ShannonMpls Member

Thanks!

Giving up that scale addiction was the best mental health choice I made. But you MUST be consistently "in the game" for this to work. If you're floundering on diet and/or exercise, this could get you into trouble. 10+ pounds of trouble. Regular weighing, imo, is key while habits are solidifying or need resetting. My habits…

Then it gives you so many options! Right now I'm really into this step class taught by a particular instructor. It's a crazy, frenzied, highly choreographed class with complicated steps and I was utterly lost when I accidentally took it the first time. Now it's my damn GOAL to get good at that class. Before that I ran a…

Baby steps. I lost 130 pounds in about 15 months, and I've been maintaining for 16 months. When I started here my goal wasn't to lose 130 pounds, it was to lose 10. Then 25. Then 40. And so on. In fact, I didn't tell MFP my ACTUAL goal until I was about twenty pounds away. It was all about the baby steps, because I felt…

Oooh, me likely.

I came back to this thread for more JLaw. So glad I don't have to leave disappointed. Maybe we should start a new thread just for JLaw gifs. I'll post the mint spilling one over and over.

I had a BodyBugg, very similar to the BodyMedia, and hated it. I used it for about two weeks. I hated the armband in particular, which always was visible - even under clothing, there was this big bump on my arm. Contrast to the Fitbit, which I've worn without fail for more than a year. It can be fully hidden in my pocked,…

I gradually increased my calorie intake WHILE losing weight. Once I hit my goal weight, I was already eating reasonable calories, so I just took more days off from tacking and let in more leeway on weekends. I pretty much still do just what I was doing while losing, but I have more of what some call "cheat" days. It works…

I don't know anyone who can stay at the exact same weight every single day, even my husband who is not susceptible at all to carb/salt/overeating water retention. He swings three pounds all the time. I have a maintenance range of 5 pounds. If I go above that, I start to tighten up my eating, log more days out of the week…

Twinsies. I'm trying to keep my weekdays a little more consistent these days, but this is just how I maintain. A high/spike day for me is 3,500-4,000 calories of wonderful.

All posts should include Jennifer Lawrence gifs.

Eating less fat will lead to fat loss only insofar as it leads to a reduction of calories. There is nothing magic about eating less fat.

THIS is what I am glad to read. I can't believe how many messages I get here from people with 100+ pounds to lose who ask about loose skin. As if that is the most important thing about losing weight. My answer is usually some derivation of: Yes, I have some. It's better for me than for many, and I don't have any reason as…

130+ pounds lost, 16 months of maintenance. I joined the registry about six months ago and have done a couple surveys. Great to have the "check in."

Just tried this for the first time and it lives up to the hype. So flipping good.

I'd have to go back and look, but I think I started with 15 pound dumbbells. Eventually I moved to the bar and bench. Now my PR is 145 for reps. This progress wasn't quick. I was lifting for 1.5 years before switching to splits/5x5s and then my strength progressed pretty regularly.

Cheap is fine. Just make sure you have a tare/zero-out button and the option for grams and ounces.

I would report the girlfriend thing. Part of 24-hour access is an agreement not to bring a guest with you. The client is violating that agreement. If everyone did this, your rates would rise - the gym would have far more users than income, and to maintain the machines they'd need to charge more for the actual paying…

I realize we're not "fun" but I don't really believe in kid food. My preschooler's lunch is the exact same thing my husband and I pack for ourselves - leftovers from the day before, with a fresh fruit. Today, my son's lunch is burrito filling (a mix of beef, onion, black beans, roasted sweet potatoes), cheese, and a…

Nah, I'd probably set to lightly active, do not eat extra exercise calories, then see where your weight takes you. If you lose after a few weeks, you need to eat a bit more. If you gain, a bit less. You are burning more than 20 calories in your class, even if it's not vigorous aerobics.

I can imagine the looks on my coworker's faces if I whipped out my tupperware in the party room of the restaurant while they were enjoying their steaks and wine. To each their own, but not a chance in hell for me. And that's not to say that I always eat the **** offered to me. I've packed my lunch and declined lunch…

This, except I don't think logging is mandatory. It may help reign in the eating, but I find it an absolute buzzkill on a holiday. So for me, I eat what I want, enjoy it, don't log, move on, back to logging the next day.

Don't worry about it. I never hit a plateau. I did vary my exercise regularly, and though it wasn't formal, zig zagged calories (a little high one day, a little low another...it was not to intentionally zig zag, but it's just how things worked out). I don't know if this impacted anything. I was told plateaus are…

Weekly. Less on weekdays and more on weekends is exactly how I do it. It's worked well for me for a year and a half of maintenance. I've stayed within the same 5 pound goal range. I don't think you are calculating your maintenance calories correctly, though. I'd eat at the lightly active TDEE for a few weeks and see what…

I love my kitchen scale. Still, 15 months into maintenance, almost 1000 days on MFP, and I use it several times a day. The nice thing about the kitchen scale is that it's taught me to eyeball portions with pretty good precision. I can't imagine whipping one out at a restaurant to weigh my steak or french fries. Glad you're…

None. I stopped wearing underwear to work out ages ago. Compression bottoms washed after every trip to the gym do the job.

It is highly unlikely that are burning 550 calories in 30 minutes. 300 calories in 30 minutes sounds more like it. There really isn't a way to tell "actual" calories burned using MFP or your elliptical's settings. A HRM might get you closer, but even that is suspect. My advice: if what you've been doing is working, don't…

Nothing changed when I started maintaining, except that I had a bit more leeway in terms of calorie intake. I maintain the same habits in terms of exercise and nutrition. Maintaining has been pretty easy so far (15 months in).

GONE! You can see it a lot better in my bra/undies pics, but I'm not posting those here ;) OP, I would consider sharing them with you via PM though, so drop me a line if interested.

I absolutely respect your choice, and I understand that we are different people (in terms of age and ability to be active). But I lost all of my weight while still enjoying the food prepared by my family on holidays, celebrating with them, eating treats I don't eat the other 360 days in a year. I enjoyed Thanksgiving,…