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Everything wheat, dairy, corn, oats, and refined sugar. When I can figure out why I'm having such strong salt cravings, potato chips will be next.

When I crossed into the 32 BMI zone, I stopped losing weight. I realized that I'd built enough muscle and was active enough that my fitness profile was now too low. It was sedentry. I am a stay at home mom, but I no longer am so weak and tired that I sit all day. I also have a lot more muscle to feed. Bumping up my fitness…

You need to add in strength training. It'll help build up your muscles so you burn more fat in the off hours. It will also fortify your body including your knee.

I should have added a disclaimer. I'm so far out in the middle of nowhere, walmart is still a 60 minute drive away at highway speeds. There's no such thing as a Fresh n'Easy, Whole Foods or Trader Joe's within a 3 hour drive of my place.

Corn syrup is in just about everything, even hot dogs. I'm deathly allergic to corn, it closes off my throat so I can't even allow little amounts to slip by. Between that, my milk intolerance, refined sugar intolerance and all things gluten there isn't a single package of anything I can eat except one brand of potato…

Sorry to tell you there's no such thing as free sweets. Diet soda adds as much girth to waist as sugar does.

I love vegans for all the creative recipes they come up with. Can't eat dairy at all or gluten or a slew of other foods either, but some of the vegan recipes out there are amazing. That being said, that would royally piss me off and I probably would have had the come back of "Who ever said I was vegan?" Or as one of my…

Good for you! I love canoeing.

I love green tea. It has so many benefits. It helps curb asthma problems, full of antioxidants, good nutrients and it does help your metabolism even if the effect is small it adds up. It has also been proven to reduce your risk of every type of cancer unless you drink it too hot or more than 3 cups a day. Moderation and…

For me it's a matter of finding a healthier substitute for what I'm craving but still hits the spot. Also don't buy anything premade. If you want a treat you have to make it yourself. That helps cut down quite a bit on the treats you even end up with. It also sounds like you're suffering from sugar withdrawls. If you…

I am going to a distance education center where all the classes are done via microphones and video. All my classes are in the morning after breakfast but finish before lunch, except one night one on Monday so that's nice. I'll have time to fix the meals for my family. The bad thing by being at a distance education center…

You look incredible. Good job!

Try healthier options. Like cook your own pizza with a thin crust, veggies, hummus or homemade guacamole for the sauce and cheese. Make a light dessert or treat yourself to a skinny cow. Get some awesome fruits to snack on. Do something that fills that craving without the damage. That's what I do because this is how I plan…

That's easy enough to do. Go into check in, add entry, put in the dates of previous weigh ins before you joined MFP and what the weight was. I did it because I wanted to see my total progress. ETA do not change your starting weight, simply add in earlier entries. No dishonesty there.

As you go about the day, you eat, you drink, you retain water from working out, all cause pounds to go on the scale. What's more important is fat weight, and unless you have a special fat scale there is absolutely no point weighing yourself more than once a day. I recommend picking a time to weigh yourself, usually in the…

If this is your day job, I would instead bump up your fitness profile. Like rather than sedentry, you'd be at least lightly active. It will account for what you do on your job without you adding anything in.

I adore gardening too and being stuck in an apartment with no yard is driving me crazy. So it was very nice to get a good stretch of time working outside and seeing these people's places transform! I love that. We discovered an apple tree, with apples on it, a side gate to the back yard, a clothes line, a garden spot, and…

I'm headed back to school, sophmore year, and starting on my bachelors this fall. It's been ten years since I was last in college (kiddos made me take a side track for a while) so I'm a little nervous but excited all the same.

Yeah, you definitely don't want to add in those kinds of foods, but good healthy stuff would be a great way to go. Try a hundred calories more this week, then another hundred calories and see how you do bit by bit. You'll discover your own body in the process.

I've been very careful, building up my surrounding knee muscles so I could handle the excercises so I haven't had any injuries that way. Today, though, we were doing a yard overhaul for one disabled person and another house for an elderly couple who's yards had run away from them. We're talking full on trees growing…

Good for you! Unfortunately most scales only give us one piece of information. Body weight. It does not give us body fat %. And that's the most important thing.

With you being so close to your desire weight, then yes, it's true. You should be eating near or at maintenance and adding in strength training and well as cardio to transform your body the rest of the way. There are some posts here on MFP that say just that as well, I don't have the links though, they're interesting. ETA:…

Welcome! Excercise doesn't have to equal pain. There are things such as eliptical or arc trainers that are low to no impact as well as swimming and water aerobics. I would strongly suggest visiting a physical therapist and getting a routine from a professional who can give you a good workout without killing yourself.

You will most likely always be plagued if you eat greasy foods. The reason. Fat is one of the more difficult foods to digest. Your galbladder was a central player when breaking down fat. It creates concentrated bile to break down fat. When it's gone you have a super difficult time digesting fat so instead it slides on…

Unfortunately, normal (american style) is what gets most people super fat in the first place. Normal has been severely warped. Portion sizes are out of control, plates, bowls, spoons, and cups are twice the size they used to be. ect. Normal american style is the last place you want to be. Find a new normal is the best…

I have to go lower on my carbs, high on protein, good fats, and fiber to feel full. That includes beans, veggies, ect. Those foods have a lot of volume and filling power without the punch of calories. If I am way light on calories I add in nuts, a filling but calorie dense food.

The ones that kill me are the ones who say "I'm a vegetarian but I don't like vegetables or fruit. Can I take enough supplements for that?"

Even being a close blood relative I would say avoid her as much as possible. That kind of poison isn't worth having around. Also, I would strongly suggest having a heart to heart with her, how her negative behaviors hurt your feelings, and then proceed to not talk about health food or your changes with her ever again.

Let them decide for themselves.

Try doing actual knee strengthening excercises. Sounds like you're all cardio which would leave your supportive muscles weak. Start doing those squats, and leg lifts, and such. Start hitting those weights or bodyweight excercises to build up your support network.