Is calorie counting hard?

Soup?

Can we talk about other crock pot ideas? I'm not the biggest fan of soup during the summer- which is a shame because the White Bean Chicken Chili at Cheesecake Factory is one of the most filling items on the SkinnyLicious menu.

The actual counting calories is easy. The mental aspect and figuring out the right balance of calories between meals, however, is a bit more of a challenge.

Once you let HLB into your heart, she never truly leaves.

Wow skimming through this one, completely missed she wandered over to this one.

So seriously, orgies are a bad topic, and that is what took down an epic thread. If dirty pictures were not posted, what is the issue. We are all adults and have the ability to not read a thread if we don't want to. I had a few on my FL that kept seeming upset that the thread was still going.....didn't get it because you can ignore it, just like If something you don't like is on tv you can choose not to watch it.

So, seriously... I was joking about the orgy references. Yes, somebody said something about orgies, but the comments were very, very tame. I'm sure the thread was axed for some other reason... perhaps for public posting of private contact information, which is against the Community Guidelines. There were references to OP's accounts on other sites, which count as private contact information according to the CGs... and aside from that, OP was very free with personal details of who she was, where she worked, who her friend was, and so on... I think that with a moderate amount of digging, it would have been possible to locate her physically at a given time. And that's just not a good thing for her, and the MFP community is right to be concerned over that. Is she still so exposed now -- maybe so, on other sites, but not so much here.

Your friends may have been some of those with more experience on the MFP boards who remember a thread not unlike this one. A young MFP user was caught in multiple untruths and distortions, along with a great deal of oversharing... and in the process of debunking the insanity, her identity was exposed. The thread had many hilarious turns... and many warnings from individuals saying Hey, this is going in a direction that could be unsafe for the user in question. And eventually the thread was nuked. None of the usual lock with explanation from mods... just nuked. Like this one was.

So that's my best guess. And if the mods nuked the thread in an effort to protect someone's identity, I say cheers to the mods. :drinker: Even the wildest, most disagreeable MFP users are still real people on the other end... even if they're not the people they say they are.

That is a very good reason.


Regarding Gifs using too much bandwidth. That is false. The images are hosted elsewhere and not on MFP's server, the only way images on a website take bandwidth is if they are an internal link to the same server of the site. Gifs can decrease page loud time, but not from the websites end, it is purely a user side issue with slow connection.

*over 10 years Web Design and Development.

And let's face it, most of us were naughty before so had bad habits! I am with you though, it is all about your habits and getting your body used to health eatin'.

Exactly. My biggest bad habit was constantly snacking. /Constantly/. That and I could never have enough Pepsi. I've straightened all that out though.

Coca cola for me. Full sugar loveliness.
Sacrifice, retrain, rethink, redo!

I'm on that boat, even when I had a pre-diabetes warning I still could not stop drinking it.
Now I feel stupid of how carelessness I have been.

once you start, you'll get used to it and you'll end up doing it automatically.

I'm trying to figure out when I can make monkey bread. It's just me and my BF, so that recipe is too much food for just us. We'll have a friend of his staying with us for a bit, but he'll be gone on weekends. Maybe i'll bring it to my mother's house. She'd love it.

That's what i do. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to bake... but if i bake I eat and I live alone. Now I take it to work the next day and put it on the counter for customers (and my coworkers)... or I take it to church and leave it on the counter there.

It lets me bake and eat a controlled amount and get rid of the rest!

I LOVE baking cupcakes
but if I do then i will be home with them all night lol
I could bake 24 cupcakes and show up to work with like... 18-20 and be like oh... some were messed up
yeah... thats it... lol

I'm trying to figure out when I can make monkey bread. It's just me and my BF, so that recipe is too much food for just us. We'll have a friend of his staying with us for a bit, but he'll be gone on weekends. Maybe i'll bring it to my mother's house. She'd love it.

I think I will do mine when there's a friend/family get together...it is that or taking it into work and being called a feeder...

I'm trying to figure out when I can make monkey bread. It's just me and my BF, so that recipe is too much food for just us. We'll have a friend of his staying with us for a bit, but he'll be gone on weekends. Maybe i'll bring it to my mother's house. She'd love it.

I saw where you can make the monkey bread in muffin pans and have little individual servings. May be worth a try.

My downfall is carb.....I am the queen of the carbs, baby! LOL

I still am, but it's not as bad as it used to be, so that's improvement, right!!! LOL

I mean, going back to certain excuses that certain people might make.....if you keep eating bad stuff because you 'want' something or you're 'not willing to give something up', well, then you're not going to lose weight. That's just the human body for you.

I mean...

I 'want' to eat takeaway or restaurant pizza for my dinner....do I? No. Why? Because I'd stay the same weight or put on weight. What do I do instead? Make a pitta pizza, or pizza toast.

I 'want' to eat Ben & Jerry's Ice cream when it's hot.....do I? No. Why? Because I know I can't just have one scoop and would end up eating more, and then I'd stay the same weight or put on weight. What do I do instead? Eat a smaller, lighter individual ice cream that is a) less fat/cals and b) a contained and controlled portion by being a stick or cone.

I 'want' to eat cheese....do I? No. Why? Because even a modest chunk of cheese is calrorific, and if I ate as much as I wanted, I would stay the same or put on weight. What do I do instead? Have a teaspoon of dried italian cheese on pasta or I have low fat soft cheese in my sandwich.

I 'want' to use olive oil in and on food....do I? No. Why? Because even a teaspoon of oil is a lot of calories for something that doesn't work to fill me up for the day. What do I do instead? Use spray oil or steam/bake/griddle where I can.

You have to decide if the things you 'want' or you're 'not willing to give up' are more important than losing weight.

If they are more important, fine, that's a personal choice, but then don't complain you can't lose weight.

If losing weight is more important, then you either moderate them drastically or cut them out.

(It feels so good to be able to say all that in good conscience after a long time losing weight and having come from a time when I would think about food and eating all the time....... :drinker: )

I'm trying to figure out when I can make monkey bread. It's just me and my BF, so that recipe is too much food for just us. We'll have a friend of his staying with us for a bit, but he'll be gone on weekends. Maybe i'll bring it to my mother's house. She'd love it.

I saw where you can make the monkey bread in muffin pans and have little individual servings. May be worth a try.

Speaking of that... I love making meatloaf "muffins". Tiny little meatloaves excite me.

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I'm trying to figure out when I can make monkey bread. It's just me and my BF, so that recipe is too much food for just us. We'll have a friend of his staying with us for a bit, but he'll be gone on weekends. Maybe i'll bring it to my mother's house. She'd love it.

I saw where you can make the monkey bread in muffin pans and have little individual servings. May be worth a try.

Speaking of that... I love making meatloaf "muffins". Tiny little meatloaves excite me.

oohh Recipe? That sounds awesome, mini foods excite me too .

I'm trying to figure out when I can make monkey bread. It's just me and my BF, so that recipe is too much food for just us. We'll have a friend of his staying with us for a bit, but he'll be gone on weekends. Maybe i'll bring it to my mother's house. She'd love it.

I saw where you can make the monkey bread in muffin pans and have little individual servings. May be worth a try.

Speaking of that... I love making meatloaf "muffins". Tiny little meatloaves excite me.

oohh Recipe? That sounds awesome, mini foods excite me too .

This is the recipe I usually use.

http://www.skinnykitchen.com/recipes/skinny-meatloaf-muffins-with-barbecue-sauce/

Logging for me has not been difficult at all, but I am an extremely boring eater. I eat to live only, so I don’t die. I eat the wrong/fastest things ever, fattening stuff, and I like snacking. Since logging, I just have to call up pretty much the same thing day after day. I've been eating salads, really that is it, and the only thing that changes may be the veggies in it.

I just ate my salad with cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, lettuce of course, and some blue cheese dressing, with a can of 98% fat free chicken on the top for protein, easy peasy, and that's it. I have zero imagination and again I eat to not die, so really anything will do.

If I could never eat again and not die and/or be HUNGRY, I'd do it.

This!

According to most people I know, I'm a pretty amazing cook. But I enjoy eating a pretty basic, standard selection of food. I don't tire from having the same basic foods over and over again, with occasional changes. My wife marvels that I can craft these delectable dishes from the top of me head, yet I don't cook that way for myself.

I don't "love" food. I use to have a major problem with overeating one food category specifically, certain kinds of sweets. That's not really a problem anymore. I can go long periods of time without eating food, and if I could never eat again, not die, and keep my energy up I'd probably eat only once in awhile.

I certainly can enjoy eating, but I don't know what it feels like to "love" food.

I'm trying to figure out when I can make monkey bread. It's just me and my BF, so that recipe is too much food for just us. We'll have a friend of his staying with us for a bit, but he'll be gone on weekends. Maybe i'll bring it to my mother's house. She'd love it.

Hmmm I made it using previously ignored crescent rolls in the tiny 4 oz container and so far have had to adjust the cooking time down to 45 minutes, probably still need a bit less time. 2 oz crescent rolls, 1 tbsp margarine, 1 tbsp light brown sugar and 3/8 tsp cinnamon. I did not make the icing, and my crockpot is fairly small. I often have to adapt recipe quantities as I live alone