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Ahhhh, a lovely BLT. My favorite. "Except for a nice MLT: a mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They're so perky, I love that."

I've been calibrating my brain for many, many months to how much I actually eat. I find it difficult. Weighing my food is part of that mental calibration and I see it as a necessity and therefore a smart practice.

Let's be real. The errors (uncertainties) in your big calorie items are bigger than all the calories in gum, diet drinks, many condiments, most green veggies, your BLTs, etc. Yes, think about everything you put in your mouth before you put it there, but don't waste your life's precious time counting senselessly. We all…

A half marathon is a great first goal. It can keep you focused on running for weeks as you build speed and endurance. Depending on how far you can run now this could take one to six months, I think. Be sure to start with a decent pair of running shoes, a good safe place to run (I'd suggest a loop so you can build up…

Yes! Good on you! Most of us, I assume, created our original weight problems from our own delusional behaviors. You recognized and dealt with those. It's great to see you watching and catching yourself in a new delusion and resolving to fix it.

It's interesting that you say that because I'm just a very few pounds from my goal weight and I can still see the last few pounds hanging around my belly, preventing my waist measurement from dropping as much as I thought they would have until just very recently. Much of the fat I've lost before now has come from all over…

I log them but I have a life and so am not going to make great efforts at getting them entirely accurate. A salad with many various veggies like lettuce, squash, zucchini, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, etc. will just log as three cups lettuce (because it's all roughly the same and nearly zero calories anyway) and…

I have found that setting fitness goals have helped me stay on track as far as eating and workouts go. I'm currently scheduled for my first marathon in two weeks and that keeps me laser focused. After that, I have several other goals for the year most of which have little to do with running but with other fun…

I've learned to loooooove vegetables. Salads are okay but only if there's loads of variety (and no cheese, croutons, or creamy dressing on it). But mostly I've learned to love hot vegetable dishes so I go with Indian, Thai, and Mediterranean foods a lot now.

Rather arbitrarily, I chose my high school graduation weight from almost 40 years ago.

I've got a leaf blower that I could put in reverse. Would that work?

I should have included "Dance with my daughter at her wedding in March" Duh!

I'd like to remove the last few pounds of fat from my belly and keep them off forever. But perhaps more so I'd like to knock off some items from my goals list including at least these: - Go ziplining with my daughter - COMING 12/28/2013! - Run a marathon without any walking - COMING 1/19/2014! - Learn to dance with my wife…

I went over on Christmas eve. I put in a good morning run, controlled my eating during the day, and sat down with a decent deficit after dinner when I remembered we had a bag of chocolate covered almonds in the pantry. I ate a couple, then a few more, and then I looked up and saw the bag was empty: 884 calories in less…

That was very nice of you. And a merry Christmas to you and all!

Someone drops off a batch of Christmas cookies on your desk and pleads with you to eat them since his mother made them. Someone at work hands you a burger and fries and says the drive-through place gave her an extra one. You show up at an event and unexpectedly there's lots of free chips and dips and drinks. You show up at…

My experience is that the "distances" and calorie burn rates that are displayed on things like elliptical machines are more about marketing than reality. I once used two nearly identical pieces of equipment from different manufacturers and worked out at about the same intensity level on both but one said I was burning…

Thank you! I'm really just in this for my health but I need extra motivation to keep it up every day so I try to have fun goals, too. And I really am having a lot of fun compared to my couch potato days.

Awesome! This makes me very happy. You give hope to many. Thank you.

Yes. Stay positive and stick to your training schedule under any circumstances except injury. If you get a tendon injury or something, just stop and try again in a few months or next year. And if you are trying to lose weight likeme, forget it on days before your long runs. Carb up! I also am happy I stuck to my goal of no…

Thank you! I finished surprisingly better than the 25K that I ran three weeks ago. I ate 500 grams of carbs yesterday, ate more this morning, and drank two gatorades at every water station and was able to finish real strong sprinting the last 2.5 miles. At the 25K last month, I was crawling almost collapsed across the…

Good morning again! I hope your day yesterday went well. I'd like to suggest what I did then. Just deal with one thing which is today. Be healthy today by burning more calories than you consume before you go to bed tonight. If you find that you haven't, ask yourself honestly if there's something that you can do to change…

If I may suggest it,, decide you will live healthy today. Burn more calories than you eat before you go to bed tonight. Don't think about any other day, just today. Do some form of intentional exercise and make the calories enough to keep your metabolism up but no more. Before your head hits the pillow tonight ask your…

Absolutely. Besides, I have my eye on a piece of chocol......erm....on reaching some fitness and weight loss goals by the end of the month. That keeps me focused. And I will still have good times, too. No Scroogey gym rats or couch fluffs in my house.

The fitness room in the hotel I'm in is closed so instead I went for a 13 mile run around the bay (Tampa). It was good.

Alone, in milk with fruit, in oatmeal, or in yogurt with fruit are the usual ways for me. If you find something needing some crunch, try adding it to that.

Brilliant!

I had two fitbits and frankly saw little point to them. I have a sedentary lifestyle (full time desk job) and work out vigorously daily. So I know about how many calories I burn on days I don't exercise (including mowing the lawn, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc. which are included in the standard calorie burn estimates…

I'd recomend getting creative with it. Pictures (how you want or don't want to look, people who inspire you, places or things you wnat to do when you've reached your goal, etc.) and can be strong motivators. I have even taped photos to my bathroom mirror to see when I start and end my day and on my refrigerator, too. Music…