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Wow! Thank you so much!

I'm still extremely new to this whole healthy thing but yesterday I ran for the first time in 10 years. I had resolved to never run because I remembered hating it so much but it's actually fun! Also, I've gone to the store twice this week and each time managed NOT to buy 20+ prepackaged frozen meals and instead treated…

I have plans to just spend a quiet day here with my husband and son without the fancy meal but I might just get sucked into dealing with my relatives all day. These people believe in the five basic food groups: caffeine, beans, meat, tortillas, and sweets. Yeah... if I wind up over there I will probably peck at my food and…

A little bitty depressing town in the middle of Texas... They don't even allow people to sell alcohol in this town. :cry:

remarkable! you look absolutely gorgeous! congratulations!

:laugh: Right?! When my husband calls me "Vertically Handicapped" or something similar he just gets The Look. For all I care he can (and does) call me short****, shorty, shortstuff, and so on and so forth. Be short and proud! :bigsmile:

:laugh: Good one! I let her pick at me only because she has three boys all either close to or over 6 feet tall and she's only 5ft 3in and I figure, hey, it's about time she get someone in the family that's smaller than her. Now if only I could be as skinny as her... :grumble:

That's why I married someone over 6 feet tall. :wink: Seriously though, my only problem is how much everyone (especially my mother-in-law who's exactly one inch taller) loves to point out how short I am. :grumble:

Eff those people! I would've told them off! I hope things get better for you, OP. "You know, I just don't think you're made for working around people. Maybe if you wore some make-up to cover up all your acne and got a job in the construction industry or something... You just... you NEED to wear make-up, okay? Otherwise you…

My parents employed this trick on me and my four siblings. We'll eat just about anything now. My husband was coddled as a child to the point that meals were brought to his room if requested. There are MAYBE ten meals he will eat now and only one involves vegetables of any kind (excluding potatoes). Otherwise he flat out…

I just point to the food and say "Eat it or starve." I don't believe in coddling children.

Friend by Diana Henstell and it's a wonderful book. It's like a Frankenstein remix except the main characters are kids.

I don't need a quote. All I have to do is remember the time my toddler used my belly fat as a handle to climb on top of me while I was sitting down. :sad:

But I wind up with half that many cookies... so one of the cookies I make equals two of the cookies they're talking about?

simply fantastic! good job and congratulations! you look beautiful!

Totally unrelated AT ALL but I just realized that your profile pic is not what I thought it was. This entire time I thought you had panty hose on your head (and I even saw a face in the shadows of your hair) as a way to hide your online identity while also showing off how fantastic you look. :huh: I think I should quit the…

While the majority of people do wear them, there are also those couples that don't. My parents never did nor do my husband and I.

This is very true. Also, if cutting the veggies takes up too much time you could try checking out your local Wal-Mart. In the veggie section they usually sell bags of pre-cut veggies in small bags for stir fry. It's actually pretty decent. Concerned you won't eat the fresh stuff fast enough? Then check out the frozen foods…

There's this magical thing called genetics and it's plays a big part, I think. Usual days for my kid: half a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, a pb&j or hot dog w/ chips for lunch, and corn/chicken/mashed potatoes (or something equally large) for dinner. Snacks will be cookies, candy, tons of teddy grahams and pretzels and…

Would it be safe to say that children, for the most part, are trainable just like dogs? Because I can fully attest to the fact that they're really not all that different in the beginning.

Where can I get some of these?! I hate marzipan but I'd change my mind for these little things.

I have 6 bags of chocolate chips and I can make some mean chocolate chip cookies. So, yeah, I'm with ya. :bigsmile:

My mother-in-law has two large German shepherd dogs. They once managed to eat a medium sized pan of brownies to themselves. Yep, they're still alive. Then again they also eat through Tupperware, a manual breast pump, and pretty much anything else they can get their teeth on. Her dogs are resilient! :laugh:

As a parent to a 1 1/2 year old my rule is "If mom doesn't see it then it didn't happen." I say this in a half joking manner to let my relatives know that I may not care for my child to have sweets but, for goodness sake, he's a kid! As soon as turn my back he's just going to be scaling the refrigerator or something and…

Thank you all so much for replying! Now I am a lot more informed than I was earlier today. I will definitely take into consideration everything everyone has had to say. Thanks again! :happy:

Ah, see, and here I was thinking that it meant I couldn't eat more than that. All I saw was the angry red negative sign on my MFP chart and I just hung my head in shame like a berated schoolchild, haha. I don't even really know what protein does. A lot of people I've mentioned it to (not on MFP) say it makes you reduce…

Today was my first day of truly putting forth effort into losing weight and I didn't even make it to lunch time before someone noticed. I ate lunch, went to deliver a home-cooked meal to my grandfather, and immediately him and two of my family members berated me for walking (it was a ten minute walk) in the cold and wind.…

I wholeheartedly agree with this. My husband is 6ft 1in and 160 pounds. A weekly diet for him consists of up to seven soda pops, four or five bags of candy, a bag of peanuts, a gallon of whole milk with added chocolate syrup, and food-wise he eats huge helpings of pasta, half a pizza, hot dogs/pigs in a blanket, chips…

I'm 5ft 2in. Starting/current weight: 148 lbs Starting/current size: 9 Goal: 124 - 128 lbs I have no idea what size that will be. I don't want to be super tiny but a 6 sounds nice to be just because it's my favorite number. I've been this height for ten years and I used to be 113 pounds but then I managed to gain 50 pounds…

as another mom i can say this is very inspirational. also, you look gorgeous!