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Hey all! I am going to take a break from MFP because I have so much going on in my life that this is just stressing me out more! And the more I stress about dieting, the more I want to eat to relieve that stress... etc. I need to work on some of the issues underlying my emotional need for food, and I would like to take the…

hey! i stopped eating at about 830 tonight which was good. what was NOT good is that i had ice cream after dinner...not because i wanted it but because i was so under my calories! ahhh i have such a hard time eating all of them! i mean i workout just to workout, not to burn calories, and i often train for 2+ hours just…

Ok, sorry, I would say DO eat your exercise calories. I went through a very long period when I did not eat them and only ate 1000 a day and I actually did not lose any weight because I was starving myself... I know how frustrating the scale can be, trust me, so you are not alone. Could you try eating 6 small meals a day,…

Good job everyone! it is so hard when stress makes you just want to eat and eat... especially now that all the yummy holiday stuff is out! wl - im so sorry to hear about your hard times, just make sure you focus on you for a bit so you can help support those around you. gm - sometimes we all need some chocolate!…

TONIC WATER HAS TONS OF CALORIES!!! It has just as much as say sprite or something unless you get it diet... I also thought this was true until about a year ago... vodka tonic was my "calorie free" drink in college... but now i know how horribly wrong i was!!! :grumble:

The reason people think liquor has no calories is that those liquor commercials sell their drinks as "no carb" which is TRUE because the calories in alcohol are all from sugar alcohol which is stored and used differently as mentioned before. I went through almost all of college believing this!! I never gained weight, but…

I also put myself into the S mode by eating only 1000 cals a day and then exercising for at least 60 minutes a day and not factoring those cals into what I ate :embarassed: . So not good... I have now been eating more for a little over a week (after seeing the scale go UP) and have not weighed myself since. I am trying to…

There is no secret dieting tip that will help you lose weight, just portion control and physical activity. While a lot of people, like me, find that just not eating junk completely helps them it may not be for everyone. Some people find that by completely forbidding their favorite foods it makes them binge on them when…

Oatmeal Pancake Provided by: The South Beach Diet Online Original recipe yield: 1 serving. INGREDIENTS: · 1/2 cup old-fashioned oatmeal · 1/4 cup low-fat cottage cheese (or tofu) · 4 egg whites · 1 teaspoon vanilla extract · 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon · 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg DIRECTIONS: Process the oatmeal, cottage cheese, egg…

ok once again i failed... i would really like my cutoff to be 9 but tonight i didnt get home until 915, listened to my roommate practice her presentation, then ate my last tidbit by 10. does it count if its not snacking? i wish but i think the answer is no... so i am going to set my cutoff to between 9 and 10 and see how…

oh my god i am addicted to spinning! it is such a fabulous workout!! how did you figure out how many cals you burned? when i looked mine up it only said that i burned 550 in a 55 minute class... i dont have one of those fancy HRMs and certainly cannot afford one!! we have HRMs at the gym but they dont tell you cals burned…

yeah i need to get better about eating a little more throughout the day. the problem is that sometimes i work out for an hour and a half and sometimes for like 30 min depending on how I'm feeling/how tired I am/how late i get to the gym. im going to try and get better! tonight was my night one! i managed to get dinner in…

i do squats and calf raises when im preparing cell samples and during short incubation times!!! i get crazy looks from other grad students/supervisors in our labs...

i LOVE LOVE LOVE the snow! everything about it! i even love to drive in the snow and shovel it and everything. My favorite thing to do in the snow has to be either sledding or skiing... and of course i LOVE snow days! which I will no longer have since I am in grad school... but we had 2 during my 4 years in college which…

ok so this is so not working very well for me... i work really long days and then workout afterwards and dont get home until late so then i HAVE to eat because i will have like 600 calories left to eat... how do you guys manage when your lifestyle demands a late dinner? Or if you are up all night working?

had a big party last night... drank more than i even know... so i am going to say that i was over my cals, though i lost count of the drinks :blushing: . but i didnt eat too little so that was good haha! its such a fine line, i hate it. great job losingit!!! you are doing amazingly! that is very sweet of your hubby to…

if you mix it with oatmeal in a blender and add an egg it makes super good pancakes...

Me! I'm totally in! I want to not go under my cals for the whole month! I think I have been making my body suffer for my mental problems with food... thus making me suffer more mentally because I can't seem to lose the weight I want! It's a vicious cycle... Good luck!!!

HI! I'm totally in, what a great challenge! I also have the problem of getting home late from the gym or the lab but I need to try all that I can to lose as much as I can (healthily!) in 5 weeks. I am going to set my time for 9 p.m. as well. I am hoping today will be day 1 for me. Yesterday/early this morning I had to eat…

aw no worries! you have been being so good so it's ok. i have so many friends that are like that. they eat what they want, when they want, and how much they want and still look fabulous. my boyfriend is one of them... but focus on how good you were for the rest of the day!!! that takes so much willpower to avoid that stuff…

Ok so if I am awake from 5 a.m. until 4 a.m. or so, am I supposed to eat more than 1200?? I cannot go into starvation mode any more!!!!! Thank you! :flowerforyou:

haha CONGRATULATIONS!!! i bet the pants dont feel as much bad as the good you feel right now! way to go girl!

I always always always eat dinner leftovers! I usually have about a 1/2 cup of cooked rice (about 100 cals) and some sort of meat for my protein. pasta is also good but watch the portion! i like to put in a bunch of chopped veggies to make it more filling but lessens the cals. soup is also a really good option, or yogurt…

yes depression is a disease that can actually make your body sick. i think you need to go to your doctor and talk about it because you may benefit from medication. talk to those close to you and pay attention to yourself! it is so good that you are recognizing these symptoms and willing to do something about them now! i…

So I got on the scale today after a week of being SO GOOD and I was up 1 kg!!!!! :noway: UGHHHHH!!!!! My only problem is that maybe I don't eat enough but I mean that won't make you GAIN weight. I am so so so uber frustrated because, while I know this is supposed to take time, I need to get as much weight off in the next 5…

Yeah I think I will stay with research. My ultimate goal is to get my MD after my PhD and then be able to do the clinical work and the research stuff, but that is a long way away. I need to live through this first!!! I really, really would like to teach at a med school no matter what I do, though. I taught some chem…

Ok I am going to try my very hardest to eat my exercise cals!!! Thank you all for being so supportive and helpful!! :happy: P.S. I am in the molecular biology portion of the biology work. I am currently working on my PhD and my research area is molecular and cellular basis of cancer and aneuploidy disorders (like Down's).…

So first of all, I am in the science world and tend to overthink, overanalyze, and overcalculate just about every aspect of my life. So of course I have placed this obsessive talent on my weight loss efforts, leading me to actually wake up in the middle of the night in a panic about calorie deficits and losing the weight I…

That sounds so fun! Actually, if you compare the two calorie-wise they are about the same if you are using nonfat milk. For instance, a tall hot chocolate from starbucks - no whip - has 192 calories while the steamed apple juice has 170. And if you get their version of apple cider - no whip - it's a whopping 240 calories…

OOOOO I love this one!! Ok I would like to be 125 lbs/57 kg by New Year's, bringing me down 17 lbs/8 kg from where I am now and putting me 7lbs/3kg from my goal weight. This is going to be TOUGH because I am going back to the States to visit Dec. 10th and have all kinds of dinners and festivities planned with people. But I…