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Not to sound too harsh but quit looking at the negative and start looking for ways to make things work for you. I have a husband who doesn’t need to lose weight and 2 girls. When I started trying to lose weight he didn’t change anything though he said he wanted to eat better. He didn’t start actually doing better until 6…

Life happens when you make other plans. Be glad you didn’t lose 140 and gain it back like I did. When I found myself discouraged like that, I really just wanted to hunker down and feather my nest with all the negative crap. I hate that I’m the only one in my immediate family who’s ever been in the “obese zone”. Everybody…

I do understand where you’re coming from. I was a WW member “way back when” 40 years ago when they had you track your food like MFP does now almost. You knew how much protein, fruit, carbs, fat, etc. you were having. Then they started changing to fat/fiber and to points. Seemed like they were getting real “gimmicky” - like…

I’m not sure what Nutelux is. I’d say use whatever you want that works best with your plan. I tend to like butter, and don’t use it much at all. I do like that it’s “all natural” and supposedly the body does better with things that are more “natural” in nature - but as my husband says, opium and marijuana is all natural…

I’m gonna say - If you’re not hungry, don’t eat. Like other(s) have said - breakfast is your first meal whether it’s at 6am or noon.

Any deficit is a a good deficit as long as you’re using CICO as the basis for the deficit.

At work, I used to have hunger pangs around 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. They always had chips and other snacks in the office. I ended up getting a dorm fridge and keeping it my office. I filled it with bottled water, yogurt, string cheese, hard boiled eggs, etc. Notice the trend that they’re all protein. I also brought…

Unless you’re doing something like P90X or preparing for running a marathon, don’t eat your calories back. If you do, be extra careful about what you eat. Second - pick one. Fitbit or MFP....not both. They both calculate their numbers differently, and that’s why you’re getting different numbers. If you go to WW youll get…

How much you lose and how long it takes before a plateau hits depends on the person. I don’t know that there’s any science to it....and it isn’t “if” but “when”. When it happens to me, I just have learned to be patient for the ride. I can’t drive 18 hours to Florida in 5 minutes (OH wouldn’t I love to though!!) and I can’t…

You gotta weigh everything. Log and track and track and log like a nazi. This whole thing is about data. You have to know what you’re eating.....exactly what you’re eating and how much and TRACK IT. EVERYTHING goes in the log, and yes, size matters!!! Portion size, that is. The specific numbers I watch on MFP are my fiber,…

I hate it when that happens!!! I love a good brownie too! My niece actually makes GREAT brownies. I remember the first time I lost 140 pounds, one of the things I realized I used to LOVE (I don’t know why) were Burger King Whopper’s with Cheese only ketchup. After I had lost the weight that time (in 2013), I had one, and…

I am a WW member, but I don’t really follow their “points” program. I go to the meetings for the support and for the accountability of weekly weigh-ins. I log all my food here. I used to convert the numbers here to points there, but when they made all the lean proteins free and stuff, it’s made things really weird to do…

Yeah - I think you’ll be fine with the one on the phone.

I’ve never done it because I don’t get enough activity to warrant it. On days where I do LOTS of activity, I still won’t....it’ll just make that weeks loss “a little nicer”. Now that being said, my husband used to do P90X and Insanity. When he was doing those exercise programs, he was burning LOTS of calories, and would…

Too many.

Anybody who’s ever tried to lose weight knows how you feel. I can gain 10 pounds in the blink of an eye, but it’ll take me 4 weeks at least to take it off. What the h*ll kinda math is that??!! LOL. It’s part of the process. People will say, “Embrace the process” - I dunno if I like that that phrase. I think it’s more of a…

I have a Fitbit Versa, and my husband and one of my doctors have Apple watches. I got the Versa because my Fitbit One wore out, and I wanted to stick with the Fitbit app due to data it shows. But have always wondered if the data on the Apple Watch wouldn’t suffice in some way or show the same data. I know my husband and…

As has been said, healthy eating doesn’t guarantee weight loss. Everybody has different definitions of healthy eating. I have friends who think going to Olive Garden and having the all you can eat salad is healthy. Hellloooooo - there’s NO PROTEIN in that salad at all. I asked them, “And how long after lunch are you…

1200 is a bit on the low side. It really is all about calories in/calories out. If you consume less then you burn calorie-wise, you’re going to lose. I have a Fitbit Versa, and the bigger distance between those numbers, the better I lose, but I still lose when the burn numbers are bigger than the consumed numbers. Yes, I…

Typical healthy weight loss means 0-2 pounds a week. I currently have 160-ish i want to lose. That’ll take me at least a year, 5-6 months. If I dwell on that, I’ll likely give up. If I focus on 8-10 ish pounds a month, then it’s not as scary. I lost 120 before in about a year, then another 20 of skin removal. Then life…

I was on WW years ago when they actually had you count proteins, veggies, fruits, fats, etc. I thought the plan was MUCH better then...because it actually had you focus on some sort of balanced diet. Now that being said....the new system with the “free point foods” - there’s a “short list” of things that really qualify…

Yes, sodium is important. I remember when my husband and I went to Washington, DC, and it was 100 degrees in the shade. We finally found a vendor cart who had water - we promptly bought 4 bottles, and each downed a bottle. I still felt nauseous. Got a lemonade with salt and sugar in it and instantly felt better. I try not…

OMG - you’d think people would be more receptive to those of us who have “been there done that”....they listen to people who talk about the grapefruit diet, the cookie diet, the ice cream diet, all the detoxes and cleanses. There are no gimmicks to losing weight. I remember asking a bariatric surgeon why they never talked…

1) FIND WHAT WORKS FOR YOU. 2) What works for you won’t work for anybody else, so when they ask what you’re doing, you’re doing what works for you - they have to find what works for them. 3) Get around like-minded people - no negative, stinking-thinking poop-heads.

Drink lots of water, and be VERY diligent with your food journaling. Whenever I “flatline” it’s usually because I’ve become a bit lax in the recording of what I’m eating. I just have to remind myself the more I log, and the BETTER I log, then the better chances if something goes wrong, I can diagnose the problem....see…

I’ll do a “best guess’ if someone else cooks it, or some restaurant cooks it. Most restaurants have nutrition info available on websites, unless it’s a little “mom & pop* restaurant. I’ll try to find a “high” and a “low” and shoot for just above average. THere are things you’ll know about the food though....like with…

It was REALLY hard for me to get restarted because there were so many things I thought I was going to have to “re-give up”. I don’t know if it was that I wasn’t willing to, didn’t want to, or was just scared to get back on the wagon, but there was something there. Fear of not being able to fit in what I wanted, fear of…

I lost something like 140 pounds from April 11, 2011 through April, 2013. Then I had surgery to remove some excess skin around my stomach that was causing issue. Recovering from that proved VERY difficult. I went from wanting to eat everything to not wanting to eat anything. People told me I looked ashen and like…

THere’s a lot of good advice here. My top weight was 376, and I was having a hard time walking places. I started by just logging food on MFP. I didn’t worry about what I was eating or when - I just started logging. You have to know where you’re starting to know what changes you might be wiling to make. I worked with a…