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Many pizzas are 300 calories a slice, or less. It totally depends on the thickness of the crust and our choice of toppings. There is nothing special about Whole Foods anything, except the outlandish prices.

This is a mental exercise I do, nothing to do with exercise or food. Stress hits, I get frustrated/annoyed/angry...and my mind turns to food. What the "liar" in my brain is telling me is, "Go ahead. Eat that. You'll feel better." But it's a liar. So I pause and I ask myself, "Why would I want to punish myself with food?"…

Keep thinking about those pictures you saw yesterday, and use them for motivation, not as a trigger to beat yourself up. My wakeup call was seeing my weight on a my biometric screening form, and I carry that vision around with me every single day. I hadn't gained 30 pounds. I was up 120 from my lowest point in 1989. 120…

What I hate most of all about Herbalife is seeing people at the top of the pyramid (scheme) making a lot of money on the backs of deluded customers who often can't afford the stuff and buy it anyway. And Herbalife does nothing to teach people that real food isn't the enemy; it just encourages that line of thinking. Then,…

From the National Institutes of Health, fiber guidelines: nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002470.htmhttp:// And yes, too much fiber too soon after beginning to focus on it can cause some problems, but this article doesn't mention vomiting. Fiber needs also change with age, with older adults needing more.

It isn't wise to stop taking Zoloft cold turkey. You need to ease off of it, so please talk to your doctor about doing that. I took it for two years and yes, my weight shot up, partially due to eating more, but also because it made me sluggish and sleepy. I was napping so often, and I felt awful when I'd wake up. I got…

You can't imagine the troubles I've had with the Android app. I'm in a tech email exchange with Support now. It has probably functioned 20 days out of the 50+ days I've had it.

^^ I know that, but not for the dish in the photo because there are no amounts listed. And a real recipe will give preparation instructions.

Even when butter was thought to so much worse for us than margarine, I never bought it. Growing up, my mom always believed margarine was lower in fat and calories, probably because nutritional labels weren't printed on packages then. She was a phenomenal cook, but she refused to cook or even bake with butter, and she…

True, but my brain tells me not to stop at one donut, but I can easily stop at one banana. And the banana is also more nutritious than a donut and doesn't make me fall asleep an hour later.

I'm never not on a spice kick! A year ago, I finally organized and rearranged my spice cupboards. No spice racks for me -- whole cupboards! It makes cooking so much more fun and creative, and it makes the food taste SO good. I can look up recipes for almost anything and have all the spices I need on hand. I"m going to grow…

Beautiful, and congratulations!

I just drop the immersion blender into a large mixing cup filled with Greek yogurt, a banana, a little honey (or Splenda if you like it), a pinch of cinnamon and some ground flaxseed meal. It comes out very very thick, so I eat it with a spoon. You could thin it down with your favorite milk, I guess, but I like it thick.

Katrina, I'd l;ike to see you post recipes and nutritional information with these photos. I see "refried beans" and I think the caloric content must be through the roof. MFP had a really tasty chicken enchilada bake in a blog not too long ago. I've made it and even my non-dieting husband gave it two thumbs up.…

That looks good, but if that crust is made with eggs and/or cauliflower, it's more of a frittata than a pizza.

What you describe is exactly why I ended up having to lose over 100 pounds. So yeah, I get it. I could have written this scene from the 1980 Dom DeLuise movie, "Fatso". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9HNDDcMgQ

That was excellent. I shared it on my FB page, which should annoy some of my friends who juice everything and buy "detox cleanses". There are so many other myths I'd like to see addressed though, like food combining, so-called fasting mode, and my personal favorite: foods that speed up your metabolism. Uh-huh.

No hesitation here: SUSHI. Extra pickled ginger, please.

I understand the idea of "everything in moderation", but for some people (ME ME ME), it isn't possible. At least not seven weeks into this it isn't. I can't even keep pies, cakes and cookies in the house without the mental downward spiral I get: 1 Brain scans around itself doing a mental inventory of the sugary-carby-fatty…

I like multigrain breads, but I often wonder what they mean when they label breads as "100% whole wheat". I'm a bread baker, and as far as I know, there is no recipe that doesn't include white flour, and quite a lot of it. If I add any more than 30% whole wheat flour to my bread dough while it's mixing, the end result is…

Hmm. Interesting. My husband, who quit a deadly drinking habit almost 22 years ago, is on Lipitor, eats healthy about 90% of the time, and his cholesterol numbers are high enough to have been printed out in red on his last report a month ago. I wonder if he did some damage to his liver all those years ago, making it more…

I'm not sure I know what you mean by 'meal prep'. Is it just planning on what you're going to eat or is it actually prepping the food? If it's the latter, it totally depends on what you're going to eat. I guess what you're calling meal prep is what call cooking, which includes everything from cutting up a salad, getting…

High fructose corn syrup, nitrates, anything called a flavor (vanilla flavor, butter flavor, etc) and I always check for where salt falls in the order of ingredients. I am also very wary of packaging that screams "all natural" across the front. I read those labels very carefully because I figure if it's truly all natural,…

I make no apologies for using Stevia, and I think the word "toxic" gets thrown around way too casually these days. It's processed, which doesn't automatically make it toxic. I use it in a few things because I prefer to save my calories, carbs and sugars for more filling foods. Stevia doesn't give me a headache or leave an…

I think the two comments above mine have nailed it. Slimfast can be a convenient solution to being in a hurry or not having access to anything else. (We live on the Kansas side of Kansas City and I actually have some in our bunker/saferoom in the basement, LOL). But it probably would take an EF3 and me trapped down there…

I use a food scale and the recipe builder for everything that combines more than a few ingredients. I even use it for a dog-cookie recipe so I could calculate the calories in the doggies' treats. (They're REAL good dogs, so they get a lot of cookies.) You could just assume 40 calories and add them as quick calories, but…

I've posted this one before, but I'll post it again here. I make a frozen soft-serve type of confection for lunch a couple days a week. It is simply Morinu Silken Firm tofu, a cup or more of frozen berries, and enough drink powder (Crystal Light) to sweeten it and make it nice and tart. For an enormous bowl of it with less…

We moved from Chicago to Kansas City to escape our ticking cooktop. B)

Marinate it all day and then put it on a hot grill over direct heat for about 10 minutes per side. Tenderloin is a cut that doesn't want to be cooked slowly, and grilling gives it an extra flavor boost.

I make my own curry pastes from Jamie Oliver's recipes, and they are unbelievable. The only things in the pastes that are calorie dense are the peanut oil and tomato paste, and one batch of the paste makes several curries. I'm making the Chicken Tikka Masala tonight -- have it logged into my recipe builder already. Without…