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Exactly. I have to be very careful with funds and in order to stick to my budget, I must have a list for the grocery store. I just jot down what's on the menu for the week and buy the fixings. As you said, putting roast chicken on the menu for Monday doesn't mean that I *have* to have roast chicken on Monday, it just means…

Yep. That's why I only talk to the handful of supportive people in my life about my weight loss. I'm 5'11" and aiming for 145-150, which I know from experience will put me at a size 6. I hit my adult height at 15 and from then to my mid-20s, I was between 125-130. I didn't work for or force that weight. It was my body's…

We are apparently triplets. I have a *lot* of quirks, food and otherwise and I must say that this thread has made me feel not so weird. :smile:

That could well be possible. It's so weird that I'm fine eating a meal that contains cooked onions as long as the pieces are not large and I love onion rings, but raw onion is a no go. It actually triggers my gag reflex.

I do that!

When I was little, I would eat Shredded Wheat cereal mixed with instant mashed potatoes. Yeah. I don't know either. My mom has told me that I used to eat onions like they were apples. I don't remember that and I hate raw onions, so I can't imagine.

5'11 and 191 (down from 199 in mid April. Yay!), I'm on 1850 cals per day, exercise 5 days per week, eat back most, if not all, of my exercise calories and have been losing 1lb per week steadily.

Nothing surprised me negatively. I've been aware of serving sizes and calorie counts since I was a teenager. I just ignored them and ate what I felt like. :smile: As I said above, I found in weighing ice cream that a serving is more than a 1/2 cup measure. With peanut butter, I discovered that I had actually been…

Using a ramekin is exactly what I do. Ice cream was one of the foods I was pleasantly surprised with when I started weighing instead of using measuring cups. 85-95 grams, which is the typical serving size of the brands that I eat, is way more than a half cup measure. For me, it's a satisfying portion.

Not at all for me. Calorie tracking is a tool that works for me. I haven't changed the foods that I eat, I just control the portions and I've hit my weight loss goal every week since I restarted. I enjoy my bedtime ice cream more knowing that I have the calories for it. As for eating out, I have no anxiety about eating at…

Following this thread. 5'10-11 Small Frame SW 199 CW 191 GW 145-150 I've been slim all of my life until the past five years when my weight started yo-yoing up and down, so I know what I look like at various weights. However, I had never gotten this close to 200 and it was a wake up call. I got restarted in mid April. From…

I'm still not used to being a small in most tops again. I always grab mediums and larges to try on and end up having to send the poor fitting room attendant back for the smaller size. I now understand what people mean when they say that your brain takes a while to catch up with your weight loss

I don't do heavy lifting because I'm just not interested in it. No deeper than that. I do just fine without it and have never had to ask the menfolk to help me move furniture or lift basic items like kitty litter and grocery bags. My tiny 9 inch biceps are deceptive. I've noticed that my sedentary family members have a…

I wish that when I'd started reading this board that I'd been better able to filter all of the advice and new information that I was taking in and not let it take me off of the path that was best for me. I tried clean eating (for two weeks, but still), doing mostly resistance work with little cardio, and a few other things…

Sizes vary by store, but three years ago, I was a size 6 in bottoms/small in tops in most of the stores where I shop and that's where I want to get back to. The day my size 6 Victoria's Secret shorts fit perfectly again is the day I declare victory.

My boss believes every broscience theory and medical conspiracy that comes down the pike. My department has a "party" for everyone's birthday and as my boss doles out the dessert, she lectures on the evil of sugars and processed food, all while indulging as much or more than the rest of us. Often during these gatherings,…

So I basically have to woman up? :) I used weighted gloves for my Turbo Fire cardio and ended up pinching a nerve in my shoulder, so that was the end of that. I don't find weights and resistance boring. I actually prefer my resistance days to cardio. I just hate the burn on upper body exercises and am actually relieved…

I've always wondered about that, Niner. I only have my personal experience to go on, but when I was a teenager, before I did any kind of weight or resistance training, I had no problems lifting or moving objects or carrying the small kids in my family, but I was a wuss when I added weights to my exercise routine. I had no…

Have you lost pant sizes? If so, it is getting smaller. It's just that if your midsection was bigger in proportion to the rest of you, it's going to look "the same" until the body is done losing from the areas that held less fat and the belly catches up. The midsection can hold quite a bit of fat. I am apple shaped and…

Whee! A tall girl thread! 5'11", currently at 179, goal is 150-155 From my teens to mid 20s, I was in the 125-130 range and looked fine because of my body structure and it being my "natural" weight at the time, meaning that I didn't deliberately manipulate it to that point. I ate like a fiend and rarely exercised, so my…

ITA. I don't work out at home because it's my only option, it's because I choose to. There are several gyms within a few miles of my home and my apartment complex has a very nice mini gym as well. I just have no desire to leave my home to work out. And my goals are being met just fine. I buy DVDs because it's my…

Thanks, everyone! And I'm glad that I was able to provide some motivation as well. I tried on an old pair of my size 6 shorts over the weekend. I couldn't button them, but I got them pulled up. That was no small victory, as I couldn't get them past my rear back in April. Getting closer every day!

I've never really thought about it before, but when it comes down to it, I'm indifferent about working out in and of itself. I don't love it or hate it. I like the endorphin rush I get after the cooldown, how much I feel better physically (I feel sick and have no energy if I go for more than a week without working out),…

You give me such hope. I was a 36B/C before gaining weight and I'm currently a 36DD (down from a 40C at my highest weight). I want them back to normal. Although my poor mom is a 36J, so perhaps my complaints are invalid.

The state fair doesn't happen around here until September, but this thread has me wishing it was tomorrow. I can't wait for my strawberry/vanilla swirl soft serve cone. It's ambrosia. :) I don't count calories the day I attend the fair, as it's near impossible to estimate and I'm not carting a food scale and measuring…

All of this. Also, things like diabetes and hypertension run on both sides of my family. Back in December, my BP was prehypertensive for the first time in my life. Freaked me the heck out. It's back to normal now.

I'm doing BBL right now. I agree the "Supermodel Slimdown" is ridiculous. As was the "5 Day Inferno" program that came with Turbo Fire. And they chalk up the potential headaches and dizziness to the body "detoxifying". I own three BB programs and they are favorites of mine, but I do not follow their nutrition advice at all.

Isn't the 21 Day Fix essentially a jazzed up version of Richard Simmons' old Deal a Meal program except done with Tupperware? I don't care one way or the other if anyone uses it, but it was my first thought when I saw the infomercial.

I eat in bed and not just dinner, but every meal that I eat at home. Pillows propped behind me and dish on a TV tray. Sometimes I'll watch TV and sometimes I'll read because I get bored eating without something else to distract me. And since I only make one serving of any meal (two if I cook for my mom as well), it doesn't…