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I once stepped on a milk thistle. Hurt like hell.

This has happened to me, but I have gotten much better at talking myself out of the bad mood. I mean, logically I know that a 1 day bounce is not relevant in the long run, so I go drink my coffee and get over it while I have breakfast.

Weigh, measure, track, adapt, adjust, rinse, repeat.

Open your diary and the community can probably give you some solid advice.

I've been thinking of starting one, to be honest. It's exhausting trying to find advice that isn't extreme and/or trying to sell a plan or a program.

Your verbiage in this post reminds me of this one. Congrats on your success. :)

Monthly is a good plan. Even if you can't stand the sight of them, just take the pictures and tuck them away on your hard drive somewhere. You'll be glad you did later. (measurements too, like @lorrpb says)

Lots of good advice already. I would just add that now that you are at a healthy weight, it probably makes sense to start focusing less on the scale number, and more on body composition. We all use the scale as an easy proxy as we lose weight, but that's really all it is, a proxy. The real goals are really more around how…

Hey, I sent you a friend request. My wife and I also write a blog at http://losingduo.com, so we'd love to get connected with you.

Fan-freaking-tastic. So inspiring. Thanks for posting.

The way we use the recipe builder is to build the recipe as others have instructed above, then weigh the entire thing, then use that number to figure out how many calories per 100g and set the number of portions that way. Choosing a number of portions without knowing the weight means you are just guessing. So, it would…

Maybe you should consider a Fitbit One instead? I use it because I don't like watches, so I just carry it around in my pocket. Had it almost 18 months now and it works great. I'm very pleased with it.

We love it. Also have it integrated with TrendWeight (www.trendweight.com) where it syncs automatically when I step on it each morning.

It means basically you can eat whatever you want, as long as you stay within your calorie restrictions. Some people take it to mean stay within certain macro (protein, carb, fat) as well. Personally, I just focus on calories. But anyway, yeah, just means you are not excluding any certain foods or eating only certain types…

I find that no matter how much I eat for breakfast (usually around 5:30am on weekdays as I get to the office by 7am), I am hungry for a mid morning snack. So, I try to have just a small breakfast in the 2-300 calorie range. Since I know I'll be hungry by 9:30 anyway, having a 500-600 calorie breakfast (toasted bagel with…

I guess you need to weigh the benefit of say, having 3 eggs instead of 2 (80 calories extra), or 3 chips ahoy to fill up (160 calories extra). Does the extra yumminess of the cookies make the 80 extra calories worth it? Only you can answer that question. You could also ditch the cheese from the recipe since it adds…

Hey man, really awesome progress! I started with SL back in January and did it until June, then fell off the wagon. We started lifting again a month ago, but this time on the 5-3-1 plan, since the workouts are a little shorter. I'm very close to deadlifting and squatting my body weight (currently sitting at 237), which is…

Good work. Check out trendweight.com for a nice trend line which auto-syncs from your wifi scale. Saves having to make your own spreadsheets. :)

Honestly, we try to only order from the chains that have published information these days for just this reason, and I always over eat on pizza. A good rule of thumb would be take what you think it is, and assume you are under-estimating by 50% or so. If you wanted to get a bit more accurate, you could order a similar pizza…

You look great. Keep tracking, stay under your calories, and it will come off over time. You'll get there. :)

Yes, I did that. Warmups are based off the 90% as well, correct? The page is just not super clear on that.

Awesome thanks. My wife is really hoping she can find a good app for it. She really liked how the 5x5 app told her what to do. :smile:

Looking into 5/3/1 for now. I think it will fit well since we're already familiar with the basic lifts from when we did 5x5. Thanks all.

Me too. Down 35 pounds and have no stress about my progress. All I worry about is CICO.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10257157/c-section-mom-of-2-my-progress-over-the-past-couple-years-lots-of-pics There are others if you look for them. From my understanding, weight training is likely to be pretty helpful for this type of goal.

I'm just speculating here, but I'm pretty sure I'll just sit around and admire myself in the mirror all the time. Oh, and have all that crazy skinny person sex I've been missing out on.

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You look great, and awesome work so far. I know how you feel, it can be hard to maintain momentum for such a long stretch when we have so much to lose (I'm still only part way through my journey as well). What I've done, and what you could try, is just give yourself permission to maintain for a little while. Sit back and…

I took an online group class through fitocracy last October and the coach had us start tracking our food using MFP. I had created a MFP account before, but never really used it consistently. Paraphrasing what the coach said to us: "Here are your macro goals for protein/carbs/fat, but most important is to stay under your…

Who said it was? Hunger is a good indicator of how much I want to eat.