or gets worse see your doctor Not a fun thing to have…

I remember watching your successes and struggles. Believe me it's really a mind game that we have to fight more than anything else and I wish I could find the answer to that conflict myself. Welcome back and hang in there.

Welcome aboard and congratulations! I've found this an excellent tool as well and the community sharing of their ups and downs/successes and failures continue to be a boon to me and what I'm learning.

Falling off the wagon isn't that hard to do. It sounds like your mind has taken control over your will power to control it and it's hitting you hard. It's happened to me twice in the past 18 months and it's a very tough thing to recover from because you really are battling your "evil twin" and there's no simple solution to…

A number of years back there was a scare in the pork industry because some farmers were keeping their animals under conditions that created problems that spread to humans but that really was a long, long time ago. Pork has come back as "the other white meat" like the commercials imply and is better than red meat if you're…

I'm not a physician nor do I purport to have first hand experience with your condition so right off I would talk this over with your family physician to see what the professionals say. Having said that it appears that you may be losing weight too fast for your body to adequately adjust. Maybe you should slow down the pace…

You may be one of those fortunate individuals who can follow the recommendations of MFP and eat to all your calorie levels. Myself, and many others, are not as fortunate and have to eat to the lower number. I'm not sure why this is except that I believe it has something to do with the way we initially entered our details…

You've taken the right first step by signing up here and taking yourself to task. Just remember it's a lifestyle change that you have to implement and not just a diet until you reach your goal and then going back to your old bad habits. Welcome aboard!

It's not clear whether you're eating just your base calories or you base calories plus your exercise earned calories that MFP calculates for you. If, by some chance, you're eating to the latter number then you are part of the select few of us who either gain or don't lose weight unless you eat to just the base calories…

I would like to first of all say you CONGRATULATIONS for your courage to be able to endure that type of treatment and then share it with us. It only goes to show you that you are on the way to healing. The other thing that you should realize, as should clymermom, is that you ARE a survivor. You have the innate skills to…

I agree with WTJoyce, you've already got the tools in hand and have experienced what you can and can't do so your lifestyle change should be in place now and all you will do is keep your daily log and gradually add calories (small increments at a time) while you maintain your exercise routine and you should be able to…