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Thank you for sharing! I was diagnosed with endometriosis when I was 25 and then had two surgeries for it, then when I was 30 I had foot surgery, and at 32 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I'm actually 30 lbs heavier now than when I joined MFP between the medications and all the "recovering" I've had to do. I've gone…

The other four hours goes into showering, 3 meals a day, and transit time. If I'm lucky, on those days I might get to do a load of laundry or pick up a few dishes. I'm in a medical program so I can literally study all day, every day and never be done. I have limited the time for the sake of my health. It took me three…

I read the book Shrink Yourself Thin, and while I didn't agree with all of it I found it much more beneficial to work on the root of the emotional eating rather than the eating itself. You can't cure an illness by only treating the symptoms. I'm a serious emotional eater but now I feel like I'm better at recognizing…

I think this is a bit like someone saying "it is so easy". I am taking 18 credits a quarter (time and a half) so I'm doing 8-12 hours of school work every day (even weekends, no exceptions). I'm still recovering from foot surgery that makes nearly all exerciser a no go on days when it is very swollen and painful. I also…

You all make my heart soar. Even though I'm still in my 30s I feel vey inspired by your journeys. When I turned 30 it was like someone flipped a switch and I was suddenly in a completely different body. It makes me feel hopeful to see all of you who Are making changes to your bodies and your lives despite the challenges.

Can I have the ice cream recipe? I love the idea of spinach hidden in there.

I've never done WW, but I've used a lot of recipes (theirs or by members) that I found to be both tasty and have sensible substitutions. I only recently learned that they don't count fruits or veggies in their point system at all which I find interesting. I'm guessing this is to encourage you to eat the "freebies" when…

Loving all of the ideas! Keep em' coming. I feel like this is going to be a toughie for me because I am a carbaholic as well as having a sweet tooth triggered by stress and my life is non-stop stress when I'm in school. On the subject of chocolate, I will say that I love chocolate chip cookies with a passion but I realized…

I'm going to come right out and say that calories are arbitrary and completely bogus. They bear little relation to what your body is going to do with the food that you eat. Glycemic index is a better indicator, but nothing is going to be as accurate as really thinking about how you feel. It is useful, however as a rough…

Technically that is not true. There is a big difference between simple carbs like white bread and complex carbs like vegetables. I think one of the big nutritional misconceptions is that only starchy foods contain carbs, only meats have proteins, or only animal product contain fat. The truth is these things are the…

White rice is just brown rice with the bran polished off. This is why the water turns milky with white rice but not brown. While the bran does contain some nutrition, the biggest deal is in how your body digests it. Bran is very hard,relatively speaking so it is harder to digest brown rice. With white rice,the…

I teared up reading this. It's harder when you're on your own health journey not to see that your loved ones are killing themselves. My family has so many health problems but I can't tell if they are hereditary or from their unhealthy lifestyles. It makes me feel sick to see my sister's young children drinking sugary…

Oh my god, it's my people! Am I the only one who is shocked when they meet someone shorter than them? I'm 5' 2",although the last time I went to the doctor they measured me at 5' 3". I'm currently around 145 lbs according to my cheap bathroom scale but it always seems to be 10 lbs less than the doctor's scale. I was 101…