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This is refreshing!

This made me laugh!! Congrats on going after them (there's an element of bravery to that, you know! Not sure what sort of neighbourhood you were in, but there are some places where that might not have been the best call, hahah), and catching them, AND being scary enough to get them to go back and fix it! Start thinking…

I like to cut mine up and drizzle in some dijon mustard with a bit of honey for sweetness. Yummm.

Wow. I hope that's a typo...

Haha awesome. Very similar to my jeans-stretching: Put on jeans, then do some squats and lunges to loosen them up. Though I haven't had to do that in a while!! :D Something must be working, hahah.

Haha, wow. Your "humble" opinion is telling me I'm obsessive, eh? Goodness, I'd love to hear some of your not-so-humble opinions! Weighing every day serves a purpose for me: it keeps me on track. Also, it gives me more data points to help me better understand my body (hey, health, wassup!). I like knowing why my body has…

And tracking calories every day isn't?? :laugh: Anyways, to the OP, I too weigh daily. I think it depends on whether you are prone to freaking out or not. I'm not really - so it doesn't bother me when I see fluctuations. I weigh every morning (wearing no clothes, but if you do wear clothes, make sure they're the same ones…

If you are in a largish city, check out asian food stores. There are many varieties at my local Chinese grocery store!

With a gob of snobs? Or more like a mob?

Double post say whaaaat!

Joining the chorus of the beer snobs... it's definitely been hard for me to cut back on the intake! I went from consuming a beer every other day or so to limiting to mostly weekends. But when I have a beer you can be damned sure that it's not going to be some InBev crap. When I'm out at bars that don't carry beer I can…

For making the actual gnocchi, or stuff to put in with gnocchi? I've never done home-made gnocchi before, but I have a couple of recipes that I use store-bought gnocchi with. For one, I saute some onions and a variety of mushrooms with some veggie broth and white wine, thyme, basil, and a bit of rosemary. You can thicken…

Wow - you look absolutely and completely fantastic! Congratulations!!! You look years younger, too. Enjoy building your muscles and maintaining your weight! Congrats again!

^^ Pretty much this. The phases of the moon are caused by the location of the moon in its orbit around the earth, that's true, but it isn't any closer during a full moon or new moon phase. During a "new moon," the moon is in between the sun and the earth. During a "full moon," the moon is on the opposite side of the earth…

I don't know much about ematic, but when I was researching e-readers I narrowed it down to the Sony vs. the Kindle. Sony had some nice features.

Can you eat them? I don't see why not. If I go over by a fair bit one day, I will try to be a little under the next few days. If it averages out to a deficit of 3500 calories in the week, the average loss should still be approximately 1 pound (so the theory goes... the reality is more complicated, as always). But if you're…

Yayyy voting! I'm actually excited to see how things turn out with this election. I'll admit I groaned along with the rest of Canada when the election was first called... but it's certainly proved more interesting than I anticipated! :)

Ok, this thread is hilarious to me, just because I have started buying both the fruit-flavoured and the plain greek yogurt. I couldn't stand the taste of the plain, so I was dressing it up with some maple syrup. Admittedly, this was delicious, but added a buttload of sugar and carbs to my meal (alas, I like pure maple…

Like Tamanella mentioned, I'm going to have a clothing swap party when I'm a bit lighter - though I'm going to do so before my goal weight so that I have some clothes to "tide me over" before then. Basically the idea is you set a date and invite a whole bunch of friends - give them enough advance notice to clean out their…

I weigh every day, but I don't get freaked out by any fluctuations. I record my weight in a spreadsheet every morning, and then take the average of the previous five days' weigh-ins. If that moving average is going down, then I'm on the right track. If it creeps back up (it hasn't yet), then I'm not! If you can manage not…

Hey, hope you don't mind, I took a peek at your diary... looks good for the most part, but it looks like the past week you've been getting a fair bit of sodium. It's quite possible that the reason you're not seeing a loss is because you're retaining some water. Maybe try to get a bit of extra water in you and watch the…

Personally... I don't track my sugar anymore because I was finding that a piece of fruit would set me over. I don't eat sugary things other than fruit very often - no sugar in my coffee, few sweets (I usually have dark chocolate if I crave them), no sugary breakfast cereals, etc. So I just stopped worrying about it.…

Happy birthday!!! I hope you enjoy it! :) My birthday was a couple of weeks ago and I'll be honest... I went way over. My partner took me out to a really, really fancy restaurant and we got the tasting menu with wine and dessert. And you know what? I don't regret a bit of it. But then again, I'm a mild "foodie" and love my…

I have this issue as well, but it's less a before-a-certain-time thing and more of a how-much-sleep-did-i-get thing. Often if I'm getting up earlier than 8 or so, I'll have slept much less than I usually do, and that's when I have a hard time eating breakfast. If you're eating before nine and you've gone to bed at, say,…

I like eating more protein - it keeps me feeling fuller for longer! I have a 45% carb/ 25% protein/ 30% fat goal set for my diary, so eating 1430 cals/day gives me 89g of protein. Some people find they work best on a 40/30/30 ratio, which gives even more protein. MFP's default is 15% protein, I think, which seemed super…

Welcome! I knew from the title that you were a programmer/IT type. :) Congrats on your fantastic loss already, and hopefully MFP makes it a little easier on ya!

I'm on the beer train! Or cheese. Mmm. But not cheesy beer. Ick.

I believe you could find antibiotic-free chicken (I imagine it would be free range), possibly at your local organics store or butcher?

Ahhh that is an awesome NSV - can't wait to be in the single digit sizes, and I think/hope that it will be soon. Congrats!!

Ahhh, yeah, I have this too, to a certain extent anyways. I made some of my guy friends come work out with me for the first few weeks when I was getting used to my old campus' gym. I know that sounds sort of dumb, but having him around to show me the ropes (where everything was, how to use the machines, a little bit about…