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Nice choice. My white 2008 Impala's name is Bianca.

Wow. I'm going the opposite way on this from others here: Talk to your boss about this face to face. There can be a myriad of reasons why your boss did not publicly respond to this. Maybe they were waiting for you to stand up for yourself. How you handle the situation will tell your boss a lot about how you are going to be…

Occam's Razor is sharp with this one. I absolutely agree with this. Weighing food seems to be far more accurate than using measuring cups. If you're not already using a scale, this might help (and surprise) you a lot.

This is what I plan on doing. I'll be starting my reverse diet after the Fourth of July. I am not nearly in as good of shape as you, but I think this is a sensible way to get back up to maintenance calories. I plan on increasing my calories by 100 a day and holding there for three weeks before moving up another 100…

You are never too old and it is never too late to keep moving forward in your beautiful life. ^^ This. And this: You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis

Being self-aware helps more than just about anything but it is one of the hardest things to do. Keep it up, you're doing great.

I struggle too. I don't use protein powders or bars because they tear up my gut. I've tried a bunch including a vegan one that used pea and brown rice protein and still can't deal with it. My goal is 30% of calories from protein. I do the best if I split it evenly between my meals instead of trying to play catch up at the…

How awesome is that? Congratulations! Here's to many more races for you. :drinker:

Trust the process. You are going to have ups and downs. You may be stuck for months on end. If you stick with it and are consistent, you will get to your goal. Don't let every little hitch in the numbers send you off the deep end.

I find when I am anxious or depressed (or both) the best medicine is exercise. Rhythmic exercise (like walking) works really well and gives me time to sort through my feelings because I don't have to think about how to walk. This will sound trite, but that's not how it's intended. You don't live in a vacuum. You impact the…

It takes a while, but you will get to where you miss it if you can't do it for some reason. Walking is a perfect exercise. I would also echo the people who say to get outside and do it. Fresh air and changing scenery are much better for your psyche than staring at a TV or the wall or whatever. I would also suggest slowly…

^^This. It takes longer than a few days to ruin your metabolism. Get someone to make you smoothies with ingredients you like if you can't do it yourself. If you're on a lot of meds, your GI tract is going to be traumatized. I would hesitate to tell you to drink protein shakes as they can be harsh on the healthiest of…

This may or may not be true, but for me, meat is just a vehicle for what I can put on it.

Pulled pork with homemade mustard barbecue sauce is my favorite.

Several people have said this, but 1750 seems too low. No wonder he's starving all the time. MFP is great, but it's not the be all, end all. Try putting him on 2500 calories. If he doesn't lose weight after three weeks, drop to 2400 and wait three weeks again, etc. Keep dropping 100 calories a day every three weeks until…

We are all fighting our own battles. There's nothing wrong with posting your progress in your fight. If you allow other people's opinions to change your behavior, you are succumbing to peer pressure and that is never a good thing. Be you. If people don't like it, they can ignore you. By being yourself, you will attract the…

I can't drink plain water in the morning, either. I get around this by warming 16 oz. of water (warm, not hot) and squeezing a whole lemon into it (I do not put the rind in, just the juice). I find that even though it's sour, I can drink the whole glass down without getting nauseated. I'm a coffee drinker, but I'm not…

Unfortunately it is both as easy and as hard as what everyone else has said. The best thing to do is to get everything ready the night before so you can just jump into your workout clothes. If you have a timer on your coffee pot, get it set up and have it start brewing five minutes before your alarm goes off. When your…

And if you don't like yourself a little bit, you are surely lost. I like this a lot.

I do better when I focus on how I feel and what I'm able to do. When I focus on how I look, I feel just like you do. Like the journey is too long and arduous and I'd rather just eat what I want and lay on the sofa. I can run for 2.25 miles now. I am lifting weights at the gym, some of them heavier than I am currently.…

I don't know. Even bad coffee is pretty good. :D

If he wasn't eating at all, I'd worry. If he's just off his food a bit, it's likely because he's a little blue and there's no competition. If there are other dogs around, they eat faster and thus more. Or at least that's how my dogs have always been. Also, keep in mind that without other dogs to play with, he may be…

Truth.

My current goal weight is actually ten pounds heavier than my original goal weight and twenty pounds heavier than I should weigh according to the "experts". I picked it because what I really want to do is get to my current goal and hold it for a year while I work on getting stronger and more flexible. After a year…

More than halfway now!! Awesome job.

This is just the Universe testing you to see what you're made of. Tomorrow, get up and if you do nothing else all day, go for a walk. Do it again on Monday. Really, when you feel like this, the only thing that will help is getting up and doing something and a walk is pretty doable. Even if you just end up standing in front…

You've already had a zillion replies, but let me add that I have stopped posting my gains, too. Sometimes it's Aunt Flo's fault. Sometimes it's that Jack that I enjoyed. Seems like my water weight can swing about three to five pounds in a day based on those two things alone. If I put on ten pounds, I'd add it, but until…

Tomorrow puts you at the halfway mark! How awesome are you? Loved that paragraph about what a workout is, btw.

What everyone else said, but I would ditch the treadmill entirely. I only run outside. Now, granted, I live in Oklahoma and even in the winter the days are usually in the 40's (though this winter has been particularly long and cold), so I can usually get my runs in if I'm willing to juggle days based on Mother Nature's…

You're doing awesome. I think we forget a lot that even slow progress is progress. Sometimes progress is just going to bed and vowing to do it again tomorrow instead of throwing in the towel.