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I am not currently wearing my wedding ring or my grandmother's ring....the only two I ever wear and I never took them off....EVER. Until they started falling off and almost got lost....actually thought the wedding ring WAS lost twice, first time for about two weeks, second time just a few hours....and it's a family…

Whenever we have them around....which isn't often so I'm OK. I don't keep track calendar wise when I can have them. But for instance, I had more on Christmas Eve and Christmas cause they were there and I don't do it all the time. We got a new cookie jar yesterday, so of course we had to make cookies to break it in so I had…

Peaches, pears, pineapple, mandarin oranges, grated cheese or plain with pepper.....or not. It's all good. Just watch the sodium count if you're watching that cause cottage cheese is surprisingly high sodium.

I know a guy who heard of it from a neighbor who is always into the "diet fad of the month" club. He had been noticing that his thinking got real foggy and made it hard to function after eating certain things so when he read that type O isn't supposed to have wheat, he tried it and said his problems cleared up. Whether…

Since all of my MFP friends are also personal friends that I know face to face, I don't dump them. Period. They are my friends and I try to encourage them cause we are all busy moms with lots of stuff going on. It's understandable to run out of time to log in and write stuff down. They do the same for me.....we are in this…

Well my 14 year old thinks I'm strange because I like cheese on graham cracker dipped in milk but I can think of alot of stranger things I could eat than that. It's not like I'm sending out for peanut butter and pickles with strawberry ice cream at 3am or anything like that!! LOL!! :O)

I got some vanilla Greek yogurt for a recipe a while back and decided I liked it so now I get it all the time. Recently decided to try a different flavor and my new FAVE FAVE FAVORITE is honey.....mmmmm, SO GOOD!! I love cottage cheese and still have it sometimes but have to watch the portion size and do it on a day when I…

0!! I don't run....can't even if I wanted to. The impact jars my bad knee and sends me crashing to the ground in pain. Every time I hurt myself, it was because I was running somewhere, whether hurrying or playing so I just don't anymore. Other forms of exercise are safer for me!!

Thursday is soup night at our house so I have a pot of bacon corn chowder brewing up right now....reduced sodium version (no added salt, reduced sodium chicken broth, extra onion and garlic) My husband picked up a baguette to go with and my daughter just asked to have pineapple for dessert cause she found a can in the…

Remind my husband of an old promise to take me to the Space Needle Restaurant wearing a slinky red dress and do the whole princess treatment with limo, theater, jacuzzi room at some swanky hotel. Will he come through.....that remains to be seen. But I agree with whoever said the shopping for new wardrobe is more of a…

Yes, I started experimenting with tracking sodium back in July when I plateaued for almost a month. I was skeptical at first...seemed like a bunch of reality TV hype but I was surprised to find that it actually does make a big difference in my weight loss efforts. I checked the Mayo Clinic site and found that 2500/mg per…

Re: 2. Haven't they already mentally consumated their relationship? Amy has -- I'm sure of it!! (with quite possibly a few bi fantasies with Penny included) Sheldon, not so sure about that.....he's still on the road to becoming a "real boy.' ha ha :o)

If I sweat it counts so no on general everyday cleaning...but heavy duty cleaning for hours on end, yep you bet. But I generally take my pulse every so often and stick in the heart rate based calorie burn calculator at shapesense.com since I don't have an HRM. That tells me whether I am actually putting in enough effort to…

Well I haven't actually tried these yet so I can't say if they are good yet but I was looking through a list of low calorie lunches that I saved a while back today and I saw these two sweet potato recipes that look good to try so are going on my list for my next shopping trip: Stuffed Sweet Potato: 365 calories Why it…

I am about 80 lbs. down shooting for around 1200ish -- 56 of that since I really started applying myself and exercising back in May 2012 -- generally around 200-400 calories in a day, more during the summer when I could get out more. And it's coming off in healthy small increments so not worried about the naysayers who say…

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Well I know that even with exercise, and sedentary in settings, they have my calorie allowance set too high. If I go much over 1400 for more than a day or two, I start gaining. Just something I've learned through trial and error experimentation and now by most BMR calculators I've tried, my BMR with my weight loss so far…

I put them on low-cal wraps with low carb high fiber wraps. Sometimes with chicken or turkey, sometimes with shrimp. Can add lowfat mayo or neufchatel cheese or vanilla or honey Greek yogurt, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, cheeses, dried cranberries, herbs and spices as desired --whatever you like on your sandwich and throw…

Here's a thought -- if you're supposedly going to drain off 1/3 of the calories you just ate, why don't you just eat 1/3 LESS calories to begin with?? Seems easier and simpler, less intrusive and a bunch of unmentionable things!!

Or how bout give your toddler a feather pillow? Big mistake....course we didn't realize it was a feather pillow until it got a small hole in it....didn't think much about it until I came home one day and he had decide to explore that hole and ripped the whole thing open -- omigosh -- it looked like a chicken farm exploded…

Well I don't know if EVERYBODY does this -- I rather hope NOT, it was dumb and painful and definitely not one to re-experience, like EVER: Several years back I forgot I had something on the stove when I got in the shower. So I get out of the shower, realize it's burning and run into the kitchen buck naked to turn it off…

All the people who talk about as if it is common knowledge and I should have a clue what they are talking about.....cause I don't nor do I care to find out. I don't watch any UNreality TV.....period. It could all drop off the lineup entirely and I wouldn't know the difference.....except for all the groupies moaning and…

Counting calories and exercising. That's about it. I keep a general eye on the other stuff but don't stress too much over the Carb-Protein-Fat ratios although if I wanted to I could keep it. I know how to do it from my husband's diabetic nutrition class. But as long as I'm losing, I'm not going to try to enslave myself to…

We've got stuff going on tonight so I'm opting for easy and quick....kids love it when I call pasta buffet. I just cook up a pot of pasta (whatever kind I want) and give them each a plate. Each person gets to top it with whatever they like. I am out of my whole wheat pasta or I'd do that just to say I got some fiber in to…

That number does NOT work for everyone. I have checked with several different BMR calculators and being short, mine is only around 1290 to begin with. Taking off the percentage for weight loss (still 37 lbs. to go out of an original 114), puts my base BELOW the 1200 minimum they allow on here. I've checked the same…

Yeah--there are those who tell me that I'm "wasting away" (I THINK they mean it jokingly since they've never known me like this so it's all new to them whereas me, I'm just getting back to business as usual and it's what I've always been in my mind, anyway.) I am anything BUT in reality.....I still have 17-24 lbs. to go,…

Check out this thread: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/658405-35-quick-low-calorie-lunches I've tried some of these and they are really good, IMHO and not too hard to make.

Because ALL UN-"REALITY" TV is garbage and I don't watch any of it on general principle. I have better things to do with my time and to fill my brain with than the fake drama (I despise social drama anyway!!) and the way they encourage backstabbing, name calling and generally just being vicious to each other....beyond all…

1/4 c. 1% milk with 1/2 C. Fiber One Nutty Clusters and Almond cereal. Plus a quick sticky bun because it was our "special breakfast treat." I usually make something special for the whole family at least one weekend morning and that was it today.

Well, this was yesterday not today but it still makes me smile. I realized back in May that the only road forward through my knee issues was going to involve weight loss to prove my doctor wrong about that being the sum total of the problem. So I vowed not to go back until I was lighter than when I first met him 15 years…