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I watched an episode of Extreme Weight Loss on Demand today... focused on Bruce Pitcher. I highly recommend finding and watching this episode. If there was ever a need for motivation, you will find it in Bruce. I don't normally watch this show and was looking for something to serve as "background noise" while I worked... I…
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I spent the first 58 years of my life eating whatever I wanted without logging anything. I have spent the last year of my life logging most everything I eat. In the last year, I have lost the 100+ pounds that I gained in the first 58. To log or not to log: no brainer... I am a lifer. There are certain things I no longer…
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dropping a size or two took a little bit of time, but then I had a whole range of clothing sizes in my closet--from size 12 (my "diet pants") to a hefty size 20. So when I dropped a size it might not have been as noticeable as would have been if I would have actually had to purchase new clothes... I can tell you this much,…
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I guess that is up to you. I know for myself that a cheat day will send me right back to where I came from. It's been 13 months since I started my journey and any of those "cheat" items are worked into my daily food allotment. If I want it bad enough and it will put me over, then I know I will have to hop on the treadmill…
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DILL PICKLES! does it for me...takes care of the salty and cuts the sweet!
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actually going to one today. we didn't have to bring anything, but I decided to make potato salad, deviled eggs, pickle rollups and mini apple brie quiches. The potato salad has 50 cal per serving (1/2 c). The deviled eggs have 90 cal per 2 halves... pickle rollups (with ham and fat free cream cheese) have about 35 cal or…
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On my 50th birthday, I weighed 270 lbs... have always been heavy...60lbs at 6 years old, 99 lbs at 9 years old... and it just went up from there... I vowed on my 50th that I will NOT be fat by my 60th birthday. My weight was up and down for a few years... managed to get down to 175lbs by age 54, but then also managed to…
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Here's an idea... skip past the posting. I don't think anyone is forcing you to read it. Just don't waste your time. I skip over a ton of messages that just don't appeal to me.
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FYI... eating at Subway isn't cheating.... at least once a week I get a foot long vegie sub on honey oat, no cheese, all the vegies...with a "splash" of honey mustard and sweet onion sauce... This is two meals for me and a total of 230 calories per meal. The kids working at Subway don't even bother asking me what I want…
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I was born fat... literally... 9lb babies were not all that common 59 years ago. I remember my mother telling me stories on how I was a colic baby... to "soothe the colic" she'd prepare home made baby formula with bottles of white Karo syrup... guess that did the trick and from that point on, was rewarded with candy. I was…
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I am so glad to see that others are having image issues...not that I wish this on anyone, but just yesterday I showed my "significant other" my side by side pictures of me 18months ago and today...and told him that when I look in the mirror, I still see the 18-months-ago-me... I know this is an issue that I have to learn…
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The difference, I believe, is that MFP has you eating back the calories you burned from exercise and Fitbit doesn't. I follow the MFP target but seldom eat back the calories -- so I suppose I am actually following the fitbit target. haha....At least I know-- on the rare occasion that I do eat more than normal -- I do have…
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I flatly refuse to keep anything in my closet that DOES NOT FIT ME PROPERLY.... that means dumping "1 size too big" clothing and I will not resort to having anything that has a drawstring or elastic waist "just in case"... I am going to be 59 years old tomorrow and for the very first time in my life, I am welcoming my…
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weighed myself on July 1, 2013.... weighed the next time on November 21, 2013... down 52 lbs at that time. Haven't "officially" weighed myself since then. However, did weigh at my sister's house 4 weeks ago. She's the only one who knows what I weigh today as I would not look and do not want to know.... based on her…
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I started this journey on July 1, 2013... weighed in on that day and then only once since (pre op physical for broken wrist back in November -- chose not to look at the scale at the doctor's office, but curiousity got the best of me when I was in recovery and did ask what my pre op weight was -- imagine my surprise when I…
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My suggestion is that the next time you are in a store, try on a size smaller than you currently wear and see how it fits. I have found that I actually need 1-2 sizes smaller than I have hanging in my closet. When I was at my heaviest, I tended to wear clothes that fit a little looser. I needed room for the fat to go when…
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I have to agree with everyone about not looking at the full picture and to break your weight loss down into pieces. So many times I've told myself I will start on the first of the month... first of the month comes and goes-- pretty soon it is the end of the month and I am looking back and thinking... "damn, if I'd have…
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I have to agree with billieljaime on this one. What I just don't understand -- and maybe someone who has had WLS can explain to me -- is how many people state they lost like 15-20 lbs on a restrictive diet PRIOR to surgery to prepare for surgery??? uh... if you can lose weight by dieting, why the surgery then? I have not…
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One major thing that worked for me is to not step on the scale. I used to be a minimum-5-times-a-day-weigher-inner.... and then I'd move the darn thing around the floor...room to room, trying to find the "skinniest" spot on the floor.... always felt so defeated, so I can sympathize how it feels to have lost "only" 5 pounds…
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counting calories makes me accountable. I tried it the other way (not counting calories) for the first 57 years of my life... not counting calories packed on a good 100+ pounds more than I need over the years. Since last year I've counted calories... lost that good 100+ pounds and for the first time in my life I feel like…
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she is, no doubt, feeling insecure... probably a little jealous, a little worried that suddenly you will decide that you will lose interest in her and want to move on. If you are like me... the day things sort of "clicked" for you was an instrumental change in your life and truthfully, all the junk she brings into the…
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1/2 c of Ben and Jerry's cookies and sweet cream ice cream has 220 calories. I searched for you in the MFP food data base...
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How I gained it: JARS of Peanut butter (the crunchier, the better) on a spoon HUGE bowls of popcorn -- surprisingly without any butter/salt....hot air popped with nothing.. but the operative words here are HUGE and BOWLS Mounds Candy Bars (love that coconut)... chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate Animal crackers and…
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I guess it would depend upon whether or not it was a chocolate rabbit that the OP shot.:laugh: :laugh: :wink:
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YOU CAN DO IT!!! It was my "really serious this time" moment July 1 2013. Unlike a lot of you, I've never ever had the experience of being thin. I have always been overweight. I remember having to be weighed in front of my entire 4th grade class and the scale said 99 pounds. At my highest (about 8 years ago) I weighed 270…
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Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe I read that the reason why the OP had this surgery was to cure her diabetes?!?!?! And that it has been cured?!?!?! While I do not have diabetes, I do have family members who do so I found this very interesting. SO, I googled "is there a cure for diabetes", and I got "About 18,300,000…
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Is it possible that you are bored? There are times when I have had the same feeling... still "hungry" even after I've eaten a meal... In the past, I would continue to "feed" that "hunger", which -- of course-- explains why I was fat, but I'd never quite get "full" Since changing my lifestyle, I've come to find that 99.9%…
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6" vegie on honey oat, no cheese, all the vegies, one pass of sweet onion, one pass of honey mustard = 230 calories about four times a month x 11 months = dropping 8 sizes (I choose not to use the scale to measure weightloss so cant tell you how many pounds I've lost). The workers at the local Subway don't even bother…
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Change up your daily routine. Start a new hobby. Read a book. Go for a walk... Chances are you aren't really hungry... more like bored. I know exactly what you are saying because I experience the same thing. I've come to find that what I think is hunger is really plain old boredom. And I've also come to realize that it was…
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so if you gained 28 pounds, would you want people to comment and take notice of that as well?
