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If it was me, I would reduce my food intake, but only a little and keep the exercise since you like it. Do this for several weeks and see what your weight does then adjust again if needed. The good news is that you may have stumbled on to a rough estimate of your maintenance calories. That weight change from 129 to 132 is…

I'm not sick, but I'm having a sweet craving right this minute (in the middle of the night.). Specifically, I want something sweet and fruity. Two things are working for me so far. First, I'm chewing a piece of mint gum. The stong flavor and the chewing are surprisingly effective at killing munchies. Second, and this is…

That does sound good. Thanks.

Ok people. When you say you put lots of vegetables in your pasta sauce, are you meaning a tomato based sauce? That sounds strange to me. It's been my lifelong custom to have only meat (browned ground beef or meatballs or Italian sausage) or maybe seafood in a tomato sauce. I might saute vegetables in olive oil and toss…

I get that calorie weariness too. I also do the diet bresk sort of thing but I probably don't do it right. What usually happens is I start wishing I could just eat and not weigh, count or log. Sometimes I also get a craving for some particular thing. So I just get that thing and eat some. Then I stop logging for a week,…

Hunger is a type of pain and people naturally differ in how tolerant they are of different kinds of pain. For me, I can tolerate a kidney stone better than the muscle burn from riding my bike up a hill. But I wonder sometimes if there isn't an element of anxiety in the hunger intolerance. Like, worry that I might run out…

Sorry I'm late to this discussion. I hope you are still here, OP. Your comments really hit home for me because I know someone who says those same sorts of things. I have to confess that I don't completely understand. It seemed like she blamed the food for making her love it. Or blamed the producers of food for conspiring…

I hope you will too. It works very well for many people.

I tried it out of curiosity and it really did work. However, over time I came to dread the deficit days so much that I decided it wasn't for me.

Normal for me is the way my mom fed us when I was a kid in the early 1960's, when none of us were fat and neither was anyone else I knew. That was three meals a day with a small after school snack and dessert only on special occasions. Restaurant meals were rare.

Whichever meals I eat at home (or at least without company) are my normally restricted calorie meals. The holiday celebration meal with family and friends, I eat freely. For my family, the food is an essential part of the celebration and there are certain foods or recipes that only come out on holidays. Also, as I get…

And thanks also for reminding us to check ourselves regularly.

That does kind of soothe my conscience. That outing was memorable for a couple other events involving a bull and an irate farmer with a shotgun. Looking back at that entire era in my life, I don't know how I didn't end up jail.

Hah! That was great! I'll remember.

You reminded me of a day decades ago when we were blackberry picking in a pasture on a very hot and thirsty Florida day. On the long walk back to our car, we found a watermelon patch. I regret now to say that we stole and ate a watermelon right there. No knife to cut it with, we had to break it open on a fence post. It not…

It's absolutely ok to take a diet break once in a while. But is it possible that you wouldn't feel so "over it" if you weren't so strict with yourself? I have tried and failed to lose weight a number of times but I learned a lot about myself. I just can't be religious about food or exercise. In fact, I'm probably…

One of my MFP friends is like this. She is a switch on or switch off sort of person. When she's "on" she is very strict and even eats vegetables (which she has never liked) and cuts out all alcohol. She is miserable while she's doing this and of course falls off after a few weeks Because she hates the process so much, she…

I know it will take a good long while to get to my goal weight, but I prefer not to get too far ahead of myself. I don't think about doing this for months and years to come. I only have to keep within my calorie budget today. Tomorrow, I still only have to keep to my plan for that one day. This is how I ride my bike up…

You don't need to get all the way back on track all at once. Pick out one thing, like maybe go for a walk. Just do that for now.

Believe it or not...I've actually lost fat from my earlobes. I had a pair of small hoop earrings that I couldn't close the clasp because it was pinching my ear. This morning they fit! So yes, I also am still wearing my large clothes after 28 pounds down because I haven't lost enough inches in my waist. But my earlobes…

I was present at a social function where there was a passing conversation about eating disorders. One person there said that their daughter is a bodybuilder and weighs everything she eats to the gram. The others laughed or jeered about how dangerously obsessive that was. Thankfully my husband didn't mention that it was my…

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Can you make frozen margaritas in a Nutribullet?** And can you make more than one serving? Just wondering how versatile the Nutribullet is compared to a blender. **For entertaining only. I'm a bourbon or beer drinker myself.

Someone in my workplace corrected me yesterday on my way of losing weight. She took me aside and asked if I had lost some weight (yes, 25 lbs) and was I losing intentionally (yes, why?). She thought, because I commonly share in birthday cakes and cookies in the office, I couldn't be on a diet, so I must be sick or…

I can't seem to be able to edit posts all of a sudden. I wanted to add that this weight loss process has taught me a lot about myself. Take this opportunity to figure yourself out. It may benefit you the rest of your life.

I think the most valuable lesson I have learned from the wise MFP veterans is that I don't have to eat or exercise in any way that I don't enjoy in order to lose weight. If I am struggling or unhappy with my choices, then I'm doing it wrong. I eat the same as I always have, but just less quantity. I only do exercise that I…

Isn't he an IndyCar driver? Maybe check in Australia? But seriously. Will power is overrated. You only need it until habit sets in. Does it require will power to brush your teeth every day? As I keep getting told: Suck it up, Buttercup!"

I am the one losing faster than a woman at work and she seems irritated about it and it makes me feel bad. She always goes on an extreme diet then inevitably quits in a couple of weeks. She once asked me how I do it. When I told her she insisted that could never work for her. I think she's actually angry at herself, not…

If it's a roast or something I can't know how much of the raw meat will be in my cooked portion, I do it in the recipe builder. Weigh and log the whole roast raw as I make the recipe, then weigh the whole roast finished making one gram equal one serving. Then weigh my portion.

My husband eats his dinner one food at a time, but for a reason. He always eats all the vegetables first, I guess to get past the thing he least likes in a hurry, then the other things, but each one at a time.