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Could you swap the banana for a carton of lowfat yogurt? The calories are similar, and it would add some protein and cut the sugar by about 20g, if I'm reading Google correctly.

Thanks. That genuinely makes me feel better.

She has the right to feel what she feels. However, you know what's going to happen if you quit eating chocolate bars and chips and start eating fruit and brown rice? You're gonna take in fewer calories. Of course, people don't need to pay a fitness coach to find out how to count calories -- everyone's known how to do it…

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I bet it would end up being about the same as putting a tablespoon of applesauce in the cup. Might be interesting, actually. Let us know how it goes.

Three and a half months. And then I stalled out, and for the last two months and a bit I've been losing and regaining the same five pounds.So that's fun. But the first 25 came off pretty quickly!

You're a healthy weight now. Keep exercising to improve your muscle tone, but I'd say you should be eating at a maintenance level and definitely not trying to starve yourself.

That is a hard situation. I'd put my computer as far from the kitchen as I could and make sure there was no clear line of sight from my desk to where the snacks are. You could also rely on gum, sugar-free mints, tea, seltzer ... anything so you get the sensation of putting something in your mouth without consuming…

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The recommendation is once a week. That said, I personally weigh in almost every day. (Though I only log once a week or when there's a significant change.) Just getting on the scale in the morning helps keep me on track -- even if I know logically a two-pound gain overnight is almost certainly poop or water weight, having…

Based on your journal, I'd say you might want to try cutting back on the fast food. Yes, Subway is a better option than KFC, but it's still processed and probably full of sodium. Try packing your work lunches. You may also want to take a look at your snacking -- if it works for you, that's great, but it's easy to…

I agree that 800-1000 a day is probably not enough for the long haul if you're accurate. That said -- any chance this is water weight? Plenty of women vary by up to five pounds over the course of a month thanks to bloating and the like.

I won't lie, to me that would feel kind of weird -- like I was a kid and my husband was my dad. Besides, if you're married, isn't it your money too? But hey, if it works for you it works for you. Good luck.

Honest question: Are you just talking, or do you seriously want to be yelled at? Mine is open to friends because I like the support, and I'd open it more broadly if I needed public input because I was stalled or whatever, but I'm really not in this to be criticized. I'd hope if I ate a brownie, my friends would assume I…

I asked people on Facebook what WL/diet app they liked and a couple smart people recommended this. Pretty straightforward.

So eating at a deficit and exercising a lot leads to weight loss, no matter where you buy your food. Knock me over with a feather.

A month and four days. Exercise-wise, I was walking about half an hour every night.

I was at 191.4 on Dec. 13 and 196.8 this morning. I think some of it is water weight, but it's still depressing to watch the scale go back up :-(.

I would bet a nickle half the people in this thread either work for Optifast or got some kind of incentive from them to post here. Please cut it out.

Honestly I can't imagine caring about this. It's nice when someone likes my statuses, sure, but I don't go through and make the effort to like or comment on every. single. status. on my feed, so why should I expect people to do it for me? This is like getting upset when somebody on Facebook doesn't wish you a happy…

Is there any reason you can't bring a meal? Free food is awesome, but school lunches (as I know you know) are designed to a)be cheap for the state and b) fill up kids who may not get much to eat at home. Neither of those things is exactly diet-friendly. If you really need to eat what the school gives you, I think your…

I put on two but -- TMI alert-- my period's due in a few days. I'm really hoping it melts off after that, especially since I've been pretty much plateau'd since Thanksgiving :-(.

I got the Flex for Christmas and I like it. I had a few problems setting up the app at first, but nothing I couldn't power through. And I love having the 10,000 steps goal.

Yup, this. I try not to overdo it, but in moderation diet soda hardly counts as a vice at all.

Advice: Stop telling your mom what you weigh. If you're older than 12 and reasonably healthy, it is in no way her business. I'd probably say something like "it's slow but steady" or "I'm feeling really healthy, thanks," and then change the subject.

I've been logging for 140+ days now and I REALLY don't want to break the streak. The day I had my gallbladder out, I logged half a glass of apple juice pre-surgery just to make sure I wouldn't end up with an empty diary if I ended up too sleepy/sick to get online the rest of the day. I agree with what a lot of other people…

My goal is to be at 140 by my birthday in September. I'm at about 192 right now -- 28 down, 52 to go Even if the scale stops moving, I'd like to get some type of aerobic exercise for at least 30 minutes, four times a week.

I think even when you KNOW it's hormones or poop or whatever, it still sucks to see the scale moving the wrong direction. That said, I agree the "oh noes the scale went up 2/3 of a pound HELP" posts are tedious.

Probably. I may not be a hundred percent accurate because logging every little snack gets tedious after a while, but I'll give it a good try. I don't like writing days off entirely.

For what it's worth, Google says McDonalds started supersizing in 1994 and dropped it in 2004. I was a teenager in the 90s; from what I remember, there was a lot more junk and a lot fewer healthy options in the 90s -- e.g., fast food salads 20 years ago were truly disgusting. We have things like Double Downs at KFC and…