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Volunteering together. :) (PS "gaggle of firemen" made me laugh.)

That's really awesome! :)

Oh geez Baltimore...can't say I disagree though.

My face. That's what everyone noticed first

Not all losses are scale losses. I'd say good job!

I didn't before I got my HRM because I knew MFP overestimated so much. But now I eat back about 90% of the way. Listen to yourself, if you're truly hungry (not bored...) eat something.

If it makes you feel any better, OTC is really quite rare. Yes dangerous but not many people would have it.

Very carefully :)

From what I've heard it's a combo of eating more because of increased appetite BUT ALSO water retention.

I have almost the same blood pressure as you (circa...86/52) I ended up seeing a dr. because I was having trouble with getting really lightheaded standing during clinicals and with working out depending on the movement. We found out I'm pretty anemic. I'm working on keeping my iron in check and staying hydrated. It has…

I'm pretty excited about this and on my first week as well. since setting my calories to maintenance I looked back at the weekly totals for my previous entries. I'd go over "a little" and "occasionally". Really most weeks I was only netting 100 - 200 calorie deficits. No wonder I plateaued. Still my range between my BMR…

"Robin from how I met your mother" - I've been told that on 3 different instances now. I watched the show. I really don't see it.

Just experiment. A lot of times its a major texture thing. I hate goopy tasting vegetables. if I can crisp them in some way they're awesome. either that or there's a sauce involved

Hey there! Its great to meet everyone! I'm Kristin, and I'm a med student. I lost 17 pound in the past year when I had been working but now that I'm back to school its been sedentary days, late nights studying, and lots of stress. I wanted to do this team to hold me accountable for making all the good choices in my power…

Yeah its not so bad where I am, and I'm learning where to avoid...

University of Maryland med school :) Baltimore is growing on me...kind of...everyone keeps asking me if its like "the wire".

I should be learning metabolic pathways, the krebs cycle, etc. I prefer MFP :)

I was going to guess that maybe you're overestimating exercise or you've got the wrong activity factor set. I made that mistake when I first joined. I had myself set to active since I work out all the time and then I was also counting the exercise. It's one or the other unfortunately - so I was double counting.

I've heard about that a lot. My school gym has the same rules. They basically want to minimize skin contact with equipment to prevent the spread of staph, MRSA, and all those other nasties. So its some fitted t shirts and spandex pants (the spandex shorts are what's not allowed here), or just regular gym shorts

I think it has to make some difference, I have almost the same stats as you (same height, wrists 5.5, ring 5) but I'm 140lbs. Knowing another girl who is large boned and the same weight, she looks thinner than I do. I always assumed it was because I was carrying x amount of pounds of fat for her extra x amount of bone…

Still 139.5 and TOM. So I'm going to optimistic and hope there was a loss...

I measure with my bra on. Assuming your wearing a properly fitted bra that is not padded it should just be "repositioning" not squishing. I find it easier than trying to figure out how to lift both and measure simultaneously - I'm really not coordinated enough

Agree on the frozen stuff. I try to buy lots of healthy fruits and veggies but I don't have a car or the ability to go to the store every few days, that and I spend all my free time studying. frozen stuff helps me stretch to shopping every few weeks while still eating my veggies.

Also very much interested! :)

Hey! 24 and a grad student. But I'm still very much a college student at heart

I haven't even ventured on the scale yet...I figured I'd be good all week before weigh in friday - maybe it will lessen the blow of whatever I gained over the long weekend.

Also 5'4" (and a half?). I think its really amazing how different body builds are. I'm on the curvy side so I started mid of 160's at about a size 14, I'm currently 140 and a size 10/12 depending on brand. I've never been this size so my arbitrary goal number is 130. I may stop a little before or a little after - we'll…

I wonder if that used to be my issue. I can't drink too much caffeine because of migraines, but some of the pain medications that I would take if I had one contain caffeine. it's a cycle...

I've been toying with buying a HRM and the various brands. I have some questions about how you guys incorporate them into your diaries. Do you guys just change your diary entries manually all the time to reflect what the polar HRM says you burned? or are you only wearing it during exercise and inputting you own calories…

I'm terrible at explaining. sorry :P Here's the stickied thread where someone asked about it. You have to read through a bit of it where people explain. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/6832-eating-all-of-your-calories-bmr