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That's amazing, my friend! My mom had bariatric surgery a year ago. She lost about 30 pounds before she was able to go into her surgery, and she did it just like you did - lots of protein, stuck within her calories and logged here on MFP. Unfortunately with her thyroid disease, she can lose about that much weight and then…

Just throwing an odd comment in the mix here. If you're working full time as well as going to school full time, it sounds like you've got a lot on your plate, girl! Stress can really throw off your hormones and your body so try to take that into account as well. You could be retaining water, which I'm sure has been…

I think the "fad" part of it is definitely fading, finally, which is really nice. I know that for me, where I actually get sick when I have gluten, I was getting tired of restaurants screwing up my gluten free order, cross contaminating, etc because most people were only doing it as a "diet". It definitely took away from…

Thanks so much for the ideas! I had forgotten how much I adore hard boiled eggs until you mentioned that just now. :)

Well, I'm seeing a lot of "sugar-free" suggestions, which I wouldn't personally recommend. Anything that's labelled sugar free is going to have a high amount of artificial sweeteners, and, well... We won't even go into the million reasons that those are bad for you. :) I would recommend personally some fresh fruit! It's…

I have two tattoos - one on my back, which is covered by most shirts (although it's pretty high up, almost to the neck, some some shirts with a lower back do not cover it). I also have one on my inner forearm, which is not covered unless I wear long sleeved shirts. I am currently working as a barista in a shop that is very…

I think that comments like this can be misconstrued. For example, my sister is 5'2" and weighs 110 pounds. She is a model, and she thinks she is fat all the time. She recently gained five pounds and thinks the world is going to end. When she asks me if she looks fat, I say no, and that I don't think she needs to lose…

Thank you so much for the helpful tips! I appreciate it a lot. I did look at paleomg.com for recipes and I have a few bookmarked already! :)

I appreciate the advice! I figured it would be easier for me to just get all the weight off and then train, but I can see where it would be smarter to start sooner.

I feel that this is a common misconception, especially considering that "diet" is not always an action, but can be used to refer to a persons diet, or the way that they eat. But I understand your general point.

I feel like it would be common sense to make sure that you still count calories while doing that diet, but I can see where some people may think that there's no reason to count since they're essentially only eating healthy foods. But even just eating a lot of fruit jacks up your sugar intake so much. I've heard that it's…

Well, I'm currently at 184 after starting at 203 pounds in October 2012. My main goal is weight loss itself - I have a final goal of 140 pounds after conferencing with my doctor about what my ideal weight is. Once I hit my target goal, I'll focus more on building muscle. I'm trying to hit my goal by June or July, around…

Hey there, I appreciate the input! I've lost twenty pounds in the past year by simply eating a deficit and working out. I know that it works, but I want to research other options as well. :)

I watched the video. Very inspiring and you look so great. Awesome job, Momma!

I hate pepsi. :3 Haha! It's funny how two different cola's can taste so different. To the original poster of this particular quoted section, not EVERYONE who orders a diet coke with a burger and fries is thinking they're making a good choice. For example, I would much rather have a diet coke with lime over regular coke any…

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I would not recommend losing 10 inches from your hips to match your waist. You'd look like a wooden plank. Pretty much any exercise that you do will help you shed inches. As you shed pounds, you shed inches. If you're like me, you lose inches, THEN pounds. Just keep exercising and things will tighten up and you will lose…

I really love the chicken caesar salads that are premade at trader joes, but one of those salads is either 500 or 700 cals. Can't remember which. How devastating is that?

Agreeable. And then you have those fabulous guys that just love their lady friend regardless of their body type, and the guys who don't pick a woman based on body type. Those guys are pretty cool, too. Got me one of those. My fiance, if he were to pick a person based solely on their physique, would choose a slender woman…

On a side note, Miss USA looks fab.

Excellent point, and very true. In that case, perhaps not as many men would choose obese, but I'm willing to bet a fair few would.

Nope. Just have spent my entire life with them because I can't stand girls, because of these things above, to name a few reasons. ^^

Many, many, MANY men would agree that a 225 pound woman that's confident and loves herself is much more sexy than a 150 pound woman that thinks she's fat. Just saying. Guys don't want to deal with our petty insecurities. "Do I look fat in this?" "Do my boobs look too big?" "Do my hips look too wide?" They just don't give a…

Thanks for the ideas guys, very helpful :) I just read a thread on trader joes and now I want to go there and poke around! Haha!

I just recently discovered roasted garlic hummus... So good with Stacy's Simply Naked pita chips, but I don't know what a serving of those is calorie wise! I'll have to find out, they are absolutely delicious.

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Venus! Love their stuff. It's for a more mature audience without having no sex appeal or flair. :D

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Oh my god, totally my forte right here. So, I love the Harry Potter books and always will and always have. Read them. They are whimsical and fun and scary and romantic and exciting and depressing all at once. Anything by James Patterson. My favorite is Kiss The Girls, which is the first book in the Alex Cross series. James…