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low carb almond meal pancakes
1/2 c ground almond meal 1 tacket splenda 1t cinnamon 1T oil 1 egg dash of salt 1/4 c water mix and make as pancakes yum maybe about 12 total carbs and makes about 5-6 regular sized pancakes
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gaining and losing the same 3 lb
UGH!! I keep gaining and losing the same 3 lb over and over again...I am about to just give up with all this charting and just live my life....healthy, but less time and charting.
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need a good ob in the Wind Gap PA area
a friend needs a good ob/gyn in Wind Gap PA area she is 37 and has PCOS and is nervous about not getting the birth plan she wants with out cutting help!
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HELP/Fell off the low carb wagon into cupcakes!
i am in the middle of reading the book Primal Blueprint but I am confused about a few things..... Lift heavy things....what does that mean for women exactly.....15lb free weights too light? how many reps are considered enough....usually a trainer tells you to get to 8 and push for 12 and if you can get to 12 easily your…
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Ambe Alert please read and pass on
AMBER ALERT READ & PASS ON 4-month-old boy w/ mother & Matthew Slocum wanted in NY for homicide. Black 2003 Ford Mustang two doors, NY license plate DED1769. Slocum 6' tall weighs 195 lbs. with brown hair swastika tattoo on forearms. Alerts in CT, NY, MA NH not weight related but still important Thanks all!
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do you need more exercise if you are already conditioned?
I have exercised all of my life in some form or another and am stuck at 173 and not that that is terrible but I want to go lower. I have tried everything and my intensity is right up there. I tried switching up the exercise and adding more weights and reps adn sets and different classes and high intensity to my cardio. I…
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should I settle for my body's set point? How to break it?
Do you believe your body can just reach a set point and then just stop showing results? I know it sounds like a plateau but I am not trying to cop out of putting in the time and effort, but my body is just staying nicely put at 173 Not a weight I want to settle with but I could low carb it, switch it up exercise like a…
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ok so it is not a thyroid problem
that about sums it up....so after over a month at the gym and here and running a 5k and watching what I eat and being careful and charting everything.....and no major weight loss....I went for a fasting blood sugar level and a thyroid test and both came back completely F***ing NORMAL!!!! Ugh!!! What gives? the doctor says…
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very confused
i know I am supposed to eat my exercise calories back but I have a lot left to eat back and am so confused....if I close my diary entry for today it says if you eat like this in 5 weeks you will be 159 but if I eat up the rest of the calories it ups my weight to like 164. that's not even the major concern....my concern is…
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Anyone else read this Gary Taubes book
and get totally depressed....so far only into chapter 4 of the Gary Taubes book Why We Get Fat and if I am reading it correctly he actually says all my efforts of eating right and exercise is really a waste of time. Am I reading that right? Anyone reading this or read it in the past with insight...hopefully he has some…
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PCOS advice with weight lifting
Because I have PCOS and am trying to lose the last stubborn 30 lbs I am beefing upf the weight training using free weights at home and more weight machines at the gym. I was told women don't have to worry about bulking up because we have less muscle building testosterone than men, but I am finding that I am sort of beefing…
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coaches' wife tells me off/what would you have done?
long story short here folks I have to unload before I EX-plode....my son's farm team baseball coaches wife told me off. We missed the Saturday game before Father's day because her husband told us the game would be on Sunday and he would email us about it. We never got an email and he told everyone the wrong day. She told…
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vacation and starting again right Monday
Ugh, I thought I did really well pen and paper style logging all the food while on vacation and then saw how badly I blew it thinking I was eating healthy. Will have to get refocused on Monday....getting to the gym will be a tough one though since the kiddos all start swimming and activities tomorrow!
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how to log when you go away and no computer access
so in a while we will be going away and I don't wnt to lose momentum and feed back from MFP so how do you log when going away and not going to be in front of a computer and no fancy phone to log in with? Do you skip it all and start fresh or do you pen adn paper it and back track through the days you missed when you get…
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Happy Father's Day
To all the Dads and Father figures out there who have been so motivatinal and suppportive and caring to me and everyone on MFP who needed a boost. Enjoy your day in a healthy way! Hugs to you all!
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of all the places to lose inches!
Well month 2 weigh in and measured at the gym and although I lost a few lbs....I didn't lose any inches except in my chest. Really? Seriously God, that's where I lose weight? Hello...um what about the huge middle and killer hips? I swear by next months weigh and measure in I will just look like a triangle with shoes.…
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NSV no crazy PMS this month!
I hardly knew it was coming!!!! No crazy chocolate binge, no crazy mood swings, no extra tired days or nights before hand No nothing! All I can say is that I think it has to do with eating better and being a healthier individual which is a odd little NSV I will take. Even though I love chocolate, this was the first time it…
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another broken toe UGH!!
well lucky me....rushed into the bathroom this morning to find my son sunblock for his field day at school and caught my pinkie toe on the wall that juts out from out stupid jet tub and didn't think anything of it. kids needed breakfast and then when I finally sat down, it was swollen and bloody. it is iced and taped now…
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need help from LOW CARBERS
OK last week I kicked butt limiting carbs and FINALLY seeing the scale move after a 2 month stall. 1 kink in it all today. Weighed in for the Twilight challenge and was up 5 lbs. Is it due to my TOM or the fact that I didn't start Atkins with the induction and just started limiting carbs? It got resuts and I went lower on…
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anyone else a total Gleek?
gotta love that fiesty Sue Sylvester and her crazy antics!!!
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anyone low carbing it and having this issue
thought it would be problems with fiber and not being able to "go" but nooooo problems there sorry tmi but is it normal to be going too well?
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way over on fat, calories, etc but MFP still says I will los
um anything wrong here...I was way over today and maybe even yesterday too and had to go back to add in a few more things I ate today and the first time it said if you eat like this for in 5 weeks you will be 167 lbs and then when I entered in more stuff that put me further over the calories, fat etc it said if you eat…
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U can quick add calories, what about fat, protein, etc?
so you get an accurate recipe out of a magazine and it tells you everything carbs, fat, protein, calories, sugar, fiber....so why can we only quick add calories here I would like to be able to quick add my portion of the other stuff I am charting so that I don't have to enter in every ingredient in the recipe and then…
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determining my size...damn lopsided body
ok so do I use pants size or dress size or bathing suit size or what when people ask me "So what size are you now?' Pants are 12 almost ready for 10s bathing suit is 14 WHAT THE HELL??? shirt size is large wearing an actual dress maybe my size is 12/14 yesterday I bought a size 8 pr of shorts I know all clothing…
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vent on my gym buddy
I have to get this out there. I joined a gym a few months ago and am doing really well with sticking to it. I met a friend there and we started taking classes together and exchanged # and made a deal that we would be each other's motivators on days we need a boost, we live inthe same town and are relatively the same age…
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low carb cheesecake cups YUM!!
8oz room temp cream cheese 2 lg eggs 1/2 c heavy cream 3 packets sugar sub 1/4 t almond extract 1/4 t lemon rind or 5 crushed raspberries heat oven 325 place 4 6 oz custard cups in large raosting pan process all cheesecake ingredients in food processor pour into custard cups fill roasting pan withwater so it comes 1/2 way…
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can yo lose lbs and not inches?
dumb ? I know but if you lose lets say 7lbs should you notice somewhere that you lose inches as well or maybe one measurement is ahead of the other or one doesn't show up right away. I have to go in to the gym for new measurements on June 17th or there abouts I can't measure myself since all that bending and measuring…
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IT WORKED!!!
OK so 2 months at 177 or 178 and busting my nut at the gym and then I read the Gary Taubes book Good Calories Bad Calories and the book Womens Health The Perfect Body Diet and took all of your low carb wisdom and advice and I am now at 171.5.....I weighed myself for the Twilight challenge and almost fell off the scale! Had…
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hubby says he's tired of hearing about it
Ok so weightloss is a big focus of mine and I do talk about it a lot. Mostly because I have been stuck at a 2 month pateau and am baffled by it. I don't want it to be all consuming or so much of a focus that that is all my husband and kids hear me talk about. I try to not talk about it at all in front of the kids because…
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I can finally button last yrs jeans!
Ok so I have been busting my nut at the gym and not really losing weight as the scale has not moved but I finally was able to get into last years size 10 jeans! Ok so there is a bit of a muffin top and it is getting too warm to even need to wear jeans but it was exciting none the less. My point is....not looking for praise…
