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NO kids and 37
Hey Everyone! I have a great group of MFP friends, and I'm searching for more. I'm trying to find people that are around my age and don't have kids. (Trust me, I don't discriminate race/gender), and plenty of my friend on here are married with kids--which is great. I'm trying to find more people like me. I think I'm in a…
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Addiction
I think in a lot of ways that I have had an addiction to food my entire life. Yes, I know we NEED food to survive. I think that all of my life I have thought about food too much. When I was young my parents were poor and I think that is where my problem with food started. My parents cared about drinking and…
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New Years Resolution
So, I typically don't participate in New Years Resolutions only because I feel they are hard to follow through on. Last year, however, I decided to do something a little different. I only made it through until June and then I gave up, but I did last 6 months! At the beginning of this year I decided to treat each month like…
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H2O
My weakest part of a healthy lifestyle is defintely the drinking of water. I think over the past 3 days I probably didn't drink even 72ounces. So, today my goal EVERY day will be to drink half my weight (in ounces) of water--which will be about 100oz a day. Now here is my question. I'm the type that wants to meet my goal…
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Hunger
Why does boredom disguise itself as hunger in me? And how do I really know the difference?
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Metabolism
I'm not sure why the male metabolism is so much faster than the female. Seems like a cruel joke as so many men only like thin women. My question is what are good ways to speed it up throughout the day?
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1-2lbs
Why is it that I feel 1lb/week isn't worth the effort of weightloss, but 2lbs a week is? At least to me. I was looking at my weekly calories. Without figuring my food for tomorrow I am over 3500 calories under my goal. Which means--I could be eating a lot more every week and still lose weight--just significantly less than…
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Stupid question, but serious answers?
Ok...please don't be harsh on this newbie, but does a person burn more calories awake instead of sleeping? I remember as a kid my father HATED when my sister and I laid on the couch or slept extra long. He told us to sit up and get up. Do you burn more calories sitting up rather than laying down? I'm doing pretty good with…
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Patience
I'm the most impatient person I know. I'm definetely not spoiled, but I have the awful mentality that I want what I want. Without the typical cliches--can someone give me some insite on how to change that about myself. I have or had a boyfriend for 3yrs--which I feel is long enough to decide marriage or not. I guess he…
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Healthy Lifestyle
I realize most of us are on here to lose weight. To be succesful we have to change our eating habits and our exercise habits. It shouldn't stop there. I can't be the only one that has turned to food for one reason or another. If we don't fix those problems then it is only a matter pf time before our old habits resurface.…
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Addictions
Addictions run in my family. My dad is a drug addict and my mom is an alcoholic. I've never done drugs. I don't smoke. I drink from time to time, but not that often. I do have addictions though. I'm addicted to twirling my hair and I'm addicted to food. When I was exercising--I was addicted to that. Even though I have been…
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Fiber
I'm good (for the most part) staying under my calorie goals for the day. What I am bad at is making sure that I eat the proper amount of proteins/carbs/etc. I don't even look at that usually. I could probably be doing twice as good at weightloss if I ate cleaner. My question is about Fiber. I typically go over my fiber…
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Counting Calories works...
So, in case ANYONE wants to argue that counting calories is a waste of time or not an accurate way of basing your weightloss--keep reading. BMR 1600 x 7days = 11,200 to keep me functioning TDEE 2100 x 7 days= 14,700 to maintain my current weight Last week I ate 11,240 calories (I factored in another 300 calories because…
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Rate of Eating
Before I joined the Army I was a super slow eater. I picked apart my food and was always the last one to finish. Then I got a wake up call in Basic Training that if I actually wanted to get food into my belly--I had to shove it in fast. So, even though my Army days were over a decade ago (yes, I'm old) I still eat super…
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Victory Over Pizza
So, tonight I'm babysitting my nephews. They wanted Pizza for dinner, so as I'm the awesome and amazing aunt that I am--I buy them their favorite pizza. The reason I'm posting this is because I didn't have one bite of pizza!!!!! I had a sandwich for dinner even though I smelled the pizza and it smelled so good. I think I…
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Cranberries
The company I work for has a lady that comes in every other week and sells us candy/nuts/granola made by Mountain Man. She typically has free samples and tries to get us hooked. I normally avoid her all together, but this last time I really couldn't because she came to me to talk to me. (I used to buy all kinds of junk…
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Joining the YMCA???
Please, please, please someone convince me to join the YMCA!!!! I live in Nebraska and the winters are brutal. I was running almost every day until it started to get cold and wet outside. (Possible snow tomorrow and 20 degrees). Unfortunately where I live I can't do exercise videos (The people in my building would frown…
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Meds
So, I have posted on here before asking people about medicines (anti-anxiety meds) and their bodies reaction to them. I take Zoloft and have since I started my weightloss and I was consistantly losing about 2lbs on average a week. Well, early in October that doctor prescribed me Elavil to help me sleep. Once I started…
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Water
Can someone explain to me why drinking a lot of water is beneficial for weightloss? I'm 200lbs. I've drank 94oz so far today (and it is only 4:19pm). According to a website I am supposed to drink 134oz per day for my weight. I feel like all day I have just filled up my water bottle, drink it, pee it out, and start over. Is…
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Roadtrips
So, going on a roadtrip this weekend from Omaha, Nebraska to Ann Arbor, Michigan for some good ol' College Football. Anyway, my problem is the drive is about 10hrs and I get super bored in the car and I'm ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS hungry. I'm not looking forward to it to say the least. Just two of us going. I can't read in a…
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Approached
I am all for meeting people with similar interests and goals. I want to know what motivates you and what works for you. I'm on here because I want to lose weight. Has anyone else been approached on here as if this is a dating website? I keep accepting friends, because I truly want a good support system. I don't want a date.
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Supplements
I just started tracking the vitamins/supplements I take. I guess I didn't realize that some had calories. Anyway, my diary is open. I'm wondering if there is good supplement out there that I should be taking. I haven't drank milk all of my life--so I have to have my calcium. Am I going a bit overboard with the other items?…
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2lb a week?
I feel like I have started several threads in the same matter. I just want to give people the facts about me so that I can be helped. So, here they are: Female 37yrs old 5'6 SW 230 (8/13) CW 198 (11/13) BMR: 1660 Until I started to read these forums I took what MFP gave me and set my calorie limit to 1200 calories/day.…
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Eating Disorder
I think my relationship ended with my boyfriend of 3yrs. I won't get into details or our history. My problem is that when I get super upset I don't eat. In fact, I have NOT eaten anything all day. It is funny, this morning I was so happy that I met my initial goal. Now I'm unbelievably sad. So, question--would this be…
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Loose Skin
I'm nowhere near being a success story. I'm 5'6. I started at 230lbs. Today I weighed 197. My goal is 175, but really it would be azing to get to 155. That would put me at about 75lbs loss. For those of you that have lost significant amounts of weight--do you have a lot of loose skin? Have you had it removed? What is the…
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30lbs
Three months ago I started this journey. I thought it would take me until the end of the year to reach my initial goal of 30lbs. Well, as of this morning I am down 31lbs. My last weigh in was Thursday and I was at 203.4. Today I was at 199.8. So, who knows what I will be at my next weigh in Thursday. The reason I'm posting…
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Thank you!!
I have read so many people's opinions and researched and researched weightloss. I was going with 1200 calories/day because that is what MFP suggested for 2lb weightloss. After researching things I found my BMR to be 1690 and my TDEE 2200. At first I was losing a good amount of weight. I imagine that was my body going from…
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Out of Calories
Maybe it is just me, but some days I run out of calories REAL fast. (Some days I'm super hungry and some days I'm not that hungry). When after I eat dinner I'm out of calories and still hungry--I go to sleep so I can wake up the next day and eat again. Am I alone?
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Food Scale
Where can I purchase a Food Scale in the USA? Would Walmart/Target have one? Where would it be located within the store?
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Reset Metabolism????
I've only been at this for 3 months. October I haven't had much success as far as weightloss. It has been the first month that I really wasn't as strict on myself and I have had a few indulgence days. I have only lost 3lbs this month and I keep reading people saying "reset your metabolism" or "give your body a rest". How…
