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I can't stop crying. What a wonderful, insightful post! It is so true that it often takes a life threatening experience for us to get back to what is really important in our lives. I wish everyone who carries some extra weight could read this!!

What an inspiration!!!!1 I have 100 pounds to lose, so these pictures are making me cry because I know it is really possible! You have really transformed your body and you look so happy. Its wonderful!:flowerforyou:

We all have our opinions, which are only that - opinions. If people are very sure that their opinions are correct, so much so that they are doggedly arguing another person down about them, I would really appreciate a link to some good, scientific research to back up the facts. Otherwise there is no use in these…

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110403090259.htm I researched a lot before doing a juice fast and I discovered that, while there is no health benefit to long term fasting of any kind, there is science behind a 24-hour water fast. See the link above. The easiest way to do it is to start after lunch so you only…

I predict that people who love football will have an exciting day today and the rest of us will just go on with our lives.....minus all those tempting snack foods:laugh:

I have nothing else to do and am too lazy to think of something and the TV is already on and I am in the room. After all that I will watch it and sort of enjoy it...no snacks prepared though since I wasn't planning on it. That is sort of making me sad...to miss the snacks..

I'm in. Walking is my favorite because it gets me outside to enjoy the natural world

I should log how fast i run when I smell cigars.....not really, I don't mind them. Cigarettes.. bleck.

The skim milk I put in my coffee every morning....don't want to take the time to measure - its morning...... Spoon licks. If I grab something within my goals at night after I am off the site everything else gets logged.

Your question make me think of the old, "you MAY, but CAN you?" distinction. Certainly there are no rules about this. Try it and if you can manage it, then its fine. We are all so different on here. I am doing well in a 'one day at a time' mode, so I wouldn't risk it right now.

I absolutely get it. I know exactly how to lose weight. I don't know how to make myself do it!! The best advice I have gotten on here is to stay objective. To look at my behavior like a scientist would. Analyze what works and what doesn't and apply the knowledge you have to improve your success. For me getting the…

As another female - please don't!!!

I would agree with all of the people who have responded to your request!! We are all just like you in that we overeat and struggle to lose weight. This doctor's advice is right on for someone who feels so bad about overeating that he or she stops trying. I am just like that, too. It is my friends on here who have made me…

This is great!! Planning ahead is not one of my strongest skills and it gets me into trouble a lot. You are brilliant!!!!:love:

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Great job!!! I admire your persistence and your flexibility in finding a plan that works for you!! Oh, and of course your amazing weight loss :wink:

:bigsmile: You are so quick!!! Took me 2 months to discover the 'ignore' button. It's made reading the forums a lot more productive

NOT Push the IGNORE button!!! Life is too short to indulge this.

I searched this topic because, after two months of relative calm in my eating, I went on a 24 hour binge :( I too am looking for support and ideas as to how to deal with this. The best input I have gotten on MFP is to just get back up tomorrow and log your food and get yourself back on track. Being guilty or beating…

I have to say that as a new person I have found the forums ugly rather often. But then again, I have found a lot of fantastic, supportive threads, too .It was interesting to read here that those unpleasant people were the ones I should listen to because they are the ones who have been here a long time and are basically…

Well, perhaps they would look similar, but the vitals, if we are only considering BP, Temp and pulse would differ at least due to the salt content. Maybe not for you spring chickens, but for me who is a bit older, what I eat dramatically affects my blood pressure. If we consider cholesterol, then you will see even more…

Netflixs only - Bones Saving Grace Doc Martin Downton Abbey - waiting for the next season, which you are all watching, Lie to Me Like the earlier poster, I can't handle the week to week wait on T.V.

I agree with all of the above. To make it more interesting, maybe you could get one of those exercise trackers that tracks your activity all day long. My nieces both use them and it just makes it easier to track everything you do each day. If you add ten minutes of dancing to your favorite tunes, it will show up :) Your…

If you go on You Tube and look up juicers, you will get a ton of information. I opted for an inexpensive one - Hamilton Beach $40 and it was good enough for 3 ten day juice fasts and daily juicing after that. I sorta abused it one day and it broke. So now I am looking for a new one. The really good ones don't get too much…

So, I went to the links and was shocked to find that the man who has decided to ban overweight workers has other issues: "In the memo, one of several records used by three physicians of Indian descent to lodge a racial discrimination suit against Citizens, Brown wrote that he felt “a sense of disgust” that more…

I think there is enough blame to go around here. I live in Houston - with one of the largest medical centers in the country - and the high quality hospitals do offer many of the benefits that were suggested. It is probably a financial decision for them to do that, so they can save on insurance costs and sick time. To be…

This!

As a Newbie, I found this thread really useful. Many of items in the database are wrong or incomplete.

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So glad you are here!! I too have a lot of weight to lose and I know we can do it by just getting on here and learning everything we can and cutting back on those calories. I am here every day, logging my food and searching the message boards for support and inspiration. Add me if you like. The support of friends is…