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The trick to loosing weight is to stay in a caloric deficit. At the beginning don't worry so much about changing your foods your eating, just eat them so you stay in a caloric deficit and you will loose weight. If you start cutting our your favorite meal you are setting yourself up for failure. With the diabetes you may…

Not me, I never believed those crazy pills, or fad diets. Myfitnesspal has been the easiest, cheapest, and best way for me to loose weight. 30lbs down, 140+ to go. The formula is simple, applying it is the challenge, sometimes.

Just get back to your normal diet and drink lots of water to flush the sodium and other bad stuff out. Since I haven't relay cut anything out of my diet I don't get the cravings to binge, yet. But if I do get a day, maybe a holiday where I eat a little too much, I will shrug it off and just go back to my "diet". But I make…

How is your sodium intake? If you are eating excess sodium, you will retain water. If you do eat excess sodium but best method to get rid of it is to drink lots of water. I put this to the test a couple weeks back. I ate an excess of sodium and didn't drink much water and gained 3 lbs over night. Then I ate the same amount…

Loosing weight is a simple equation. Calories in must be less than calories burned. That is all there is to it. I know its hard to do sometimes but that's the basic truth. It sounds to me that you are eating all your progress away on your cheat days. Make sure you are counting everything you are putting in your mouth…

If you have calories left and feel hungry feel free to eat them. If you have calories left and don't feel hungry then don't force it. Learn to listen to your body. And remember to drink lots and lots of water. This is my 2 cents and I am by far no expert. This just works for me. 25lbs down, 140lbs to go.

Here is some food for thought. I thought my daughter's posture was bad and kept telling her to sit up straight. Until the day the school did scoliosis testing and found she had a curve in her spine. She went thru surgery since it was so bad. I'm saying this because you may have a curve to your spine that you wont be able…

I like my fitbit one.

I'm guessing you don't want the bubble butt, but a nice toned butt. My suggestion would be squats.

I recently joined a gym also and find most everybody there not worried about you. Remember that you are your worse critic and you will judge yourself most harshly. After you get in the grove of things you will find other people there doing and feeling the same way you are. Try doing a Zumba or other class, you will quickly…

In my opinion, just do the best you can. MFP has an app for the phone so you can continue to keep track of your calories. I error on the high side when guessing portion sizes. Either with saying I am eating more ounces or pick a food with a little higher calorie count. I am trying to loose weight so that means staying in…

So did I, LOL.

In my opinion, if you are worried about being bikini happy, don't worry about the scale. Go to the gym or do home exercises that will concentrate on your problem areas? Belly = crunches / row Butt = squats Arms = push ups. This is my take on it.

The human body is a funny thing. I can be "good" all week, exercising and eating right and loose an acceptable amount of weight but then the weekend comes with cookouts, parties, and get together's so the "diet" goes to the sideline and I live a little. I may eat a little to much, drink a little to much and not exercise…

I hate all those weight loss shows. They preach healthy living but they show unhealthy habits. All those shows care about are ratings nothing more.

Personally I think you really don't need to loose any, if you want tone up, exercise and get some nice long lean muscle tone. Just my 2 cents