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I've had the Fitbit Ultra for about 8 months now and I love it. It is motivating and fun to see how different activities increase your overall daily count for steps and stairs. Climbing hills counts as stairs, also neat to watch.. Many people prefer a heart rate monitor because they want a more specific count of calories…

:laugh: Thank you.

And, done! Thanks for the challenge :wink:

IN!

Great topic of conversation! My thoughts: Citizens United should be overturned. Move to Amend is the organization leading this effort. The idea is to abolish corporate personhood, which is the law that allows corporations to be given the same rights as individuals and further defines "free speech" to include money given by…

Usually off on Fridays--Working for a few hours to catch up on a few things. MFP is not supposed to be one of them... Off I go...:wink:

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Bump for later. Thanks!

Cheers to your honesty :wink: I have struggled with binge eating/emotional eating for years. I used to "diet," and certainly had the yo-yo effect going on for a number of years. I've learned a lot since then and have much more realistic expectations about weight loss and a healthier relationship with food (and healthier…

I say, "Pants," and point to the floor and it's on. Truth. LOL. While that is true, we actually e both initiate. Someone else posted that they always wanna go in the middle of the day. That's me. He always tries to initiate at night and that is very hit or miss with me. Bottom line: Threatening to end a relationship is no…

I second this motion. Delicious with some nice protein to boot!

^^This. I did the same ting, though it was called Debt Counseling Corp. It is also a nonprofit and only $13 of my $220 payments went to them. I was only behind on one card, but it was one with a high balance and it threw everything off. They negotiated my interest rates down from an average of 19-28% to 0-8%, so most of my…

I have one. i do love it, but MFP has some kinks still in syncing with the Fitbit. I have the same issues mentioned by other posters and there are a few suggestions in the forums to the MFP gods to put a manual sync button on MFP to make it easier, but we shall see what comes of that. Other than the syncing issue, I love…

Amazing! Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work!

Depends, but I've mostly been obsessively neat and compulsively clean. I started letting things slide in college, just to maintain my sanity. I like being able to overlook the mess when I need to if life is too busy to keep a perfect house. To the person that loves their new reorganized pantry-- I can relate. When I…

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Bump-Great topic. I'll be back after work :wink:

Beer is wonderful, but eats up my calories far too often. Delicious, microbrews and craft beers are generally higher in calories and those are, of course, the ones I love. I agree with the other posters...moderation is key. But don't give it up if you love it, unless your love for it is a problem that is difficult to…

I like Free the Trees...and a slight modification to Herbal Remedies could be one of my long time personal faves, Herbal Refreshments. :drinker:

me: 33 thanks :wink:

lady-chilli: 27?

Being someone that telecommutes and communicates via text for most of my day everyday, I can definitely value the added context provided by tone and inflection. It's the only thing that keeps me from knowing that I am not actually a robot. :laugh:

Me, too Mario. Thought I'd be cursed to becoming an English teacher for the longest time. And though I'm a far cry from an English teacher, the amount of editing I do for my job is mind-numbing. It never ceases to amaze me how I can read something that I've written seventy billion times and still miss some ridiculous…

I heard someone complaining about "a whole nother" a few months back and realized that I said it often. Now I catch myself and hear others saying it a lot. I've never written it that way, as it is much easier for me to see those little screwy things I do with language when it's written. Speaking brings out little bits of…

My pet peeve: then =/= than You'd be surprised (or not) how many college graduates still don't get it.

LOL---This ^^ I do not trust myself with Nutella. At all. I've only owned one jar and got into a conversation about what I like to eat Nutella on. I'm thinking---uh...fingers? spoon? Oh, and I ate fried chicken (in bed!--what?) on Sunday with Sicilian pistachio Talenti for dessert. What a way to top off a completely…

Congrats! What a way to reinforce your positive lifestyle changes! Keep it up. I started at 193 myself. Lots of ups and downs, but overall losing trend. Jillian (circuit training in general) and Zumba are some of the faves around this place. Have fun, mix it up, eat well and good luck with your efforts!!

Surely we aren't the only 2 people on MFP with chickens..? I guess more people will find this doing a recipe search than anything else :laugh: :laugh:

Agree with the previous posters. If you do the calculator that MFP provides to set your goals, it automatically calculates the necessary deficit needed in your calories to meet your goals. There is a common debate on MFP regarding starvation mode or eating back exercise calories, and you can find those by doing a search…

I am not a vegetarian, but think ground beef is gross (unless I grind it myself). Google "pink slime" to find out more about why I don't like ground beef.... I love Quorn products! I've only tried the mince and the chick'n nuggets, but they are both fabulous. I was never even really a chicken nugget lover, but the ones…