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We are in almost the exactly situation. I am 58 years old and 5'5 and weigh in the 130ish range. I wear a size 6 and am naturally built like a barrel with stick legs. My BMI is exactly the same as yours. My maintenance is 1500 calories, give or take on a given day. It's a happy place for me and I feel satisfied with my…

Hi long time MFP friend! So nice of you to send me the invitation. Sure, I'll join and try to support and share. Just getting over a cold so I expect to be active tomorrow. My weights are ready and I am ready to start again.

Log everything, learn from it and adjust your choices. When I first started logging I was amazed at what I assumed were bad choices and what I assumed were good choices in food. I think I was four months into logging when found out bacon was only 45 calories a slice! To me, it tasted like it was 500 calories a slice so I…

Congrats on your loss, that's fantastic! Keep doing what you are doing and give yourself a special day (or meal) vacation here or there. Make those days a treat, not a lifestyle and the weight will come off gradually. There is no secret trick to weight loss, there is only a new lifestyle to adopt. Long term weight loss…

Thank you! I'll look into it.

It's very hard to be calorie deprived at first. My first two weeks felt like torture. I concentrated on websites that showed my likely goal weight figure. Silly, but true. Try to realize that this feeling of discomfort is temporary and is a symptom of losing weight. Your body is crying out for the food it needs to maintain…

I would just say that this is how I can be fit or what I need to do to be slim. Make it your decision about you and let them decide if it might be about their decisions about themselves.

I have been maintaining a 35 pound loss for two years. One year to lose it, two to maintain so about three years here on MFP. I love my friends, I love the environment on MFP. I have also questioned myself many, many times about why I still check in. No one really knows me, I could check out and never log again. Yet I…

Revisiting this topic. My dear hubby is no longer eating oatmeal and his doctor is very happy with his glucose numbers. Oatmeal is evil. Blech! :(

Yes, baby steps. It's a life time goal not a short term fix. Welcome and make yourself at home. Hopefully, you will be here for a very long time and will be an inspiring success story for other future members. Yay, so glad you have taken the first step to your new self!

Thanks for your help, but I really need instant oatmeal recipes and tips. Hubby likes it for an evening snack. He is used to making instant oatmeal and wants to keep it that way.

Eat more protein, eat complex (complex for your body to break down) food like nuts and whole grains, when all else fails, spend your time learning about nutrition. You can be successful if you will stick with your long term goal, like your lifetime. Keep at it and you will be logging a healthy weight loss at a fast pace.…

Meat, spinach, broccoli are three that come to mind. Keep in mind that many food entries in MFP's database are user created so they often don't have nutrient info, which can make your diet entries appear deficient. Look for entries that include the nutrition counts you are targeting or create your own entry using the food…

I agree. One gram of protein per ten calories counts as significant in my book. My Dannon Light and Fit yogurt is only 7 grams of protein per 100 calories.

You don't want to be that under everyday, but an occasional light calorie day won't hurt. Try to think of your calories as a rolling average, not a set daily number. That way you won't beat yourself up if you happen to have an over day.

Congrats for losing so quickly! I am sort of in the same boat. I refused to weigh myself during the holidays and on my morning of reckoning, I ended up five pounds over my goal ( I am 5' 5", my goal is 130 lbs.). Yesterday I was 131 pounds, today I am 133 (high sodium Sunday). In my mind, if the weight comes off so quickly…

Congrats on your year of success and here is to many more years of even greater successes! Thanks for sharing!

Joining a group that is also starting the 30 day shred is very helpful. The daily check-ins and updates from other members will keep you motivated to finish. You can do it!

That is great! Smiling for you!

Great advice! It also keeps the blood sugar from dropping too low.

I had a really fun time replacing lower calorie in favorite recipes. I had a few disasters, but more than a few turned out better. You don't have to announce the change. Let them taste it without knowing. If they can tell, try it again with something else.

Are you having a sit down meal with family including children? If so, then I would suggest serving what you plan to eat in serving dishes, that way it looks normal when you dish it out on to your plate. It will look more like your choice and chances are good your children will want to copy and like what mom likes. At least…

Ha-ha, I think this was the topic of my very post on MFP. I was down massively on my sodium (purposely) and was consuming massive amounts of potassium, though I was logging incorrectly. When my electrolytes were tested at a doctor check up, I was low on sodium. As my doctor explained to me, sodium and potassium are both…

That is not left field, it is very far right.

Not sure what your post means, but I am sure the newly thin Al Sharpton will be along to explain about caloric justice.

I heard Bill Ayers (the American terrorist) on NPR this morning saying that half of America is not eating enough. He claimed these underfed American's are living in my own neighborhood, no less. American's are starving while being too fat. Being poor and underfed causes fatness, being wealthy and overfed causes thinness.…

Fantastic work, everyone! You are all so inspiring!

Hot chick! Wowzers, woman! Congrats!

I agree with both replies. More protein and fats will help your body feel satiated, but you can maintain your weight eating nothing but glazed doughnuts and chocolate milk as long as you stay within your calories. As I see it, the problem of overeating on this type of diet (high carb and sugar) is that you are starving…

YAY! You are setting a great example. Kids remember and repeat what they see.