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Completely, totally, utterly amazing. Thank you for sharing your story with us... I am so happy for your success!!

Those are great! I have the same issue. I always pack some clif bars with me. I also enjoy any breakfast bars that kashi makes too.

Good job, and welcome to the journey of weight loss! It is a long but rewarding one. You're doing awesome -- just the right thing your body needs right now. You'll do great with MFP as a guide!

I've had to do this with a lot of local restaurants in town. I've got pretty good at guessing now what's in items of food. You can't always be exact but you have to do your best. I'm also pretty good at measuring portions based on hand size. You can measure things in restaurants by just using your hands!

I usually just search for wine wines or red wines. There are many different types listed under those names so I usually just use those.

Positive thinking! This made the huge difference for me in my weight loss. MFP helps me to think more positively about my successes. It really helps to have this online support group around me.

There's something better... it's called calorie staggering. Similar, but it doesn't go as low as what you suggested. Look into this instead. Never go below 1200 calories a day even on the low calorie days... If you do you will really mess up your metabolism.

I totally know what you mean. I get so frustrated with this because I had a back injury for a year and a half. The most I can do now physically is walk for about an hour... and sometimes I still get weird nerve firing sensations. Coming from a place of injury back to health it is critical that you don't overdo the exercise…

I notice some days I have mental skinny days and mental fat days. I say mental because my body stays at a relatively same weight give or take 1-2 pounds per week in weight loss. It's all in your head! You must stay positive and tell yourself happy things about your successes!

You're doing great!! Know that 0 is only a number. It feels like a huge hurdle to cross for most people, but it's all psychological. Once you realize it's mostly in your head, going from 170 to 172 is really the same level of easy. Sometimes when we think we've hit some kind of perceived boarder we will sabotage ourselves…

You can do it!!! MFP is a great way to lose weight... one of the best around. :)

Nuts, peanut butter, healthy oils.

Congrats on your weight loss!!

Hmmm. I don't know much about hyperthyroidism and I'm sorry to hear you have this. My initial thoughts not knowing about your condition are that... it's better to be a little overweight and healthy than rail-thin and unhealthy. But those are just my thoughts. I'm sure your doctor has a better idea about how to stay thin…

Welcome to the MFP forum! Congrats on your success!

It is debated but IMO it's important to eat most of the calories you're exercising off.

Eat every three hours, eat six to seven times a day instead of only three big meals a day, exercising every day will help you to burn up to 25% more calories in the few hours after your work out is over, not to mention the time spent while working out. Drinking green tea ups your metabolism by a tiny bit.

At the level of calories you're eating it's imperative that you eat all your calories every day. If you don't do this unfortunately your metabolism can actually slow down, so if you start eating more food than this (like maybe only 1400 calories a day) you will gain weight. BUT! Don't worry! This can only happen if you've…

Anything that advertises itself as super high in protein, or an all-fruit diet, or a no carb diet frankly scares me. Not because these foods are bad in and of themselves, but anything you eat that limits an overall intake of a variety of foods is bad nutrition-wise. Problems with a high protein diet are that you may not be…

Could you be more specific? I don't know what you're eating per day or what your current weight is.

Yes! Kellog's Fiber Plus bars... 130 calories. I had the exact same experience with fiber one bars. The farting lasted 6 hours every time I ate one! LOL. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Congrats on your weight loss!! That's really great for being on MFP for one month.

Excellent! It's so awesome when our family members can support us in our new and healthy lifestyle choices. :) Who got who to join first?

This sounds yummy!

Very true!!!

I feel this topic needs a bump.

HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to MFP. :)

The scale is not the perfect measurement of weight loss success. Ultimately over months it is, but not over weeks and days. Have you tried taking your measurements weekly? This is also a good measure of weight loss and muscle toning.

Three weeks ago I was feeling discouraged and on a bad plateau. I have an idea to get you back in the game of being inspired: make a list of at least 20 or more reasons of why you want to be thin. These can be reasons that you want for yourself, or are inspired by others. Anything positive or negative reasons. Just reasons…

An orange should be around 50 calories if it's medium-sized. And I am speaking about home-made popped kernels of corn without butter or anything else calorie-wise put on it.