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I have the Fitbit Ultra and the Fitbit One. The One is still in the box. I'm using the Ultra at the moment since you can use one Fitbit at a time to track with. Don't regret it one moment having the Fitbit device. It was an eye-opener on my activity (more active than I thought), and it helps me know where I stand for…

My German great-grandfather used to say he was a 5th cousin to Otto von Bismarck, the first leader of a unified Germany. Checking out Otto's mother's side, it turned out her family came from the same locality of Germany that my great-grandfather came from and had the same surname. My great-grandfather very likely knew the…

My great-great-great-great-grandfather William Butler was present at the surrender of General Cornwallis to General Washington in 1781. He was a young soldier of about 19 to 20 years of age. I found out his involvement on his pension request for his service in the American Revolution online.

I have not checked the effect of caffeine on lupus. I do not have lupus, either then or now, just a very scary situation of having very elevated ANA levels similar to a person with lupus. I still drink caffeine but it is not giving me the effects that drinking Diet Pepsi did. My doctors did not know what to think of the…

Diet Pepsi and anything else with aspartame were the only things eliminated from my diet to enable seeing if they might be the cause or not. I think judging from the fact that I started feeling better after cutting out these things having it that it might be at least partially due to the aspartame. I know not to believe…

Just because scientists didn't find scientific evidence that aspartame would cause the problems listed doesn't mean that it would never cause such problems in a smaill minority of people. I can feel the effects of aspartame in a single diet drink even now. What's so hard about acknowledging the possibility that some people…

I drank a lot of Diet Pepsi with aspartame in it in the mid-1990s and ended up with: crankiness and unrelenting depression chronic fatigue unwellness feeling in the body with no energy aching joints heart palpitations I went to the doctor to check out the problem and one thing he did was to submit my blood samples for a…

I also have the FITBIT ULTRA and it is very informative and enables me to know the following: 1) number of steps walked each day 2) number of calories burned each day 3) the total distance walked (in miles or fractions of a mile) 4) number of floors climbed 5) how well I sleep 6) functions as a stopwatch as wished The…

I take it more or less a reminder that if I keep the calories down and exercise, I'll lose weight. If I binged today, it reminds me that if I continue that way, I'll gain weight. But yes, when one is on a plateau, it does seem a wee bit discouraging, but I continue on anyway since sooner or later I'll get there.

I bought a digital food scale at Costco a few days ago and have yet to unpack it and set it up. Relying on the old-fashioned non-digital food scale until I have a chance to deal with the digital scale!!!!

She fell into the river.

I have only four friends with one of them not logged in for two months. I friended a guy and he sent a webpage message which I tried to reply to within a couple days only to find he dumped me already. I am interacting with the three friends still logging in, though. I probably won't add more friends but stick with and…

I studied hard in school and college and still continue to be immersed in books to this day. The 75 is my high school graduation year.

Maybe your plan is to lounge on the beach somewhere to celebrate?

Some thoughts---maybe one of the foods you are eating now you haven't eaten before. Maybe your body is trying to adjust to the new food or even just the specific mixture of foods you are eating. Another thought is that you are eating more really nutritious good food as a higher percentage of your diet and your body is…

It would be very interesting to taste the turkey after it's bathed in bacon flavor! It'll be rather unique and tasty.

I lost an average two-year-old!

I'm from the US and have visited: Canada (my mother was born and grew up on a farm just 12 miles south of the Canadian border in Washington State so there were visits over the border in British Columbia whenever I came to see my grandparents) Tijuana, Mexico London, England Ireland St. Thomas St. Maarten Nassau, Bahamas I…

This low sodium diet brings back memories! I had to reduce sodium to be less than 2000 mg per day in order to prevent the reoccurrence of hydrops in my inner ears (excessive fluid retention). It was hard but doable to plan the daily menu not to exceed 2000 mg.. One item I used to buy was low sodium canned tuna. Here is one…

I'm 5'4" and my current weight is 186.6 pounds (starting weight 209 lbs). My goal is 120 lbs but my wellness coach urges me to wait and see as I get to the healthy range of around 107-145 lbs and determine then what would be best for me at my current age 55. I weighed 100-103 lbs when I graduated from high school with a…

My heaviest was about 212 lbs. SW 209 lbs CW 189 lbs GW 120 lbs 5'4" tall. Started May 7th, 2012, and joined MFP in early June 2012.

I toured the Cape Canaveral missile test center the very first day it was ever opened to the public. It was May 19, 1961 in the exciting early days of the American space program, and my mother heard about it on the radio. They were expecting huge crowds so they said the tourists were to drive through in their cars without…

I find that sometimes when I'm lost in thought mulling some deep things, I watch someone somewhat absentmindedly and do not realize that I'm looking at the person more than I should until that person reacts. This could be true for some people when they appear to be watching you.