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Good luck to you too. now that you know how it came back on you can prepare for it by starting to go through those emotions now instead of using food. don't you love how we all give advice we need to hear.

wow, what great pictures and what an inspiration. Thank you for posting this

and here I am, back again. Thanks for these posts. I am doing much better. this is life, not a diet. this is MY diet, my day, not "a diet". I am controlling calories, beginning to get some exercise and wow, I lost weight. Just part of the day, and before I know it, eating healthy will be normal and a cheat will be the…

Binge is eating 3-5000 calories in a day. This would be a package of fig newtons, a sleeve is a portion right? A few candy bars, a bag of donettes and all the regular food. It's eating with out regard to how much. Ive done alot of that and I hope to not do it any longer. But, come Oktoberfest, a schnitzel, a black forest…

When I was in Germany, I felt like I was the only fat person there. Not true of course, but walking is very normal there, taking the car for a 4 block trip to the store just didn't happen. I was talking to my friends grandmother, and she was laughing at a news article about a 40 hike some folks were doing for charity in…

You had me at butter.I switched to it when I was melting margarine and putting it on popcorn. In the old days you could melt margarine. Now, it's water. It ruined the popcorn, so I switched. ps, when I did eat Mcdonalds ice cream sundays, I had to put salt on them.

YOU are very correct

no. I'm saying forever people say oh i smoke and that helps me to not eat and i lose weight, but some of us smoke (yes I am disgusted at it too) and we eat, don't eat, and it doesn't seem to matter. I know, I can eat really really low for long periods of time, and not lose weight, but now at 1200 i am. I just think that…

So, ok I haven't read much in the past few years, but, as long as I can remember, eating late was bad, and carbs (except slow) such as breads, potatoes and such were bad as they turned to sugar much faster than veggies or other things that had carbs in them. So, what is the easiest book to read to find out what all the…

To me, you have to do what suits you best. There is a reason farmers and Germans eat their largest meal in the middle of the day and not at dinner (at least it used to be this way). I think it had less to do with weight loss or gain and more to do with having the bulk of the nutrition during the part of the day when they…

Today we walked...2 blocks and found this:

My friend eats out every week once, for a meeting she hosts. She is on her last 10lbs and they are not coming of. Her strategy this month is to only order salad when she eats out. Chicken salad, or whatever kind but to only eat the salad. My strategy for this week was to not have sugar other than in my coffee. It might be…

I think though, if your portions have gotten out of control, and it is a reason why you have over eaten (speaking to myself now), it is a good thing to practice portion control for a while, to remember what a portion of potato is. I ate 2 portions of soup today, but at the time it was all i was eating, so I was fine with…

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I was just talking with a friend, about cake. As I love to talk about cake. I make them from scratch and what I told her was, when I make it from scratch, one good piece with frosting will do it. I can stop, but if I buy a box mix and make that with the whipped whatever frosting, it's like I want to eat the whole cake (and…

I love PB too, but, really I think the natural is the only way to go. No added sugar, and no hydrogenated oils. To me if I buy PB the list of ingredients should say, peanuts, oil. salt. If I buy tomato paste, it should say, ingredients, tomato puree. I bought water once, and there was a long list of ingredients...what the…

PBS had a special once on weight loss, it was really good. One thing I remember was they fed these working men (like outside working construction guys) a meal. Some got the meal and some got the same ingredients but made into a soup. the ones with the soup were not hungry before lunch, the others were. They said by keeping…

My friend used to make popcorn, sometimes airpopped but often in a pan with oil, and then we would put Cayenne Pepper and Brewers yeast with a bit of salt. Very good. I think Chili Powder, Cumin would be a good combo too, sort of a chili popcorn taste.

Well I am doing the 1200 calories and I am down 8lbs this week...more or less. I didn't way myself exactly I knew what I have been at so I used that as my starting weight. Plus, I need the boost mentally! But it has been 7 days now.I messed up the water, was drinking half as much but what I know is a 1 liter (the smaller)…

Hmm I'm supposed to eat 1200 so this is just about there...I guess I dont understand the problem, can someone enlighten me?

I have many of those and none ever fit- and Im big but not giant, I have seen ladies bigger than m with them on, I also always want to cut the crotch out and put some velcro in, who can get it off to pee? At this point I hope to lose enough weight to get in one. Heck at this point I hope to lose enough weight to be fat ;)

I saw a diet counselor once and she would say Ok Bobbie, look, it's toast or its bier, somedays its going to be toast and some days its going to be bier, it's choices. Most months, toast wins, but Sept-Oktober, all bets are off and it's bier. :)

I understand that is the science,but I will say, my own anecdotal experience is that I have very different reactions to fruit sugar then to chocolate cake sugar. Maybe it's cane sugar vs fruit or maple sugars. I have no idea. But, fruit, did not make me fat. lol, I never ate enough to do that. If I stay away from refined…

Since I am an on again off again getting fatter by the moment dieter....My goal is to 1. Stay off refined sugar for 1 month. 2. Exercise every day to some degree, show up darn it Bobbie, show up., 3. To diet for 30 whole days, and to keep track of it here. Not looking for perfection (still finishing that home made banana…

I understand what you mean, to get the sugar out of your system. I think refined sugar is the enemy and natural sugars are fine although I might even watch it if I ate too much fruit, but fruit to me is not chocolate cake :). There are plenty of reasons to "detox" from it, and everyone here is taking it very literally, for…

The more sugar I eat, the more I want. The less sugar I eat, the less I want. I have not given it up for coffee...heck I am just starting again and I baked a banana bread- so, I think..I will not have sugar except coffee (and when I finish the banana bread) for 30 days and see how I do. That would be a good start on a…

Love Tuna steak with lemon pepper

I love bier also! However, I try to limit myself, I'm not a big drinker, but when I drink, I like to drink big. I reserve the majority of my bier consumption to Oktoberfest season, yes, it is a season at my house. Then I indulge in Hofbrau and Spaten, and in a 1 liter Mass. Two in a day and a shot or two of German…

I confess, I don't honestly think I can succeed at losing weight. I also confess that I make and eat frosting for a snack. Penuche, brown sugar penuche. I also make hot chocolate syrup for icecream and eat it without the icecream. If you tasted it, you would hate me. It's so good.

I'm 51, and I need to honestly lose about 120lbs. I have tried this before, with water aerobics, and nothing. SO then I fooled myself into believing there is no way to lose this darn weight.But there has to be....short, fat and under employed...and a very depressing spring. My mother died, my truck died on the highway in…