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What Do You Want for Christmas?
I have no idea so I figured your wishes could give me some. So pretend I am Santa and tell me what YOU want :flowerforyou:.
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Biggest Loser Fans
Would you rather win the money or lose the weight? Which do you think is more important for this seasons contestants?
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Thanksgiving Help
I am looking for great recipes for Thanksgiving! The plan is to try and have 4 healthy options on the table along with the good old SOUL FOOD/SOUTHERN options. It must appear to not be a healthy dish :laugh:. Even better if you have a sneaky way of making soul food taste the way I grew up tasting it.
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Fat Free or Sugar Free?
I love coffee :drinker: ! I love coffee with fancy creamers :drinker: ! Which is better for me to purchase the Sugarfree with more fats or the Fat Free with more sugars :devil: ?
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Rules - Got Any?
Do you make diet and weight loss RULES for yourself :noway: ? My RULES 1. I do not eat after 8 pm :yawn: . 2. Desserts allowed but only 3 bites :sad: . 3. Limit myself to 2 prepackaged/processed items per day :indifferent: . 4. Must have breakfast - PERIOD:grumble: !
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Eat This Not That 2011
I have a LOVE affair with this book series! Just got my new one and are reading it cover to cover. Try to keep a copy near me when going out to eat so I can plan ahead. Many of the WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION :explode: were my favorites before acquiring knowledge:laugh: . Any others fans out there? What do you love about…
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My Fab 40 Sisters.......
Some like to say that 40 is the new 30 for women of today, and that age is just a number. In many ways this is true, a woman is as old as she allows herself to feel. However, putting all the fuzzy feelgood aside, it is also evident that, in order for women at 40 to feel young, to feel healthy and to be healthy, they need…
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The Green Eyed Monster
Has anyone experienced "haters" since losing weight :devil: ? I have been called arrogant because I admit my excitement for losing eight pant sizes.. I am daily told that I am "too focused" on logging my food and watching what I eat. One person even told me that I rub my weight loss in people's faces when I refuse to take…
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In the RED?
I am ALWAYS in the RED:mad: at the end of the day with PROTEIN and sometimes FIBER. The fiber I think is ok! Is always getting too much protein bad :noway: ? I know that it builds muscle so hummmmmm:tongue: ? Do you guys have certain columns that you seem to always end the day with in the RED:explode: ?
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Your New Favorite Body Part Since Losing Weight is what?
I am in love with my arms! They once had no definition and were just big! I am CUT - shut up:laugh: .
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I did not know! I did NOT know!
1. I did not know that eating every three hours would help me LOSE weight:noway: ! 2. I did not know that there was something called Almond Butter and Blue Agave - YUMMY. 3. I did not know that my heart would keep beating if I did NOT drink soda and SWEET TEA! 4. I did not know that a tiny heart rate monitor could take my…
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Create a CHALLENGE for me!
Give me a 14-21 Day Challenge and I will do it! 1. I have really bad knees - five surgeries. Running not option. 2. I can workout four days a week. 3. Nothing over an hour as I do not have tons of time. 4. Can be DVD or created by you or whom ever. 5. I will pick the best one and do it! I really love fun and different…
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Help me back on the wagon.....
Spent Sunday at the hospital with my father and I thought I logged in via my blackberry but Monday I at 4:30 am woke up in cold sweat. . MFP told me that I had not logged in Sunday:explode: . 158 days in a row lost:sad: ! I am mad, depressed and very much lacking in motivation. Saturday - Today I have eaten the WORSE…
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Internal versus External
Motivation is a set of internal and external influences that initiate various behaviors and dictate what those behaviors will look like, their direction, intensity and length. Any particular motivation results from various types of interaction between individual (internal) and environmental (external) characteristics that…
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Makes You Think
Can it be an accident that "stressed" is "desserts" spelled backwards:laugh: ?
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Your Dieting Staples?
What are your MUST HAVE items in this wonderful "healthy eating" world and why? My Favs are; 1. Nature's Own Double Fiber Bread (100 calories and 10 grams fiber per 2 slices) 2. Nestle Coffee-mate Sugarfree French Vanilla (15 calories per tbsp - makes my coffee smile and me too) 3. Ken's Light Honey Mustard (To give it up…
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Membership Rodeo (500 New Members in 20 Days)
How many people do you know that need MFP and they have not because they know not? 500 people need to join MFP in 20 Days! Once they join they must log on to this thread and state who was the driving force to getting them here! I know that this is a small number but start with small dreams then move up. Sometimes it is…
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40th Birthday Present Help me decide my gift
Treadmill? Tread Climber? Elliptical? Bike? Gym Membership? Brands Types Cost, Location, Pros, Cons. My knees are going to be 54 - keep that in mind:flowerforyou: .
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Operation 7000 by Sunday
Join me in burning 1000 calories per day this week (7000 calories by Sunday)! Do any type of workout that you desire but Burn! Burn! Burn! Two pounds of burned calories in a week! Tae Bo, Step Aerobics, AM Walking, Wifey Doos, and the 12 Second Sequence and Swimming is my plan on getting it done. Ready Set Go :tongue:
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Now What? Maintain/Frustrated
I thought losing the weight was tough but these three weeks of working to maintain have been the worse:sad: . 175 lbs at 6'0 ft was my goal and I did that. However now one day I might weigh two pounds less and another five pounds more - today I was 173.4. I know that most of this is water weight and hormones however it is…
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Need a Cookie Recipe using Almond Butter
I have Almond Butter, Splenda, Vanilla, Maple Sugarfree Syrup, Oatmeal, and Wheat Flour - just need a recipe:cry: ! I want some healthy cookies! My minds says this would be a great cookie:love: ?. I really do NOT like the no bake kind! Please share!!!!
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Papa Murphy's deLite Fans
I LOVE pizza! One of my favorite places to get is Papa Murphy's Take and Bake. The ingredients are fresh and so awesome:smooched: . However I am having trouble finding the calorie contents for the one I ALWAYS order: The Rancher deLite (Real canadian bacon, premium pepperoni, beef and onion mix). However ask them to…
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Is a CUP a cup?
There is 8 ounces in a cup I fully understand this. I have been measuring my food based on measurement cups. Now using the scale it seems that I am getting much more food. Just want to make sure that I have not found a way to cheat the system? A cup of cut cantaloupe versus 8 ounces on the scale - double the portion size…
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I HATE water!
I like water post workout. Give me some tips on getting enough water. Nope I do not like fruit in my water! Do like unsweet tea but there is that pesky caffeine thing that it has going on. I like eating ice but not that much. You hear some much that juice is bad for you. Go ahead and give me the skinny on the Crystal Light…
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Check Your Drinks FIRST!
There has been so many times in the past three months that I have been given FULL calorie drinks when I have asked for Diet. Tea is the biggest one you must watch if you are in the South. I have taken for granted they did it right and then added my Splenda, Sweet & Low or Equal only to have it be super sweet and questioned…
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HELP 911! Need to make Potato Salad
Having BBQ and working on potato salad. Do you have a recipe that is so awesome my taste buds will turn Micheal Jackson and moonwalk? Please leave the drugs out - just the dancing :laugh: . Also you can throw in a Margarita recipe also. Just got a free bottle of Patron :drinker: Thanks in Advance.
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Fiber Was My Friend
Since eating healthy my fiber intake has been well over my limit. My thinking was this is a good thing no harm much foul :laugh: . Ok my weight stalled and the fiber might have done it. Including fiber in one's daily diet has definite benefits. However, although very uncommon, fiber has the potential to cause harm if taken…
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How many diets have you been on?
I was looking through a list of diets and these are the ones that I tried from the list :blushing: 3 or 4 Day Diet, 5 Day Miracle Diet, Self 6 Week Body Makeover, Accelerona-Carb Trapper Plus, Adkins Diet (Atkins Diet), Advocare, Anorex, Apple Cider Vinegar Diet, Avon Slim Well, Berry Trim Plus, Bill Phillips' Body for…
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Boxed/Packaged Meals (Good or Bad?)
What do you think about boxed meals that you just heat and eat? I like them - the amount of sodium is the only thing that bothers me. However they seem too good to be true, are they? My favorite is Lean Cuisine Three Cheese Ziti - what is yours? PS I hate the NutriSystem meals did anyone like those?
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What is YOUR main dietary change since MFP?
The major difference I am seeing for weight loss is not drinking my calories. Before MFP I did not see that the 5 sweet teas and many soft drinks a day plus the weekly margarita binges were just empty calories.
