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Curious too! I'm going to google it, but would like to know about people's experience with it..

One time a friend of mine told me that I might be losing too much weight (back when I was around 135). I replay that moment in my head as if I had been awarded the Nobel prize.

It's really hard to say without meeting her why she would make that comment. But what I have found in my weight journey is that you should find where you are happy with yourself, and take anything that anyone else says with a grain of salt. For too long I let other people's perceptions of me control my thinking about…

You look awesome! And I agree with your food philosophy. Thanks for your story!

This^ I have heard that diet drinks can increase appetite, especially for sweet stuff. I just drink water or seltzer. Black coffee or tea would probably be okay too.

That's interesting! I guessed myself 7.5% too big!

Thanks!

Based on this, do you think that it is better to buy a body fat scale? I hadn't heard this info. (to include body fat percentage in order to calculate TDEE)..

Yes, produce is expensive. My kids won't eat a whole lot of produce--really just lettuce, celery and carrots. Celery and carrots are pretty cheap. I don't necessarily buy "organic", but I really don't think that I need to. They will eat pasta, rice and eggs, which are pretty cheap. A pack of pasta is about $1.29 and I can…

Yeah, that part really bothered me too. I don't spend money on highlights BECAUSE I prefer to spend money to eat healthy food. And frankly, anyone who can afford $300 for highlights probably doesn't eat McD's not b/c of it's nutritional value or lack thereof, but b/c if you have that kind of money you're going to eat at…

That's wonderful! It is inspiring to hear about people maintaining.

A lack of education does not necessarily imply ignorance. People from all socioeconomic backgrounds eat fast food. And there are people with little education who eat healthy food. Correlation does not equal causation.

There is a book by Barbara Ehrenreich called "Nickle and Dimed". It gave me a lot of insight into poverty, and some of the choices that being poor takes away. There are many people who live in areas with no supermarkets, just little marts that only have prepackaged items. Or there are people who live in weekly motels and…

I completely agree. And I would eat about anything that I didn't have to prepare--some days I get so tired of cooking! I don't think that we should blame fast food for our issues, I think that we just need to be more careful with our food choices in general..

No one. The article was presenting it as a cheap alternative, which it isn't. The cost to eat there 3 times in one day is equivalent to about half a weeks groceries for me.

This!^^^We are a family of 6 (although the baby is still just eating baby food) but if we had 3 meals per day of fast food it would probably run us about $75 (maybe more)...how is that cheap?

I thought the same thing!

My husband is from Siracusa!

Russian Jewish, Danish, German, and maybe some Scottish or English? (We're not sure where my great grandmother's family was originally from--her last name was Barton..)

I thought I was fat at 135. Now when I look at pictures I don't know what I was thinking....Don't be so hard on yourself--you look great!

I saw a tip from Jillian Michaels to keep sodium at around 1500/day b/c she says that you can really retain a lot of water in that area...

This!^^^

Add me! I want to try the 30DS again...the first time I had to stop b/c I was really sore, but I want to get through it! I would also like to lose 8-10 in August:)

This! ^^^I went to a Japanese steakhouse, and some woman at our table was on her phone texting the entire meal...she barely even ate...why even spend the $25? But that's her right, and I really don't think that I'm going to change anything by getting upset about it.. And the profane language makes me angry as well...with…

I thought it was clever..not hilarious, but clever. So where do you go, the Russian Tea Room?

Applebee's is not a really nice/expensive restaurant...

It's probably for the best!

I have never gone out to eat and encountered "screaming" children...for the most part they seem pretty well behaved. I have worked and eaten in restaurants for years. Sometimes they might make a mess under the table (which I try to not let my kids do, although there is inevitable droppage) but if you are not the waitstaff…

I was thinking about that!

But then there wouldn't be any kids to slap....Really...just asking the parents to ask the kid to stop would've been too difficult?