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I'm also due Oct 7th. Had a little scare this week, twice my vision got blurry with flashing lights. My BP and urine came up normal but as a precaution they had me do 24 hr urine collection, 2 rounds of bloodwork, and the NST just to be on the safe side. All that came up normal as far as pre-eclampsia goes and baby is…

I love meatloaf. I actually add dethawed and drained frozen spinach and chopped mushrooms right in to the meat mixture to bulk it out and for added moisture. I also use ground turkey to keep calories down (I've come to prefer ground turkey to ground beef for home cooking anyway). The Better Homes & Gardens meatloaf recipe…

From my own data (2 years worth) I think Fitbit can be trusted when activity is in the neighborhood of around 10,000 steps (non-rigorous). I feel it underestimates burn if I'm not active, and progressively overestimates (and gets more and more ridiculous in its estimates) if I'm more active than that. I log accurately, to…

I gained 30 lbs over the course of 3 months eating my calories back from Fitbit. A few things to note though, I was in my first trimester of pregnancy and had a ravenous appetite (no morning sickness), and it's more like I increased my activity to earn calories in order to compensate for my ravenous appetite than that I…

Lol, yes it would seem that way. :) I do shop at Costco often and I still haven't seen them though. I'd certainly prefer to pay $18 a box...

I'm in VA, and that's what my Costco told me after looking up the info on their 'puter, so I dunno. I wanted them in store because as another poster pointed out they should be cheaper in store than online. But I'd love to know what Costco you go to because I haven't seen them at Alexandria, Dulles, or Winchester. I…

They're only available online. I called my Costco several weeks ago about when they'll be available in my local warehouse (because I assumed other people were getting them at their warehouses) and they said this item is only available online and not sold in stores anywhere, and there's no indication as of yet they are…

Hubs and I did a tour of the hospital today. Is it odd that I'm really looking forward to checking in, checking out, and being done already? It's getting real, but not real enough yet, time is really dragging now. How's everyone doing?

31.5 weeks and up 43 lbs. I think I'm more upset about crossing back into the 200's (204 now) after working so hard to get out of and away from the 200's prior to getting pregnant than I am about my rate of weight gain. Can't wait until I deliver. Eating 2200 calories on avg and it's been a real struggle for me to try to…

Yes, they are good, I'm hoarding boxes of them as we speak.

I stopped retinol, but also antibacterial bar soap cuz I read something-something doom & gloom very early on about it and I wasn't committed enough to the product anyway to really investigate the issue. Still using salicylic acid products daily, a lot of people stop because it's an aspirin product but I couldn't find any…

Just wish I had got more stuff done, like mundane chores, home repairs, paperwork and such that I put off. It's easier to put that stuff off when there's not much going on, but now it's like I'm burning the midnight oil on thisstupid BS that should have been taken care of already if I had had my act together. So that's…

I see Zulilly recommended by people and heavily advertised on the net all the time, but that they don't take returns is what made me not consider shopping there. Not even to browse. IMO it takes a lot of gall to have a no return policy in this day and age. Agree with the suggestion to take the clothing to a consignment…

We buy generic diet soda often. Walmart has a couple generic brands in caffeine-free that are decent. (I'm expecting as well so also had to switch to caffeine free, which does taste worse than caffeinated imo but is tolerable .) Food Lion and Martins grocery stores also have a good variety of flavors of generic caffeine…

I got the Panorama screen test. I turned it down initially because I didn't know if my insurance would cover it. OB later recommended I do it since I had missed the window for the NF screen (due to an insurance snag) and because I'll be 37 when I deliver. I'm so glad I got it done whether insurance pays or not (they will…

It doesn't follow that knowing "why" you make poor decisions will make it that you'll start making good decisions. Most of the "why's" that are trotted out have no logical connection to their behavior anyway, and strikes me as exploitative - Getting sad people to dish and blubber and air their dirty laundry on air for our…

I didn't have a problem getting all that was sprayed to collect in the spoon (I do believe it was a Tbsp tho); you could always try it yourself if you're curious. As an aside, I did this because I wanted to use butter flavored spray for air-popped popcorn for flavor and so seasoning would stick, and that requires a more…

I stopped fretting about spray oil when I attempted to see how long I'd have to spray to fill a measuring spoon. It took so long and so much direct close-contact spraying just to get a small fraction of the spoon filled. I eventually gave up on trying to fill it since I don't spray anything with oil for so long; the idea…

Thanks :blush: , and yeah I have had a Fitbit since 2014 and still do 10-20k steps a day, it's definitely a good motivator and has been a good tool to get me active. But I always used to largely ignore calorie adjustments or only eat a small fraction of them because they seemed very inflated (when compared with my actual…

Not doing great... SW (pre-pregnancy) 161 @ the new year. Dropped to 157 the week I found out I was pregnant @ end of Jan (was still eating at a deficit at the time). Shot up to 167 by end of Feb and then got scared of the scale, and despite my better judgement I stopped not only weighing daily but I stopped weighing…

I started wearing maternity clothes just this week (I'm 12 weeks tomorrow). My natural waist thickened quite a bit really quickly by like 3-4 inches, probably from bloat, so all my jeans had been uncomfortable and bordering on unwearable. Usually my problem is that the waist of most jeans are too loose and gape terribly,…

Still haven't really experienced nausea to any meaningful extant. I got like a brief wave of nausea twice, where I suddenly felt hot, dizzy and sick and needed to sit down and sit still, but it didn't last long. I don't really let myself go very long without eating something (I prefer many small meals/snacks over few large…

I lost over 130 lbs and consumed an insane amount of pink packets every day. If ever my weight loss stalled, I'd think it silly to think my Sweet n Low consumption was the likely culprit. Considering such strikes me as a stalling tactic if not a distraction from what is the likely culprit: overeating.

My breakfast is typically a protein bar, which are anywhere from 180 cals up to 300 calories.

Eggs and beans. I like overeasy eggs on top of a serving of small red or black beans, but a scramble with beans with maybe with some veggies and a little cheese too in a low cal wrap would be easier for transport. Good with salsa or hot sauce. You could also microwave a scramble pretty easily if you can keep eggs or a…

I just use some combination of salsa, hot sauce, Greek yogurt, and/or cottage cheese to dress my salads. There is no substitute for Ranch, imo.

You can change the default limits in your goals if you don't like seeing healthy fat consumption in the red.

And served in a plantar with a garden scoop as a serving utensil. Also the pudding is whipped together with cream cheese and cool whip. At least the way we made it. :)

Try boiling the life out of them. Maybe they'll suit your taste then.