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It's totally up to you when you eat. It's not necessary to eat breakfast for weight loss and/or health. I eat only small breakfasts (under 300 calories, usually-- because that's all I can stomach in the morning) and only after around 10 am, even if I have to work early. Eating before 10 or so makes me feel incredibly…

YES! Me too! One thing that also drives me nuts is the phrase "going forward." BLEEECCCHHHH!!! Hello corporate-ese, can't people just say "in the future" or "next time" or something less idiotic sounding?!

On days when they bring in the yummy stuff, can you just put the breakfast/lunch you brought in the fridge for the next day and enjoy the smoothie or burrito? That's what I'd do. On days when the office food is less appetizing, just don't eat whatever was brought in unless you know you can fit it in your day. Sometimes…

I log snow shoveling as exercise-- it's hard to get me out of breath these days (I'm in pretty good shape from lots of skiing, running, and dancing, as well as weightlifting) and snowshoveling certainly does. It is sweltering hard work! We have a 1/4 mile long driveway so we have a neighbor who plows, but our house is a…

I find that eating a high-protein breakfast (0% fat Greek yogurt embellished with fruits and some coconut or chia seeds and vanilla, for example) and a lunch consisting of a low-cal soup and a high-protein item like deli meat (high-quality kinds without fillers) or a reduced-fat cheese or meat snack stick is a great way…

Sure, why not unless you have previous other plans? I did an hour of Zumba to a video before making dinner because it was too cold all day for me to go out skiing!

Wow! Good for you! I see a difference from the last 20 days for sure. And gosh, lady, you are beautiful and really, really different from what you looked like 3 years ago!

Aha, lot of posts showed up while I was working on mine. At your height of 5'2", 1600 calories is just below maintenance (my maintenance level is 1650 or so at 5'1"). Try looking at your calorie total by the week rather than by the day and see how you are doing on your intake goals that way. It's fine to be over sometimes…

OK, so you are already eating very, very carefully. It's fine to sometimes eat meat, drink alcohol, have a few sweets and refined carbs etc., as long as you don't exceed your calorie needs for the day. It sounds like you may be a bit too worried about what you eat-- I think just tracking calories as accurately as you can…

Hi! Check out this excellent post (read the original post on page 1): http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants That contains most of the keys to using MFP successfully, in my opinion. :) Don't try to lose weight too fast (hopefully someone else will come…

The outdoors!

Oh, sweet! That's one I haven't heard since college.

Parka, grody (I am not sure if it's spelled "grody" or "groty"), cool beans (I still can't bear that phrase!). Dungarees (my dad still uses this word). Probably others I'm not thinking of right now, too.

Tortilla chips! If I start eating them when I am hungry and bored, I will eat far too many of them. Also, freshly baked bread. We limit the amount of chips we bring into the house, and usually don't have really fresh bread around, so normally these are not a problem for me.

Uuuhhhhh. . . That doesn't make sense. If you're going by mass, your statement is not true. The amount of muscle it takes to fill the same space as an amount of fat would indeed be heavier than said fat. "Muscle is more dense and takes up less space"= it weighs more than the amount of fat taking up a given amount of space.…

My range is about 3 lbs. 102-105. I like to be at 103 but lately have been closer to 105. Being so small, every pound is visible, yet it's hard to keep trying to lose weight back to my favorite weight! Ugh.

It sounds like you have developed disordered thinking. I think you need to see a counselor about this. At 5' 9.5" and 125 lbs, you had a BMI of 18.2. This is underweight. Please listen to your nagging intuition that you have a problem-- it sounds like you do, unfortunately. Have you heard of "orthorexia"? This is an eating…

I have heard that doing bodyweight standing calf raises helps to prevent blood clots in one's legs, which apparently can be brought on by airplane travel in rare cases. OP, I am usually cold too. I spent 10 years of my life at a weight that was 5-10 lbs higher than what I'm at now (and I'm barely 5'1" so that was a fair…

I haven't cried during any exercise but yoga. When I was doing yoga regularly, it was a very hard and emotional time in my life and it was just so nice to be cared for by the lovely yoga instructor in class that I found that I kept crying. Soon after that started happening I moved away and have kind of avoided yoga because…

Yikes, a few beers would have me unconscious probably. I get rather drunk on just one. Weight loss makes it so you get to be tipsier on fewer calories, think of it that way!

I don't know, I didn't bother to log anything except quick added calories based on my guesses (I've been logging food for over a year, so I have a pretty good idea of the caloric content of many foods). I probably went over by around 150-300.

I have lost a couple dress sizes-- not a SUPER dramatic change like some of the ladies here, but as a small-busted person, I definitely noticed a change-- they shrunk a good deal (my upper body loses weight far more easily than my belly/lower body). I don't wear cup-sized bras, but at my heaviest I was bra shopping since I…

Can you put together a breakfast the night before? Or even make a big container of something like yogurt with berries and protein powder over the weekend, and then portion it out into small containers you can take with you to eat on your way to work or at the beginning of your workday once you get there? When I have a…

I'm 5'1" and am working on the first stage of New Rules of Lifting for Women. I bought a 105-lb set of adjustable dumbbells and lift at home so far with those; once/if they turn out to not be enough weight, I have a gym nearby with several of what I think are squat racks (I've never been in a gym in my life!! I mainly…

I've done it on occasion-- it's definitely good for exfoliation, circulation, and some say detoxing (because of the exfoliation only, of course). It feels nice but I am too impatient to dry brush my skin regularly! Sounds like it works well for you though.

This is like mustard; the bottles say 0 calories but I know that is utter BS because mustard SEEDS have calories and mustard in a bottle also contains wheat flour. As someone else mentioned, there is a legal margin of error in calorie listings on packages which allows very low calorie foods to be marketed as 0 calorie…

Yes, sometimes. It's aggravating because I get bottomless stomach for 2 or 3 days a few days before my period starts, and for the first day of my period, too. So I try to be in a deficit (because I am trying to lose the last bit of weight) most of the time so there's some room for going over on those hungry hormonal days.…

Like Nolan1009, I'm trying to use any overeating as a chance to fuel weight workouts. I also like to go for a long run or XC ski session on the morning of any festivities-- that's what I did on the 2 Thanksgivings I was a part of, and it worked really well. Also, taking really small portion sizes, or if someone serves you…

I need to figure out how to attach my very nice flashing red bicycle light to my clothing! Maybe what I need to do is scope out the roads during the day and see where I can go that's not terribly icy.

Well, I do usually make up for going significantly (200+ cals) over my maintenance amount one day, by eating less or exercising more the next, when losing weight or when I'm near the top of my maintenance range. I can and have maintained without logging and without thinking too hard about how much I'm eating, which leads…