What are your Top 5 foods or items that make your life easier?

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  • LZMiner
    LZMiner Posts: 300 Member
    Yoga
    Cottage cheese
    My dog, who goes on lots of walks!
    Eggs
    Cauliflower rice
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,257 Member
    1. MFP (supportive friends/the forums to challenge and debate ideas)
    2. Food scale
    3. Fitbit Flex 2 & Polar H7 tracker
    4. My job - I have a good deal of flexibility largely due to enforcing a strict Pareto policy. I only focus on things that matter.
    5. Coffee
  • MelissaSheklian
    MelissaSheklian Posts: 141 Member
    1. Technology- Iwatch, MFP app, food scale
    2. Protein- satiety makes all the difference, I get in a lot from food at each meal plus a whey shake after working out and casein pudding before bed
    3. Workouts I love- if you don’t like it you won’t do it, top picks for me are walking my dog, training for half marathons, and bodybuilding/power lifting
    4. Water- plain, with lemon, sparkling, no calorie flavored. I’m much better at staying on track when I get the water in
    5. Rest- sleep is the best but also knowing when you’re body has had too much and you need to back off and just eat the ice cream
  • Leannep2201
    Leannep2201 Posts: 441 Member
    For me, definitely MFP, my Fitbit and my food scale. The bathroom scales are pretty important to me too!!!

    Most helpful foods along this journey currently are.....

    1. Fibre One Brownies (agree with the poster above..... mmmmm!!!!)
    2. My homemade, health-ified dumpling soup (love it and have it a couple of times per week).
    3. Sorbet. Yummy sweet treat that I substitute for ice cream! I buy individual serving sizes.
    4. Eggs. Love them, in any shape or form!
    5. Laughing cow cheese wedges. Great on crackers or with vege sticks.
    6. Greek yoghurt. I have a berry one I buy. It’s amazing!!!!

    These foods all pop up often for me, most weeks!
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    1. Apple Watch
    2. Gym membership
    3. Food scale
    4. Working for myself so flexibility
    5. Bullet Journal
  • txmaryk99
    txmaryk99 Posts: 120 Member
    1. My puppy dog best workout/walking partner ever
    2. MFP well yeah
    3. Premier Protein portable snack at work when a real break is just a wish
    4. Prepackaged veggies makes dinner prep so much easier
    5. Local farmers market for fresh local yummy fruit and veggies
    6. Sargentos balanced breaks again handy portable snack
    7. Food scale
  • DragonHasTheSapphire
    DragonHasTheSapphire Posts: 184 Member
    1.) Food scale
    2.) MFP
    3.) Peanut Butter
    4.) Running Shoes
    5.) Body Scale
    6.) Rock/Metal music
  • viajera99
    viajera99 Posts: 252 Member
    1) MFP
    2) FibBit and Aria scale
    3) Trendweight.com
    4) Digital food scale
    5) Trader Joe's non-fat Greek yogurt and cottage cheese
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,613 Member
    I agree with your#4&6, not sure what happened to #5??? I eat salad for lunch almost every day and love half and half in my coffee.
    Cottage cheese is a good source of protein that is very versatile. It can go with sweet or savory, hot or cold.
    Protein bars, great for a breakfast or snack on the go.
    Zoodles help me cut back on pasta.
  • kbmnurse1
    kbmnurse1 Posts: 316 Member
    1. Food logging
    2. food scale
    3. cycle fit class
    4. Hidden Valley Ranch Yogurt Dressing
    5. Plain Greek Yogurt
  • fish9283
    fish9283 Posts: 25 Member
    1. My bicycle - burns calories and makes me feel good.
    2. Single serving packets of Greek yogurt or tuna - easy to take work and meet my protein goals.
    3. Unsweetened tea- a little caffeine boost, no calories and keeps me hydrated.
    4. Fresh fruit- delicious and full of nutrients.
    5. Baked potato- no butter, just garlic salt or hot sauce. I find it very satiating.
  • DreaDarling87
    DreaDarling87 Posts: 46 Member
    1. MFP
    2. Digital Food scale
    3. Fitbit
    4. Greek yogurt
    5. Bathroom scale/Libra app
    6. Protein bars
  • Ninkasi
    Ninkasi Posts: 173 Member
    1. My bike
    2. Yoga for flexibility (or at least not being completely seized up)
    3. My food scale
    4. Bagged salad mix
    5. My foam roller
  • drabbits2
    drabbits2 Posts: 179 Member
    1. green tea -- I drink an insane amount of unsweetened green tea every day, hot or cold--all day-energy without jitters
    2. kombucha -- feels like a treat, healthy, not too many calories, many interesting flavors
    3. skinny pop -- fav go-to snack
    4. living two blocks from Lake Michigan so I can take walks on the lake trails (I have snow shoes to do this even in the winter!!)
    5. living in a community that is very walkable -- I can easily go three days without driving (in the summer when I am off from teaching)
    6. ordering groceries from Amazon Fresh -- keeps me on my budget and lets me go over my "cart" before actually making the purchase so the junk food I put in there on impulse can get dumped!
    7. fitbit + my challenge community of five friends-we encourage each other to keep active
    8. Trader Joe's non fat greek yogurt in coconut cream flavor--tastes like dessert-add berries for a big treat that is actually healthy