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Ditto!

I had a hilarious incident with my band flying off my finger while I was running. Get those rings sized down people, they're like shrapnel!

You can work around it. I was a self-sabotaging night time eater as long as I can remember. Tried to fight it for a long time, got fat, learned a lesson. I leave most of my calories for late afternoon/evening. And just sometimes, a nice 100 kcal for a midnight nutella snack. Calories are calories, and your pancreas doesn't…

Here go my numbers Week 3: 190.8 Week 4: 188.2 Uhm can anyone say party? :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy:

Hi guys, I just threw together a "single batch" in my toaster oven and the ratio that worked great was 1/4 cup quick oats to half a small/medium banana. Thought to share in case there are people like me around here who don't handle cookie stockpiles well :) It made two cookies and they are amaaaahzing. I would say it…

My week: 190.8 *insert hateful rant about 190's* :angry: Thanks, fitby!

My weigh in this week: 191.8 Thanks fitby!

Ditto. I'm hating the 190's more than 200's :/ grrr Will weigh in tomorrow/Sat morning, depending on how much I snooze my alarm tomorrow. Great work so far everyone!

Hi Fitby, Here are my stats, SW: 213 Challenge SW: 197 Week 1: 194 GW: 165 Thanks!

This. I got my fitbit when I was on "a holiday" from the world (read: couch potato), and those couple of days, it logged a daily calorie burn well below the sedentary estimate. Proper freaking shock and awe at how little I moved. If your default body is couch potato, you burn through your BMR and that's about it. It takes…

I count vacuuming :D My vacuum weighs about as much as a baby whale, so I definitely break a sweat by the time I run through the whole house. Or just general hardcore cleaning, involving moving furniture, viciously scrubbing, etc. But really, I eat as many calories as I need that day to stay full. If I'm actually hungry, I…

*raises hand in shame* The editable one rocks!

I completely agree that you can be overweight and not have your health in danger. In fact I was such for most of my teen years, doctor confirmed. Always a few (dozen) extra pounds, but very healthy. In fact, my cholesterol was perfect (at BMI ~29), while my mother's (at BMI 21) was through the roof. I however, ran out of…

Hi everyone, feel free to add :)

If you look around the Success Stories section, you can see a lot of people who have started at weights much higher than yours and are posting wonderful progress/after pictures. 215 is not unfixable, you just need to take it one day at a time.

Is the scale analogue or digital? Basically, analogue scale will vary depending on how it's positioned and how your weight is distributed on it. Digital scales are designed to average the reading from at least four corners, giving you a close reading regardless of how you stand on it/how it's balanced. The nerdism behind…

Will try, thank you!

Does anyone remember The Poo Doctor? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_McKeith She definitely quacks louder than anyone and made millions poking people's poo.

This! If his cures were so magical, wouldn't Oprah be Tyra-Banks-esque by now? I only knew Oz by the ridiculous magazine covers chilling by the cash registers, but a couple of days ago I saw an episode on Oprah's channel (don't judge, my lung feels practically collapsed, trash tv ftw) and literally got angrier by the…

This is my issue as well, and it's further compounded by my ridiculous sodium intake (which I'm trying to curb). Any tips for deflating? It's mostly that it's stupidly uncomfortable :/

Ditto, the more, the merrier!

I think you can do it in a bit of a convoluted way - Polar will sync to Endomondo, and Endomondo will sync to MFP. So if you have a smartphone, you can have the step in between to make it all jive.

I actually like seeing the newbies. Yay for getting off the couch! Especially the really chubby ones. I always feel kinda proud for them. It takes balls to go to the gym with a lot of jiggle and that warrants respect. But I also have "my" treadmills (location location location!) and a lot of passive-aggressive anger…

Don't add activity manually if your MFP and fitbit are linked, if it's a step-based activity. So all the walking/running/etc, don't track it through MFP, just sync the fitbit and the additional calories you burned will be added to your exercise post-sync. If you track it manually through MFP and sync from fitbit, you're…

My best tip? Not being too hard on myself. I know it may sound counter-intuitive given that I have a substantial amount of weight to lose, but it's been a lifesaver. I know that I can live on 500 kcal a day and lose all of 50 pounds in a couple of months. I've done it before by saying "nope, you can't eat that". All that…

SW 213 CW 197 GW 165 (top range for healthy BMI!) UGW 135

I lucked out and he'll try anything, except food masquerading as bacon. This seems to be some sort of a food worship situation, so I gave up trying to feed him smokey tempeh and eggs. But I find that it's a lot of give and take. I like making naughty Paula-Deen-style food for him because he loves it and doesn't seem to be…

If you keep an eye out for your net calories, strictly in terms of weight loss, it doesn't matter if you eat the desired calories in Lindt or broiled chicken. So you most definitely can lose weight while eating sugar. The problem that you'll likely hit (at least that I hit in one of my I-eat-cheesecake-exclusively diets)…

I have about 50ish left. Who knows. Slowly plowing through it... Been at it since November, but have a bit of an unexplained plateau last couple of weeks o_o

Thank you for your responses, everyone! I also think if my target is a bit more flexible, I eat more intuitively. If 1200 vs 1500 doesn't matter, I seem to be more likely to stop when I'm actually full. Three cheers for recognizing hunger/satiety cues :)