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I just tell 'em that cavemen would have looooved waffles. Because it's true.

Nice job. And great work. You are an inspiration.

OK, so I got to where I would get a bag of carrots and munch on the way home from work. They're not onion chips, which used to be my destressor. First, if one munches a pound of carrots it will create a clot of pain about 18 hours later as it processes all that roughage. Second, you really can overdose on carrot juice.…

So who is that stranger on the left? Great job! I admire your discipline.

If you truly believe that you have no willpower, then you are doomed to a life of making excuses. A few things: get up early and walk a few miles to pay off in advance the calories you are going to eat anyway. It's a mile for a slice of toast with a scraping of jam. Another mile for-- what? fifteen Doritos? I would never…

Lecithen, kelp, cider vinegar, and B vitamins. Then eat a 1200 calorie a day diet. So what if I just skip the lecithin, kelp, B Vitamins, and vinegar? Will it still work?

um. if you add a leetle bit of tangerine and a leetle bit of cucumber to water, it's called juice or flavored water (still juice) but drinking eight of those bottles a day adds the water it's sometimes hard to ingest. I quit my 12-pack of diet coke a day habit by superhydrating with about 16 glasses of water with a…

Thirteen pounds in three weeks is not a normal weight loss, it's potentially dangerous. You should aim for one or two pounds a week so your body and your attitude can adjust. And don't forget premenstrual bloat, if you are a female of that age..... I lost a lot my first week because my body was in shock (and that is what…

I heard four things that went wrong. Fast food. Reduced exercise. Unmanaged stress. Letting up on commitment. You might consider a meditation class to address the cortisol you are pumping into your bloodstream and to focus on why you would call yourself a failure. I hear a committed person who can be honest about what went…

Liver with cream sauce. Looked ike roadkill.

Inspirational commitment. You look so happy in the recent photos.

Wow! And teh difference in attitude is greatk, too. In the first one you look defensive and in the second it is, bring it on!!!! Which you did.

I thought I was going to have to hunt you down and kill you because I do love the Greek yogurt. Your comments were well-stated. I just add fresh fruit or a tablespoon of sugar-free jam AKA preserved fruit if I want sweetness. Dairy in some form is helpful (didn't say essential because someone will challenge that) and the…

I also love the idea of not working for a living and writing all of the checks I want to and sleeping with anyone who appeals to me and driving at a speed that I think works for me. I really am a good driver, no matter how fast I go. I follow the rules to some extent because it's the cost of being alive. I don't want to…

You use the word ADDICT. If you are an addict, then there is no ability to manage the offending element, whether alcohol, gambling, cocaine, or sugar, once you expose yourself to that element. The treatment is 100% abstinence from that product. If you are a sugar addict, then you detox and leave it alone. Or your…

Here's my advice, or lack thereof: Is doing it your way working for you? Because I see that you are at zero pounds lost. The reason to track is because we THINK we know what we ate but it adds up. And we store that addition on our thighs, in my case......

I like deli shaved ham or turkey on an onion roll with lettuce, tomato, onion, and either salsa or really good mustard. I also like that IHOP French toast breakfast because I can eat and drive with the thing. Or soup. Yum and hot and filling and slow to eat. Be creative. My sister used to eat soup for breakfast because she…

You look so happy! Great inspiration.

You ARE a success story. You are losing about a pound a week and might have lost more if you chose better after-dinner snacks. The thing is, in five or six months you either hit your goal or you keep the clothes you don't like. But six months from now you will be wishing you had stuck to it if you give up because your…

Congrats on your effort. You look great.

I did hit a plateau after about two months and got really unhappy about it. But then I reasoned that the plareau level was still better than where I started. I talked to my mfp friends, stayed on track, added some calories, and got back to losing slowly. I'm older and it's slower. Aargh.

You go, girl!

So that's how many servings of fruits and vegetables in three days? Not much. You can eat wallpaper paste on crackers for three days and temporarily lose weight. Thirty pounds in a month is not healthy. Fad diets have nothing to do with nutrition or with common sense. They have to do with discipline to an ideal. Ideal and…

But everything is on the plan, in moderation. I have a Blue Bunny Sweet Freedom Fudge Lite. Takes a while to eat, has that great fudgecicle taste, and has 70 calories.

Weight loss is pretty cool because it's about NOT doing something. I do NOT eat things that aren't good for me any more. I do NOT abuse myself for having imperfections. I do NOT behave in an unrealistic manner. And I do NOT give up. If I can eat properly, be nice to myself ten minutes at a time, I will NOT have to buy new…

Hey,even that must be easier when you are healthy and in a positive spirit! Congrats.

You can still get a a doggie bag just to get the food off your plate. Hand it to the homeless guy on the corner or THROW IT OUT. Better than eating it and regretting it. I eat there occasionally and get the portion I can't eat out of sight immediately. Eating it because I can't take it home with me is more wasteful of my…

So Jerry Seinfeld did an episode where he got on the scale, got off, and asked what good the scale was if one wasn't going to use the information it gave..... I weigh far too often, and like you I like to see the new number. But that is all it is, a number. What I cannot figure out is that I will get up in the morning,…

Youngster, I would rather hit my 60th birthday in August healthy and fit and energized than hit another one like the last time, tired and ashamed of my lack of stamina and eating horrible foods because I was angry. If not now, when? I no longer date sixteen year old boys, or even the 20-somethings I used to like, and my…