Posts by soliwit

This little place called the Dutch Oven in Clarksdale MS, run by Mennonites. They make like the BEST pies ever and they have soups to DIE for.............well actually it is really a very very good thing I live about 700 miles away from that place, they definitely don't fit into my eating pattern!

My whole wedding, engagement, ring and everything together has cost us a total of about $100,- / $150,- (and yes that includes a dress, LOL)(ok besides that the most costs went into getting a green card and me moving from the netherlands to the USA)
I had our rings made by a friend and I delivered the silver for it (which was given to me long ago by another friend) they are just two simple bands, nothing fancy, but that is who we are.
There has never ever been anybody making remarks about the fact I don't have a diamond in my ring, or asking who payed for it or making remarks about the fact it is not gold, nor does anybody think me or my husband are bums, or maybe there are people that do, but they are not the people who matter to us.
I think the whole thing is symbolic anyway, it's about us loving each other and committing to one another......that's just my 0.02

I don't have a sister to compare, but like most others said it's not worth it, for me it most definitely would end right at the moment she shoved me, indeed really? That most surely is stuff kids do, not a 40+ year old!
Well you did actually already decide that anyway, it is not worth dealing with it just because she is family, toxic is toxic, no family connection changes that!

Also: I just can't get over that "won't ride a bike because claims that gyno told her the bumps were bad for women to be "open" while hitting the bumps"-thing.....I'd really like to know about that LOL, what do they claim happens?
Maybe I should stop riding my bike? (just to be clear: I am being sarcastic LOL)

Miracle noodle is a brand name, instead ask for shirataki noodles in the asian store and they will probably DO know what you are talking about :-) There is indeed a version with and without tofu.
Personally I don't really like them in Italian style dishes, to me they taste too Asian, hehe, but that's just me. So I mostly make curry or stir fry dishes with them, they are yum and super guilt free!
Like momthenurse said make sure to reaaaaally rinse them well, they have a fishy smell when you open the package, this is not a sign of them going bad.

As lunaropal already suggested: for cardio walking/running/biking are good options.
I went for a little vacation just a week ago and my body pump teacher wrote me up some good exercises to keep on track, the only thing I needed was a pair of handweights, here goes:

SQUATS (hold weights on shoulders):
- 20 reps w/feet hip-width apart
- 20 reps w/feet wider, toes turned out
- 20 pulses
- 20 squats w/leg lift (as you come up from the squat, lift your leg out to
 the side, alternating legs.

CHEST (flat on your back, hold weights over the middle of your chest):
bench press:
- 20 presses and 20 high pulses, 20 more presses and 20 low pulses. Take a quick break to stretch and then repeat.
push-ups:
- 3 sets of 10

BACK:
one arm row: bend over (knees bent), put one hand on your thigh for support, hold weight in the other hand and pull your arm up, elbow going straight back (does that make sense?). Do 10 reps on each side, repeat 3 times.

TRICEPS:
- kickbacks: 10 reps, 10 pulses on each side. Repeat 3 times
- dips: 20 reps. Repeat 3 times.
- behind the neck press/overhead press: 10 reps. Repeat 3 times.

BICEPS:
- curls: 20 reps, 20 pulses. Repeat 3 times.
- hammer curls: 20 reps, 20 pulses. Repeat 3 times.

LUNGES:
- put the weights on your shoulders. 20 reps, 20 pulses on each side.
 Repeat 3 times.

SHOULDERS:
- rear delt raise (on one knee, lean over): 10 singles, 10 up quick, down
 slow, 10 more singles.
- side raise: 10 singles, 10 up quick, down slow, 10 more singles.
- front raise: alternate arms, 10 reps on each arm. Repeat 3 times.
- overhead press: 10 reps, 10 up quick, down slow, 10 more reps.

ABS:
- crunches - LOTS of them !!! Go for 100 reps.
- oblique crunches: cross one leg over, opposite shoulder to knee. 25 reps
 on each side.
- heal drops -knees up at 90 degree angle, flex feet and lower your heals
 toward the floor. Keep your lower back pushing down toward the floor. Go
 for 25 reps - SLOWLY.

Same here, I make mine from scratch too (LOL and also add cumin or smoked paprika, funny) I mostly leave out the olive oil, so it is even a bit less in calories, you don't really miss the oil tastewise, because the rest of the ingredients stand out very much anyway (garlic and such), it's a yummie snack for sure!

I have the GWF and found I was, like I actually already expected, burning more than CC told me initially, hence the plateau I was on since practically 'forever', CC tells me I should eat slightly more than 1700. I am 43 years old, 5'5'', 172 lbs and work out 5-6 days a week (so had my settings at moderately active) I found though that with all the work in home and my job that I do, I actually burn closer to 3000 a day and so have to eat around 2000-2200 to not have too big of a deficit. I ended up setting my activity to very active, then it tells me to eat 1977 cals a day. (and even that would not be enough on a couple of days a week)
I finally started to lose weight again too !!! So I concluded that my GWF was actually a real life saver and worth each and every penny!

[edit] forgot to say my goal weight is 150 lbs

Cut the bagels in cubes, total of 4 cups, add 1 cup applesauce, beat half a cup egg beaters with 2 cups skim milk, 1/3 cup of sugar (or use splenda instead) 1 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp cinnamon and half a tsp of nutmeg. Pour over the bread and leave standing for 10 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350F, bake pudding about 50 minutes.
Using the bagels, applesauce, milk and egg beaters amounts as a base, you can always make variations, make it savory by using cheese and spices/herbs, or add raisins, apples, banana etc.

If you want to see lame: try make me do a session like that, hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I'm telling you I would break each and every bone in my body!!! But of course, I am OLD.......

For me the measuring and weighing is a second nature, I don't see it as a burden or chore, it is just something I do.
I can totally see me do this for the rest of my life, sad thing is: I know myself, and I know I can not let myself roam free when it comes to eating, maybe that is a sad thing *shrug* but I am better off acknowledging this and acting accordingly than trying to ignore it and well, seeing the results of that in no time, hehe.

What the others already told you: you are doing a great job to begin with! Besides that I think first of all: you are saying you upped your exercise, this sometimes can result in having a little stall in your weight loss because of muscles retaining water for restoration purposes. Also what can be happening is that your body is taking a little rest from losing weight and might be changing in measurements, that's why it is always a really good plan to besides weighing also measure yourself :-)
Hope this lessens your worries a bit more.

It's the 8 oz cups, so you were right (and you can slap that around your husbands ears, LOL)
Try making your water easier to drink; what I do for example is add a little juice to a big bottle (about a cup or so of 'no sugar added' orange or cranberry for example) and fill up with water and sip on that all day, makes it taste a bit less 'watery'
Or you can add a few slices of lemon or lime.....things like that.

I am so happy to see this thread !!!
I actually even learned one thing: I am not supposed to use the word ain't, I honestly did not know that!
So I must be making more mistakes like that!
I hereby apologize for each and every one of them!
BUT I do have a good excuse; I am Dutch and on top of that (to make it even harder, LOL) I live in Texas, so that does not really help either.
There have been so many occasions posts made me cringe and some of them I just ignore, if there are too many mistakes I just get too irritated to even reply! (and then I am not even talking about the txt msg typing, I don't even finish their first sentence)
So even though English is my second language, I am definitely a grammar nazi!
They do exist !!

bwaaaaaaaah O M G !!!!!!

Klee, you are 16 years old (or not yet even ?), your burn is going to be about that if you would have just walked around a litlle, so taking that work out in consideration, you still ate with a deficit, believe me! I would not consider that day a cheat day at all.