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Favorite snack or breakfast (less than 250 calories)
My new favorite snack or breakfast that tastes like it should be a guilty please but has less than 250 calories. A whole wheat bagel thin or 100 calorie english muffin. I've used toast as well. 1 tablespoon of nutella Fresh strawberries sliced very thin. Nutella on the bread and strawberries on top of the nutella. SOOO…
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Surpassing my original goal
Three years ago, when I got serious about losing weight, my goal for a pants size was a 6 or 7. I was a size 12. Having always been curvy and coming from a long line of curvy women, I didn't think that I could get much smaller (without starving myself that is). I am happy to say that I am officially a size 4 and have still…
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Exercise calories- Do you multiply by 0.8?
I know I could probably search the forums for this, but I don't feel like it. I couldn't believe that while working out, the machine said I burned 700 calories in 30 minutes, so I asked the fitness attendant how accurate the calorie count on the machines were. He told me the easiest thing to do was to multiply my total…
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Not new to the site, but new to the message board
I've had a lot of success using MFP, but I don't ever talk to anyone on here. I always enjoy reading other people's posts, but don't really post anything. Thought it was time to be social :) I'm 22 and just about to graduate college. I lost some weigh before starting MFP, so in the last two years I've lost about 20lbs. I'm…