Again, dont know much about the real world, but would MLYLT be entirely wrong to bring small chocolates to the office and throwing them to people she felt was performing particularly well that particular day? Could be a useful motivational tool.

12 Strategies for a Successful Meal Prep Day

Here's what you should do. Whatever it is that you are going to eat that is not part of your plan. Give it to your coworkers. Bury that snitch in double bacon cheeseburgers and other crap.

Then eat what you are supposed to be eating.

Are you working with more women at your current job?

Yes. My boss is a women and there are two other women on our team that I assign work to. There are also a lot of women that work in the plants. I am the only woman engineer though, so I am the only woman when we are doing troubleshooting and in different meetings.

M,

Please correct this timeline:

Graduate college

Project engineer job where everything was great with coworkers.

? job at company that went under, things were ? with coworkers.

? job, issues with coworkers/boss, quit/fired.

Current project manager? job

M,
getting liked .... to be liked you have to somehow like the people around you. You shouldn't think that this woman has reported you. You don't know it for sure. You just assume that. That in return makes you dislike her more. And it is really really hard to hide such dislike even for someone, who is super skilled in human interaction.

I thought, what I would do in your current situation. I would try to do what people told you here. I mean I am not good at "people" skills. For me it is also always easier to hide behind my PC screen. So just I would take the advice of a bunch, who is better at that than me. I would not try to pretend that I am interested in something, I am not. But usually I can find basically with anyone something cool/interesting. And I would try to learn something from this woman. I mean she is a lot longer there than you, so she knows a bunch of stuff, you don't. And if she gets the feeling that you like her and appreciate her advice..... I mean it is hard to report someone, whom you just have helped. And I would be totally open with you having problems in certain aspects of human interaction. People are usually much more inclined to help, when they think that you have really a problem and want help and are not just a high-nosed, to good for them gal.

Graduated college.

-Took a job with 100% travel as a reliability engineer. Got pregnant/had baby. Was bringing my baby on the road with me along with nieces, my sister, and my mom to watch her while I worked. Started looking for another job.
No problems with co-workers.

-project engineer job. Loved my job and co-workers. Refer to the "boss is mind ****ing me" where I talk about how my male co-workers were getting paid more and larger raises, ECT. No problems with co-workers.

-took job as a Project Manager with a startup that went under. No problems with co-workers.

-testing engineer. I had no problems with co-workers here. I had a huge problem with my moronic boss and a lot of saftey concerns. Refer back to the screen shots of unintelligible emails and text that he would send me.

-now at my current company

MLYLT,

This account of never having had a problem with co-workers seems wildly different from what I remember reading from you in the past, but maybe my memory is failing me.

You are prolly thinking of my last boss whom I had a lot of problems with.

I've gotten to work with a lot of really great people over the years, there may of been minor hiccups hear and there, but overall I'd say my relationships with co-workers has been good.

My relationship with bosses has been varying.

I only ever spoke to my first boss on the phone during daily conferences. It was great, no problems.

My next boss was overbearing and made me feel guilty for taking one week of vacation and going home when I was bleeding from an operation. He also negged me and paid me less and gave me smaller bonuses than people that were my direct reports.

My next job, I didn't really have a boss. They brought some guy in before the company lost all of its contracts. He was an idiot and complete massoganistic sexist, but I really didnt have to work with him for more than a month or so.

My next boss (last job) was litterally mentally ******ed and had his position because of his buddy at the company. This guy seriously couldn't even write a complete sentence. He and I had problems because he was trying to get me to do very dangerous and potentially fatal work and I was refusing to do it without proper training.

My boss now is the best I've ever had. She pissed me off last Friday, but whatever, I was slacking off. Overall she is good.

That's the end of work related discussions here. I'm involving myself in some projects with other groups and getting a lot of work done. My boss is acting cool like we didn't even have a discussion. I'm just going to stay off my phone more and be friendlier with everyone. Everything is going to be fine here.

MLYLT,

"Misogynistic", "literally"

MLYLT,

Monte beat me to it, but that's a pretty brave card for you to play!

Fabian, enough. Back to weight loss.
This log will not be an OOT bashing party.

Fabian,

STFU

MLYLT,

What's your favorite food that's "good for you"? Maybe you could incorporate it more into your dietary habits.

Sure, but what responses did you really expect when you decided to bring your OOT troubles into H&F? Use the rental thread in OOT for that stuff, and keep this thread strictly about H&F and it may very well be contagious, imo.

I'm up 2.6 lbs from last Friday. I ended the month at 237.5 from 241 for a total loss of 3.5lbs.
Below are my calories for the month and estimated weight loss based on 2500 cal/day and the actual weight loss TDEE calcs for the past 3 months. It seems like my TDEE is decreasing rapidly.

My goal for next month is to lose 10lbs and be in the 220s. Everyday I'm going to focus on staying under 1400cals. I am going to focus on every single thing I eat this month. Today already started off bad with fast food, but no more.

These are my monthly losses since I started the log:

June: 3.8
July: 6.5
Aug: 6.5
Sept: 10.3
Oct: 8
Nov: 6.4
Dec: 2.9
Jan: 3.5

Reviewing my best months, I was eating salmon a lot and swimming laps. I've got to get back to these things. I have to make myself swim laps on Sat and Sundays. Another goal for this month is to swim laps every Saturday.

At your bodyweight, 7-10lb a month should be very achievable without very much suffering.

I keep seeing "goal" and thinking you should read Scott Adams' writing about systems instead of goals in order to accomplish things, if you haven't already.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1029649...als-vs-systems

M,

Why do you think this time will be any different than all the other times you've said basically the same thing?

Here's a different plan for you:

Cut out cheese, crackers, cheeseburgers, McDonald's, dessert, fried food, pizza, bread, chips, Mexican restaurant food, and anything else people have reacted to with - why did you eat that?

Cook meat, vegetables, and small portions of potatoes/rice if you want. Eat fruits and vegetables for snacks.

Get a bunch of healthyish microwave meals. Eat those as backup for times you still don't cook.

Pick four healthyish items from fast food/restaurants. Order only those items when you find yourself at those places.

M,

Why do you think your TDEE numbers have decreased so much?

I think I've been sitting a lot more at work. Before Nov, I was making 4 trips a day through the plants (about 1 mile), and I was walking everyday at lunch. Now I only walk about 1/4mile during my morning plant walk and it is at a very slow pace.

Now that I think about it, I really started just isolating myself in my office at work. Thinking about the timeline, it was right about the time code3 and I took a break and I think depression set in for a while and then I just stayed in the habit of being in my office and on my phone all day.

I was hoping that most of the depression was behind me, but I had a bipolar episode last night where I couldn't control my emotions and thoughts. I had not been taking my medicine for a week. I was trying to conserve it for when I really needed it because my insurance just started over, and 30pills will cost me $500+. Uggh, it seems like I'm just going to have to pay it because I can't stay stable without it.

M,

Now that you're walking around and waving all the time, it should skyrocket!