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1 mile last week (before the summer cold) and 7 miles today

Your friend can eat a lot more foods than my son can. He has EPE/SED (Extreme Picky Eating/Selective Eating Disorder) of which being a super taster and having a heightened sense of smell is just a part. All a person like that can do is track calories, macros, etc. (We track to make sure our son continues to gain weight and…

I despise oatmeal :noway: but do add oats whenever I made homemade bread. :smile: As for your oatmeal and wheat berries gifts, looks like your friend (relative?) was rotating or getting rid of) their preps. I see those buckets in a catalog I get every month. :smile:

98% of my 5+ hours of exercise each week is via the Walk Away the Pounds videos. I'll mix it up with Richard Simmons and a walk in the house for the rest of the time. Tomorrow I'll be walking while my son is at a competition. One day, I hope to be able to run, assuming my knees & back can handle it, but for now, it's…

Thank you! :) :flowerforyou: I have a teenage son with a bottomless pit for a stomach, so it's a constant flow of pizza, full fat hot dogs, chips (not too often, but enough,) McDonald's, etc. (Before I get ragged on for feeding my son these things, note that I've posted about his eating disorder before.) Plus, I'm back on…

Another WATP vigorous miles 5 down. Not sure how I'm going to calculate my walk around town tomorrow though as my pedometer sucks & always short changes me. :grumble:

I took my measurements today. My first set was July 12. I'm down 1 1/2 inches in my hips. That's it. My pants feel a lot looser. I've had to go down a belt notch, but according to the tape measure, just that one thing is down. Waist, boobs, & C-section belly didn't budge. I think I didn't take my measurements the first day…

Late to check in today.

Great topic. Thanks to the OP and all who responded. I needed to hear this too. :flowerforyou:

That's exactly who I was going to mention. :flowerforyou: I did his Sweatin' to the Oldies video today for my workout. He has people of all sizes in his videos, is so upbeat, and honestly cares about people. His routines aren't easy, but he's so perky and encouraging, and seeing other folks at your own size doing the same…

Every time I peak into this thread, all I can think of is how much I hate most store bought cakes. Even if someone like a relative kept insisting they buy one for me, I still wouldn't eat it. :noway: I'd *maybe* take 1 "polite" tiny bite if someone was looking at me and the cake was a flavor I generally like, but…

My MFP goal is 1 hr of exercise 5 days a week. I try for more and tend to workout 6 days a week with 2-3 of those days being more than an hour, sometimes up to 2 hours. All cardio except for the occasional "walk at a fast pace through my house for an hour because I can't walk outside" day and basic dumbell weight lifting.…

WTF? :noway: Most people aren't even off of work, let alone home, by that time to start making dinner. Bet your doc eats after 5 pm considering he/she probably has late office hours and sees patients at the hospital. Sorry, just had to jump on this one. It's the earliest "don't eat after a certain time" I've ever heard of.…

Morning coffee pre-workout: 1 generous tsp instant coffee, same for vanilla cappuccino mix, 1/4 cup 1% milk Workout: water Breakfast after workout: 1/2 cup 365 organic raisin bran, 1 sliced banana, 1/2 cup 1% milk

Butt-length, though waist-length when braided which is pretty much all the time. Normally it's light brown, but in June my teenage son swore that I was going gray just above my ears. So I figured if I had to dye and if hub & I were taking him to his first Pride festival, I'd go full rainbow. He wouldn't look at me for…

When I did WW 12 or so years ago, they touted 0 Point Soup of which the main ingredient was cabbage. I remember making huge batches of it and freezing it. Hub and I ate so much of it because hey, it was 0 points and didn't add to your daily total! :sick: ETA: This is NOT bashing WW. I was adding to those groaning about…

^^ So this! ETA: Don't eat after 7 (or 9) pm. Yet no one would ever tell me what that means to an uber-night owl like myself who often doesn't go to bed till 3 am or later. I'd be starving most of the evening if I followed that advice.:cry: My in-laws did Atkins once years ago and were pissed that hub and I refused to eat…

This will be my first challenge too. :smile: I have a great new Walk Away the Pounds dvd that has 5 miles on it. It's supposed to be a mile per day, but I've been doing all 5 and planned on doing it 4 days a week. This will be a great challenge to make sure I stick to it.

Sorry for not reading through all the pages of replies. I hate it too and just don't understand the hype about it aside from that it's packed with protein. The texture is way too thick! :noway: That being said, Target had some Siggi, Iceland style yogurt on sale once and I bought a ton. It's thick (label says 3 times the…

My 15 yr old son keeps me young. We joke that I'm really 12. :tongue: Folks mentioned embracing their grey hair. I did the opposite. In June, son pointed out that I had grey hair above my ears. I denied it. He insisted and started laughing. I "got him back" by figuring that if I had to dye my hair anyway and was taking him…

I could have written the above too! :flowerforyou: I first did WW meetings about 12 years ago, lost close to 60 lbs, and gave up when I plateaued for over a month and all they could tell me was to "keep trying for those last few pounds to reach goal" even though I was thrilled with how I looked and wasn't that what they…

I've always been amazed by those that can parent, let alone homeschool, more than one. We school year round and hate summer, so it's the usual for us - me nagging my 15 yr old to get off his computer game(s) if he wants to have time to read his law books after his other subjects. He wants to get his GED at age 16, but…

Adding that in the 3 mile which focuses on legs, the squats and thrusts may be hard on the knees for some folks. They were a bit painful for me, but not overly so. Just wanted to mention this since before I'd made it sound completely knee friendly.

Thanks. :flowerforyou: To be honest, I hadn't even thought about homeless shelters for LGBTQ youth until there were multiple reblogs on my tumblr dash of a post mentioning that the Ali Forney Center in NYC had an Amazon wishlist of undergarments, shoes, etc. including binders for those who are FTM trans+. It made me aware…

OMGosh! So sorry! ((hugs)) For your dad...:explode: :mad: Ugh, the steroids! They would make my son bloated too. Before our hospital got it's own pediatric ER, we'd get angry looks from hospital staff and visitors because our kid would be so jumpy that my hub would take him for little walks with his monitor trailing beside…

So this! So very, very much this! Before our son got diagnosed with his eating disorder, we also used McDonald's as a treat. He was in the hospital for asthma so often from birth to age 6. To make the emergency trip to the ER, which often resulted in a week-long stay in the pediatric unit better, he got a treat. Obviously,…

My son has a rare/little known eating disorder called Extreme Picky Eating/Selective Eating Disorder that I talked about here (about 18 posts down): http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1044015-some-lunch-ideas-vegetables What others consider junk, he literally needs to live because it's the only way he can get enough…

Glad to see I'm not the only Firefly fan. :) I have more than one Firefly t-shirt and the really cool travel poster sets. :heart: Forgot one - Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Since folks are talking about 80's shows (my childhood!) anyone remember "Stingray?" I LOVED that show & have it on DVD now.

Firefly, Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, and Farscape - the four off the top of my head.

Thank you! I loved it! Hub & I want to throw our son an Ugly Betty, "We know you're gay & that's okay!" party when he decides his next orientation (whatever that is.) It's like, "Come on already! I've already bought the rainbow crepe paper and have a whole Party City wishlist." LOL! It's not like our living room/homeschool…