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Mom of 2 - 28 yrs old. Need friends and motivation!
Hi everyone, This is my second go-round on MFP. I have two kids, ages 3 and 4. Right after I delivered my second child, I was 214 pounds. I got down to about 175 within a year about. My body loses weight extremely slowly. My whole family is overweight. It's very easy for me to gain weight, very hard for me to lose it. I…
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Step Aerobics ??
Does anyone here love step aerobics as much as I do? :) It's kind of gone by the wayside with other cardio classes being offered, but it's a lot of fun and I love doing step. It's my main form of cardio exercise and I do at least 30 minutes every day. Anyone else love stepping? Also, would love any step DVD's if anyone has…
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Help me win for Autism!
Hi everyone! I'm very excited about an opportunity I have right now to win a great tool for my son. The Puzzling Piece is a great organization with beautiful, handmade jewelry and other autism awareness items. I have a child on the autism spectrum who is almost three years old. His name is Benjamin and he's the light of my…
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Upper arms - HELP!
Hi everyone! I'm new here but have been dieting and eating healthier since March of this year. I've managed to lose 20 pounds on my own, and now that I have my fitbit and am diligently tracking I've lost 2 pounds just this week. Yeah!! I managed to lose inches all over as well...when I started my waist was 40.5 and now…
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Extreme tantrums
Hi everyone, My son is 20 months old and I know tantrums are fairly common for any toddler at this age, but my son is out of control. He is currently non-verbal, so I think he's extremely frustrated at trying to communicate. It breaks my heart. This past week he's been awful...just screaming at the top of his lungs,…
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Moms of Autistic Children
Hi everyone! I'm 26 years old and could really use some support. Maybe I'll find someone on here that's going through the same issues. My son is 15 months old and he's been seeing Early Intervention because he isn't speaking yet. The woman we've been seeing had a meeting with me last night and told me she's seeing "red…
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Physical aggression
Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice here. I have a two year old son (almost 2) and he is diagnosed with ASD. He's progressing in his therapy programs, but he still has no language and doesn't understand language that well at all. THe problem is, I also have a three year old daughter who he is VERY physically…
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Can anyone look at my diary? Hellllp!
Hi everyone! Can someone take a look at my food diary and maybe help me out? I've been eating and exercising since January 1st and have lost three pounds but that was just the first week. These last two weeks I haven't lost anything at all, I'm actually UP a half pound. I know what someone is going to say, "Give it more…
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When did your child start speaking?
Hi everyone, I'm the mom of a beautiful almost 20 month old boy who was recently diagnosed with ASD. He is in intensive Early Intervention therapy with a Floortime/ABA approach. I'm feeling a big discouraged today and a little down. Hopefully I can get some support on here today. :) Some days I feel like he's learning so…
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ABA vs. Floortime?
Hi everyone, I'm in the middle of setting up an more intensive home program for my 18 month old son that was just diagnosed with ASD. I have the option of choosing between two agencies, one is strict ABA therapy with discrete trial training. The other company is more relaxed that incorporates ABA and a Floortime approach…
