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First Dates: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
There's been a lot of chatting about dates in the Singles thread, so I figured it might be fun to share our dating stories here. A few years ago I met a guy from PoF. We decided to meet at a local pub on a Saturday night for a few drinks. So he shows up and he's actually nice looking and we seemed to get along pretty well.…
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Re-starting
I re-started yesterday after a 10 pound weight gain due to a torn meniscus :'( I'll be having surgery in a few weeks and I guess I'm just looking for buddies who can help support me. It's only 10am and I'm already hungry for lunch lololol Feel free to add me!
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Cauliflower anyone?
I'm liking cauliflower lately, but getting kinda tired of just steaming it and just throwing on some ICBINB Light. Sometimes I go a little nutty and add some parmesian cheese but... Anyone know of any healthy, low-cal cauliflower recipes?
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Post-Knee Surgery and Flabby abs
I have been doing Pilates on and off for the past 10 years or so with excellent results. Anyway, I had a massive injury to my right knee over the summer and had to have pretty major knee surgery in August. I was on crutches for about 9 weeks :( I go to physical therapy 2 times a week and it's all leg work (since my knee…
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Grab & Go Breakfast Suggestions
Hey y'all! I'm looking for some easy grab & go breakfast ideas? I need to find something I can take to the office with me and eat at my desk. Lately I've been eating these awesome pumpkin muffin tops from Whole Foods but I'm getting a little bored of them. I don't really like yogurt and I don't eat meat of any kind...can…
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salmon help
So I got these salmon filets and now I'm not sure what to do with them. Does anyone have a good, simple recipe? I'd like to grill it but I'm not sure what to marinate them in.
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Food cravings after sports injury
(This isn't a question about weight loss/weighing, measuring and logging food, as I've been maintaining my GL since April) I tore the meniscus of my right knee about 5 weeks ago, and after 4 weeks of PT surgery seems the only way to go at this point. For the past 3 weeks or so I've been craving meat. I've been a…
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My 600 Pound Life?
Kinda OT but I didn't know where else to post this... Have any of you seen this show on TLC? I'm just curious of your thoughts...knowing what we've all learned here about eating at a deficit to lose weight and watching these people struggle and have such a hard time giving up fast food, etc. even when it's threatening…
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How do you know when to stop?
I'm 5'8 and had an original goal weight of 165, but when I got there I knew I could do better. When I dropped 5 more pounds, I decided to shoot for 155...and so on and so on. So now I'm 143 and I just...I don't know if I'm slim emough yet. Which makes me think I should probably stop and go into maintenance, but part of me…
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Surgery :(
I have to have foot surgery on April 3rd that will leave me out of commission for approx. 3 weeks! I do pilates every day and twice a day on the weekends and I'm afraid that 3 weeks of minimal activity will set me backwards. I've lost about 60 pounds so far. Does anyone have any advice as to what I can do to ensure I won't…
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help with setting daily calorie goal
I've been here for 6 months and lost almost 53 pounds on 1200-1300 calories/day with no exercise. I'm down to my last 9 pounds and would ideally like to lose 1/2 pound a week. When I set that into MFP it had me at eating over 1500 calories a day. IIFYM has me at a little over 1300. Which one is right? Oh - I just started…
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Eating out a few times this week...
I have to eat out three times this week...once at The Cheesecake Factory (thankfully they have a 'skinny menu') once at a pizza place and the other at a pub. I looked at the menus online and prelogged the best I could. According to MFP a slice of NY style pizza is almost 500 calories - so I might have to skip that luncheon…
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Any reformed smokers?
I quit today. Just had it and decided I don't want to be a smoker anymore. I keep hearing about weight gain assoicated with quitting. Was curious about what other's experieces were...did you gain? how much? how quickly did it happen (like - will I gain 5 pounds by Saturday?)? Was the gain so bad that you wanted to start…
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Getting Burned Out?
After a nearly 50 pound loss with only 7 pounds to go before I reach my goal, I feel like I'm getting burned out with all the weighing/measuring/logging. Maybe because it's Christmas and I watched the kids drink real hot chocolate last night, and I was craving a bowl of cereal in the worst way but couldn't have either…
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I just don't know anymore...
I can definitely use some motivation and support right now. In the past 3 weeks my weight has been all over the place. I keep seeing here that we need to weigh, measure and log. "If you're not losing weight at a deficit then you're doing something wrong" and "plateaus don't exist". So I weigh everything. And I mean…
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Pumpkin Muffin Recipe Help
Someone shared on here not long ago a recipe for pumpkin muffins: 1 box of spice cake mix 1 Can of Pumkpin 1 cup of water bake for 20/25 minutes at 350. Ok so I tried it and the muffins were ok but very dense, didn't rise very much and tasted like they needed some extra 'oomph'. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm not…
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Weight Loss and Acne???
I never had skin issues as an adult, but I suddenly have a bunch of ugly-a$$ed pimples on my once perfectly clear skin :sad: Anyone else experience skin changes during weigt loss?
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Dinner out....HELP!
Since I've gone at this hard core I've been avoiding dining out, but now the time has come where I'm meeting someone for dinner tonight and I'm at a total loss as to what I should eat? Without measuring or a food scale how am I supposed to track my calories? I checked the menu of the place online and it's pretty much "pub…
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Week fail :( Did I blow it?
OK so I had 2 parties to go to this weekend. On Saturday I ate very very light and did extra laps in the pool just to prepare myself. However, when I got to the BBQ nothing look appitizing so I nursed 2 lite beers and was home before 9. I only ended up consuming about 600 calories for the day, but since it was too late to…
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Unsupportive Family/Friends?
Have any of you come across a friend or family member who aren't supportive of your new healthy lifestyle? I had a weird situation come up over the weekend. My Godmother (to whom I'm very close with and share a lot of mutual friends with) was over my house Sunday visting with my mom (who just got out of the hospital). She…
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Distribution of Calories?
I'm on a 1200 calorie a day plan, and was wondering if how you distribute your calories throughout the day matters? Because I work full time, my lunch is usually a frozen Amy's Light and Lean whatever and a veggie or fruit. But I do like to prepare a nice healthy dinner for myself when I get home at night. Usually my…
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Headaches?
So I've been at this nearly a month, never exceeding 1200 - which has been difficult at times but I think I got over the initial hump LOL. I don't know how much weight I lost, but I've gone down a full pants size (was a 12, now a loose 10). But here's the thing: the past week or so I've been getting headaches and…
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Weight GAIN? WTF???
I've been 100% on track since I started on 1/2/11...staying at 1200 calories every day and doing pilates 5 times a week. I step on the scale last night and it showed a 3 pound gain since my last weigh in on 1/15 I don't understand where I'm going wrong. I weigh and measure every bit a food and beverage I consume. If I'm…
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Too Much Protein?????
The past 3 days I've been either hitting the mark or slightly under calories, carbs and fat, but seem to be going over on protein...I don't want to make myself crazy looking at these numbers every day, but does that make sense?? I'm eating lean meats - very protion controlled....not sure where I'm going wrong?
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Hi from the Garden State!
Hi all! I'm Tracy and I started using MFP over the summer but kinda stopped...I packed on the pounds over the fall/holiday season and I'm trying to get back on track and stick with it this time :-) I'm using MFP combined with the NutriSystem food I have left over. I want to lose 40 pounds... I just wanted to introduce…
