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  • the only problem with buffet is the "all you can eat" advertising. usually the quality is not that great, and if you only eat one plate (especially of unripe veggies), it's overpriced. But it lures people in with the hope of great savings if they can just consume enough. Takes a change of mindset to face the buffet not…
  • I've been doing this 60 days. The first month and a half there was a steady decline, but the past two weeks I've been plus/minus the same one pound, even though I've changed nothing. Today, the scale broke past that range i've been stuck in. That's just how it works. Stick with it! You're doing great!
  • anything stinky and aged! yum! even better with those moldy green and blue streaks. We used to have a contest at Christmas dinner as to who could eat the stinkiest cheese on the spread. We'd go out of our way to find something truly revolting!
  • less than $200/month for one person. I haven't been buying meat b/c I was gifted a lot of hunted venison. I don't have access to fresh fish, and don't like buying frozen. I buy whatever produce is on sale, some organic. I buy lots of store brands. Lots of yogurt, but not greek because it's nearly twice the price. Since…
  • I've been eating mandarins at 40cal each. They seem much sweeter than an orange. Extra sugar calories?
  • I'm with y'a! Right number of calories but a couple days of processed foods and bam! Weight goes up. Day 3 of waiting for it to come back down while I drink lots of water and cut back the sodium.
  • I like Leslie Sansone videos. Those were the only ones I could remotely follow at the beginning. I tend to do bits of stuff here and there around the house: a dozen trips up and down the stairs, running up them as long as possible. Very simple step arobics for a few minutes using the bottom step. Anything to add a little…
  • extra food runs are a great way to procrastinate and distract from work (mid-afternoon snack run, mid-morning coffee run, etc). Maybe they fell less guilt about it when everyone's doing it. I confess to coffee runs for no other reason than to kill another 10-15 minutes in the day. If i'm getting something for someone else,…
  • I usually have one monster day each time - I stay on track and suck up the misery, and drinks lots of tea. Eat small meals often (the full stomach feeling just adds to the misery - and to the digestive upset that TOM brings). I don't workout, but I'll intentionally be on my feet more - standing better than sitting when I…
  • I'm all out of whack. Large wrists and ankles. Tiny hands and feet size 7 for a 5'5" height. Short arms and legs. Wide hips. Narrow waist. Nothing's in proportion. No guess as to frame size. But I like the resulting curves!
  • As far as "grandma's muffins"-I've learned to immediately freeze extra portions of such food gifts. The don't go to waste and I'm not tempted by them sitting on the counter with my brain saying "Don't let them go stale".
  • helpful for me to have a variety to good things stocked to snack on. I'm familiar with the runs to the convenience store - it was a combo of boredom, avoiding the work I should be doing, and medicating with food. There was always healthy stuff around, but unless there's a big variety, I stare at it and think, "there's…
  • i do one cup - regular size mug - coffee in the morning, and tea the rest of the day. I say, drink what tastes good. Some Black teas have a tiny bit of potassium. Some teas have added vitamins - I Love Lemon Bigelow tea has added Vitamin C and I drink a cup every day. I think the biggest benefit just comes from replacing a…
    in Herbal Teas Comment by DKG28 March 2015
  • cooking more frequently. sight, sound, and smells definitely enhance the experience of eating, and the satisfaction from having cooked really helps fill in for the loss of satisfaction that used to come from eating a large amount. I'm talking real recipes, not boiling frozen veggies. Been trying a lot of new things - the…
  • the worst is with the belly pat. I've become careful about how I stand - if I don't stand up straight i've got pregnant belly look, probably b/c belly sticks out past boobs. standing up straight and finding clothes that give a shape to my waist help greatly.
  • I just ditched the 2nd piece of bread on a sandwich. 60 cals for one piece, which is the serving size, Sara Lee classic whole wheat. But my fave is a hearty sourdough rye, seedless, that follows my dad's guideline of "if you press your thumb into real bread, it won't leave a print." Not easy to find, but worth it, and,…
  • the first two weeks, my weight went down a tad, back up, down a tad, back up, and so on until I think my body figured out this is the new deal. Then weight started a nice downward trend. But it was stubborn at the beginning. You have to realize it's a shock to your body to suddenly stop feeding it so many calories. It will…
  • I get it. I can't judge a portion size. I suck at estimating calories. I have a scientific way of thinking and working the numbers works for me. I don't like the not knowing what I'm eating at restaurants. I've always overeaten so I don't know what healthy normal eating is. Measuring and weighing everything and making my…
  • Garlic and parsley both have health benefits. The reason for infusing the water is that you can't really eat that much parsley and garlic in a day. Well, possible but not easy. Can't hurt you.
  • Don't over think. Brown bag it. Bring a couple extra snacks. Napkins, utensil if you need one. Assume no microwave or fridge, but almost anything will be okay until lunchtime unless you leave it sitting in the sun.
  • Hi there! I serve two small (Presbyterian) churches and trying to knock off 40 or 50 pounds. They show love with food. I find pies and soup and cookies sitting on my desk waiting for me all the time. Twice a week I have to pack lunch and dinner to take to work at church 2 which is a good ways off and around the corner from…
  • don't forget to factor in weight of big boobs! sounds like a same size/composition person every where else but with smaller ones would be right at that healthy BMI number. If it's boobs that's putting you slightly over where you want to be, don't worry about it! There's a difference between added weight in the boobs…
  • I guess the stomach is very stretchy and can accommodate a lot of food. I don't know if it shrinks-but I guess for big volume eaters that to cut back back on volume will let the stomach spend more time at the normal size instead of the stuffed size. I found once I started paying attention that hunger goes away with much…
  • Portions sizes are smaller; prices for dining out are very high in Paris. That'll help. I would taste as much as possible -cheese, baguette, wine, you name it. It's part of the attraction of going to France
  • Look for a way to make peace with food as fuel. It's tough when we want to use food for celebration, comfort, relieving boredom, and when other people do just that around us. It's a cultural convention to throw food at every occasion. I'll confess I love birthdays for the cake. When I realized that I should be celebrating…
  • Some people do. The problem is that it's easy to wipe out the whole week's deficit with one day of guessing that you're okay on calories. Our eyes our bigger than our stomachs. At least I'm not good at eyeballing portion sizes and keeping a mental note of what I've eaten. If you do it, you just have to realize that's the…
    in Days off Comment by DKG28 February 2015
  • Vastly Expanding my repertoire of healthy recipes so that I don't get bored with food, and so that on maintenance I'm not tempted to add unwise options just cause there a little more room.
  • Veggies with flavor and walking outside. The frostbite in 10 minutes thing is getting old.
  • You said it yourself: lots of binging. That, not calorie restriction sent your weight back up. Dug.
  • OP, is sounds like you can't quite come to terms with the fact that eating how ever much you want is not in the way this works. It sounds like you're unhappy with the fact that not all bodies need as many calories as perhaps you wish to eat in a day. Tough. You simply can't have it both ways: healthy weight and eat more…
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