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Work yourself out of work
Anyone else have a tendency to work yourself out of work? I have been at my job for about 8 months and it's not at all as fast paced as they made it out to be when I was hired. I absolutely adore my bosses and the flexible environment...the pay is nice too, but I am bored out of my mind!!! I like to be busy and almost…
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Furious! Off topic...just need to vent somewhere
My son loves an idolized his father who is a total piece of *kitten*. He is pretty much and absentee father who is not active in their lives. He makes all these promises to him and never follows through. He gets back in their "good graces" by buying them things, taking them on trips, eating at fancy restaurants, and…
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Steadily Eating Too Much Protein
Happy Tuesday to all! My question is this.... Can too much protein be bad for you? I am going over in protein almost everyday. I'm not doing it intentionally. I am just eating the things I like to eat. I've read that too much protein can effect liver and kidney function. Not sure if this is true. Any feedback???
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I Think I've Fallen and I Cant Get Up
I have fallen off the wagon. I have been under stress the last couple of weeks and have resorted to the dreaded stress eating and indulging in a few more adult beverages than I normally would. Yesterday I just flat out didn't care what I ate. It wasn't like a binge feeling, just didn't give a fluck about calories or…
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Stomach Shrinking???
I ate a taco, small burrito and some nachos and I literally feel like I'm going to barf! I feel sooo full it's uncomfortable. Before counting calories and losing some weight this meal would have been no problem for me. To be honest, I probably could have eaten even more. Does the stomach shrink? Is that really true?…
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Office gifts
I hate the awkwardness of office gifts! Do you give them? Do you not? One job I was at, I was the only one that gave gifts to co-workers...I felt stupid. My last job, sometimes people would give sometimes they wouldn't and it always seemed like the year they would give I didn't get the memo and showed up empty handed...I…
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E.R. Doctor
So, I went to the ER yesterday. Turns out I have high blood pressure. They gave me medication for now. Of course I had to hear the lecture on smoking and alcohol consumption and my diet. I was prepared to tell him all about MFP and how I have lost weight using it and how it also allows me to monitor my sodium intake not…
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Serious water retention
I woke up yesterday and my hands felt "tight" like I was retaining water. I figured it was likely from the pizza I had eaten on Sunday. I flushed myself with water yesterday and by mid-day I felt ok. I woke up this morning to the same thing and 4 lbs. heavier! I was below by 700mg with the sodium yesterday so it's not…
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Nice Gesture or Annoyance
Just looking for some opinions.... My very best friend in whole world and I broke up about a year and half ago. She has be been my best friend my whole life and god mother to my daughter. She has not reached out to me or my daughter, yet when I found out she was pregnant I congratulated her via email as we are no longer…
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I'm Losing Motivation Guys
Hello all! Well as the subject line states, I'm losing motivation. It started with Thanksgiving. Instead of one day of eating it turned into a whole a weekend. I've been having some trouble staying on course since. I'm still logging my food, but have gone over several days. Good news is I have not gained anything...yet,…
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The Drunk Man Speaks the Sober Man's Words?
What do you think? Is drunk talk to be taken seriously?
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High Sodium
After tracking my food for nearly a month, I am noticing a trend that I seem to be going over in the sodium department quite a bit. I'm still staying within my daily calorie goals though. Could this be an issue?
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I once had a boss/ co-worker....
Let's vent about crazy/ nasty bosses and co-workers! I'll go... I once had a boss (a woman) ask me to suck on the end of a dirty hose. Um, what????
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Medication for Binge Eating Disorder
My girlfriend recently told me that she was placed on medication for Binge Eating Disorder. I was surprised as I had no clue they had such a medication. I'm a not a fan of diet pills and am a little skeptical of this. I was just curious if any one here has taken it and what has been your experience with it?
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Off Topic...Thoughts on Marriage, I do or I don't???
What do you do if you are in a relationship, but not on the same page with marriage? Suppose you are living like a married couple already. Yall are living under the same roof, paying bills together, raising kids together, celebrating holidays and birthdays together, but one of you doesn't ever want to get married and one…
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Trying to Figure Out Recipe....
I have made a pot of red bean and am having difficulty trying to figure out the calories per cup. I've entered all my ingredients into the MFP recipe calculator, but I am having difficulty figuring out how to divide it into cups. Example: If a cooked pound of red beans = roughly six cups Would I just say that the # of…
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Tummy problems...too much protein?
I've noticed this past week that while I have stayed with in my calories, I have gone over on the protein several days this week. I'm wondering if this could be the cause of the sudden onset of tummy pain and struggling to use the bathroom. I'm drinking a lot of water too. Anyone experience this? Maybe it's just the over…
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Strangest thing you've said or heard
This is mine said to my kid... "It's not nice to put a Hello Kitty stamp on someone's butt"
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Anyone else out of their mind bored at work???
I. Am. Struggling. My bosses are out of town this week and next week. We knocked out everything we had to do last week. I have literally just been sitting in my office everyday for 8 houra a day trying to find crap to do. What do you do when you are bored at work?
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Need help figuring out calories
We are eating at my parents house tonight and my mom is making seafood gumbo. I plan on eating brown rice with just the broth from the gumbo (no meat, no seafood). How would I calculate the calories for the gumbo broth?
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Didn't make the best lunch choice...still hungry
This journey is really teaching me a lot about the way my body uses and "reacts" to food. Everyday this week I have had a lunch that was under 400 calories and left me feeling full. Today, not so much! I had two homemade tacos with just meat and sour cream and one plain taco shell to the tune of 500 calories and I'm still…
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No Veggies/LCHF
I want to just start this post by saying I know how terrible of a person I am that I do not eat veggies and how healthy they are for you, but such is life.... I was looking over the guidelines for LCHF and was thinking all I'd be able to eat is eggs, meat and cheese. I mean is there anything else if you don't like veggies?…
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Does anyone else use a dial scale?
I weighed myself this morning on a dial scale and it looks like I've lost 1 lb. I got off and on several times just to double check. Of course the cynical side of me is like "well maybe you didn't, it's not as accurate as a digital scale" What do we think?
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Anybody Else Get Like This?
So I've been at this for 9 days and I'm definitely getting used to feeling mildly hungry at times and I'm ok with it. However, there are sometimes that I don't just feel hungry but I physically feel bad from the hunger (headache, shakey, woosie). Today for example, I had my coffee and yogurt around 10:00 a.m. and by 11:30…
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Trying To Understand Intermittent Fasting
I'm thinking of giving this a go and just need some clarification on this intermittent fasting... As I am understanding it, if I ate dinner at 6:00 p.m. yesterday then I must not eat anything else until 10:00 a.m. today (16hrs), correct??? Has anyone had any success with this?
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Chicken Breast/ High Sodium
I usually eat a turkey wrap for lunch. In an effort to switch things up and not get bored with my food, I bought the sliced chicken breast from the deli at my local grocery. I didn't realize it until logging it in that MFP says that 4 oz. of sliced chicken breast has 1100g of sodium!!! How can this be?!?!? I thought…
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Weekend was a bust! :-(
After all my hard work all week, I blew it in one weekend!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!! I drank Friday and Saturday night. I tracked my food Friday (except the booze), didn't track on Saturday (I binged and did't want to see how bad it was), but tracked on Sunday (managed to go over by like 700 calories...ahh!) The weekends…
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I'm Starving!!!
Ok so I just started MFP this week and I have been doing a great job in keeping within my daily goals. Initially, MFP put me a t 1200 calories per day for a 2 lb. per week loss, but after talking with some of you and not wanting to set myself for failure or binge eating which I am prone to, I dropped it down to 1 lb per…
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Just ate a really gross almond!!! Anyone else have this??
Ok, so in my effort to eat healthy, I had yogurt and a handful of raw almonds for breakfast. Well, one of them tasted so terrible that I could hardly get it down. It was a bitter chemical taste! Now, I'm freaked out that I'm going to get sick from this. Has this happened to anyone else?
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1200 calories per day not enough????
Today is my first day back after gaining back about 25 lbs of the weight I lost several years ago. MFP says I'm supposed to eat 1200 calories per day in order to lose approximately 2 lbs per week. Now I know the object is to lose weight which of course means cutting back in calories, however I was just wondering in anyone…