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Looking at your normal day, I think your blood sugar is probably crashing about the time you get home, so you're not hungry, your're HUNGRY. I would take the orange you're eating for a snack, and try swapping it out for something with less sugar, OR pair it with something that has some protien (Nuts, string cheese,…

It has to do with height, body composition, where you carry your weight, etc. I people are always surprised by how much I weigh...but I'm really really strong and I've always been very muscular.

I'm with ya. I'm just getting going (just starting week 4 or so here) and had almost exactly 100 lbs to lose when I started. It feels like a big number, but I know it will go faster than I think it will. lol

hahahahaha...ferdinand....not nice. hahahahaha

It's all about the Tillamook yogurt at my house. I'm not sure what's different, but other brands that I've tried seem to give me heartburn. Marionberry, Raspberry and Northwest Berry Patch. YUM.

An apple and some peanutbutter. Definitely. YUM

Are you eating back any of your exercise calories? You may be stalling out your metabolism. If you're eating 1300, and working off an average of 600 of those, you're asking your body to function on 700 calories all the time.

For me, that happens if I start my exercises with my arms too far back. Try reducing your range of motion just a very small amount until you build your muscles up a bit. I was able to go back to full range of motion after about 4 weeks and I don't have trouble anymore.

I dont' have that problem with food as much as I used to (I think I'm passed it now. Yay!) But definitely with my home. If I don't keep organized, it snowballs fast, and then starts to affect other parts of my life.

Offer to look for her, write it down, and put it in a sealed envelope that SHE keeps. Then she will know what her starting point was when she's ready to find out. :)

In all honesty, it doesn't matter. Your scale is a measure of progress. :) And while we all want to know EXACTLY what we weigh, your weight on a scale is only ever an estimate anyway, even on the most accurate scale. You might weigh XXX now, but at the middle of the day you'll weigh something else, and the end of the day…

It's a "food item" with -300 calories (instead of the normal +300 cal.), so it will add an additional 300 calories to your daily goal and give you a little wiggle room. You can just give yourself a few extra calories anyway, and let your numbers go into the red, but it's sort of a mental thing for me. Plus, if I'm looking…

Yikes. You're not eating much volume of food. Maybe look at adding in foods that are not calorie dense that you can eat in larger portions. I have about the same calories available to me, and I'm rarely hungry except just before meal time.

I just giving myself a 300 calorie bumper today. :)

Are you eating enough carbs? We really do need carbs for energy, complex carbs are prefferable because they take time to work through your system and don't spike your blood suger.

First of all (((hugs))) cuz it just seems like you could use one. The best way to fill up and keep your sugars under control is to focus on veggies, complex carbs, and protein. At dinner, switch to a salad plate for portion control, and fill it 1/2 veggie, 1/4 protien, 1/4 complex carbohydrate. You need a good diabetic…

For upping your water intake: Pick a few things through out your day to be "water triggers" When you get up, have a glass, have a glass before and during every meal, and when you go to bed have a glass. Tada! that's eight glasses!

You can do this!! You're not going to live your whole life without a few days like that here and there. The difference between people who lose and keep it lost, and people who dont, is that the healthier group gets back on the horse. When I'm having a hard time getting back on track, I ask myself. "Where do I want to be in…

You can do it!! Seriously. The best thing I've learned here is to plan ahead. I take a minute each night to plan my food for the next day (and this gets easier every time you do it). It means that I can spend my next day on autopilot where food is concerned. lol

I plan to load up on veggies, and have a few bits of the things that I look forward to all year. If I don't LOVE and ADORE it, I won't be eating it. :)

I hope the OP didn't take my post as irritation with them. It's not. It's irritation with thier nutrionist. LOL

Skinny Cow mint truffle ice cream bars. It's the only "diet" food I eat, but it's SOOOOOOOO good. :)

thats awesome!! wtg!

Your nutritionist should probably not be making blanket statements. :grumble: Like Kaitlin said, if you're using excersize to create your calorie defecit, then no...you should not eat them back. But if you already have a defecit, not eating them can create too large of one. There are lots and lots of other reasons for…

Yum! I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the heads up! :D

three meals and two snacks. :)

You can treat yourself without treating all day. Have a light breakfast and lunch, have a nice dinner and something small but REALLY yummy for dessert. :D

I have two, one is a butterfly made up of my kids' first initials (Brendan, Emma, Baylie. A "B" for each wing, and a stylized "E" for the body and head). It's about 6 inches wide in between my shoulder blades. It needs work though. No pix of that one. lol The second makes more sense if you know that I'm a costume designer…

Bravo on both accomplishments. Losing the weight AND losing the mom jeans!!

Do you log your excersize on this site? If you log it into the "cardio" section, it will tell you how many calories you burned while you were working out. You need to add that amount of calories to your diet to keep from dropping too low and slowing your metabolism.