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Breakfast (typical) - a grapefruit, a peach (or orange - depending on season), 100g Blueberries, 100g misc berries (strawberry, rasberry, blackberry). Coffee with powdered creamer & sweet & low. Aprox 300 cal +/-

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You could just go with the smaller number. It's only going to help - if you work out less/eat less than you "can".

Wow - looking Great! Congratulations! Nice Chart :wink:

Kellog Special K has some good chips - 230mg/serv http://www.specialk.com/cracker-chips/sour-cream-and-onion/ . Also "straws" from Sensible Portions - http://sensibleportions.elsstore.com/

tawnyhacker, I'm running about 40 minutes and getting 500+ calories - running about 4.5-4mph. I have an Android phone, a droidX and have an app from http://www.runkeeper.com - in which I enter my height/weight and it uses GPS to track my run and calculate calorie burn.

BenFallen, Because of Copyright violations, you now owe me a case of good, cold, dark, foreign beer. PM me for shipping instructions. LOL. Edit - PS. Notice the once a week weight measurements in the trendline above your grafitti?

It happens. Depends on what you eat and how it affects your water retension. What works for me - is to weigh daily, and weekly, and chart it. Then I can have averages and trend lines to encourage me - showing that they're going in the right direction. Take a look at this - the blue is daily. Red is average. Blue straight…

Also realize this - let's say MFP or something says, that you normally burn 1800 Cal just doing daily normal life - walking around, sitting, standing, sleeping, etc. You want to set a goal of 1200 Cal for a 600 Cal deficit - 4200 Cal/week - so theoretically, you'd lose a little over a pound a week at 3500Cal/pound. Then…

I'm a man, 5'9". As long as I'm obese, I'm sticking to my 1000 Cal/day diet. I went to my Dr., had full blood work done, and he said everything is looking good - including blood glucose levels in the "almost normal - non-diabetic" range. When I'm ONLY "overweight" I'll up the cal's. Do what works for you, with your Dr.'s…

Things I've noticed since losing almost 50 lbs: The belt that was too small, is too big. I have LOTS of clothes now (because I've been hanging onto clothes for 10+ years) I can tie my shoes. I can fit into a booth in a restaurant without shoving the table away. I don't have to "scissor kick" my legs to sit up. I can run 2…

I'd like to know this one too - but for long cardio - like running 5K+ 30m-60min cardio. I've been thinking about getting up early morning, no food, and going. Read somewhere it's supposed to kick start metabolism for the rest of the day? Or what about afternoon - hot - drink water before running?

I've recently started running, and just have started hitting 3 miles (5K) in 40 minutes. So yeah, you're 10 minutes ahead!!! grrr :wink:

Congratulations to you! I did the same thing - tried running, knees swelled up. Started walking instead. Got up to about 10 miles, then thought, heck I'll try a mile. Then I tried 2. Last night, I just ran my 2nd 5K run - in 39:10! Congratulations on your weight loss and exercise! Keep it up, or better yet - do more!

I'm about to dump WW. I don't even bother tracking anything in there - what's the point of tracking zero point food? It's a stupid system.

Sweets - it sounds like you really need to go cold turkey. My nutritionist said my brain could get addicted to sweetness. You could try replacing granulated sugar with sweet & low - i put it on fruit (grapefruit). My favorite sweet snack now is watermelon - a bowl of it (a cup - about 200g) is only about 60 Cal! and it's…

I started with WW in february, and am still with them. I've lost about 50lbs in 5 months - but have been weaning myself away from weight watchers. what I didn't like is they gave me so many points! I started with 52 points! Good grief. I felt like I could eat @#@$@ and still be under the points. Not to mention the weekly…

Yeah, I'm pretty sore from day 1 ... :laugh:

Hey Hapenn, I chart my weight daily, in the morning, after peeing. I can get a really good idea of what I eat and how it affects my water retention, and then I like the pretty trend lines - red is average, and blue is linear. This gives me an idea of where I'm going and "smoothes out" the daily fluctuation. If I go off…

My Magic Weight Loss Formula (TM): Watch what you eat. Eat less of it. Exercise. To LOSE weight - do both. Eat less. Exercise more. I was on the couch. Tried C25K and almost died. Walked instead - worked up to 10 miles walking in about 2.5 hours. Started working in some running. I just ran 5K last night, without stopping!…

CONGRATULATIONS! I'm looking forward to being "overweight" soon too.

Thanks ya'll.

Thanks ya'll. :)

Congratulations! You look great! How do you feel?

A lot less salt than Dominos, Chinese delivery, Papa Johns ... mmmm. :wink:

Congratulations! I'm a guy, moving down from 2XL (yes, I had a 3XL) and now just XL. I'm looking forward to large - I can fit, but it's still too tight.

Thanks everyone! :smile:

Hi lindak71 - I thought time was the only option, because I'm not getting the 5k in before my time runs out, I thought it's going to get me up to the distance. How do you change it to distance based? I can't find the setting. Thanks, PC

I think you're being paranoid. I've done this a couple of times, without working out as much as you, and did see my weight spike back up a few pounds - but it's GOT to be water retention, because it's an instant 6 pounds for me (and I drink beer when I go out and "have a good time"). Then, a couple of days eating below cal…