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Chill out! It's one day, not the rest of your life. We've all slipped. The biggest thing here is to FORGIVE YOURSELF for eating crap/late at night/too much/et cetera and MOVE ON. Do better tomorrow. I had a day last week where I nearly hit 3,000 calories (my daily goal was 1,330 at the time) -- and half of the overage was…

You'll adjust... but if it's persisting for an abnormally long period of time, you may have a UTI. A visit to the doc could be in order.

There's a "strength training" option IN the Cardio Exercise area. I remember reading somewhere that it's very difficult to estimate calories burned for strength training, so that's why the site doesn't register calorie burns for it. You can always use a HRM (or look up calorie burn elsewhere online) and quick-add your…

Eat them. I'm a night owl with a completely irregular schedule... breakfast is the first meal I eat, lunch the second, and dinner the third. I regularly eat breakfast between 2-4pm and dinner around 11-midnight... but I'm also up (and usually active) until about 4am. But that changes... some days I have stuff to do early…

A few ways I've found around that, most of which have nothing to do with each other: 1. LOG THE BAD DAYS. It helps, I swear. When you look at it and feel shameful, that's okay... but how proud will you feel the next day if/when you meet your goal? It's great for tracking progress AND pinpointing triggers (which are a big…

i would work out for a day straight if i could eat a box of Samoas right now

Yep!!

My dad does this to me all the time (I work with him and see him several times weekly). I've had an up and down weight loss battle for the last several years. He lacks a little tact, and will talk to me about personal trainers and eating healthy when I'm heavy, and then when I start to drop weight he'll ask if I'm eating…

I don't think ~200 calories is really going to cause her problems... like she said, that's an estimate of what she plans to eat. She's allowing room for excess or a calculation error. I'm sure it will vary day to day; my meal plans are usually about 1,200 cals in total and some days I barely make 1,000 after exercise, but…

I'm with you... I'm 26 and I used to literally pour salt into my hand and lick it off. I love salt. It's sick.

This sounds like a lot of depression. My best advice would be to seek therapy so you can work through childhood (and later) issues by talking about them. If you don't have a friend or family member to talk these things out with honestly and openly, try a psychologist or a therapist first before a psychiatrist (a doctor who…

Great job! I can totally see major result. Congrats!!!

Not sure to how to help with the food situation, but exercising at home is easy... except for walking the dog, I *always* exercise at home, indoors. There are tons of workout videos you can follow along with on YouTube, or you can just make your own exercise regimen. On days when I don't feel like doing a video, I usually…

I have the same problem... with whisky and wine (not a regular beer drinker). If you're drinking beer because you enjoy the taste, limit yourself to one or two, and make sure you exercise more on the days you plan to indulge to compensate for the calorie overload. If you're drinking because you're a drinker, enjoy that one…

I have no clue!! I do a banana with breakfast every single morning... I don't get much potassium otherwise... I'm a vitamin C junkie (hence eating a whole lemon), when I want a sweet snack at the end of the day it's always fruit... I just can't bring myself to believe that something so natural could be bad. :(

The shred is Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred, a workout DVD/video download (JM is the lady trainer from Biggest Loser). Three levels of super intense circuit-ish training. I just started it too, but don't plan on doing the 30 days consecutively (my schedule doesn't allow for it). Google it! It's intense and kinda fun. :)

I know!! I'm already down almost 6lbs after only two weeks (my second "official" weigh-in and measuring is tomorrow morning, or in about 8 hours). I feel better, I have more energy, and this community is making me look forward to visiting the site and logging every day. Go MFPeople!! Hee. Congrats on your progress!!

I have to agree with Mads... even though you're eating less, you're not putting such great stuff into your body. Also, the "morning&afternoon" title, as well as the amount of calories associated with it, concerns me... you need to make sure to eat throughout the day, not starve yourself and save all of those calories for…

I have the same problem... My boyfriend and I are on a very strict grocery budget (<$50/week for two adults), and it's made harder by the fact that I can't eat meat and he can't not eat meat... We've found that making a weekly meal plan makes it much easier to shop, because you know exactly what you need for that week and…

congrats!!! your progress is amazing, you should be super proud. :)

I hereby join and adore this thread. Two girls who work at the late-hour bar down the block from me (closes at 4am M-F and 5am on Saturdays) suggested this app and that's why I'm here.... we were just discussing the other night how exciting it is when you have that one extra drink you probably shouldn't and put it into…

Great job so far and hello! Cool user pic. :)

My mom bought me an e-cig thing for the holidays a couple years ago. It's GREAT for cutting down, or places you can't smoke, etc. It's not exactly the same, but it certainly does fill the void at those awful times. However, I don't think I (personally) would ever use it to try to quit. It's not even really marketed as a…

One day is not a big deal! Chill out and be proud of yourself for other progress so far. As for your family -- yep, it's time to have that talk with them. Perhaps your decision to take control of your health will inspire them to do the same. :)

Congrats!!

Most alcohol has roughly the same calorie content by volume, because the calorie content comes from the alcohol content, which your body basically breaks down as sugar. Vodka is the lowest by a few calories (about 64 per ounce depending on the brand and flavour), but most other hard liquors are about the same (whiskies and…

I'm not an official lesbian (whatever that means -- I'm living with a man), but most of my female friends are so there's gotta be something about me that lesbians like... if you need a friend on here, add me. :)

I feel ya. I work in the music industry so I wake up around 2pm and go to bed around 6am daily... I tend to count breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc as the meals in the order in which they occur. It's kind of a pain constantly hitting the back button to get it on the right day with the app or the website, but I've gotten used…

didn't realize girldog was a no-no word, sorry about that

I think it frustrates me primarily because I can't afford a gym membership, or to stock my fridge with healthy foods like they do... let alone the ability to take 6 months out of my life (and work) to focus on my health... and to listen to some of them ***** and moan about how hard it is while they're there, I just wanna…