At Goal & Successfully Maintaining. So Why Am I Doing This All Over Again?
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springlering62 wrote: »Btw guys like you are good to have around.
At one point we had four microcars and a two car garage. We could get all four in the garage, but it inevitably involved drama moving cars around to get the one we wanted out.
Al looked at us like we were morons and said,”They’re tiny cars. Why don’t you just park them all in the driveway at an angle and back out the one you want?”
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I can’t believe that pic is still online. The internet never forgets.
You mean those cars don't fold up into suitcases?! 😮
Geometry is fun too. My brothers and I learned how to pack groceries on monthly trips for food. We developed the uncanny ability to seemingly pack a greater volume of food than there was volume of space! 😂0 -
frankwbrown wrote: »Sadly, knowing math and beating the odds (i.e. the house) are two different things.
Otherwise, I'd be buying drinks protein shakes or smoothies for everybody! 😂
But math requires critical thinking and problem solving.
Speaking of which, I got a Kroger flyer with a delectable chocolate praline pecan bread pudding recipe that had me drooling. I can’t justify a chocolate one, but I got in the kitchen and started throwing low cal stuff in a bowl to see what I could make.
I managed a really great 10” cast iron skillet sized bread pudding for 1193 calories. It rose beautifully. (I’ve never made bread pudding before so the rising was a total surprise.)
That’s about 300 calories for a generous quarter pan. Woot! And it was delicious reheated.
Next up, I’ll experiment to whittle down the calories some more, while keeping flavor. I’m pretty sure I can get it down another 150-200 calories, possibly more.
I’ll post the recipe once I’ve tweaked it.
Have you had any successful calorie experiments or substitutions?
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springlering62 wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »Sadly, knowing math and beating the odds (i.e. the house) are two different things.
Otherwise, I'd be buying drinks protein shakes or smoothies for everybody! 😂
But math requires critical thinking and problem solving.
Speaking of which, I got a Kroger flyer with a delectable chocolate praline pecan bread pudding recipe that had me drooling. I can’t justify a chocolate one, but I got in the kitchen and started throwing low cal stuff in a bowl to see what I could make.
I managed a really great 10” cast iron skillet sized bread pudding for 1193 calories. It rose beautifully. (I’ve never made bread pudding before so the rising was a total surprise.)
That’s about 300 calories for a generous quarter pan. Woot! And it was delicious reheated.
Next up, I’ll experiment to whittle down the calories some more, while keeping flavor. I’m pretty sure I can get it down another 150-200 calories, possibly more.
I’ll post the recipe once I’ve tweaked it.
Have you had any successful calorie experiments or substitutions?
I assume you know about the famous protein cheesecake?0 -
springlering62 wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »Sadly, knowing math and beating the odds (i.e. the house) are two different things.
Otherwise, I'd be buying drinks protein shakes or smoothies for everybody! 😂
But math requires critical thinking and problem solving.
Speaking of which, I got a Kroger flyer with a delectable chocolate praline pecan bread pudding recipe that had me drooling. I can’t justify a chocolate one, but I got in the kitchen and started throwing low cal stuff in a bowl to see what I could make.
I managed a really great 10” cast iron skillet sized bread pudding for 1193 calories. It rose beautifully. (I’ve never made bread pudding before so the rising was a total surprise.)
That’s about 300 calories for a generous quarter pan. Woot! And it was delicious reheated.
Next up, I’ll experiment to whittle down the calories some more, while keeping flavor. I’m pretty sure I can get it down another 150-200 calories, possibly more.
I’ll post the recipe once I’ve tweaked it.
Have you had any successful calorie experiments or substitutions?
I assume you know about the famous protein cheesecake?
I I do not. I make a mousse-y one out of Greek yogurt and cheesecake instant pudding, topped with berries. But I’m very interested.0 -
springlering62 wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »Sadly, knowing math and beating the odds (i.e. the house) are two different things.
Otherwise, I'd be buying drinks protein shakes or smoothies for everybody! 😂
But math requires critical thinking and problem solving.
Speaking of which, I got a Kroger flyer with a delectable chocolate praline pecan bread pudding recipe that had me drooling. I can’t justify a chocolate one, but I got in the kitchen and started throwing low cal stuff in a bowl to see what I could make.
I managed a really great 10” cast iron skillet sized bread pudding for 1193 calories. It rose beautifully. (I’ve never made bread pudding before so the rising was a total surprise.)
That’s about 300 calories for a generous quarter pan. Woot! And it was delicious reheated.
Next up, I’ll experiment to whittle down the calories some more, while keeping flavor. I’m pretty sure I can get it down another 150-200 calories, possibly more.
I’ll post the recipe once I’ve tweaked it.
Have you had any successful calorie experiments or substitutions?
I assume you know about the famous protein cheesecake?
I I do not. I make a mousse-y one out of Greek yogurt and cheesecake instant pudding, topped with berries. But I’m very interested.
I love the protein powder cheese cake recipe but haven't made it for a couple of years. Thanks for reminding me! I don't have the link, I just took a screenshot of the recipe from the forum. If no one has the link I'll post the screenshot, but I'm sure AnnPT77 will
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springlering62 wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »Sadly, knowing math and beating the odds (i.e. the house) are two different things.
Otherwise, I'd be buying drinks protein shakes or smoothies for everybody! 😂
But math requires critical thinking and problem solving.
Speaking of which, I got a Kroger flyer with a delectable chocolate praline pecan bread pudding recipe that had me drooling. I can’t justify a chocolate one, but I got in the kitchen and started throwing low cal stuff in a bowl to see what I could make.
I managed a really great 10” cast iron skillet sized bread pudding for 1193 calories. It rose beautifully. (I’ve never made bread pudding before so the rising was a total surprise.)
That’s about 300 calories for a generous quarter pan. Woot! And it was delicious reheated.
Next up, I’ll experiment to whittle down the calories some more, while keeping flavor. I’m pretty sure I can get it down another 150-200 calories, possibly more.
I’ll post the recipe once I’ve tweaked it.
Have you had any successful calorie experiments or substitutions?
I assume you know about the famous protein cheesecake?
I I do not. I make a mousse-y one out of Greek yogurt and cheesecake instant pudding, topped with berries. But I’m very interested.
Uh-oh . . . I think the old one that was really popular has been deleted! (Apologies. I'll keep looking.)1 -
ridiculous59 wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »springlering62 wrote: »frankwbrown wrote: »Sadly, knowing math and beating the odds (i.e. the house) are two different things.
Otherwise, I'd be buying drinks protein shakes or smoothies for everybody! 😂
But math requires critical thinking and problem solving.
Speaking of which, I got a Kroger flyer with a delectable chocolate praline pecan bread pudding recipe that had me drooling. I can’t justify a chocolate one, but I got in the kitchen and started throwing low cal stuff in a bowl to see what I could make.
I managed a really great 10” cast iron skillet sized bread pudding for 1193 calories. It rose beautifully. (I’ve never made bread pudding before so the rising was a total surprise.)
That’s about 300 calories for a generous quarter pan. Woot! And it was delicious reheated.
Next up, I’ll experiment to whittle down the calories some more, while keeping flavor. I’m pretty sure I can get it down another 150-200 calories, possibly more.
I’ll post the recipe once I’ve tweaked it.
Have you had any successful calorie experiments or substitutions?
I assume you know about the famous protein cheesecake?
I I do not. I make a mousse-y one out of Greek yogurt and cheesecake instant pudding, topped with berries. But I’m very interested.
I love the protein powder cheese cake recipe but haven't made it for a couple of years. Thanks for reminding me! I don't have the link, I just took a screenshot of the recipe from the forum. If no one has the link I'll post the screenshot, but I'm sure AnnPT77 will
@ridiculous59, if you've got it handy, please post it. I thought it'd be easy to find again, but the originator of the one I'm thinking of seems to have been deleted, along with posts. 😬0 -
BL forgot to take his little bottle of zero calorie dressing to the weekly Kiwanis meeting last week.
He came home and proudly announced, “I ate my salad dry. I wasn’t going to waste calories on their dressing.”
Bet he’ll remember today.
I’m so proud of him. He’s really taking the MFP tiger by the tail.19 -
That's too bad that the original posts about the protein powder cheesecake were deleted. Some people were so creative with the recipe and it was fun to look at the photos. Anyway, here's my screenshot of the recipe. My favourite flavour was using the Vega chocolate protein powder. I'd portion the cheesecake out and eat it for breakfast all week, usually with some warmed berries on top I used a springform pan instead of just a regular cake pan. If you enter the recipe in the "builder" you can figure out your own calories and nutrition breakdown, depending on what protein powder you use and any additions you throw in.
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Thanks, @ridiculous59 !0
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That looks like the one I remember, @ridiculous59: Thanks for bailing me out. Really low calorie, high protein, and people who tried it raved about it. (I thought about trying it, but never have protein powder around here, didn't get around to it . . . . ). IIRC, whey protein was considered best to use in this case.0
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That looks like the one I remember, @ridiculous59: Thanks for bailing me out. Really low calorie, high protein, and people who tried it raved about it. (I thought about trying it, but never have protein powder around here, didn't get around to it . . . . ). IIRC, whey protein was considered best to use in this case.
I don't have protein powder in the house either. I'd rather eat "real" food LOL. But I can buy the Vega brand in single serving packets so I'd pick up a couple if I planned to make this.2 -
The first one I tried was Bob’s Red Mill Whey. I really like it but it’s hard to find and expensive. I just bought a giant tub of Naked whey. It’s ok. No flavor, but it just doesn’t blend well even if I take my dandy OXO egg beater to it. (Now there’s a great diet tool!)0
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BL forgot to take his salad dressing to luncheon yesterday.
So today I’ll surprise him with this:
Small pleasures.
Last night he mentioned he wanted to buy some new shorts (end of season sale) and I told him “you better wait til spring.”
“Why?”
“Honey, your pants are baggy.”
He looked surprised and stuck his thumb in his waistband and pulled it out. There was a pretty significant gap.
This morning he asked (!!!!) to weigh in, and is down a couple more pounds.
BTW I am not such a control freak he has to have my permission to weigh in. That’s his “love language” for “I’m fixing to do something here and want you to share it with me.”
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@ythannah a tiny secret about those grocery store muffins . . . they start out as white or yellow cake mix!
I'm not surprised! It's been years since I've eaten one, it was something quick to grab on a day when I'd forgotten lunch and was short on time, but they were definitely more like small personal cakes than anything else. Yet people tend to perceive muffins as a "healthier" choice.1 -
Muffins, back in the day - like 30-ish years ago? - were mostly but not exclusively more like a bread-ish thing, only a little sweet (except some seriously fruity ones, maybe - blueberry as the flagship for that). Muffins have gotten much bigger, oilier, sweeter . . . on average, since my youth.1
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A Tim Hortons raisin bran muffins (sounds healthy, right?) is 380 calories. A Timmy's honey cruller (my personal favourite) is 280 calories. At one time, if there was a mixed box of items on the boardroom table, I would automatically have reached for the muffin, thinking it was less calories than the donut. Now I know better.....and probably would pull out my own snack instead 😉6
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Greetings from gloomy, rainy mytown. It so dark at 9:30am, the streetlights are on, lol.
BL has caught something from me and is off his chow. My test last week was negative, but after he caught it so rapidly, we both went out and got new tests yesterday. Awaiting results. We’re comparatively fine, so thanks, but save your sympathy for someone who needs it, since, Ironically, this is way better than what we both had after our second vaccination.
He hardly ate yesterday and is picking at his breakfast, so today’s challenge is to get some calories in him. I’ll be making a homemade pizza with extra, extra toppings. No man can resist that, right? Luckily I have a package of Trader Joe’s Ciao pepperoni in the freezer.
I have a small stash of chocolate chips I discovered during a pantry clean out. (Me? Forget chocolate in the house?!!!) I can make some buttery homemade cookies, if worse comes to worse. (The danger there is, tastebuds dead or not, I’d still get into those.)
So today is sneaky calorie day.
“I’ll have Words You Never Thought Would Cross Your Lips for 500” (calories, that is), lol.
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springlering62 wrote: »So today is sneaky calorie day.
“I’ll have Words You Never Thought Would Cross Your Lips for 500” (calories, that is), lol.
Best of luck concocting tempting treats!
My solution for shovelling in calories on an unhappy stomach earlier this year was fruit juice, some of which are very high calorie. And I figured at least there was some nutritional value there.1 -
Sorry. Seems we’ve fallen off the earth! My husband and I have what are surely (and blessedly) the world’s mildest cases of Covid. Thank heavens we were vaccinated. I’m almost embarrassed to call this “Covid”. I’ve had colds that were waaaaay worse than this.
Anyway, calorie adherence is out the window for both of us right now.
I’m just going with the flow. I figure my body will ask for what it needs and I’ll deal with any gain or loss when it’s over. Oddly, I feel thinner, even though I’ve been couch bound the last few days and had one or two gobbley days. I think the mild fever and the (worst part) instantaneous soaking dripping sweats burn a lot of calories.
Otherwise, I’ve found the mystery to calorie burning while napping, and just need to bottle and share it, and then use the proceeds to get DeVol to come and do my kitchen. Wow! Lots of time to watch HGTV and am mesmerized by For the Love of Kitchens!!!!19 -
springlering62 wrote: »Sorry. Seems we’ve fallen off the earth! My husband and I have what are surely (and blessedly) the world’s mildest cases of Covid. Thank heavens we were vaccinated. I’m almost embarrassed to call this “Covid”. I’ve had colds that were waaaaay worse than this.
Anyway, calorie adherence is out the window for both of us right now.
I’m just going with the flow. I figure my body will ask for what it needs and I’ll deal with any gain or loss when it’s over. Oddly, I feel thinner, even though I’ve been couch bound the last few days and had one or two gobbley days. I think the mild fever and the (worst part) instantaneous soaking dripping sweats burn a lot of calories.
Otherwise, I’ve found the mystery to calorie burning while napping, and just need to bottle and share it, and then use the proceeds to get DeVol to come and do my kitchen. Wow! Lots of time to watch HGTV and am mesmerized by For the Love of Kitchens!!!!
It's great to hear from you. I hope you are both feeling better soon.1 -
springlering62 wrote: »Btw guys like you are good to have around.
At one point we had four microcars and a two car garage. We could get all four in the garage, but it inevitably involved drama moving cars around to get the one we wanted out.
Al looked at us like we were morons and said,”They’re tiny cars. Why don’t you just park them all in the driveway at an angle and back out the one you want?”
😶
I can’t believe that pic is still online. The internet never forgets.
In the 90s I had a Geo Metro, which was light enough that my coworkers (no idea how many of them) were able to pick it up and move it to a different part of the parking lot. Freaked me out!
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springlering62 wrote: »Sorry. Seems we’ve fallen off the earth! My husband and I have what are surely (and blessedly) the world’s mildest cases of Covid. Thank heavens we were vaccinated. I’m almost embarrassed to call this “Covid”. I’ve had colds that were waaaaay worse than this.
Anyway, calorie adherence is out the window for both of us right now.
I’m just going with the flow. I figure my body will ask for what it needs and I’ll deal with any gain or loss when it’s over. Oddly, I feel thinner, even though I’ve been couch bound the last few days and had one or two gobbley days. I think the mild fever and the (worst part) instantaneous soaking dripping sweats burn a lot of calories.
Otherwise, I’ve found the mystery to calorie burning while napping, and just need to bottle and share it, and then use the proceeds to get DeVol to come and do my kitchen. Wow! Lots of time to watch HGTV and am mesmerized by For the Love of Kitchens!!!!
Glad it's mild! Yay for the vax!0 -
Well, we are in Day 11 of the World’s Mildest Case of Covid right now. Really, I’m embarrassed to even call it Covid. Just ridiculously mild symptoms and lingering fatigue hanging about.
Placed an order for grocery delivery to hold us for at least a week or longer, in a pinch.
Tried to make an effort not to get anything different than usual, to keep us both on calorie track.
I foolishly weakened and bought some cookies and custard tarts. Not the greatest idea since a.) I still don’t have an “off switch” even now, and b.) one of the strangest Covid symptoms I’ve had is sudden, random, gnawing hunger. Not a good combination.
So the tarts are all gone, but most the cookies are safely in the freezer, where they pose less of a threat.
BL is completely untempted by either cookie or tart.
The problem throughout this has been getting calories into him at all. If I don’t make it, he’s not going to eat it, and I just haven’t been up to cooking much the past few days.
I did make an amazing (and easy) pizza from scratch, which he happily devoured, so that might be the go-to for the next couple days. I can load his side up with cheese and pepperoni, and go lighter on my side, using some prosciutto, which he doesn’t care for.
Just treading water right now til this darned bone weary fatigue passes. But hey, considering the alternative…….
BTW, did you get vaxxed? We are SO grateful we did.
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My partner's brother and whole family got COVID from their unvaxxed two year old grandson. (Rest of the family was vaxxed.) SIL said it was like a bad cold and she'd hate to have experienced it unvaxxed. Brother also had vertigo.6
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You are inspiring! I did Noom and lost 30lbs, have gained 10lb back after a few months of not doing Noom and not logging foods. I was starting to gain while I was on that program and got burned out of logging everything. I’ve done many diets and am discouraged with gaining weight back. I really want this time to be different and would welcome any advice at how to maintain weight loss as well as not eat in the middle of the night. I believe connected with positive like minded people will be beneficial. Have a great weekend everyone2
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I hope you all are feeling much better!
LORD JESUS guide 💟0 -
@springlering62 - I hope you and your husband feel better soon, sending major hugs and chicken noodle soup thoughts your direction. Also, thank you for this thread. I've been around for a while, but managed to fall of the wagon pretty hard thanks to the pandemic and trying to finish a masters degree (over in December). Reading this thread 1. is entertaining, and 2. has reminded me how to get back in the saddle. Following the thread for sure, for motivation (and to keep tabs on when y'all are feeling better).8
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talltrees500 wrote: »You are inspiring! I did Noom and lost 30lbs, have gained 10lb back after a few months of not doing Noom and not logging foods. I was starting to gain while I was on that program and got burned out of logging everything. I’ve done many diets and am discouraged with gaining weight back. I really want this time to be different and would welcome any advice at how to maintain weight loss as well as not eat in the middle of the night. I believe connected with positive like minded people will be beneficial. Have a great weekend everyone
@talltrees500 , you mentioned discipline in another thread. Discipline doesn’t have to be unpleasant, or a chore. There’s a degree of discipline necessary simply to maintain habits, like making the bed, brushing your teeth, keeping the counter clean. If you can turn the discipline into a habit, it just becomes second nature. No time to even think of it as being a hassle.
For me, the best way to obtain and maintain weight loss was just to make logging such a habit that I do it without even thinking about it. I accept that I’ll be logging for the rest of my life, so making logging as easy as possible for myself was key to making it an automatic habit.
I sat a lot of the same foods, at the same weights. I take advantage of saved foods and also the suggested foods.
For example, I eat a giant salad several times a week. All I have to do is enter the word “mixed” and mixed greens automatically pops up, along with suggestions for carrots, radishes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, dressing, steak, chicken breast, olives, feta, halloumi- all my usuals. All I have to do is click click click through the list and lunch is sorted in seconds.
I’ve learned to enter recipes as “meals”. It takes a little time to enter a new recipe, but once saved, i can easily adjust serving size, add apple and cinnamon to my basic muffin “meal”, copy a meal I’d like to tweak without ruining the original, and so on. It also allows me to rename meals. I do this often for a large complicated recipe that I might freeze leftovers. Makes it easier to recall “lasagna 9-25-21” in case I have a question when I pull it out of the freezer a month later. And when I remake the recipe in a few months, I can easily tweak quantities.
The “meal” function allows all this. The recipe function doesn’t. I don’t even use “recipes” any more.
When I freeze meals. I use the Sharpie I keep in the spoon drawer and write “lasagna 9-25-21 package=1/3 recipe @ 1300 calories” on the ziplock bag. That way I simply add .17 of the recipe to my diary. (That’s half for me, half for hubs.)
Creating habits also helped with the urge to eat later. I always have a cup of fragrant chai latte between 8-9pm, and eat my dessert at 9. That’s it for the day and I’ve just trained my brain to accept that. It effective 95% of the time. That other 5% I figure I really must be hungry and need it, so my body gets it.
For some reason, a fragrant, spicy hot drink satisfies my appetite for hours. I make a simple iced coffee that does same (def not a pre-bedtime drink!)
Rereading this, talking about “my brain”, “my body” sounds wierdly third person, but it really is like a seargent who has to have all the company working efficiently to function as a whole.23 -
Thankyou for this thoughtful and helpful response. I think I’ve finally come to the conclusion that I will need to log foods the rest of my life. Food is a vice and quite frankly an addiction for me, and like any addiction I can’t “Just eat like everyone else” (people who do not struggle with emotional eating). I think greater acceptance of myself and what I will need to do to form healthy habits will continue to be needed. I’m coming to terms with stress related to final stages of my divorce (just waiting for judge to sign, yeah😀), as well as need for improved self care. I teach Mindfulness to my clients, however, practice it much less than I’d like. I appreciate your post; I found it very helpful and inspiring. Feel free to add me as a friend😊8
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