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Wow this is a tough room today! I thankfully was not a member of the clean plate club. My parents gave up on that pretty quickly because I ate so darn slow. With my kids the only real rules I have are,you must eat your veggies. If you have room for a treat or dessert you have room for the rest of your dinner before. That…

Oh so true!

I just realized I am doing the same thing with my house work! Oh how I hate dishes let me count the ways!!!!

I have been doing the same thing for months. It's like going through the mental rolladex of excuses while getting dress. Today was I can't find my ear bud. I went and bought a $5 jobby at the gas station till I can find my good ones!

I log everything I put in my mouth. I don't always log my exercise. Only if I go over my 3 scheduled workouts a week. Like if I steal a marshmallow out of my kids lucky charms I do my best to log that. I am not perfect everday. This week has been up and down. But I still had a loss. I love junk food, I think this week…

Oh Yeah!!!! don't weigh yourself after you eat lots of salt you'll go threw the roof! I once had what appeared to be a 7 lb gain over night!

I am 36 5'3" I eat 1670. I lose really slow and I am ok with that. if it takes me 2 years to lose the rest of my weight I am ok with that I get to eat and I don't feel starved. EDIT: I just wanted to add that I shared a small peice of cake for lunch with my daughter. We both got a treat and now we are going out to walk the…

I think this post is great! It is showing how different we all are! Some people can't go without it and some people need to. Personally I have tried to eat breakfast and I can eat sugary cereal or egg white omelets with veggies it doesn't make a difference to me I still eat like a pig. If I don't eat it I find it easier to…

The one thing I noticed it that your sugar is intact is kinda high. That in itself isn't going to make you gain or in your case not lose. But if you already set your activity level at active don't log your exercise calories. That should be calculated in calories. You might also want to run your actual TDEE. Google a…

Not if I can help it! everytime I eat breakfast I want to eat the rest of the day. I skip it and then I don't go wacko with my food for the rest of the day. Basically I do a 8/16IF or intermittent fasting. Doesn't work for everybody but it works great for me!

I do TDEE -15% because -20 is under my BMR. I bumped up from the 1200 that MFP gave me to 1670 and I finally started losing. It leaves me plenty of wiggle room to eat the food I like and enough of it to fill me up. At 1200 calories all I did all day was count calories trying to figure out how I could eat more. Now I eat,…

I eat what I want. Just not as much of it. That simple. That said try some new food you might find you like it!

I am not sure what that is, but when I am not sure about something I will use the recipe builder. It helps you to get more accurate measures on food that you make at home rather than to use nutritional information that someone else did that might be different than your

I get the no time! My gym is only 2 blocks away and it is still almost impossible to get to. I was going 6 days a week before every other adult in the house started working and I am sooo happy they are all working now. I like to work out around 10 in the morning. I am a stay at home mom and I work from home. I am having a…

Well everybody in my house knows I am trying to eat different but I swear I have been so up and down for the last 3 years since I had my last baby. But I get really funny looks when I am running around scanning barcodes on my phone!

Wow that is awesome!!!!!!!

well your BMI is 18.9. Your just this side of under weight. Which if you lose 2 more pounds you will be.

I bottom out on losing right around 165 everytime but now that I raised up my calories to 1700 I eat food real food that I like and tastes good. In the last 6 weeks to a month I have I have dropped 8 lbs! I'm not even losing slowly at this point. It's like my body is saying thank you for feeding me this is your reward!!!!

For me I had to go with a IF or intermittent fasting. Mainly I do this because if I eat breakfast I lose it right about 3 and I will eat junk until I go to bed. I have no idea if this will work for you but not eating breakfast saves me so many more calories later on in the day I would just as soon never eat it again. I…

First things first you want to lose weight right? You don't want to gain it right back? You will spend the rest of your life fighting with this, If you don't eat enough you will get hungry, which can be dealt with, but when those cravings hit well that is a whole other story. eating 1200 calories a day with a 300 calorie…

Well you are supposed to actually burn 50-100 extra calories a day during your period, from blood loss. I don't know how true it is. For me when I start I have no appetite, it's the week before that gives me the munchies!

Well my biggest weight loss in a month was 30lbs. I didn't do it on purpose and I was eating like a pig trying to slow it down but it just kept coming off like that. I was working a very physical job outside in sub-zero temperatures. So it's really unlikely for me to do that again! I was also only 18! But that is the…

That is the beautiful thing about logging you can look at it see what you have left and then decided if you want and extra work out, a little less calories for a few days or that it might not be worth it at all! We have choices and that is what is making this work! Not a fad diet or a special pill. just simple easy common…

I also wanted to add that if you don't eat enough (the human body is an amazing thing) you may actually gain weight eatting to little. Your body will go in to starvation mode. Better put, it will become more efficient at using what you give it. The trick is to find that sweet spot where your body feels feed and can power…

BMR is your base metablic rate or bare minium your body needs to do basic things like keeping your heart going and breathing. TDEE is Total Daily Energy Expenditure, which is the calories needed to maintain your current weight and complete all of your daily tasks. So when you see people telling you that you need to eat…

I hadn't thought of looking at food triggers for my headaches. Mine from what I can tell are stress related and build up for days ahead of time. This last one started last Saturday and left me utterly confused. Normally I have my pancakes done and kids eatting by 9 am but it took me until 11 am to get food in front of the…

That reminds me of when I was a kid. I did swim team for 2 hours a day. I then went home just long enough to quickly shove food in my face and then back to pool until it closed at 9 only leaving the pool to stuff my face because I was so hungry! I was always hungry. The funny thing was I could and did eat anything because…

I will hve to try the light salt and see if that doesn't help with getting that sodium down. I never really looked at the processed food to much I thought I was doing pretty good on not getting to much. But looking at it from someone elses prospective, there is a tun of it in there! Cruddy American diet that I have! lol I…

I do add my cleaning calories because I have my diary set to sedentary. But I will be honest I know darn well there is no way in heck I burned stupid high amounts of calories gardening. When I am out there I am usually weeding and well my hands get a real workout! I get way more out of cleaning. I can break one heck of a…

I am 36 5'3" and 173lbs. Right where I have been stuck for the past like 2 months. I think it's great that you are setting smaller goals instead what seems an impossible number! Right now for me that 160 seems so far away because I can't seem to get to 165 and stay there or climb right back up. I just take it one day at a…