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I don't know facts but throughout my life I have seen that these illnesses are random in who has them. I have seen very obese with no actual health issues (maybe they didn't ever go to the doctor)...I have seen non-smokers end up with lung cancer, my grandfather was in great shape but because of trauma (burned in a corn…

Sometimes you have just gotta trust your gut, literally. I have had that, where there are days that I don't get to log everything I eat or see how many calories I have burned - but apparently I only ate when I was hungry and managed to lose a couple pounds. Sometimes I think that thinking about it all of the time makes us…

Sodium? I grow amazing amounts if I have a handful of potato chips because of the salt - sometimes to the point that I need to put on sweat pants because my jeans just don't fit anymore (this kills me since my favorite snack is Lays potato chips and ice cold pepsi) - otherwise, I am clueless as to what is going on - don't…

I am not a runner and am attempting when I can - two small kids at home keep that from happening most of the time - but I ran a couple weeks ago and my neighbor caught me at the end of a half mile and I could barely talk to her - breathing was a small issue - but I will try again tomorrow.

Nice to meet you. I would love to see you meet your goals. I have been awfully wish/washy on keeping up with this but hope to do good through the holidays. I would like to lose about 40 pounds by next summer. Actually I would be happy with 20 but 40 would be my goal. Good luck to you and have a wonderful weekend.

Awesome - I am very happy for you - hope that someday I can say the same

Will be motivated tomorrow - I worked my postal route today and that always drains the energy right out of me - tomorrow I am running my daycare, we always have fun dancing and going for walks.

I don't think that is sad - that is what I would like to do but I have two small children and just don't have the finances to pay a babysitter so I can go work out. I try to exercise at home (sit-ups, etc) and take walks with my children and dance with my daycare kids but have not done a FULL workout in a long time.

Glad to meet you

I don't watch my sodium...I feel it when I have eaten a bag of chips - oh do I feel it! But because of that I stay away from it the next day - my body is pretty good at telling my brain when my mouth has screwed up so I just try to learn from my mistakes - hopefully one day it will be a lesson well learned and I will look…

Very interesting...you've got me thinking

Looks like I am too late to join but will create a chart for myself so that I can take part (just not officially) I would love to look sexy in my Christmas morning photos of my hair a mess with me clinging to my coffee like a lifeline while watching my kids tear apart everything I worked so hard to make pretty ( wow, I…

Woohoo, glad you got answers and even more glad that you are going to be able to go to class and truly enjoy yourself! GO Bubbly GO!!!

I have few friends so I would be devastated - but in my older years I am getting bolder and would probably pull one aside and just bluntly ask - "Are they avoiding me for some reason?" acting as if the person you are talking to is not one of "them" - hopefully you'll get the truth and hopefully it is all a misunderstanding…

Well, I tend to have this issue going past a Culvers that advertises the Flavor of the Day. Just drink a bottle of water with it and go for a nice brisk walk afterwards. Not that I am that well behaved but boy would I like to be :)

Thanks for the heads up

Hey there - I used to be a Maryland Mom too. Now I am a Wisconsin Mom. I am trying to lose about 50 pounds myself but have a hard time staying with it. I run an in-home childcare business - I am required to serve Breakfast, snack, lunch, and snack and guess how hard it is to not clean up the leftovers with my own fork.…

I unfortunately have this happen a LOT - I love Lays potato chips and have not found them to be kind to me other then flavor and crunch - and of course an ice cold glass of Pepsi really throws the calorie count to the wolves - I just try to remember each day is a new day and reboot my system. I didn't track my calories for…

Right - eat those burned until 1200 - also, if you add maybe a half a mile onto your walk or run for an extra 5 minutes - I was told that your body will get used to your "normal" exercise and will no longer burn the way it used to and that you have to increase the exercise again to get it to start to burn again.

:laugh: :embarassed: It would be when I could feel the back love handles jiggle when I walked that I realized my weight was spiraling out of control - thanks for the work out tips:wink:

Sooo embarrassing, took my daughter to pick up her senior pics. I had 3 cups of coffee and 16 oz. of water before we left. When we got there - first thing out of my mouth was "where is the bathroom?" - I think I was going for a full 5 minutes before I finally made myself stop. As soon as we got home I had to go again. Just…

I am too...lost my ambition to stay on track and a result of gaining all + some weight has caused me to come back with a vengience (spelling?)...good luck to you

I actually got 64 oz. down yesterday - that is a big accomplishment for me since 32 oz. has always been my max. I will try for 80 oz. today - got lots of errands to run though so it may not happen

Hello again to the MFP neighborhood. I have been out of the loop for about 3 months - lost the motivation I think. Looking to get back in as my weight is back up there and I am so disappointed in myself. I got a used treadmill last week and am anxious to get busy. I have started watching my calories again as of this…

If I do leg lifts with leg weights on is that considered strength training - I usually just include it in my cardio.:drinker:

Hate to break it to you but when I got out of college (with degree in hand) no one would hire me because of no experience. I ended up having to go through a temp agency for a long time just to be able to not lie about having some experience. Manpower, Kelly, etc... no benefits for a while but in the next couple of years it…

I am so upset. For the last two days I was down a pound - this morning I am anxious to report so I jump on the scale and apparently confidence weighs two pounds. Guess I will have to be down four pounds next week. What does starvation do? Just kidding.

This is the link to the week 4 Blue Team BL http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/36827-bl-blue-team-week-4

jennNva - I am sorry that you have to stress over that - I would eat... My mother-in-law just got a permanent lay-off after 20 years with a company - which is only so frustrating because in 5 years she would be able to retire - now she has to start over. I can understand it from your end too - the financial world just…

Congrats on the apartment RahVR6!!! I have a whole house and am still bumping into things in every room that I try to work out in. I guess it is up to me to actually clean out a room and designate it. I just am not getting that done. Guess I will have to suffer than.