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This was a really horrible date LOL. My worst date was probably the time when a blind date was SO loud and boisterous in the restaurant. He had no table manners and inserted an entire, very long asparagus spear into his mouth, then chewed with his mouth open. We went to a restaurant connected to a mall and he suggested we…

Lol, thank you for pointing this out. Who looks at the nutritional info for an entire pizza and avoids it because it's 2000 calories?

Way to go, lady. You're an inspiration.

My favorite roll now is a Sashimi roll. It's all different types of sashimi with no rice and comes with avocado and a miso/wasabi sauce.

I think Miss Alabama was much thinner.

Wow. Just wow.

You look spectacular.

I love the cinnamon raisin too. I like to freeze it and usually pop it right in the toaster from the freezer. It's perfect for lots of things. I like the ingredients more than other "whole wheat" breads.

A+. Get a food scale. Get some spaghetti. Weigh out a portion dry. Boil it. Cover it in homemade sauce with veggies. Put in your mouth. Go nom nom nom.

I guess for me, it depends on activity level. Someone burning 1000 calories for an hour and a half of Zumba using an HRM and eating 500 calories and NEGATIVE nets, even if they are "IF"ing (intermediate fasting), are a red flag with me. That's a recipe for disaster. People just estimating their calorie burns, I don't worry…

That's the correct way to do it. If you want to be even more accurate, to get the proper serving you would divide the weight of the meatloaf by the amount of servings and make sure that each piece is clocking in at about that weight. Ex. 200 oz meatloaf with 20 servings, equals 10 oz a serving.

Put the cup on the scale and rezero. Find out the serving size in grams (or oz). Convert from mL if need be. Or figure that one cup equals 8 oz. Pour liquid into cup until it reaches the amount of serving.

I'm drooling.

OP, What did you set your activity level to when calculating your TDEE?

You look absolutely fantastic.

So....this is a salad. A salad of lies! Sassy pug does not approve.

My advice is to figure out if you are really "lightly active" since you work 12 hour days on your feet and also work out? It seems to me that a person of around your weight and activity level would have a higher TDEE. It could be that you really are burning more calories in a day than you think and the 1650 you were eating…

Incredible results. Can't wait to see your success story after six more weeks!

No one is telling you to stop feeling your feelings or stop posting about it. She is just saying that you should not let it bring you down in such a way that takes over your life or devastates you as you are more than a number on the scale. At least, that's how I interpreted it.

This, exactly. I don't understand why people are taking such personal offense to this topic. The point was to make you realize that YOU, ME, ALL OF US are still worthy and your life is still wonderful even if you gained a pound or overate. And this is VERY helpful for me, as I can go into sad sack mode and feel sorry for…

THIS. The point of the post is to say, yes, 300 calories might be a big deal to you but if you back away from the micro-point of it sucking, you'll see that there other things to feel proud about and life is still as beautiful as you make it. I've seen countless posts or statuses with women just wanting to give up because…

Awesome job lady!

Don't be discouraged. My advice would be to buy whichever device you are getting from a store with a good return policy. Sometimes, things just don't vibe with you, and it's the perfect time to return it and try something else. Personally, I ordered the Fitbit because I want to kind of get an estimate what is going on…

This makes a lot of sense, too. There are days when I'm pretty lazy and I want to know what THAT TDEE is. Just to know what my base is on average.

If you know when you are driving and see a major inaccuracy of 13000 steps during that time, it will be pretty obvious that it's picking up bumps, I think? If you know you sat from 9-12 P.M. and it says you walked 13000 steps, there is something wrong with the device.

Thank you SO much!

Sorry, one more question. You said your Fitbit is set to give you a 500 calorie deficit. So when it told you to eat 1963 calories, you technically burned more during your TDEE, but the 1963 was with the deficit accounted for? And, when there was a difference between the Fitbit number and the MFP, once you syched, was the…

What she said. Las Vegas is just too awesome to restrict yourself from enjoying a treat here and there, and has some very fine dining!

Thank you for the quick response. Might go ahead and get one today.

I would really like to buy one, but I've become a little confused with what it's measuring. Just to clarify, it's tracking how many calories you are burning sitting, standing, breathing, right? Not just when you are working out? Does it tell you how many calories you have burned just breathing throughout the day or do you…