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How old are your kids? Mine are 12 and 13, and they do most of the picking up during the week, so I only spend a Saturday or Sunday afternoon perfecting what they didn't do perfectly. You say you're a wife and a mother. You need to see if your husband can help out, too. You're already working over 60 hours a week at your…

They're delicious as can be, low calorie, and if you don't have to keep your sugar intake down, I encourage you to eat them. At 24 grams of sugar per cup, they're not a food I get to enjoy much :'( (Gout.) But if you like them and they fit with your nutrition goals, enjoy!

This is why I couldn't do FitBit. It estimated everything way too low. My TDEE is higher than what FB was giving me credit for. Actually, the TDEE of a wounded spider might be close to what FB said mine was, but I was confident I burned more than what it gave me credit for just by being alive. I thought it was due to my…

I'm going to be the odd one out, here, but I'd stay at the hotel with a gym, mini-fridge, and microwave. Microwaved scrambled eggs or oatmeal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and any number of healthy things you can microwave (frozen meals, etc.) or you can always pick up a big, healthy salad from the supermarket.

I seriously doubt it. Once you're an adult, your stomach pretty much remains the same size. That's why some people get gastric bypass surgery. I think probably your body comes to expect a certain amount of calories, and when we cut back on calories, your body gets used to the change after awhile, as long as you're…

That's me, except for those days I get extremely hungry, but even then, I try to eat as few exercise calories as I can get away with.

I breastfed and didn't intentionally cut calories at all with both my children. But I ate a really healthy diet (for them -- I wanted cheeseburgers and shakes), and I ended up losing weight without even trying. (I was pregnant or breastfeeding or both for four years.) Unfortunately, that's also when my hypothyroidism…

Try snacking on hemp hearts. Three tablespoons have 10 g of protein and only 180 calories. They're fairly cheap on Amazon (Manitoba Harvest is a good brand), 15 servings for about $10. I love hemp. They're kinda nutty, and they're much higher in protein than flax or chia seeds.

This is why I only weigh once a month.

A little of both. I really enjoy it when my family leaves me alone while I exercise, which is most of the time. I do my resistance, then listen to audiobooks while I'm on the treadmill. It's usually my tranquil period, though I have been forced to administer the occasional spelling or science test while I'm working out. I…

After weighing myself daily for a very long time, I realized that I was just needlessly freaking myself out over natural fluctuations in my weight. And now I'm like you, weighing monthly. It keeps me sane. :smiley:

I'll just take this opportunity to point out that Lord Byron once tried to enroll his pet bear at Cambridge.

I see this thread has devolved into a my-diet-is-better-than-all-diets debate, not going to contribute to *that*. I'll just throw in my advice, which is if you think the keto WOE (way of eating) could suit you, give it a whirl. If it turns out to not please you, there are tons of other ways to feed yourself. You may have…

With that information, I wonder if it would actually do any good in the long run? If you're only able to control your eating disorder with a pill that will stop being effective, won't you then be right back where you started? Have you discussed this kind of possibility with your doctor? Does the doctor have a plan to get…

That's it. I want to move to Spain.

AWESOME JOB! You've done great!

I think it could be beneficial to people who don't have access to a gym or a trainer, as well as to people who are too embarrassed for whatever reason to go to a gym. And, honestly, there are a lot of people who work out at home and who would benefit by having someone else design a workout for them. You could even set up…

One day, I just realized that a number on the scale is so arbitrary and has nothing to do with how fit I am. So, I want to get fit, whatever weight that is.

I chose the last weight at which I was happy with how I looked, but I'm keeping in mind that, when I weighed 125#, I didn't work out AT ALL. And now I walk about 18 miles a week and do body weight exercises, so I might look in the mirror at a higher weight and decide that I'm there.

I've used it to remove a couple of moles, but that's the only experience I've had with it. It works really well for that, though. Burned off the first mole in about four days, the second in only two!

Next time, just say that you usually have a very late breakfast.

In my experience, I've had two guys offer me tips at the gym. The first was a guy who obviously knew what he was doing, and he helped me squat correctly. I appreciated the heck out of it, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't hitting on me. Just a nice guy who couldn't deal with how badly I was squatting. And I knew I was…

I stopped going to the gym a few years ago when I gave up having a car of my own to save money (SAHM, homeschooler, you do what you've got to do), but I remember seeing really big people in the gym, and you know what the first thought to enter my mind always was? "Good for him/her!" It doesn't matter what a person's…

I can understand just wanting a number you can use for calories burned calculators and your daily calorie allowance. I just round down to the nearest 5 from what I weighed last. But I only weigh once a month, because I drive myself crazy when I do it daily, lol. Last time I weighed, I was somewhere in the low 140s, so…

Some people love them, some people hate them. I found mine to be wildly inaccurate for me. (I think my hypotension was problematic for it.) Fortunately, it was a gift, so no regrets about wasting my money. To figure out if your sleep calories are off, divide your BMR by 24 and multiply by the number of hours sleeping. It…

Seriously? You mean I've been doing all this, and I'm NOT getting a trophy? Seriously? I want a refund. Oh, wait...

Take some ibuprofen and ice your shins every 3-4 hours for a couple of days. If it truly is shin splints, you're going to need to take some time off to let them heal, maybe a month or more. In the meantime, don't do any exercise that will stress those muscles. When it no longer hurts to walk, maybe swim or ride your bike.…

I think that many of us are under the impression that we do get to stop watching what we eat and making sure we exercise when we get to goal. I know I was for a good chunk of my life, but that stupid weight kept coming back!