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America's Test Kitchen has a few books for lighter cooking although I think most of them are meals for four They have some cooking for two books out there that indicate which recipes are light and those give calorie counts etc. Although I also copy recipes from online, America's Test Kitchen recipes are hard to beat…

I too stick with sugar. I tried making those 37 calorie brownies a few weeks ago which called for using Truvia. OMG! I had a horrible taste in my mouth for the rest of the night! I'm not all that worried about the chemicals but man I hate the taste of them!!

Well, I'm one of those terrible people who is going to fail miserably because I actually went to a barriatric physician and got diet pills to start me out. He put me on a 1200 calorie diet, his staff pointed me to MFP and I've been using it to log ever since. I stopped taking the pills six months ago, and I'm still losing…

Either America's Test Kitchen or Cooks Country did a show on grilling several types of veges on the grill and then cutting them up and mixing them with middle eastern type spices that looked wonderful although I haven't tried it yet. I think you can check it out for free since it's from this year's series of shows. I've…

Hello to both of you! I have a suggestion as far as veges are concerned. Try roasting them in garlic flavored olive oil. Just need a tiny bit! but roasting brings out any natural sweetness they have and makes everything taste amazing! I was never much of a vegetable lover either but this time around I've found myself…

Thanks for sharing! AND for reiterating my belief that age is nothing more than a number!

As of Saturday I've lost the fats and oils an average American eats in a year plus a slab of baby back ribs!

I like that! " The shirtless mafia"! I admit to liking to read the forums quite a bit, I just have no desire to add my two cents to any of the discussions! It would probably take me all day with a dictionary and a grammar book to figure how to say something without it being misconstrued and argued over. I don't have the…

I think what has really helped me stick with this for long is to keep on logging. Even if you're logging that you're going way over your calories, keep on doing it! At some point you will be able to refocus yourself and stay within your calories, logging keeps you "remembering" you are supposed to be doing that!

I too am having a hard figuring out the friends/comments thing. I get a notice in my email, click on the link and half the time, there's nothing new there! So, for anyone who has made a comment and got no answer, that's why! I try to acknowledge anyone who contacts me but sometimes it just seems to fly off into la la land…

TravelinGal you may surprise yourself! I have gone out of town on several occasions this past year and every time I came back with a loss. Just KEEP TRACKING! Of course it might not be totally accurate but I feel that by just paying attention, you won't let the food get the best of you. And definitely take every…

My goal for the summer to break the 180 mark! SW247 CW181.2 which I've holding at for about two months now. I'm going to be more careful and start actually weighing my food, I don't think i can get away with NOT doing it anymore! I only have another 20-25 pounds to go and I know those take the longest to lose so no huge…

LOL I agree! Let's face it, all that "extra" has to go somewhere, if you squeeze it in one place, it's still got to go somewhere else anyway! Most of the time, it's still gonna be right there, bigger than we want it to be. The best bet is to wear something that can disguise the parts we aren't thrilled with as best we can…

I think the sleeve is the safest of the three options for bariatric surgery. Instead of cutting and rewiring your insides, the doctors just put something around the stomach to make it much smaller, similar to the band but without some of the slippage problems and none of the nutrient deprivation of the rouen-Y which can…

LOL Well, I never listed my goals for last week but I did pretty well with them anyway! I was in New York for the last half of the week at a conference, so hotel room, banquet, hotel or restaurant food and I actually LOST almost 2 pounds! I had decided to just eat instant oatmeal in my room for breakfast so no heavy meals…

Interesting! They keep advertising it every time I've logged in today but I haven't seen anything telling me the cost. I am perfectly capable of ignoring the ads and I really don't see anything in their information about it that makes me want to pay to have it.

I too worry that I'll lose focus once I'm "there" with the weight loss. I have also yo yo dieted all of my life. BIG swings of 80 or more pounds off and then I get lazy and the weight slowly and sometimes not so slowly creeps back on. I'm hoping the real difference in what and how I'm cooking now is going to make the…

LOL Anyone found that sometimes that "thing" you thought you craved just lost its appeal when you checked the calorie count? I was out with friends at a seminar a few months ago and thought, ok, I've been really sticking to my plan all week, so tonight I'm going to splurge and have dessert! Then I looked at how many…

LOL Well I can't say I can run a 5K but yep, I can wrap a towel around me and cross my legs! Since I never really MIND buying new clothes, it was great when I tried my winter coat on last November and looked like a kid dressed up in her mother's stuff! Or when I fished some things I couldn't wear before out of the closet…

Welcome Brin! Hey, 30 pounds is 3/4 of your way there, who cares how long it takes! And Marekids is right, your way will keep them from coming back!

I pretty much stay between 1200 and 1400 depending on the day. My doctor put me on the 1200 and told me not to eat back the calories although I admit, sometimes I do. I'm only 5'1" and barely at that so I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that this isn't my "dieting" intake, this is my intake period of I want to continue…

I think it's probably true that you eat less to loss weight but exercise to keep it off. Totally do NOT agree that ONLY heavy lifting is worth anything or that cardio is worthless or that your sister CAN'T do anything more than walk because she's someone of that weight. I started at 247 but I also clean seven horse stalls…

I think it must be part and parcel of the human condition to seem to take on all the negative things people say for whatever reasons and claim them as true for us! LOL Lisa Williams (psychic medium) gives hers a name "Veronica"! And Veronica tells her all the negative stuff about not being good enough, pretty enough, smart…

Congratulations!

I've used my little elliptical thing twice this week, not every day but more than I was doing! Still just stepping over the bag of weights in my family room though!

This exactly! Also remember figuring out how many calories you can eat and continue to lose weight is very individual. You can use the tools here as a starting point but if you aren't seeing any results after a few weeks, then something needs to change. The older you get, the slower your metabolism gets so you MAY have to…

Yep! I think the MAIN thing you want to do is keep track of everything you eat, don't worry about trying to eat back exercise calories at this point and give it two or three weeks and see if over that time period you have lost weight. If no, check your tracking and make sure you are measuring your intake correctly. As in…

LOL! Oh I've owned a scale for years, I just kept "forgetting" to get on it! I wish I knew what the spark was that inspired me to lose so much weight this time! I tried off and on, mostly off in the last few years to get rid of the weight but would never stick with it long enough to make a major dent in what I really had…

I ate plenty of great foods that I planned to eat, didn't go over my maintenance calories which was also planned and today it's back to normal eating. This "plan" isn't a diet, it's a way of eating everyday for life, so there ARE going to be days where you need to be able to make the choice to eat things you don't normally…

I think there have been a few people who tried eating exactly the same thing for five weeks to see if it worked but it wasn't totally accurate for them either! I don't generally even look at it, I just keep track of what I'm doing and log my scale weight every so often. As someone said above, just too many variables for it…