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And CONGRATS on reaching your GOAL WEIGHT!!! sooo AWESOME!!!!

Thanks, Sarah. It means so much that you have so much faith in me. Thanks you love:-)

Thanks guys for all of the feedback. I was let down by the scale today because I haven't weighed in over a month and have been going to the gym working my butt off and counting cals and found I gained a pound a half. Sarah-I'm currently 10lbs heavier than you. I would love so much to reach 115 by this summer. Not sure if…

It does. I often find I get up in the middle of the night just to get a snack. It would've been so much easier to just have that snack at 10 p .m. before bedtime!

Yeah I don't think I'm going to go to bed hungry anymore. My tummy grumbling keeps me awake! haha

It's okay not to eat exercise calories sometimes, but if you consistently make it a habit (like most days of the week) it will affect your weight loss efforts negatively.

I've heard that is not true also, but I've also heard that it is better to eat more calories earlier in the day vs later because our bodies are more likely to burn off the fat during the daytime when we are active compared to the nighttime when we are asleep.

I exercise about 3-4 days a week even though I shoot for more. I love those snacks but I also love chocolate too. I don't eat very much of it though. I try to carry granola bars and string cheese with me. It seems to help. It's just I try so hard to stick to the 1200 if I don't exercise but I always seem to feel hungry by…

Water does nothing for my hunger. I am thinking a low-fat granola bar or lowfat dry cereal may do the trick :-)

What do you mean not to eat exercise calories? I always shoot to eat at least half. I have always heard you are supposed to eat some (if not all of your exercise calories). You body needs it to lose weight because if you consistently burn less than the 1200 calories, your body can go into starvation mode which makes it…

I use these Great Value packets for my bottled water. They are only 10 cals per packet. I usually only use two of them a day and then drink some plain water. Just gives it a little flavor and it says "Vitamin Water" on the packets so I assume I'm getting some vitamins with that too.

Thanks for the tips guys. I do have a stainless steel water bottle that I could carry around. I will definitely be drinking more water!

I'm not big on fish but I have been taking an Omega 3 fish oil capsule every day and have found that it is increasing my focus and concentration. I also feel like I have more energy. It also helps the heart and with weight loss when combined for exercise. I can't stress enough the many, many benefits for omega 3 fish oil.

No additives- I will log what the machine says. Thanks.

Thanks, Polo and Noadditives. I would love to see your routine Polo. Please send it to me. NoAdditives - I try to just eat half of my exercise calories. I am not really losing so maybe I should eat more. Not sure. That is cool you can eat all of them and it doesn't hinder your weight loss. I might try it for a couple days.…

Try Jillian Michael's 30-Day Shred and then JIllian's No More Trouble Zones. The latter has a perfect rating on Amazon. I have 30-day shred. I need to stick to it and know I would get results if I did.

Sorry if the above message wasn't clear. I meant to say is how do you log it as exercise on the MFP database? I know it is cardio but I'm not sure how to log it.

How do you log HIIT on the elliptical? I plan on doing it later a few hours after dinner.

Repeat until dead huh? That's how I feel sometimes after I push it hard!

I have a rather old elliptical. It goes up to like a 8 or 9 resistance level and it shows calories burned (which I think is very inaccurate- it overestimates), distance ran and heart rate (has the metal bars you put your hands on). I don't know if it shows my speed. That's what is throwing me off because I used to have a…

I don't have the box so I don't know. I am a very petite person so I would need a small. I ordered it off of ebay. I might use velcro tape and get some sports bras to help secure it.

I have asked this question on here myself and got mostly this answer - It's very important to eat back most of your exercise calories if you want to have energy. I have decided personally that I will eat back half. Like if I burn 400 calories today and my total allotment of calories is 1200, I would have 1600 I could eat,…

There's lots of calories and sugar in wine and alcohol. I would limit it to once a week on a cheat day. I love wine too and used to drink a glass about 3-4 x a week. Not anymore because Boons Farm is so full of sugar and calories! Now I try to stick to low calorie beer or 1-2 glasses on my cheat days.

Sounds like you are overdoing it. Get yourself well first. I have started taking SUPER B COMPLEX from Wal-mart and it has been a lifesaver. I used to be drained and exhausted all of the time before I started taking this as well as an adult gummy multi-vitamin and now I feel tons better. You need to build up your immunity…

I'm in! I so need to lost those last 10 lbs!!

I'll definitely do that combat vet

what's cherry uv?

What's it do? Just make you go a lot? Does it help with appetite? I have to do something about my appetite. All I ever want to do is eat, eat, eat and that's just all the time.

I don't think I do, which stinks. I'll keep playing around with it. I think I'll get it figured out. Just was wondering if anyone else out there has had problems with it. I love it other than the strap issue.

It's the strap. Just won't stay on no matter how much I adjust it.