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Meal prepping might be an idea for you. If you prep your foods for the next day (3 days, 5 days, whatever), what excuse do you have for eating out? If you don't go home and have that dinner that's waiting for you already cooked, it's going to go off and you're just throwing your money and time you spent making it in the…

I have osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and osteophytes (bone spurs) in my lumbar spine, which all happened before the ripe old age of 30 ;) . It's partly genetic, partly because of the stress my spine was under when I weighed 160kg / 350lbs. I'm down 68kg now, and except for sporadic arthritic pain during cold weather, I'm…

Well there we go. The recipe builder is buggy at the best of times, so this isn't to surprising. I still get 2000 cal garlic cloves.

Maybe I'm missing something from your post here, but are you saying you're getting a mixture of values in Calories and kJ depending on what food you log into your recipe? I'm pretty sure that the mfp database is meant to automatically convert between kJ and kcal. Are your settings for your profile in kJ? Once you select…

That looks tasty. For colour, all you'd need to do is pop some lightly blanched broccoli and a couple of cherry tomatoes there. Whilst the hubster and I go on a super budget and put all of our spare pennies into our house build, I'm pretty much a leftovers queen when it comes to lunches so my bento staple supplies are…

Mmm.... not quite. You can get bento boxes that are 2L in capacity if you want. So same thing, just in something prettier than tupperware lol.

All time? That's a hard one, because I have favourites for different genres. Skip Beat would have to be my all-time fav, but that would probably be because of how much I love the manga. Honorable mentions? Chihayafuru, Your lie in April, Tokyo Ghoul, Sakamichi no Appolon/Kids on the slope, Baby Steps and Haikyuu. From what…

Welcome to MFP! Here's some good threads to help you started up in here: A guide to get you started on your path to Sexypants So you're new here... Calorie Counting 101 They're all a good read to get yourself going. If you want more of the good links, you can browse I like old posts and I cannot lie. It's filled with…

This fabulous post needs a bump.

Are you sure you're not talking about glucosamine in this case, rather than glucomannan?

Haha, love the cheese cutouts on the sandwich. I can't wait for stonefruit to be back in season in Aus. I miss my nectarines :(

That's not a kitty... I hope....

I'm not sure what you mean about the private companies taking over the world thing, but I agree with you about the no wealth in research. There are loads of microbiology, molecular botany and agricultural researchers still wondering where all their 'Big Agriculture' shill dollars are meant to be, because they aren't seeing…

You're damn right >:)

Totally agree. It's more that's something certainly unexpected. It's not the type of hair that needs to be removed, just enough for me to notice; I doubt the hubster will ;)

Totally rockin' that suit. And the colour looks awesome on you.

You know, I remember doing this when I was at my highest weight, and the result was large framed. Now with the amount they overlap I must be extra small framed. I have really broad shoulders and wide hips and thought that it meant I was 'big boned', but as I get closer to goal weight (I'm 20kg/44lbs away) I'm realising…

Peanut butter. If there's a jar of it in the house, I'm in it with a damn spoon. I have some pb2 in the house, but it's not exactly spoon worthy. I've told my husband if he wants a jar I will buy it, but he has to hide it well. He was reluctant at first, but after he asked why and I told him what I'd been doing, he's been…

I'm finding that I'm growing more hair. Not talking about my head unfortunately :( As I've shrunk and my some of my less severe stretch marks have started to fade, hair follicles that must have been damaged during my, erm, "rapid expansion process" have started to grow fine hair around my hips and back (like, superfine…

What this gal said. Going vegan in a kneejerk reaction to a shockumentary is not a good idea. It takes research and planning to do it in a healthy way for the long term, and can't be done with just a few recipes. If you are seriously interested in looking into a vegan lifestyle, I believe there's a few good vegan groups in…

I know earlier in the thread someone mentioned this, but I'm going to mention it again; I can't take off tops (especially tshirts) without taking off my glasses now. Before my tops were so large, the holes used to be wider, and I could take them off and leave my glasses on and now if I don't, they end up coming off or…

As a 6'1 chica, I agree with all of this. Also the number of kg/pounds lost for tall people to go from obese to a healthy weight is much higher. I mean, I had to lose a whole person to move from a BMI of 45.5 (352lb/160kg) to overweight (219/99kg), whereas a person at 5'1 with the same BMI stats would be dropping from…

You can pre-log as many days into the future as you want. If I'm using up frozen leftovers or meal-prepping, I sometimes log up to a week in advance, but on a day to day basis, generally pre-log all of my food for the next day when I'm getting my lunch made and meat for the next night out of the freezer each evening. I…

Rice, and peanut butter. Just not at the same time :D

If your fibre levels have increased way above what you're used to in ratio to your fat content, you might find you'll be blocked up because your digestive tract isn't used to it. Keep your fluid levels up, and give it a few days. Also, maybe eat some extra calories just for one or two days to get some extra fat in your…

I've always said that the modern paleo diet doesn't include nearly enough insect larvae and almost rotten scavenged carcasses to be even remotely accurate ;)

Congrats! I remember when I hit the xs in city chic and wasn't sure what to do any more. I'd barely shopped at a different store for nearly a decade, and it took ages for me to get used to wearing clothing that wasn't in a plus sized cut.

A smidgen is of research exactly right. Because these people have only done a smidgen of research, rather than extensive thorough research, they believe that glyphosate is going to kill everyone and do all the bad things. The dose makes the poison, same as everything we consume. The amount of roundup you get on the food…

Do you know that in many countries, the farmers do actually have the option to seed save their GE crops, but it's actually more cost effective for a number to just buy the seeds each year? Not to mention, many organic crops are also patented and and the organic farmers don't seed save either; and for exactly the same…