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Could you order one of those with the sauce on the side maybe? Then you can at least use less of it per bite

Seriously, thank you all for your kind words! I am glad that my story and/or pictures could help some people! It makes it feel like this journey was for a reason. The best advice I can give to those of you starting off is to take full body pictures of yourself for comparison. There will be weeks and months that the scale…

Thank you guys :)

Awesome! How did it go?? I have worked out twice since Wednesday and I always forget how well my body responds to cardio... I really need to re-focus and get a work-out schedule happening. I think it's been kind of hard because the classes I really liked at the gym have been moved around or stopped and that was one of the…

I need to try this. I have a box of gingerbread cake mix... I might try it with that.

210.4 Although it's up from last week I'm not concerned. My sisters wedding was this weekend and I KNOW I ended up over-doing it on sodium. I feel puffy today and am pretty sure I will see a drop in the next few days.

I can garuntee you that I have never used anywhere close to even half a tablespoon of cinnamon while cooking. If I use a large amount of anything I log it. Buy rarely the dashes of spicea

My scale was all over the place this morning and didn't give me the same reading consistently. It went everywhere from 208.6-210.4... It gave me 209.6 twice though so I guess I will go with that?

I love it! I found myself smiling randomly at how much extra towel there was a few months ago... It's a great feeling!

Nice job to all who lost... I still am holding on hope to get down to 205 (or was my goal 203? I forget) before my sisters wedding on sept 24th... Goals for this week: Stay under my weekly net goal At least 3 days of 30+ min of cardio Stay upbeat I feel like I have been down on myself lately. One of my sisters other…

Ugh. I don't even want to put this number (even though I know the reasons for it). 210.4 At least next week will be a big drop I guess. Damn sodium... And period.

I know I need to step it up again, but the motivation is waning a little bit. I Move a lot more this year at my job than previous years (my room in my new school is upstairs and I have to go up and down those 24 stairs at LEAST 4 times per day... Average would be 6-8 I'd say. I should start counting.) Anyway I need to get…

While I didn't "forget" that, it turned out that MY experiment with MY HRM came out to the same as what my results of my RMR testing came out to be. And it DOES make sense to subtract them out when working out... I want the most accurate ADDITIONAL calorie burn to be recorded... If you don't do it that's fine, glad that…

Yeah. I subtract 1.35 calories per minute. I calculated it once based on wearing my Hrm while sleeping and dividing the total by the number of minutes which came to 1.3 calories per minute. Then a few months ago I got my RMR measured and it came to 1.35 calories per minute... Pretty darn close.

207.4 for me this morning! Was out of town until yesterday afternoon.

Rach- thank you so much for doing this!!! And I hope you are starting to feel better!! This weekend is my sisters bachelorette party, we are staying at a house in wine country... Gonna try and stay accountable while there. I haven't decided yet if I am going to bring my scale with me so I can weigh in on Monday or if I…

I would just opt for salsa and some lime wedges she can squeeze on

The dannon is my Greek yogurt of choice. I usually get the plain kind and add honey and cinnamon... Or mango... Or something like that. I did try the vanilla nonfat one today and I enjoyed it, but think I still prefer the plain with honey and fruit I have tried a bunch of different ones but I like dannon best

:) 209.4 this morning!

thanks Rach! this week my goal is to actually work out more. I have been majorly slacking on that. I also need to watch my sodium... yeah... that's that. I am sure I will have a large drop next week!

Ugh! I knew it! Mean mean scale! 212.8 That's up 3 lbs from Friday... Yeah... That will not be sticking around...

Rach I hope you heal quickly!!!!! I am not looking forward to weigh in tomorrow morning. Today was filled with way too much food and salty food at that... At least I know what my weight was as of Saturday morning and I know I couldn't have done much serious permanent damage in one day... The scale might just be extra mean…

Scale said 211.0 this morning... Up 0.4... I really shouldn't be too hard on myself considering ToM is here, but still... I wanna break 210 so bad!!! Plus I only went to the gym once. Boooo me and my laziness during ToM! School starts this week so I am going to be diligent on taking lunches. And drinking water. I made a…

Awesome job ladies! This week I plan on being better about drinking water. And limit my eating out to 3 times total.

Hey Rach! I will be out of town tomorrow but I weighed myself Saturday morning before leaving for vacation so I will post that for this weeks weight: 210.6 :) you are awesome. Thanks for doing this!

Yes it's normal. Think about it, you are weighing yourself PLUS all the food you just ate and the liquid you drank. For best most accurate results weigh yourself first thing in the morning when you wake up and after going to the bathroom Dont stress

I say you are right, only because I am also 5'9" and I got my body composition analysis done which told me I had 155.5 lbs of lean body weight... so my target is now 189... but honestly, if I get below 200 I will probably be happy :) good luck!! edit: it all depends on your lean body mass... so while some people (like a…

It's a little more than 7 weeks to my sister's wedding (I'm the maid of honor) and I am hoping to make it down a few more pounds before then. Our bridesmaid dresses should be in in a few weeks and so I will have to get it altered for sure since we ordered them at the end of May (I have probably only lost about 5-10 lbs…

My suggestion is to stretch at least twice as long as Jillian has you stretch at the end. Hold each stretch for a 30 count and things will not be as sore afterwards!

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