meaganlael

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.... no one can ruin your journey to success but yourself.

Listening to the beats of Major Lazer and Diplo gets me moving fast. When I'm talking a long, relaxing walk, I put on some STRFKR albums.

Collards, turnips, or any kind of leafy greens. I hated them growing up, but now I'd eat them every day if I could.

Bubbles is quite a cutie, but Julian AKA Sexian.... lawd help :love:

If you can type well, you could look into working for an online based transcription company, but of course you have to be aware of scams. One company I found that was not at least an immediate scam to work for was Transcribe Team. You listen to audio files, transcribe team, then get paid based on the length and quality of…

SUPER helpful! Thanks for taking the time to share.

OP, I hate to echo what you don't want to hear, but this journey will take time and patience; hang in there! The time it takes to sculpt and practice a healthy lifestyle will pass by regardless of what you're doing in your life, so why not use that time to make a positive difference? Keep up the effort, and in time, you…

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - From the Sun

When I order water with my fast food combo, and I get a single sip sized cup of water instead of the big 12 oz cups they use for sodas.

Bumping for all the yummy recipes :)

For lunch: A spinach salad with pecans, cucumbers, tomato, white raisins, with a garlic vinegarette dressing. Usually there's reduced fat feta in the mix too, but I'm out at the moment. For snack: A banana, fiber bar, and pecans. All this talk of cheese in other posters' lunchboxes really makes me want some.

No Doubt

Kings of Leon

W. L Weller bourbon mostly, and Ole Smokey Moonshine (any flavor) when I'm wanting something a little fruity.

Totally get where you're coming from, OP. I'm not expecting to make lifelong friends here, and honestly don't have time to sculpt personal relationships with everyone on my list, so I don't need to know specific reasons why I'm being friended or even an introduction. I'm just looking to be motivated and to motivate those…

I like adding spinach, fresh peppers, avacado and tomatoes to my scrambled eggs. It makes for a very nutritious and tasty breakfast.

All the more motivation to work on whittling down my waist, then.... about 12 inches (a bit of a long way, but that's no surprise) to go!

The gun show

A food scale does seem like a very good investment to make soon, as well as a HRM (as a side note). I've made good habits of measuring things out with cups, but there's plenty of things I eat that are difficult to measure in cups and tablespoons, and I don't trust exercise machine outputs. Thanks for the advice!

My values from the calculator are: - BMR 1654 - TDEE 2275 - Daily calories based on 20% reduction 1820 So based on that, I guess I should be eating upwards of 1820 calories a day, but I feel going from 1200 to 1820 is too much a jump. Eating at around 1600 past two days has definitely boosted my energy, so I'll give that…

Nothing brightens my day quicker than someone complimenting me on my weight loss. Yes, it's a little embarrassing acknowledging that I'm overweight to begin with, but I had to put away that shame and be open with myself in order to deal with the issue at hand. So when someone says they can tell I've been working hard at…

Extremely old picture there, too.... it's been time for a recent one!

Why couldn't you have been MY mom?!

Kishi Bashi this summer at AthFest in Athens, GA. Coming up this fall: OK Go, Brand New (:heart: :heart: :heart: ), and a Tim & Eric & Dr. Steve Brule show, all in Atlanta.

I'm way below my calorie allotment for the day, so considering skipping gym time :devil:

The scruff is friendly stuff!

I'm 5'0.5", weighing 195 now (7 lbs down from my heaviest) and aiming for 160 as a realistic first goal. 160 is still overweight for my frame but not obese, and that was about what I weighed 6 years ago in high school. From there, maybe I'll whittle down to 140 lbs, though I could see myself being healthy and happy in the…

Thank you all for the motivation! Hopefully for all of us who aren't yet seeing slim numbers on the scale, we all still know that what we're doing is only making our lives better, smaller numbers or not! Also, I've been taking Green Tea pills because I read that they can help with weight loss, but I'm wondering if maybe…