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Don't forget to count the protein in your dark leafy greens like spinach, kale, collard greens and even brocoli. I had thought the gram/pound was for serious body builders, not the average person. What's your end goal?

For me eating 'clean' is avoiding artificial preservatives, colours and sweetners. (Think of how your great-great grandparents ate.) Cooking doesn't diminish it and you should be able to look at your plate of food and be able to recognize what its individual components are. You either know what it's mother's face looks…

Ok, realistically it's 2 sizes but I swear on all that is good in the world, when you transition from a regular 18 to a plus sized 20, it actually feels like 3 size worth in there. I've fluctuated between a regular 16 to the plus 20 and there is way more size between 18 and 20 than 16 and 18. If you have size range, layer…

I agree with transitioning, specially if you have a family, I cut my husband back to two meat suppers a week to keep him happy, the rest are vegetarian days and two days are specifically vegan days. There are lot of great vegan soups and stews that can be great for lunches that you can prepare in advance and freeze for…

Yup! What I'm doing is none of their business nor theirs mine :) But then again, I'm usually the one always getting passed. Your training program calls for a long-slow for a reason, don't lose sight of that.

No vending maching but a cooler full of pop and juice and cookies in the cupboard :( Endless salesman bring donuts :( A coworker bakes all sorts of things like cheesecake and chocolate lava cakes :( My work is my biggest food challenge. I did convince the office manager to add a fruit bowl, that's getting more and more…

It's hard to maintain motivation when you have a negative goal, like wanting to lose X pounds. Rephrase it to the positive - like I want to lose enough weight so x activity is easier to do. When you are moving towards a goal, have an emotional connection to it with your heart and an intelligent plan to get there,…

You look fairly lean in your profile pic. If this is ongoing, I'd seek medical advice. Once you lean down a certain percentage, like a lot of competitive athletes, you will lose your period because your body fat is that low. Figure out why, then decide if it's a problem.

For me it's been a learning process - the more I learn, the better I can do. If I don't learn anything new about food and nutrition, how can I make better choices? How am I supposed to get healthier eating the same food that helped made me unhealthy? I think I've addressed emotional eating issue that I have, I've broke the…

Yoda - "Do or do not. There is no try."

Great visual!:smile:

My employer has a comprehensive wellness plan... our head office location has it's own Weight Watchers meeting on site as well as a bootcamp, yoga and zumba classes during lunch hours. Every other week there is a lunch'n'learn seminar on almost any topic you can think of under the banner of wellness. I can call our EFAP…

This. 10x over. I am there to get what I need to do done as quickly and efficiently as possible. I sweat buckets and don't care - makeup would be pointless, lol.

The bench idea is good, or a solid stool - won't have back support or anything so he may not be as good a customer as he has been. Tell him you don't have the money to buy new chairs at the moment (or foreseeable future) and tell him you understand completely if he wants to bring a chair in himself, heck, you can even…

Do things that make her life easier or give her a moment for herself. Tell her you are making supper or cleaning up and taking care of the kids afterwards so she can have a bubble bath/go for a walk/read a book - whatever recharges her spirit. Compliments are wonderful but only when sincere, flowers and gifts are nice but…

That was yesterday, hopefully you made better choices today and great choices tomorrow. When you choose to eat off your plan, make sure the food is good tasting and worth it. Enjoy it and get over it, don't use it as a tool to beat yourself.

There is something really funky between size 16 regular size to 18 plus to 20 plus - I swear there is 2 regular sizes wthin each size gap. If you are caught in that vortex, I'd say stick with the bigger size until you can get into the other. The lower sizes don't seem to have that weird size gap so go for the snugger pair…

I'm not celiac but one sister is severly intolerant and has to avoid gluten at all costs or have bloating, gas, diarrhea, acne and excezma. I cut out wheat and have substantially less joint pain particularly in my knees... all these years my doctor thought it was just arthritis and told me to lose wait and it would lessen.…

How do you feel about the rest of your life? Are you happy or is whatever happened by that person tainting everything in your life? Happiness is a conscious choice and comes from within and builds on your own inner thoughts and beliefs and things like forgiving/forgetting others becomes of less consequence. Google "Louise…

I think you have someone in your life that YOU really need to go talk to. Go deal with that. People need to be ready to start their own journey, nothing you can do or say can make them do it. Just be sincere in your offer to help and speak from a good place. You cannot help someone who is not ready to help themselves.

Superstore - in their natural foods aisle, I got a box of organic dandelion root tea for around $3

Cause your oven doesn' want you to eat pizza! Also check your thermostat - the stick looking thingy at the back and make sure it hasn't broke off.

Camping is a change of scenery, think more about active entertainment, not just figure out a way to do lunges in a tent. Go for a hike and lunge up the hill or stop and do pushups when your friend needs a rest. Do hill sprints if the mood strikes but enjoy the beauty of your surrounding and let it inspire you. A log has…

Be willing to try something new. Our sense of taste changes constantly dependent on our diet. There are so many great tips and tricks and a great blender (I love my vitamix too) to make green smoothies so you taste fruit but eat veggies and get all the fibre to make you feel full. This might sound funny but you might want…

People know. If this really is an issue, ask why we don't live healthier. Why is there a 64oz soft drink option on the menu? Why do they assume we want to 'up-size' every meal? Why are man-vs-food gluttony challenges so popular? Why do they make low rise jeans in plus sizes? What are kids learning about nutrition and…

My heaviest was 329+ (but I wouldn't step on the scale to check). And I totally agree that you have to stop calling it a 'diet'! It's not a thing you do for a bit. You need to focus on 'living a healthy life' and being a positive role model for your children so they don't grow to have the same issues as you. You do need to…

Check out runwalkjog.com, it has an app too and I love it!

Unless you are running to win, and it doesn't sound like you are, you'd need a 20 minute 5k to be in that group but running to finish, no one will care if you stop and take a walk break. I just did a 5k race and people took from first place at 19:22 to the 84th last person at 48:37. The finish line was always noisy with…

Just make sure you aren't judging solely on appearance, you can be fit AND overweight. You see a personal trainer for exercise, a nutritionist about food. What criteria are you judging by and is it fair? Having a six pack doesn't automatically make you a good trainer. A good trainer helps you find your motivation and…

A co-worker replied all instead of just replying and sent her not very flattering assesment of the original senders presentation to our group and she was really pissy about it - it was personal, not professional issues... she didn't realize until the next day that she sent it to nearly 100 other people, including all of…