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Overnight, my office sprouted candy jars.
Every one of the candy jars is a decorative apothecary jar filled to its cutely-knobbled little top with candy. And every jar has a sign by it saying something like "Chocolate is nature's way of making up for Mondays!" or "Having a nutty day?" have a snack!" And the candies are not just throwaway Halloween candies like…
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My husband just said "Look! Three days of no beer!"
and held the waist of his jeans out and fitted his entire fist in the gap. No, I don't need any help burying the body. I've been working out FOR YEARS NOW.
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Sweet fancy Moses, IT FITS.
This gorgeous flowing ankle-length dress I've had for eight years and never been able to wear outside? Zipped. Up. This. Morning. With room to spare. It was a gift from my husband before we were married. I'mm'a wear that sucker to dinner with him this week. Good Lawd!
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I starved inadvertently for 10 days. My nails are now odd.
I got the flu in early February and for about a week and a half I consumed between 250 and 900 calories a day, mostly from Nyquil Yes, I eventually did drag in to the doctor; it turned out I had a couple of bacterial infections on top of the virus. Yes, I know I was an idiot for trying to tough it out. I promise you don't…
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Goodness. The scale really doesn't tell the story, does it?
I have been fighting and fighting to get to 174 pounds so I can say "40 pounds lost." I got one pound away last year, then bounced back up, then cried a lot and kept working, then got one pound away last month, then bounced back up, then cried a lot and kept working. It's been agonizingly slow -- it's taken me four years…
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What if you want to weigh, but portion sizes are in cups?
Both on the back labels of boxes (like bran flakes) and in the MFP database, a lot of foods are presented in cups or tablespoons. I keep seeing on here that weighing your food is more accurate than measuring -- I believe it. But what do you do when every portion/calorie listing assumes you're measuring it?
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Gosh! Seaweed salad, dried dates, & a flax tortilla,
if consumed all at the same meal, will dictate your activities for the rest of the afternoon! Thank you for letting me share. I would share with my husband but I think he's not in a mood to listen to me today (if he stands between me and the bathroom door, he gets footprints on his eyelids, and that understandably makes…
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New underwear bought too small by mistake ... now FITS.
Near the end of 2012 my underwear got way too baggy. It was Jockey size 8, which sounds small but it's a plus size, which means it costs more than regular sizes and is 60% more likely than regular sizes to have pastel orange flowers on it. I bought a bunch of lovely white new high-cut Jockeys in size 6. I didn't bother to…
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Man, I am a dog on a chain these days.
I think I'm working at this too hard. Setting my calories too low or something. I won't give up, but for the past few days I've said "I don't CARE" a couple of times and gone crazy with the carbs, and when I finish sucking them down, I don't even feel regretful. I am darting my eyes around looking for more. I think it's…
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I was feeling fit & sassy. Then I calculated my body fat.
The online one I used cheerily told me "You're 48.6% fat!" and I am about to scoop my eyeballs out with a spoon so I don't have to see that number any more. So: 1) Just in case maybe I used a stupid calculator that's all wrong, can anyone tell me a fairly accurate online bodyfat calculator? I know the best way is to…
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D'oh. Just figured out why I'm stuck.
There's this big link on the blue bar at the top of the page? And it says "Reports"? And when you click it, you can see your compiled data for the last week or month or whatever? And one of the options is Net Calories? Well. In the last 45 days, I've racked up 27 days under my calorie goal ... by about 50 or 100 calories…
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Wow, I netted ... zero calories.
We had some remodeling done, so one room was covered in horrible gritty plaster dust that acts like sandpaper on my sinuses. Therefore I went on a nine-hour cleaning binge. I started by vacuuming the ceiling, you guys. I removed everything from every closet shelf abd bookshelf and wiped everything down. Then I moved the…
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Nyquil has calories. O woe.
So not only do I have the flu, with body aches and trouble breathing and just generally wanting to remove my hard palate with a can opener, I find that a dose of Nyquil has 93 calories. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I'm gonna stick with Scotch. It has 66 calories per ounce and apparently does just as much good as Nyquil. Feh.
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600 calories yesterday total. Not hungry. WTF?
NOTE 1: Please don't panic. That evening when I saw my dismal nutrition stats, I marched into the kitchen and choked down lean protein, vegetables, and whole grains until I hit my minimums. NOTE 2: Weird. This drastic shortfall of calories but no hunger signals has happened twice this week. NOTE 3: I apologize if there's…
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Hey guys I RAN hey guys I RAN! I RAN!
Fourteen months ago I detached some ligaments in my back and sprained my knee, and ever since then I've done physical therapy (painful), orthopedic exercises (painful, tedious), walking along trails I used to run (painful, tedious, sad). I've gritted my teeth and done every single thing I'm supposed to do and hated every…
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Fresh garbanzo beans taste like fresh peas. Uh-oh.
They even come in a little pod like peas, so it's fun to open them. And oh they are addictive, and so sweet. Three hours ago I ate a handful raw. A handful of raw beans three hours ago. RUN.
