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If you have determined that the best way for you is to cut out foods (you'll get encouragement on this forum to eat what you want within your calorie limit) and you expect that you will have cravings, then my suggestion is to practice "urge surfing." If you search on the net you'll find a lot of sites with info - this is…

I found this interesting: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/ask-well-does-less-than-5000-steps-a-day-make-you-sedentary/?_r=0

Hello, Emjam. Let's look at one of your goals - it's the easiest, because it's framed as wanting the presence of something tangible: becoming more active. How about something simple? Walking .... it's something you are probably doing every day. Adding ten minutes here and there is pretty doable. Take the bus? Get off or on…

Well it's an interesting thing - it may be that more people are affected mildly than would meet criteria for SAD. Whether it's an "excuse" or a "reason" a person's still left with choices about taking action. Exercise and light seem like a reasonable way to go if the desire for carbs takes on the quality of craving,…

As a licensed mental health clinician with three decades of experience, I know that "this" happens. The beauty of this particular approach is that if you are the person prone to "this" the light box is effective (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004726/) and has no nasty side effects :)

16 pounds?

yup cico still applies, and eating vegetarian means paying extra attention to protein as well as B12 and zinc. Peace.

Seems a shame to just boil 13# of chicken. I usually them individually and take out two at a time to fix for dinner - if you are home weekends, or something, you can cook chicken breast from frozen in about 50 min and it will be tender and lovely :)

Go to Lyle McDonald's forum site for some helpful information about fat loss.

The "clean eating" naysayers are out in force. Yes, you can lose weight on an all-Twinkie nutrition plan but you will feel like crap. Real food without a ton of added sodium will help you feel more like moving around, and if you are more active during your day you'll burn a few more calories.

The first 25# I lost was without any additional exercise. After that, I just felt more like walking and added weight training because it felt good.

No exercise will tighten skin. I'm sorry.

Find something you can tolerate. Some folks find the winter months a good time to hit the weight room.

Randy Newman sang that :)

If you have lost only ounces and not pounds in the past couple of months then you are pretty much at maintenance now.

For the recipe builder, input all of your ingredients and make sure the match makes sense. Choose the number of servings. Weigh your pan before you build your lasagna and make a note of it. Make your lasagna, and weigh the pan full when it is done. Subtract the weight of the pan. Divide the remainder by servings - then you…

I am working on pushups too, gradually lowering the incline (I use the smith machine bar for this). One thing that has helped me a lot is to keep elbows in rather than flaring them wide. This puts less stress on my shoulders. So your mileage may vary with form changes. I also found that as my plank time increased, my…

Prolonged sitting around is bad for your health even if you burn an hour of cardio at the gym. That's not what you asked, but if you take your "hour" and break it up during the day, then add 30 minutes of intentional cardio, you'll be a lot better off.

"Have you lost weight?" "Yes" "How are you doing it?" "I'm on the don't-eat-so-damn-much plan"

8 oz of homemade plain kefir. Or some yogurt, or a handful (20 g - I have small hands lol) of almonds. Or some combination thereof. But I often have fruit.

Gorgeous dress, by the way :)

I got these last winter - they are awesome.

Little spiral notebook plus pen - old school! I plan the workout before I go, and log it as I do it. I am one that would never be able to keep track of a phone while I move around. Somehow the notebook is no problem. Plus when I have a few months off I can easily look back and decide where I am going to begin again.

Just chiming in to say just after 4 days of using the SAD light every morning for 30 min I am no longer a carb craving machine plus I had enough oomph to get to the gym for some weight training and interval work this afternoon. Hopefully I will be on track for the rest of fall and into winter.

Really craving carbohydrates in the fall may be due in part to decreasing daylight and the resulting chemical changes in the brain. Some people are enormously sensitive to this. If you are one of them, you can try a couple of things. One is to get outside more at mid-day. Another is to get a light box of the kind used to…

Your body certainly CAN store the fat you eat if you are eating more calories than you are expending.

Meal by meal, make healthy choices. Move a lot. That's about it.

Scanning your diary, it appears that you are running some nutritional deficiencies that might be harmful over the long term. These include appropriate levels of protein for a man your age/height, and micronutrients (minerals and vitamins). I don't think it's wise to stress your body this way indefinitely.

Lots of good suggestions here. While you are waiting for your sleep study, I recommend saving enough calories so you can have some cereal and milk when you awaken during the night. You might be able to get back to sleep faster, and if you are including this in your daily allotment it won't interrupt anything.

I get 75-80 calories for each mile walked - strength training adds a few more calories (but not as many as I wish it would lol).