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Oddly enough, the word irk irritates the *kitten* out of me!

I make yogurt every week and I use either 1% or nonfat milk depending on what's freshest. I never have any problems. I also add about half a cup of nonfat powered milk to my milk before boiling. I'm not sure if that has something to do with it or not. Alton Brown says it adds protein so I do it!

I had this problem too. What worked for me was upping my protein to around 100g a day. Some days I would only come in around 90 and others I would come in way over that but I did notice that any time I was under 90, I felt horrible. I wish I could tell you the science and stuff behind it but I just don't know it. All I…

You had me at Supernatural! Please feel free to add me!! There's a picture of me with J2 on my profile so feel free to check that out if you want too!

I rarely ever use oil when cooking anymore. I prefer cooking spray. Yes it still has calories but you use a lot less spray than oil. When making steaks at home, go for the leaner cuts. Rib eyes and New York strips are amazing but they have a lot of fat in them. I usually go for tri tip steaks, less fat so less calories. I…

I like food too!! What's great about MFP is that you can still eat the foods you love while losing weight. As with everything in life, it's all about balance. Don't try to drastically change your whole life over night. Small changes really do add up. Still eat your broccoli (because that stuff is gooooood!) but find a way…

I'm naturally a pear shape meaning my body holds more weight towards my bottom. I've always had thunder thighs, still do a little bit. Before I lost my weight, I had two different thigh tattoos, one on the outside and one on the top of my thigh. The one on the outside didn't change at all but the one on the top of my thigh…

The truth hurts sometimes. There are a about a billion better ways to say what your friend meant but they were just trying to encourage you. Would you have preferred them to tell you not to lose weight and put more weight back on? Honestly, I would rather someone tell me "you're doing good, keep it up" than to nag at me…

Here's what I'm doing and it works for me as long as I meticulously log EVERYTHING. Monday thru Thursday I eat to lose roughly a pound a week. Friday thru Sunday I eat at maintenance. I end up losing about .75lb per week. When I first started doing it this way, I wouldn't log Friday thru Sunday. I wouldn't go crazy or…

Before you go around trying to change things, who exactly is bringing in the food? At my last job we had clients that would bring in food. It would have been very rude to tell them to stop or not accept it. The best we could do would be to tell them we had a lot of people that brought us food and a lot of it went to waste.…

Eating more protein won't automatically make you lose weight. Weight loss is all about calories. I would ask your doctor to explain why he wants you on so much protein. In my non-medical experience, if I didn't like his answer, I wouldn't listen.

I would say pick a fitbit that works for your needs. I started with the fitbit zip and I loved it. When it died on me I moved up to the fitbit one because I didn't want a wristband type. I want to upgrade again, I was looking at the Alta but it doesn't count floors climbed which is big for me so then I looked at the Blaze…

It wasn't a mistake but I had a manager that would sing "All and all you're just another prick with no balls" instead of "brick in the wall"

I have OCD and I have to eat at Taco Bell every Friday and every Sunday. Can't not do it. I get the same thing and always use the mobile app so everyone in there knows me by name and my order. I got a promotion and my coworkers wanted to surprise me so they went to Taco Bell and asked if they knew how to make "the Miranda…

What do you put in yours?

I use them when I don't have a use for the yolk. They're convenient, easy and relatively cheap. I usually only use them in recipes or mixed with whole eggs but no one ever seems to taste the difference.

That's pretty much what I was thinking but just hoped maybe there was something else that would get me where I wanted to be. I enjoy cardio so much more than progressive lifting but lifting is going to give me the body I want.

The problem with a cheat day (and sometimes even a cheat meal) is that you can easily wipe out your whole deficit. Are you planning on logging or just going hog wild?

This is not sabotage, it's an annoying habit. Chew strongly flavored gum or brush your teeth right before you sit down. You won't want to eat anything and eventually you will break the habit.

How did they come up with prostate exams? Did some doctor open up a cadaver and go "Hey! If I put my finger up here, I can poke the prostate gland!" True story, this is a real thought I had in the shower.

I haven't been logging regularly since sometime around September or October. I hit goal and continued to log for about a year and then a bunch of stuff came up in life and it was really hard to log so I stopped. I haven't gained any weight, in fact I lost a couple of pounds (mostly from stress and not eating). I've…

MFP has Running (jogging), up stairs Edit: There's also "Walking, upstairs" and "Moving household items, boxes, upstairs"

Before I lost weight, I was on Advair to control my symptoms. I feel kind of stupid now but it never even crossed my mind that maybe I should start taking it again until you suggested a control med. Thanks for the advice!

This makes me sad. I thought I was finally going to find out why eggs don't like me!

I have similar problems. Sometimes eggs agree with me, sometimes they don't. Avoiding the yolk all together seems to cause the least amount of problems. When I do have the yolk, solid over runny seems to sit better with me but I like my eggs over easy so that doesn't happy often. If I eat eggs alone it seems to hit me more…

I lost over 40 pounds eating what I wanted with minimal exercising. I did notice that what I wanted changed quite a bit though. When I first started I ate a lot of fast food, fried foods, prepackaged stuff. After a while I started wanting foods that would fill me up and keep me full longer so I started cooking a lot more…

I can walk in heels now! I always thought I was just too uncoordinated to do it but for some reason, I walk just fine in heels after losing the weight!

I'm covered in tattoos. I had 3 thigh tattoos before my weight loss. After losing 40 pounds and slimming out a lot, the only tattoo that looked the slightest bit different was my octopus which had started on the top of my thigh. It just moved inward a little. My husband can't even see it but I can (I mean I've looked at…

For me exercise does make me feel a little better for a short period of time. But just like when I was taking antidepressants, it doesn't make me feel "happy" or anything like that. The source of my depression/anxiety is still there, I just don't care about it as much for a little bit... I hate that feeling, that's why I…