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I absolutely feel like I am going to pass out if I try working out before I eat, and also if I don't eat enough before a hard/long workout. It starts with dizziness and lightheadedness usually. And it takes a long time for me to recover if I let that happen (like most of the day is shot).

Kettlebells workouts are SO fun. My favorite dvd is Jillian Michael's, but I love her so that might color my opinion. ;) The one issue with KBs is they are kinda expensive and as your progress (which happens quickly if you are using them often enough) you need heavier ones and the heavier they get the more pricey they are…

Well, that's a relief. LOL :)

I hope you guys are right. I would much rather have lost water weight than muscle weight. Though I do prefer my fantasy world where it was mostly fat and is now gone forever. :p

I'm happy with the taste of 0% greek yogurt, so that's what I buy. I save the fattier dairy products forwhere I really appreciate the fuller taste: cheese and sour cream!

Certainly not making any special dishes, unless you count my EPIC homemade mac and cheese that is full of sour cream and crunchy bacon. NOM! Been looking forward to that for months. I'll work out in the morning so I can eat what I please for dinner. Lots of turkey, my mac & cheese, green beans (regular, not that casserole…

A normal day of activity for me involves a lot of tidying up the house kind of stuff (four kids) and a couple errands. Without trying I can get 8000. Some nights I'll jog in place while watching tv or trot a loop through my house to get to 10K before bed. edited to add: I habitually park at the back of all parking lots…

Grande iced vanilla latte. Thanks!

I aim for a 400-500 calorie breakfast. That keeps me feeling great until lunch and helps control my hunger in the afternoon also (afternoon can be my snack-attack time period). On the days I don't feel like eating much a breakfast (rare, but it happens), and I can barely choke down a container of greek yogurt, those are…

That's me with Baked Cheetos (the regular ones don't have as appealing of a texture, imo, so I prefer the baked version). I just can't stop eating them if they are in the house. So I just don't bring them in the house. There is nothing redeeming about them, so I don't feel like I'm losing out by avoiding them or anything.

Totally depends on my mood and the time of day for me. craving a salty snack: - a pack from my Graze box - roasted almonds - Everything Crackers from Trader Joes - pumpkin seeds sweet snack: - fresh pineapple - apple - dark chocolate needing a snack due to hunger to tide me over to a mealtime: - slice of cheddar cheese -…

Their bacon is amazing.

Nuts and seeds.

I do use my immersion blender often. It is wonderful for making soups. I'll use it to make vinaigrettes sometimes too, whipping up some "healthier" chocolate milk for the kids (milk, cocoa powder, vanilla, organic sugar). To make single-serve smoothies or protein shakes I use my regular blender and a Mason jar. A standard…

I'm 5'11" and weigh 243. My BMR is 1830. I eat around 1900-2000 calories a day, usually. I never eat below my BMR. Rarely, maybe once a month, I'll eat at maintenance calories for one day. Which for me is 2500-2800. I work out every day and never log in less than 10,000 steps in a day.

This is very petty, but reading people misusing/being ignorant of the difference between loose and lose. You do not "loose weight" people!

Ugh, yes. I lost 50 of the 70 I wanted. And then health issues required me to go on birth control, which turned into a carousel of trying different birth control pills (4 varieties in three months), and a couple of them turned me into an eating machine. My hormones were out of control and my cravings for all things junky…

In my case I became deathly ill, had a long recovery in which I could do little more than lay on the couch all day. For months. I maintained my weight during that stretch. Had to then take a merry-go-round of meds which led me to a quick gain of over 20 pounds (in only three months).

I say yes. Weight Watchers lets you use earned exercise points anytime within that week. Same difference.

Fruit - yes, always. Every bit of it. Veggies - not all. I count the starchy ones and ones with more sugar - carrots, potatoes, corn (which is really a grain, I know), tomatoes. I don't count dark greens like spinach or kale.

I'm going through it for the 2nd time - my first round was last summer. I take rest days when I'm feeling worn down or super sore. I had to take take a rest on my 3rd day this time around because my quads were dying. After that rest day I was able to feel much more energetic and my form was so much better. I went from…

HOLY COW!!!! You look like a teenager now! Amazing. Well done and congratulations!!!! :happy:

I wear it on my bra strap and the only time I have a bit of an issue with it there is when I'm giving my kids a bath. There is something in the way I lean over the tub that makes it start pushing up to the point I'm afraid it could fall off (and into the water - yikes). It's not a problem when I lean over to pick things up…

I used BMF for about a year, then switched to a FitBit. I prefer the FitBit. The online dashboard/activity reports are a little more user-friendly and interesting to me. Their site is overall more user friendly. My stats from FitBit mirror what the BMF spit out, almost exactly. While I love my BMF in the beginning, and for…

Awesome. Good for you! Great story. Good luck on your marathon!

Check out the documentary Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead on Netflix. It follows a couple people who radically turned their health around from juicing. It was really amazing. I immediately started comparing juicers on Amazon after watching it!

I'm a weirdo, but bran flakes have been my favorite cereal for as long as I can remember. As a little kid I was bummed there were never toys in my cereal boxes, but that didn't bother me enough to choose a different kind at the grocery store. :) These days I buy Paul Newman's Organic Honey Flax Bran Flakes and the cheapy…

I have four kids too and going to the gym is just about the only way I CAN exercise. I can put them in the gym childcare rooms easily. I'd love to be able to walk and run outside in nice weather and it kills me to be trapped in the stuffy gym on nice weather days, but it's usually my only option. When I have to workout at…

Not worried about Halloween. I don't really have any affection (anymore) for all that cheapy candy crap. I AM dreading Christmas though - cookies and yummy baked treats, the cold weather kicking in my longing for hot chocolate and froofy coffee drinks... that's going to my big test.

WOW!!! SO inspiring! SO motivating!! I, literally, took one look at your photos, got up from my computer and worked my arms for 20 minutes, then came back to say CONGRATULATIONS to you!! :bigsmile: Awesome work, girl!!!