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Amazing! Congratulations! You are definitely an inspiration.

I'm glad you are here. I love this site as well...it does the same for me...keeps me motivated! No one else at my house has the desire to lose weight and some don't really need to so I'm happy to have this place with friends I know and friends I don't know which tons of experience, trials, etc. It's a great place for info!…

That's awesome...and hilarious! Congratulations. I need to get a Biggest Loser DVD or Biggest Loser for the Wii. I need to step up my routine!

I love mixes....and may just keep track of your replies so I can load my iPod with a great workout mix. :) Here are some of mine: 1) Mr. Brightside - The Killers 2) Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down 3) It's My Life - Bon Jovi 4) SOS - Rihanna 5) Takin' Care of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive 6) My Life Would Suck Without You -…

I have mine set to post onto facebook...when I exercise, when I complete my food diary and when I lose. It's very helpful for me because my facebook friends cheer me on through this process as well and my MFP friends. It's also caused 3 of my friends to sign up for MFP so far and they love it just as much as me! I respond…

You both look fabulous. Congratulations. :)

Carrot Cake!

You said it well! :)

I need more friends as well. I'm the same way...I work better when I have kudos and continuous encouragement! Good luck on this journey. I'm looking to lose about the same amount as well, but I have a long term goal of 1 pound per week. I might step it up in the future, but for now, this is a perfect plan for me. Good luck…

That is fabulous news and it's such a motivator to continue on this path! Congrats!

I have things that I'm not willing to live without as well so I portion control them. Like, I saw this recipe for these totally awesome chocolate chip cookie dough stuffed cupcakes and I made them. After entering into the recipe counter, it came out to be 417 calories per cupcake so a couple of days, I only had a 1/2 of a…

Well said!

I'm in my first month as well so I'd love to have some more friends on my cheerleading team. I lost 2.8 on week 1 and gained .2 on week 2...my weigh in day is Tuesday, so we'll see what week 3 looks like. My goal was to lose 1 pound per week so I'm still on track for that. Good luck. We'll do this together.

You can log it as Xbox Kinect (name of game) and then how many calories burned. I found that MFP didn't have some of the Wii Fit activities I was doing and since my Wii Fit tells me how many calories I burned while doing each exercise, I "add exercise to the database" when entering them into my daily exercises. Basically,…

I like the 100 calorie packs of brownie bites or chocolate covered pretzels or fudge dipped cookies. It does satisfy my chocolate craving and I'm only wasting 100 calories!

I usually eat my workout calories unless it's the night I have bellydance. 2 classes of bellydance burns 1000 calories for me and I can't get myself to eat 1000 extra calories in a day, but if it's a mild exercise day, I try to eat my exercise calories. It helps to keep you to the "net calories" that MFP recommends for…

I would love to make my own hula hoop and do some workouts with that. Thanks for the idea! I like exercising that is fun as well...it's what keeps me coming back.

My lower abs and my weight are the main reason I started doing this. We do bicycle crunches every week as part of our ab workout in my belldyance classes. I think if I did those ab exercises more than once a week, it would actually show. I keep meaning to do them more, but am always too busy, but am I too busy now?…

I don't have any advice, but I have a question. How are you keeping track of your sugar? I just signed up almost 2 weeks ago, but my food diary only keeps track of calories, fat, carbs and protein (at least that's all I see) and when I go to reports, it just shows how much sugar intake I've had over the past week. How are…

I know what you mean. I've only been at this for 2 weeks, but I've been able to resist if I know I shouldn't have something. I hope I can keep that up. I try to keep 100 calorie packs for my lunches or for those moments I just can't live without chocolate. My husband is supportive of me but has no desire to lose weight.…

Yes...we are all here to support you. The great thing is that you can post anytime you need support and it's always there. Good luck!

I eat air-popped popcorn instead and then I'm in full control of how much I'm eating and how many calories are in it.

I still make my own casseroles, meatloaf, etc - but I enter the recipe into the database here and then determine how much of it I can eat. I do this because I'm the only person in my house trying to lose weight and everybody still wants to eat the yummy stuff I always make. Find a good recipe and plug it in to see how much…

I still bake the same things and have some sweets...I just limit how much my serving is. I also buy the 100 calorie pack chocolate covered pretzels for work days. I have so many choices of brownies, cakes, pastries, candy, etc at work if I want to purchase them but so, so many calories - so I try to have something on hand…

Funny you should write about this because on the nights that I have bellydance class, I burn an extra 1000 calories in the day and at first I was so excited that I would be able to eat more that day. But this week, when it actually came to the day of eating extra calories...I had no desire to do so. I ate a well-balanced…

We have Land o Lakes Mini Moos half and half creamers at work and I LOVE them. I'm a light and sweet coffee girl as well. I only have one cup a day most days, but I use Splenda instead. Maybe I'll switch to real sugar one day...

This website has been great for me and documenting my food daily has opened my eyes to what I was and AM eating now. This site is a great network of people with so much knowlege about sticking to it and working past the hard parts, etc. I've only been on for a week, but the support is awesome. No one at my house wants to…

You are hilarious! Thanks for the giggle!

Yes...welcome! I've only been here for a week, but the site has great information and I love the info and support from other users as well. Good luck to you!

yes...I find this site quite awesome and the fact that it's free is even more amazing. I'm only 1 week in, but things are going great! Good luck to you!