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Great job everyone! And congrats to the now preggo mama! :) In 6 weeks: -1.75 inches from my waist/navel -4 inches from my midsection -I have a pear size body type so I have a difficult time finding just the right jeans, but have noticed loose pants lately - I was wearing 13/15 pants, and today I have on size 11 -BF two…

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Thanks for the reassurance everyone! As well as the drink ideas! :)

Haha! I've heard this plenty of times...

Your body may be retaining water...are you drinking enough water? At least 8 - 8oz glasses...

Thanks for the link!!!

I just love them!!

Thanks for the clarification!!! *Edit: I would love to drop about 20lbs

Thank you for that!! Ok so if 3500 calories is a pound...then I'm only losing about 1/2 pound a week if I don't work out and eat 1500 calories a day right? (TDEE-1500=253x7=1771) So what happens if I eat back half of my calories burned through exercise...do I only calculate the part I don't eat back?

Me too! I love steel cut oats. It takes a bit longer to cook, but I love them! After it's done I add fresh fruit (1/2c) and sprinkle cinnamon. I'm seeing a lot of posts saying they add eggs in theirs - I'm going to try this because I'm not a big fan of eggs...hope it's good...

What's the quickest way to cook a sweet potato???

Great post! I wondered about this too...whether to hit your calories' goal or marcos? I usually do well with staying within my calories per day, but I have hard time meeting my marcos :/

I was also getting discouraged because I don't SEE any changes in my body...yesterday I went to see my nutritionist and I lost 4 lbs in 3 weeks...I was expecting more I guess, but it's better than nothing! But then he said I also lost 2% body fat!!! <----Knowing this made me feel like all my hard work IS worth it and it…

Thank you for the tips!! I may just slow down a bit on those or use smaller weights - currently using 5lb weights in those workouts - I couldn't tell what weights she was using...

Thanks for the info everyone! I found a very helpful article about water retention when you start a new exercise program! I will not lose faith!

I started this (30DS) a couple of days ago...first day I felt great afterwards...second day my knees were killing me!!! Not sure what happened...maybe I did the lunges wrong or something? Has anyone else injured themselves with this?

I'm pretty good about drinking about 120 oz per day. I do better during the week (at work) than on the weekends at home. :/

Head to your local GNC store or vitamin store...they have liquid fish oil that tastes like starbursts!! I bought one from MaxMuscle called Essential Omega.

Sounds yummy! Thanks! One of my favs is Chipotle Shrimp Tacos: 1 Bag of frozen shrimp (or fresh) 3-4 chipotle peppers (chopped) in adobe sauce (add more peppers for more spice) 2 slices of turkey bacon (chopped) Lettuce wraps or corn tortillas -Cook turkey bacon thoroughly with chipotle peppers - then add shrimp and heat…

If you're eating 1200 and burning 300...you are already at 900...too low already... you need to add more healthy calories to your diet. I would add 300.

If you are consuming 1200 calories...are they coming from healthy foods? Are you exercising?

I'm like you...I don't want to make my own pizza...plus I want it to taste like good ol' pizza and not a substitute! IF I do eat pizza, I will only eat 1 or 2 slices with a large salad on the side - sometimes it just depends how many calories I have to work with and whether or not I'm going to work out. :)

Why do you want to cut out more calories?

I hear ya! What I meant by "eating light" was on the days where I'm not that hungry I'm around 1200 cal...but the 1550 cal are also coming from clean eating!

I don't think I ever ate this much veggies, fruit and lean meat in my whole life! I definitely FEEL better!! My goal is 1550 calories a day (40/30/30), but if I eat light...I'm around 1200 calories...not sure if that's good or not???

I take a 10 second break after completing every 50 at once and then go at it again. If I can do more than 50 then I will...but my break is never longer than 10 seconds. I'm on Day 9 - I'm only using 5lb weights with my squats.

All that hard work paid off! You look GREAT!!! :)

I took ideas from this post, and made some steel cut oats (1/4c dry) added 3 fresh strawberries, 1/2 a banana, cinnamon sprinkle, and a small drizzle of honey! Yum yum yum! On to the next idea for tomorrow!

This. I like the idea of adding 1 whole egg with egg whites (I really don't care for just egg whites). I'm getting TONS of ideas...THANKS EVERYONE!!

@tkillion810 - Foreman grill? Do they stick at all? I always wanted to try them on there...