meganjcallaghan Member

Like people have said, part of the problem for many is that they see the goal weight as the end of the road. Like you "only" have to utilize the tools that MFP or other programs have to offer until you hit that goal and then you've succeeded and the work is done. I hear people say all the time..." I couldn't POSSibly count…

as far as I know if you don't log or don't complete it shouldn't disappear. I've done that. it either shows up blank if I didn't log anything or it shows what I logged but the "complete" button is still there waiting for me to finish up the day after the fact.

i'm ridiculously ravenously hungry in the week leading up to "lady time" and apparently you do tend to burn a little more in those days....could that be it?

You'll need to eat a little above maintenance and get into some lifting. I don't do that, myself....so I can't tell you much beyond that...but that's the general idea

oh ok. I just wondered because when I started I went pretty restrictive on sodium etc to begin with (which might happen for you just from going vegan, depending on how much processed stuff you have), not realizing I should have been having more because of how much I run and it ended up screwing up my sodium/potassium…

this is what I'M wondering. I suspect y'all are going to have to trawl the sideshow circuit if you want multiple sets of lady-bits on one girl.

more than ONE?!??

I'm a bottomless pit in the week leading up to "lady time"....don't suppose that could be it...

I'm heading on vacation to the UK for a month. I don't have room to pack scales but I am bringing my running stuff and my polar.

6.22 gold bars

I'm gettin' all excited to add to my "travel" tattoo next month. Found a place near the hostel I'm staying at in Dublin where I'll get my ireland addition of maybe a shamrock with an image on it of the passport stamp with date of entry.

Ditto....though my issue is that now I feel like a walking false advertisement. The excess skin makes my body look grosser than it ever did as a fat person. Everyone says "But you look good in clothes", or "but you can't tell with clothes on" (this depends on which clothes....if I wear clothes that cover the majority of my…

haha....bizarre. Maybe it's just me. It's hard to see my arm muscles under the skin curtains, but I've got guns under the drapery. And my leg muscles are ginormous from running. Last summer I thought "gosh, it's hot out" and I had finally found a bathing suit that sort of worked (harder to find one that doesn't look gross…

Do you find it any harder to swim now because of less buoyancy? At 300+ pounds I could swim like nobody's business....Now it doesn't matter how much effort I put in...I sink like a rock.

I went from not being able to go more than a minute (partially because of shin splints) to being able to knock out a half marathon distance on a regular basis without much trouble at all (it all starts to feel the same after you've gone 8 or 10k anyway). I didn't use a program or anything, though I'm sure there are good…

I was doing pretty vigorous cardio (running at least 5k at a stretch) by 250. Your weight isn't necessarily going to have any bearing on what you can and can't do so much as your stamina....which you would have to gradually build up anyway whether you were 250 or 120 pounds. If you have joint issues because of weight…

Just curious...how's your blood pressure?

would like to but i'm too poor for a gym membership so i can't do much more than stuff using my own body weight which doesn't seem to do much for me, unfortunately. i mean....the surgeon who yoinked my kidney said he "noticed my abs"....but i guess you have to go inside behind the skin drapery with a tiny camera to get any…

I get this sometimes, but oddly enough, once I dry off you can't smell it anymore. I go back to smelling like my body wash and my clothes go back to smelling like my laundry detergent. I thought I must be imagining things and it was wishful thinking that I didn't stink, but my brave (and exceedingly honest) co-worker took…

indeed. at 137 I'm a little below my goal weight. Unfortunately, even at this weight certain "functions" one should experience as a female no longer occur, so I'll have to go back up a couple pounds. So my options are to feel fat and flabby and NOT mess up my hormones so much that I end up with early onset osteoporosis, or…

a tiny bit might be due to inaccuracy of calorie estimates, but as others have said, flying causes water retention and can take a day or two to come back off. Also your lunches sound like they were probably higher in sodium than you might normally have (seafood in general is higher in sodium than other meats and pretty…

Haha...if it was the journalist I might have gotten past it, but they attributed the quote to a "Dr Ginni Mansberg". Someone who pays that much for an education should definitely know better. lol.

the article lost me at "muscle weighs more than fat".

Time to head to the doctor...for various reasons. Don't bother getting a scale at this point. Not a good idea for someone having issues with disordered eating. Time to focus on a healthier mindset rather than weight.

whether or not this would work would depend on the individual, I suppose. I, for example, can probably count on one hand the number of times I've actually felt hungry and have often actually forgotten to eat for days at a time when I've been so busy that I would have needed to feel hungry in order to remember I've gone…

mine is open and usually full of delicious treats. I have what might be considered a "shamefully" junk-filled diet...if I actually gave a rat's about such things ;)

I teach. I have no need for motivation but I'm always up for adding like-minded folks with similar interests.

don't worry. i'd keep you alive.

depends. you any good as a survivalist? making fire, fishing, devising rain water collection methods, hunting and skinning wild animals for meat.....etc?

this just means you're not eating fewer calories than you burn. can't see your food diary, but are you weighing solids and measuring liquids?