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Just cut out added sugar. Regardless of the "calorie is a calorie" people, your body doesn't need sugar to excess. Fruit is fine.

1 TB of sugar free creamer.

Mine are all healthy because they are the fixings for my morning smoothie. It's not really indicative of the way I eat all day, but I'll take it!

I'm kind of there right now, even though I'm still about 10 pounds into the overweight category for my height. I want to lose 16 or so more pounds and I will, but I've lost the sense of urgency I had when I had 100 pounds to go. I like the way I look now. I've never been a small person but for a long time I was a huge…

I stall every single time I'm about to hit a goal or milestone. I think it's my body's way of messing with my mind.

You should see a doctor. How's your blood sugar?

I will always eat whatever is offered at someone's home and if we go out I choose the healthiest thing I can OR I just eat half a serving of something that isn't as good for me. It's all about learning how to eat in the real world, because the real world isn't going to cater to our dietary desires and life's too short to…

2000 calories is no biggie. What would you rather do, up your calories a little and lose weight slowly or eat too little and veer off course? It's not a race. If your body wants more food, feed it and exercise a little more. I've been struggling the last few weeks, so I bumped myself up to 1500 from 1400 and will be happy…

I don't log every day, normal activities.

Always underestimate the burn unless you have a heart rate monitor.

I'm 5'5" and saw it at around 170. I almost forgot I had one!

18 pounds by the summer is realistic. 800 calories a day for any length of time is not healthy unless you are being supervised by a doctor. You can eat twice what you are, still reach that goal, and be far more likely to maintain the loss than you will by starving.

Why thank you, it's people like you who inspire me every day. See, I can do sarcasm too.

Yep. Still jamming along!

It's not good for you, but you know that already. One thing at a time. Get into a good groove with your diet, then cut from daily to every other, then every third. Eventually you can get rid of it altogether or just have it as an occasional treat. I used to be a Diet Coke addict. Now I have one a week or less but crave…

I do a couple of things: 1. I have a hideous fat picture of me on my fridge. I'm at Disney World, wearing shorts that are riding up, and my beloved family didn't bother to tell me that my bra was funky and one boob is about 3" higher than the other. I look at that picture every day and cringe. 2. I set intermediate goals…

Hey look, I started in January 2013 too! Guess what, judgmental MFPers...most people who start diets fail, not only the ones who start on January 1. Be supportive or shut up. This place really is like middle school sometimes.

1. Kick off Shoes 2. Feed Cats 3. Scoop Cat Boxes 4. Change clothes and remove bra DH and I commute together or the first thing would be talk to him.

Duh, personalized mouse ears!

Go you! I cruised this past May and tried to be good. Like a coward I didn't weigh myself for a week after I got home and at that point had lost a pound or two. I think I mostly maintained on the cruise which is good enough! We're going on another cruise in January and I'll have the same goal. I'm much closer to my goal…

I went to a concert on Saturday night. I used to stress out before events like that because if I didn't have an end seat I would worry that I would crowd the person next to me or that they were thinking mean things about the fat girl they had to sit next to. Not fitting or crowding never even crossed my mind. It was so…

You never have to tell anyone what you weigh if you don't want to. Your weight is not the most important thing (your health is) but it's good to have something to gauge your progress. I have no clue what I weighed at my heaviest. I didn't weigh myself for years and didn't weigh myself until I knew I started to lose weight…

It's one thing not to notice. Some people are really oblivious. The fact that he was rude enough to say that he doesn't know what people are fussing about, well that says a lot about him. I'm really sorry he hurt your feelings. You are doing great and everyone here is proud of you. We know how hard it is to lose 1 pound…

My husband is a recovering alcoholic. Four years sober, hooray! He never asked me to stop drinking, but I was never much of a drinker in the first place so it was no big deal for me to not have it in the house. For the first year or so, I only drank when I was away from him and then probably 5 drinks the whole year. Now…

Eat more fat.

I'll go with sometimes necessary. I don't weigh every little thing. I'm not going to weigh my tablespoon of peanut butter or my hard boiled egg to make sure I get an absolutely accurate count. Life's too short. I weigh my meat portions even though I'm good at eyeballing it now. I measure out rice or pasta but I don't care…

There are people who look terrible after big weight losses. Look at Al Sharpton these days, or even Al Roker right after he lost his weight. Al Sharpton looks sick and Al Roker does not look good. I think sometimes these comments are made from jealousy or a warped sense of correct body weight. Sometimes, though, people do…

Excluding Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, I intend to stay on my program and not overeat at all. Oddly, I'm pretty much never tempted to cheat. I might have a fleeting, "that looks so good," thought, but nothing looks so good that I'm going to go off plan. On the two holidays, I will eat what I want within reason. As…

Oh honey, lots of us are big or started out that way. You will find so much support from people who know what you are going through. I was talking to one of my coworkers today and told him that when I was at my biggest my arms would cramp up from folding laundry. Yeah, it doesn't get too much worse than that!

I'm not worrying about it too much. We eat a pretty traditional Thanksgiving meal, and instead of my usual 3 servings of each thing, I'll have just one. I can't eat like I used to, so I think I'll be full enough to stop before I go crazy.