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Thanks so much! That's actually very helpful... I've never really had any sort of tracker before, so it's all brand new to me.

@NorthCascades - I'd say at least 7 of the 10 minutes were spent at a high intensity... and puttering around, was maybe 15 minutes max, and I only have a 750 square foot apartment, lol, it wasn't like doing big laps around a mansion or anything... that's why it didn't make sense to me! @KatzeDerNacht22 wow! I had never…

My mom does something similar with chocolate pudding mixed with Cool Whip... probably higher in calories, but it is super delicious.

I can definitely try it, but I'm not sure that it'll work. I am SO not a morning person, and neither is he... so when my alarm goes off at 6:51am to get ready for work, it generally takes me a half hour to actually get out of bed, and him even longer.

@mikeyml Thank you so much for this, this was really helpful! I think you're right that he picked up a lot of bad habits through his life, and it will take a long time to re-educate him, but you're right in that he is willing to learn. This was a really informative post, and helps me to see things from a different…

I do get home pretty late, though it's been starting to even itself out a bit. Some days last week, I was getting home as late as 9-9:30pm, and my gym closes at 10. This week, I'm starting to get out of work around 6 (not as busy) and getting home around 7... so we'll start going to the gym again, I think.

Haha - thanks! I know how this goes! I really love baking, but I've resisted baking anything since he's been here (I did make blueberry muffins one Sunday morning, but they were low-calorie, I swear!) We've been going for walks when the weather is nice enough and I get out of work early enough. And he tells me he's been…

This was really helpful - thank you! We do, more often than not, eat the same food, so what I've done on some nights is just entered the recipe on my account, and let him copy and paste the nutritional info onto his account so that he didn't have to enter the entire recipe again. I think I will just encourage him by loving…

Haha, Oh man, trust me, he does more for me than I do for him... He makes my coffee & lunch for me every day, does all the laundry and the cleaning while I'm at work (FYI, he's actually from the USA, living with me in Canada, so he can't work... so he's at home doing all the housework while I'm at work)... so, no, I'm…

Hahaha... I think I may have tried this approach already ;)

Thanks for the posts, everyone. You're all right and I should just back off of him, and just let him work it out for himself. I guess it's just bugging me because he put ME in charge of this. I keep telling him that he needs to want to do it for HIM, but he keeps telling me that he wants to do it for ME, so that we can…

@dakoerber Thanks for this... Maybe you're right, and I just need to give him some time. I think perhaps what I should do is continue to go to the gym (I've let it slack a bit, and let him "win" in just cuddling & spending time together after work... but if I insist on going to the gym, as was my routine before he moved…

@Mom2rh I know, I've thought about that too - but he's ASKED me to do this for him. He wants to lose weight, but he doesn't know how to do it. He was really upset because he had been living at home and trying to eat better, but his dad was always sabotaging him, bringing in high fat/high caloric foods... so I've tried to…

You look great!!

I would definitely log this as exercise! And a super awesome bonus: you had fun, and you spent quality time with your kids! Sounds like a pretty good way to sneak in a workout to me!

Looking great!

This is awesome :) I try to do this every day for my boyfriend, and I'm pretty sure he feels the same way about me (except when I tell him he's not allowed to go out for poutine... hahaha)

I've been working at it, but I haven't been super consistent (IE, I've been on week 3 for... oh about 2 or 3 weeks now). That being said, even though I haven't been consistent with it, I *have* improved my endurance. I couldn't run at all before. I was as "couch" as couch can be. I'm up to running 90 seconds at a time, and…

I know what you mean! I hate knowing that I'm blowing all of my calories on one meal... but at the same time, I also want to be able to go out and have fun with my friends. What I tend to do is either order off the healthy choices menu (usually places will have a few options that are pretty decent), or stick to things that…

I'm 5'3 and I rarely break 1200 calories in a day, especially when I factor in exercise. I know everyone says you should eat your exercise calories, but I would feel completely bloated if I ate that way. I generally tend to only eat when I'm hungry, and I have mostly healthful snacks / meals on hand, so it can be a…

Good to know! My bf has an android phone and he's been looking for a good app for training! I will let him know about this one. Do you have any recommendations for a couch to 5k app as well?

Sales and coupons are a saviour! Try to buy at least 85% of your total groceries using the outer perimeter of the grocery store (that's where they usually have the fresh stuff - fruits, veggies, dairy, lean meats, etc) - and only healthy snacks that you have coupons for from the middle (I can usually find coupons for…

That's amazing!! Congrats!

I don't think I've ever eaten an entire pint of ice cream! I feel sick if I eat more than like, one large scoop. The article kind of made me nauseous just reading it.

I lovelovelove the app too! And I find that ever since I started tracking every single thing I eat, I don't even want to eat that much of the bad stuff, because I realize how much it's going to kill the rest of my day! LOL

Thanks for the advice everyone! Looks to be somewhere around 500 calories for one serving, the way I made it. Not something I would normally do, especially for breakfast, but it was my first week at a new job, and I thought I deserved a treat ;) I'm also going to bookmark this page for future:…