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While Calories are my first target, I focus on protein and fat first for macros -- they both help me feel fuller, longer while carbs tend to wake my inner fat kid and leaves me with a screaming pit of bottomless hunger....and i've learned that my skin, hair and nails suffer if i cut out fats.

Egg drop soup (sans wonton crispies) as a starter, then Kung Po chicken, spicy w/ extra peanuts and plain sticky white rice. nom nom nom.

A follow-up to my previous reply....someone mentioned an iron deficiency can account for always being cold. My labs looked fine at last annual exam, but checked my diary for nutrition breakdown and learned I was only consuming about 25% RDA of dietary iron. I skeptically started taking a low dose gentle iron supplement…

Try changing up your snacks to things you have to work to eat, so it takes longer to nosh them? Pistachios in shell, steamed edamame pods, even crunchy veggies with hummus or cottage cheese.... I also find the ritual of weighing/measuring meals and snacks in the immediate beforehand increases anticipation and enjoyment so…

Fave Weekend breakfast: 2 soft-boiled eggs + 2 slices thick cut bacon (chopped), mashed together in a bowl. Keeps my hunger away til afternoon.

I eat Lay's classic potato chips every day, through 90lbs lost and my first year of maintenance. They hafta be Lay's though. other brands just don't do it for me. I realized that the FASTEST way for me to fail was to give up the things I truly love, so I don't. I eat them moderately to prevent binging, and i learned to say…

Fave Quest bar = chocolate chip cookie dough. also brownie, and double chocolate chunk. dislike the "pie" ones, but I don't like pie anyway. I nuke 10-15 sec for most microwaves. my work's super-old microwave goes 20-30 sec. bonus tip: cut parchment paper into smaller pieces and nuke on that for an easy peel. nuking on a…

I've been at maintenance 144lb +/-2lbs for 11 months so far. I'm ALWAYS cold. I keep blankets at work, in car, always have a jacket, etc. Can't drink anything with ice in it anymore. it doesn't hurt my teeth, it hurts my insides. Plus side, now I tolerate summer outdoors and was comfortable going for a jog in 90° weather…

If i start my day with anything but protein, i'm starving ALL DAY regardless of calories or sheer volume of food. Even worse when it's that TOM. I do a Quest protein bar in the morning during the work week, and usually soft-boiled eggs mashed with bacon on weekends. I also find that good hydration and delaying until i…

You need to manually change it. This is done in the Settings section where you tell it how fast you want to gain/lose weight. From a computer web browser, go to Settings > Update diet/fitness profile. For Android phones, go into the Menu > Goals > and change the Weekly Goal (click Yes to confirm, change your goal if…

Was vegetarian for 10 years. (At 12 yo, it's easier to decide you're vegetarian than explain to peers that you get the runs and unholy death-farts when you eat pig-flesh.) Married a carnivore, and have reintroduced most meats back to my diet over the last 11 years. My skin, hair and nails are so much healthier now. I LOVE…

Have you tried Stevia/Splenda for sweetener, and unsweetened almond/coconut/soy milk? If not, it won't be *quite* the same, but you can have your sweet&creamy coffee for ~10-20 calories instead of 10x that.

1. Plain with Salt & Pepper 2. (summer only) Garden-fresh tomato slices topped with cottage cheese, salt&pepper 3. With sliced pineapple or peaches

For me, it's most common when clothes shopping. especially buying things online. I'll order stuff according to size charts based on my known measurements, and then when it arrives I pull it out and think "There's NO WAY that's gonna fit me" ...and then it does. or it's baggy.

I weigh daily and use Trendweight. When people ask, i tell them "I'm trending 147lb currently." And while i'm still slowly losing (~0.25lb every week or two), even in Maintenance, when people question whether i plan to lose more, i just tell them that I'm focusing more on overall health and fitness, not my weight.

Check your flooring - I live in an old house (114 yrs) and have to make sure i place my scale directly over a solid floor joist to get consistent readings. (if not, i can get wildly different readings in the same session just by moving the scale to different parts of the same room.)

Typically i eat it straight - drained, rinsed, and drained again (to remove the taste of the can), and then with some sea salt and pepper cracked over it....with 2 oz of good cheese and quality bread (no bagged sandwich loaves for me!), or crackers or veggies for crunch. alternatively, i'll make an open-faced melt in the…

I make Fudge and other Candies for my family for Christmas. This year: Rocky Road Fudge Cherry Walnut Fudge "Plain" Fudge Orange-Chocolate Fudge Candied Pecans Candied Orange Peels The pecans are my favorite. Followed by the cherry-walnut fudge. Also had my gramma's specialty Basolaque cookie (kind of like a spiced…

Disagree. A fitness tracker is a tool. Some people (myself included) like to have 6 kinds of hammers, when others just need a shoe with a solid heel. As long as the nail goes in the wall the way you want it, neither way is wrong. I don't use my Fitbit Surge (had a Flex first, then upgraded for my birthday) for calories and…

You might try CATO brand jeans. (check if there's a store near you, or search for them online) Before losing weight, i had a 16" difference between waist and hip measurements, and their size 18 fit me perfect. 84lb down so far, and the difference between my waist and hip has shrunk to 12.5" - wearing a size 8 now and still…

5' 5.5" 147.5lb (average trend) 38-29-42: chest-waist-hips size 8 in bottoms (starting to get baggy) small tops, usually medium in dresses

Just tried Twinning's Irish Breakfast for the first time, and i much prefer it to their English Breakfast tea. Also a big fan of Earl Grey (but not Lady Grey - too floral)

We always keep bags of the pictsweet frozen baby brussel sprouts on hand. I roast them with chopped carrots after tossing them lightly with olive oil and a little bit of brown sugar, then lots of cracked black pepper. All three of our extended families request that as "my" dish to bring to family gatherings.

First, thanks for all replies, both private and public. I did mention in original post that my GP already ran blood work and thyroid tests in June to rule those issues out. Numbers all came back solidly within the median of "normal." (She gave me my actual numbers, not just an all-clear, so that I could do my own…

If you want to edit your very first weigh-in, it's under My Home > Check In > Edit Previous Entries.

Cato is one of my favourite stores - they cater to a "curvy" body shape, from size 4 to size 20+. VERY reasonably priced, good quality, and my experiences with their local store feels like shopping at a high-end boutique. Shipping to their store is free, and my local one lets me try on things in-store before i leave, so…