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Breakfast: 4oz Noosa Cherry Vanilla Yogurt mixed with 30g homemade granola and 150g fresh blueberries Lunch: Small Caesar salad with croutons, grilled chicken, Parmesan cheese, and light dressing; 150g grapes Dinner: Blue Apron meals > MTu: Ginger pork meatballs with cabbage and jasmine rice > WTh: Lemon fettuccine with…

I’m not doing Hello Fresh, but I’m doing Blue Apron. I love love love it! All the meals are pretty high in calories though, so I tend to add a bunch of veggies and then divide it into 3 portions instead of 2.

A little over 3 weeks. I guess I’m not convinced that it’s not still water weight...but I don’t know at what point water weight loss stops and actual weight loss begins. I’m also very overweight, so I’m pretty sure it’s safe for me to cut calories drastically until I come into a more normal range. But I’ll definitely try…

You’re right, of course. I’m so confused because I used MFP several years ago to lose weight, and it only *slightly* underestimated my TDEE at that time, and it seems ludicrous to me that my my TDEE would be so drastically off this time around. I keep waiting for the ball to drop (like, I’ve lost at a really fast rate for…

Girl Scout cookies......especially Dosidos

My family makes all their own phyllo dough for Christmas desserts (baklava and strudel - we’re Croatian so we have a funny mix of Austrian and Greek recipes). I’m not sure about the technique you’re referring to ... to stretch our dough out super thin, we lay a bedsheet down on the dining room table, flour it thoroughly.…

Skip Pinterest and go straight to skinnytaste! The whole goal of the blog is to make classic recipes with fewer calories :) https://www.skinnytaste.com/recipe-index/

Made this Blue Apron meal tonight! Pork and ginger meatballs with cabbage, white rice, and a soy glaze. Topped with radishes marinated in vinegar and sesame oil. Soooo good!

Right now I’m eating: - turkey and cheese lettuce wraps (about 5oz turkey and 1 slice of cheese divided into 3 wraps) - 1/2 small avocado or 1/3 large avocado - 1 kiwi - 125g strawberries Macros are about even (~33% protein, ~33% carbs, ~33% fat)

My mom is doing a supervised medical weight loss program like this right now. It's extreme (only 800 cals/day despite her height of 5'10"), but she's managing. She needs to do it because she *desperately* needs knee replacement surgery and hasn't been able to lose weight any other way. I think she knows it's a short term…

Yesterday's: Siggi's Icelandic yogurt (blueberry), topped with fresh blueberries and whipped cream Today's: Homemade egg Mcmuffin with a side of avocado and sweet potato :D

I have low grade allergic reactions to EVERYTHING. I can't shave, shampoo, use makeup, use soap, etc unless it's hypoallergenic, and even then I get hives (albeit less bad than with the regular stuff). I also have environmental allergies that wreak havoc on my sinuses. My more severe allergies include mangoes, apples, and…

Prior to using Mirena, over the course of several years I had lost 60lbs and was maintaining it with ease. My first few months with mirena, I was bloated beyond control, and in severe pain. Finally the pain calmed down, but the bloating NEVER went away, and I started to gain weight uncontrollably. In less than a SINGLE…

I also have terrible problems with plantar fasciitis. I recently started using kinesio tape and it has worked wonders!!! The second I put it on, my pain just went away...I can't even describe it. I went from being constantly grouchy with chronic pain to finally being normal and happy again. When the pain is worse, I use a…

Lots of great suggestions! Thanks everyone! :smiley:

That sounds awful! What is dry socket?

Yes, I was given a short list limited to "cottage cheese, scrambled eggs, and other soft foods." I was hoping that the MFP community might come up with some more inventive suggestions than the dentist (still keeping in line with the whole soft and/or drinkable foods guideline)

Kind of strange NSV...I'm not even sure if it is a true NSV, but it turns out my body type is pear shaped? I never realized it before, but now that I am halfway to my goal weight, my waist has been shrinking and my hips have remained the same. So...yay! I have a figure!!!

That the styles that are considered suitable for my body shape are a lot less important once you've lost weight. For example, I bought the first swimsuit that I've actually liked since elementary school. I used to have to deal with whatever they had available, which SUCKED because I am majorly pear shaped, and most of the…

This is GREAT! Thanks so much for the pics!!! Inspiring and so helpful...you look AMAZING by the way!

Confession: After a couple years of staying out of the dating game because of weight insecurity, I joined an online dating site. I put up very recent pics of me at my current weight (the lowest I've been in a long time). Within a day I was flooded with messages, and I freaked out because I've never gotten that much…

A lot of great points here! I do know that food is a very sensitive topic for a lot of people. Even when I'm not affecting their food decisions, I may be making them feel guilty just by eating a salad. I guess also for exercise there is a component of physical achievement that has nothing to do with losing weight. So…

I moved to Argentina and lost 30lbs in 5 months without even trying or thinking about it. I switched from a very high calorie, high fat, processed American diet to a minimally processed Argentine diet, and I went from driving a car everywhere to walking 10+ miles/day. It was awesome, and really gave me the framework I…

Light Vodka Cranberry! Vodka, then equal parts club soda and light cranberry juice. Or, if they don't carry light cranberry, get mostly club soda and about a shot's worth of regular cranberry juice.

Wow, it's interesting and awesome that you were able to get rid of cravings from going low carb. I went on Atkins a few years ago (for about 6 months), and my cravings NEVER went away. In fact, although I lost weight initially, by the end of it I had GAINED about 30 lbs because every time I had a craving, I would turn to…

I've had a couple of weeks like that recently too! I have no idea what caused me to crave salt so much, but I was boiling edamame every day, coating it in at least 1/2 tsp salt, and literally licking the salt off the pods as I ate it....

Once I was at a haunted house. After going through the house, cornfield, and barn, they showed us the exit, so I thought it was over. As I was walking up the path to my car, a chainsaw started up in the bushes beside me, and a guy jumped out, and I fell flat on my face. My first instinct wasn't even to run away. Just to…

Scars ARE kind of badass!

That's awesome! Did she have a long/difficult recovery time? That's another thing I'm super concerned about. I'm hoping to have the rest of the weight gone by the time I finish law school in 3 years, so I would be getting the surgery within my first few years at a law firm. I'm not entirely sure how lenient they are with…

In some ways I feel like it means more to people who have never fit the socially accepted "attractive" weight. Like, it's always hovering in the back of our minds what we're missing out on, and we glorify skinny. Especially when I was a teenager, I often had to remind myself that skinny does not equal happy. Edit: grammar