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Name/ real name: melanogaster Goal weight on January 31: 212 1/1: 217 1/7: 217 1/14: 214.6 1/21: 214.2 1/28: 212!!! :drinker:

Name/ real name: melanogaster Goal weight on January 31: 212 1/1: 217 1/7: 217 1/14: 214.6 1/21: 214.2

SW: 230 (back in October) CW: 217 GW: 212 - five pounds should be easy-peasy, right? wink Weigh in Dates: 1/1 - 217 1/8 - 217 1/15 - 214.6 1/22 1/31 Total weight lost: 2.4lbs What is your fitness resolution for 2013? Learn to manage stress in a healthy, preferably non-food-related way. Also, get down to 180, but that's…

Name/ real name: melanogaster Goal weight on January 31: 212 1/1: 217 1/7: 217 1/14: 214.6

The key point to remember in describing someone is to stick to the relevant points. Very rarely is someone's weight, height, ethnicity, or remarkable physical attribute actually relevant to the point at hand. Gender is also seldom relevant, but is usually a necessary part of the sentence, so it gets a pass here. The safest…

Between Wednesday and Sunday, I've got 5 miles.

Name/ real name: melanogaster Goal weight on January 31: 212 1/1: 217 1/7: 217

Name/ real name: melanogaster Goal weight on January 31: 212 1/1: 217

Well, to start with, having one's spouse make ultimatums about getting fit will not improve one's depression. You going to want to separate the depression and the not-working-out in your own mind; yes, probably working out would improve some of his depression symptoms, but not working out is probably not the cause of the…

I'm in. SW: 230 (back in October) CW: 217 GW: 212 - five pounds should be easy-peasy, right? :wink: Weigh in Dates: 1/1 1/8 1/15 1/22 1/31 Total weight lost: What is your fitness resolution for 2013? Learn to manage stress in a healthy, preferably non-food-related way. Also, get down to 180, but that's really more of a…

I second it sounding like the flu... chills and body aches are -classic- flu symptoms. Good news: you're probably through the worst of it if you've been like this two days already. Generally it lasts about a week, getting gradually better after the first few days. Take some tylenol or ibuprofen; or, if you want to sleep,…

Started the challenge at 222 (Started weight-loss pre-MFP at 230) NYE Goal Weight - 212 Week 1 - 221 Week 2 - 219 Week 3 - 217 Week 4 - 215 Week 5 - 217 NYE Actual Weight ... 217 I'm a little disappointed that I only got half way there. Some family drama happened in week 5, and it really threw me for a loop - I probably…

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Started the challenge at 222 (Started weight-loss pre-MFP at 230) Week 1 - 221 Week 2 - 219 Week 3 - 217 Week 4 - 215 Week 5 - 217 NYE Goal Weight - 212 and.... this was the week it all fell apart, because of family drama. Suddenly I'm not seeing this happen. :frown:

Congratulations!!

Started the challenge at 222 (Started weight-loss pre-MFP at 230) Week 1 - 221 Week 2 - 219 Week 3 - 217 Week 4 - 215 NYE Goal Weight - 212 I'm starting to feel pretty confident about this! I just have 3lbs to go, and two weeks to do it in! :bigsmile:

Normal fasting glucose levels are between 70-100. At 87, you're pretty much smack-dab in the middle of normal. You don't want your fasting glucose to get to low, either. Mine can get down to the low 60s, and I get shaking and confusion (I'm not diabetic, or even pre-diabetic, but hypoglycemia runs in my family, and I may…

Ok, I admit I didn't read all the pages of this thread because it got crazy somewhere in there... but! In addition to the excellent advice about maybe just not lifting so much if you're becoming more muscular than you were hoping, have you considered the possibility that your (admittedly) too-low bodyfat percentage is…

This, this, a thousand times this! Use antibiotics responsibly, skip the triclosan in your household products, but be aware that as long as you're eating factory-farmed meat, milk, and even fish - you're getting a steady drip of antibiotics in your food. There's now growing evidence that when excess antibiotics are…

Started the challenge at 222 (Started weight-loss pre-MFP at 230) Week 1 - 221 Week 2 - 219 Week 3 - 217 NYE Goal Weight - 210 I'm loving this challenge. Coming back each week and looking at my progress is a huge motivator. It's a lot better than my usual "I have X lbs to lose and Y weeks to lose it; I'm never going to get…

219 this morning. I started the challenge at 222, and last week I was 221, so I'm pretty pleased with my progress! Only 7 lbs to go for my challenge goal!

221 this morning; so, down 1 lb from last week (yay!) 9 more to go by New Year's. I'll have to step it up, but I totally got this. Hope everybody had a great week!

That's only because they skim -all- the milk and then add some of the cream (fat) back, before they homogenize it. Otherwise it would be nearly much more difficult to tell if milk was 2%, given the variability of milk fat percentages naturally. All the milk comes in to the processing plant, aggregated from many different…

...where does butter come from? Holstein milk has 3 - 3.5% butterfat; Jerseys have around 4.8% butterfat; Guernseys and Brown Swiss are somewhere between that (I think 4% and 4.5%, respectively).

I don't think I'd drink raw milk unless I was raising the cow myself, and even then I'd think twice. The number of disease that can be passed cow-to-human through milk is staggering, and most of them are really bad ways to go. That doesn't mean you have to drink ultra-pasteurized milk that's pretty much just done for store…

The Masai live pretty much entirely on milk and cow blood; I have never heard that they had an elevated cancer rate. Rather the opposite, actually. Granted, their cows don't have the crazy hormones and antibiotics that your standard agribusiness dairy does. If you're concerned, organic milk is probably the way to go. I've…

I've given up coffee twice; once for my pregnancy, and once to see if it was exacerbating my migraines. After seeing me off coffee for two and half months my OB relented and said I could drink a cup a day, because my blood pressure was actually higher off coffee - I was angry, tired, depressed, and nauseous, even for a…

I'm 5'10.5"; this morning I weighed 221 lbs. My goal is 180 lbs. I'm large-framed and I have a fair bit of muscle mass - mostly I'm rectangular, but at the moment I guess I'm a rectangle with a bit of a paunch. :wink:

Hi! I can't tell you how happy I am to see Ravelers on here! I'm melanogaster; here, on ravelry, and on fitocracy. I'm 30 years old, and I've got about 40lbs to lose at the moment; but, I'm already about 10lbs down from where I was. I knit, crochet, spin... and I'm buying a new loom this weekend!

Hi, I'm going to lose 10 lbs by New Year's Eve! I'm originally from near Binghamton, NY, but I just moved to Maryland. I was, up until the move, a professional archaeologist; now I work at a library. My favorite colors are green, gray, and brown. I love autumn! My favorite food is sausage and apples sauteed together, which…