LillyPandme

Better than Barbie, ' cause your a real gal!

Guys, I am 52 years old and MFP makes this sooo much easier that it was in the old days - using calorie books, etc.- that I will gladly record my meals for the rest of my life if is makes me healthier and more attractive. I love MFP!

I'm not sure how others feel about this, but sometimes when I have splurged on a day (Halloween for instance), I go into the "future" food diaries for that week and break up the extra calories into 100 calorie (or so) bits and log them in the snack section for however many days of calories I overate . (ie if I overate 500…

I can feed my family one nice chicken dinner, I can make chicken salads for myself for the rest of the week, I can make a pot of soup with the carcass, and my dog gets the skin that I peeled off before I served the chicken dinner. What's not to like?

Every year at Thanksgiving, I try to write notes of thanks to people that have helped me in my own life. I am thankful that God saw fit to put these people into my life to teach me things. Hanfordrose, I have read several of your posts lately and have taken them to heart. They are helping me be successful in my own weight…

Ahh - I see. Thank you to both of you for filling this newby in on what to do! (Wouldn't it be great if MFP did this automatically?) :smile:

How are you figuring out your average calories per day? I see the bar graph that gives the calories per day on an individual day basis, but I have not figured out how to get the average per day figure for a week, month, etc. from the MFP data. Help?

Ladies and gentlemen, get up on your feet and make some noise because JAMES BOND is in the (virtual) house. Simply Awesome! :)

I know what you mean about the dependence on the scale developed by *weekly* commercial weight loss programs. I have done many programs over my lifetime (I'm 52) and I am just now realizing what a disservice that I think that they did me by putting me on the scale every week, much less me weighing myself every day. I had…

I've pretty much given up on hamburger buns. Most of the sandwichy things that I previously ate, I now make into salads. (At least at home.)

I'd lose the idea of weighing in for a while and just concentrate on your calorie goal. Go see your scale in about a month.

Best Wishes and may that be a harbinger of even more great things to come!

I've lost 16 lbs. so far. I'd like to lose 9 by Christmas for an even 25 pounds since I started toward my goal.