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I'm using Android and it's been nothing but buggy since I started two weeks ago. But I'm happy to trash talk Apple products any day :wink:

I used to use an extremely similar app called "Lose It!", which had a much more user-friendly interface and just was smoother and more intuitive than MFP in every way. For as popular as MFP is, I had high hopes. But so far I've been really disappointed in the app. It's buggy and slow and covered in ads. I only switched…

I'm having issues with the forum (ha) so if my last post DID post, I'm sorry for the redundancy :) But I used to use a different app called "Lose It!" which was the same concept as MFP, and the app was SO MUCH BETTER. I use it 99% on my phone, so the app quality is important. MFP is super popular, so I thought it must be…

This! Deprivation is no way to live. Plus, if it's anything like the Mexican restaurants around here, it's going to be loaded with completely unreasonable amounts of sodium and you're going to hold a ton of water weight for two days, then have to pee like every 5 minutes on the second day as your body lets go of all of it…

This! Deprivation is no way to live. Plus, if it's anything like the Mexican restaurants around here, it's going to be loaded with completely unreasonable amounts of sodium and you're going to hold a ton of water weight for two days, then have to pee like every 5 minutes on the second day as your body lets go of all of it…

I log my weight every single day. It's a zig-zaggy line, and I get to see where it's "trending", rather than focusing on a single snapshot of it. If one Friday is a valley and the next is a peak, but over all I'm zig-zagging in a downhill direction, that's much more encouraging for me than if I had only those two Fridays…

I just log my weight every morning so I can watch all the little daily fluctuations in the graph and see the trends, rather than only looking at a weekly "snapshot" of the situation. Yes, some days it goes up or down by a whole pound, just because I had more sodium one day or because my girly hormones are getting their…

I have a serious addicition to the texture of cookies. Fruit does NOT scratch that itch. I feel your pain. See if you can get something that you can spread out/make last... like the 100 calorie packs of the mini Chips Ahoy or mini Oreos... or just some plain dark chocolate chips. If you can make a serving last all…

Mine does this! It's like he's allergic to pants! The only part about it that truly bugs me, though, is when he asks me to do a load of laundry for him (say, if I'm home and he's not) and "make sure you get some work shirts in there"... and I can never find any because they're scattered about all over god-knows-where. The…

Just me and hubs (actually, right now, we also have his brother living in our spare bedroom), so I only make one dinner... except every once in a while I'll have a night where I really want something that he hates (usually fish), so I'll make him a separate dish of something he loves that *I* hate (usually some big stinky…

Just track your calories and make sure you're doing so very accurately, and stay close to your calorie goal. Some days I go a bit over, but as long as I don't completely eliminate my deficit, I don't beat myself up about it. If you find that you're hungry, look for foods that keep you full longer: things with lots of…

I love love love coffee... but I can't have caffeine (sleep disorder... caffeine makes it angry) so I drink decaf :) Also, coffee's full of antioxidants. That has to count for something, right? Even if it did dehydrate you a bit (I agree that it doesn't), who cares? You're getting fluids elsewhere too, and even the coffee…

I bet developing the pecs under them has something to do with things, too.

Yeah, what she said. Cup size is relative to band size. You can't compare a "C" cup across several band sizes and expect it to be equivalent. I'm something like a 34 D-and-a-half :P 34D isn't enough cup, 34DD is too much cup... 36D is perfect with the band hooked on the tightest hook... but you know, it doesn't take long…

If you're logging coffee (no calories), and also logging the sugar and cream you added to it, and taking credit for that many ounces of water all in one fell swoop... that seems no different to me than logging each individual ingredient of the ketchup one at a time instead of lumping it all into a single "ketchup" entry.…

Logging water is a pain. Does the diuretic effect of caffeine completely cancel out the water in the coffee, or only part? How big a part? How much water is your body extracting from your food? Obviously, I have a much too analytical personality to log water! Maybe this is icky to some people... but just go off how yellow…

I eat sweets (especially chocolate and ice cream!) all the time, I just fit it into my calorie budget. I've only been on MFP a little over a week, but I was using a very similar app called "Lose It!" on my android phone last summer and lost 15 lbs with zero gym effort, and I was eating about the same way I am now... except…

I was taking an acidophilus supplement while on antibiotics for an ear infection a year ago... one of the caplets got caught in my throat and popped open and I coughed up a bunch of powder, some of which ended up inhaled into my lungs. Turns out, acidophilus likes lungs. Had this crazy infection for several days after…

I second this. Some people in my office swear by Epsom salts (I'm not sure why they were talking about this in the office) but I'm not interested in the "extreme cleanse - do it on a weekend when you don't have to be anywhere" situation they were describing.

Someone with a sense of humor similar to my husband's has clearly been fooling around with database's "Add Food" feature :P

I'm not buying things too small, but if I'm trying something on and I'm between sizes, I'll get the tighter one in anticipation of fitting it better later, rather than erring on the "room to grow" size like I used to. I did buy a pair of size 6 jeans that I could barely button, but that's because they were name-brand and…

You weren't... but other people do get that way. I quoted your post because you implied that cussing was "uneducated" and I wished to dispute that. I wasn't directly addressing your post the entire time; I just used it as a starting point.

Then why cut out a whole category of words and thus narrow your nice broad vocabulary? They're just words. I don't even understand how people can find enough substance in the "they're swear words" distinction to get all that worked up about it. What's going to happen if they go so mainstream that the concept of "swear…

^^ SO MUCH THIS Cussing does not necessarily mean verbal abuse, and verbal abuse does not necessarily mean cussing. The message itself is WAY more important than the vocabulary used to get that message across. Words only have the power you give them, and it's very possible to give VERY NASTY power to words that aren't…

There are theories about artificial sweeteners making your body crave MORE sweet things... keeps your "sweet tooth" more alive when normally you might get used to eating fewer sweets with your new lifestyle and eventually stop craving them. I've also heard other theories about the body expecting calories when it tastes…

Caffeine withdrawal is more about headaches than cravings... or at least it was for me. As for craving / being addicted to the fizz or aspartame or whatever, I don't know. But if you're giving up caffeine, apart from whether or not you give up soda, weaning can work. It's a personal decision on whether you want bad…

Coffee's full of antioxidants. It's the things we put IN coffee (cream, sugar, fancy Starbucks concoctions) that can make it bad. I love coffee and drink it almost every day (decaf... which is sacrilege to people who don't know I have a sleep disorder) but I'm picky about creamer and only use a bit and it goes in my…

Maybe you could wean yourself in stages? Like, for starters, say "no drinking soda at home." Then when that's comfortable, switch to "no soda at work", or "no soda at fast food restaurants (but sit-down restaurants are still ok)." I recently gave up drinking soda at my house... but for me, that was about 99% of my soda…

I find I only really notice that people are new when they're obviously being given a tour by a gym employee. And I have a tendency to absentmindedly watch them walk around the gym on the tour because it's something interesting for my eyes to rest on while I'm doing cardio. Then I realize I'm staring and get uncomfortable…

Also: borrow a few old towels from your parents to get you through for a few weeks, and wait for a good coupon/sale at Bed Bath & Beyond or something (I ended up using Kohl's), and get yourself a nice set of "house towels." Then you can give your mom her "drying the dog off after her bath" towels back. That way you can get…