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Small weddings are the best. My best friend got conned into having a huge wedding, and she hated it. She only got to say just a few things to her most loved people all that day, and she was kept so busy she hardly got to eat three bites of the elaborate dinner! My current housemates got married 10 years ago. They had sort…

Hey! Don't knock the dishwasher idea! Honestly, if my fellow surprised me with a new Vitamix blender, I'd be over the freaking moon. I'll take that over a massage any day of the week! That being said, my dad always sent my mom and her best friend to a day spa for her birthday, then the friend watched us kids for a weekend…

Hey, it is TOTALLY easy to make brown rice that doesn't taste like cardboard when you reheat it. There's just a couple tricks. You do need to toss a little salt and a little oil into the mix (just a touch of each, really), and you need to re-heat it in a microwave (gets too chewy/brittle/weird otherwise). I like to make…

I did find it very annoying to be constantly running to my computer after every time I ate something, and it made me feel like all I was doing was eating and focusing on eating...which is really freaking hard if you're hungry! So now at the start of every day I plug into MFP what I intend to eat for the whole day. I keep a…

If Boursin is a favorite of yours, you can make your own super easily from plain yogurt...which can be non-fat if you so desire. Alton Brown's recipe is to take 1 quart of plain yogurt and stir in 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin, 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, and 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black…

If this isn't a joke and you are able to reach all your parts and appropriately wipe, wash, and dry everything, and you are using deodorants/antiperspirants, then you should probably go to a doctor and have a check-up. I currently live with four other adults. All of us are fat. Only one of us smells...and it's because this…

A Fitbit is essentially a pedometer, so it will do a great job at counting the number of steps you take while you walk, run, etc. Unlike other pedometers, it's calorie calculator is pretty darn accurate with what you burn while walking/running. The Fitbit Zip only tracks steps and distance, but the Fitbit One and Fitbit…

I weigh every morning, then on Saturday I take the average of those weights and record it as my weekly weight. To track actual weight loss/gain, I compare the average weekly weights.

Brown eye color isn't due to toxins in the system or anything like that. It's just because you have a little more melanin production than people who have blue eyes. Many babies have blue eyes at birth, but that's often a factor of the melanin not quite kicking in yet. Sometimes your cells need some exposure to UV light…

Of course it will all work out! And of course you can lose weight even if you can't exercise in the same ways you used to. There are plenty of exercises you can do that don't rely on having a functioning leg, and you can always modify your calorie intake to reflect reduced activity. I lost my first 10 pounds or so doing no…

Allow me to introduce you to the dressing that will change your life: Yumm Sauce. It has a good dose of nutritional yeast in it for those all important B12s, but I find that this more saucy application is more palatable than straight nooch. Yumm Sauce comes from a chain of vegetarian restaurants, Café Yumm, that started in…

Thank you so much for posting! I'm at the start of a similar amount of weight to be lost, and it's definitely pictures and stories like yours that keep me logging in every day. Congratulations on your success!

My life would be so sad if my chocolate cravings went away! I've learned, though, that if I allow myself one or two pieces a day, I'm gold. No need to down an entire candy bar: one or two Hershey's Kisses or Dove or Bliss squares does it for me. I've also recently picked up a black tea flavored with chocolate and coconut.…

I'm new at this, too, and I've actually found it incredibly motivating to step on the scale every morning (after eliminations and before eating/drinking) and recording my weight. That one little action gives me just the motivation I need to say no to a cookie or to go outside for a walk. It's like every day, I'm…

Brown rice does need a bit of a salt punch to help it out, IMO...but you can definitely use a lot less of it in the long run if you add the salt to the cooking water. For every 1 1/2 cups of uncooked rice, I add 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the mix. If I am making it in my rice cooker, I just add the salt directly to the water.…

I've been big since adolescence, and I've battled these things too. They're decidedly unsexy, aren't they? My experience has been that I do tend to get them most frequently in high friction areas, which are usually my inner thighs and where my pants waistband sits on my stomach. I've also occasionally got them around my…

Restaurants have the formula of how much food goes into something down to a science. Profit margins, baby! If you write an e-mail to the owner or manager explaining what you want to know and why you want to know it, they'll probably be able to tell you how much dough, sauce, cheese, etc. they use per pie. Then you can…

Look, I know that I'm a total newb to this whole fitness thing, but I'm definitely no newbie when it comes to vegetarianism. When I was 14, I began a vegetarian diet, and that lasted until I was 18. I'll admit that I probably ate more processed foods then than I do now, seeing as I was a teenager and just learning how to…

I am a total tea nerd and even did online work for a major tea company a few years ago. Many black, green, white, and oolong teas--if brewed correctly--are very sweet on their own. And then there are lots of companies that add flavoring oils, and many of those just sweeten the pot. Many black teas should be brewed at 1 bag…