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I'd say, make a list of lean proteins, then one of vegetables, a list of whole grains/complex carbs, and sauces/seasoning blends that you like, and play mix and match. Mind your serving sizes, and you've got meals that will work for you. I make vegetables the lion's share of a meal by volume, and often come out with very…

I love when there is activity in this thread! You all do such a great job of planning good meals for yourselves!

I love marinating chicken breast in lime juice and garlic.

I did it! First lesson under my belt. I'm learning the breaststroke. It was lots of fun, and now I am trying to plan when I can fit some lap swimming into my routine. Good luck to everyone else on your goals!

I have seen them even at Aldi, and all the grocery stores I go to have them. So I expect almost any store big enough to carry more than one brand of pasta in the US will. I think. The oven ready lasagna noodles tend to be on the top shelf. I prefer Barilla because the sheets of noodle are thinner (and they are different…

I took a screen cap of my eggplant lasagna recipe from my MFP recipe box. I hope you can see it because I cannot think of a more efficient way to share it with you. That line where it says "8oz. Aldi" represents an 8 oz. ball of fresh mozarella cheese. I slice that and put it on one or two layers. Sometimes I slice the…

First hurdle cleared: I talked to the guy at the community center who is in charge of coordinating swim lessons. He took my name and number, and one of the instructors will contact me to work out a time........ eep!

I hate putting my face under water. I need to convince the instructor to let me learn the Tarzan stroke or something. I feel silly asking.

You've had a rough time of it. Is there any part of you that blames yourself for what you have gone through? Do you ever feel like you and the body you inhabit do not deserve to be cared for and respected? You love, you care for, you respect the needs of your children, right? Even when you feel frustrated with them,…

I'm trying to work up the nerve to take swimming lessons. I want to try swimming laps, but since all I know how to do is dog paddle...

Cheddar Gorge is Majestic! No wonder such excellent cheese formed there!

I have always been overweight. The few times I went ice skating I had a lot of fun.

I bet it depends on the individual's goals. I'm lifting weights because I don't like feeling weak. (I am a professional caregiver, but when I took a promotion, I wasn't lifting people anymore, so now it's weights.) My long term goal is to find out just how much can I lift. When I started out a few months ago, I was working…

I did it once for two months on my doctor's recommendation. He promised I would lose 50 pounds in that time frame, but I only lost 24. I felt sure he would bother to do some tests or something to figure out why it didn't work the way it was supposed to, but he only said, "24 pounds? Well, that's ok." But it wasn't ok with…

I don't think you are the only one who has this experience. The urge to eat this way following significant weightloss is part of what is behind the yo-yo dieting effect. The truth is, the majority of dieters regain the weight they lost, and then some. Few people take it off and keep it off. What the solution is, I don't…

Good old fashioned American non-aerosol cheeezfood.

I think many people do not get the importance of learning how to pay close attention to the signals their bodies give them. Learning those subtle signals takes time and training yourself to pay attention to how your body feels before, during, and after eating is tougher than following whatever the latest diet expert tells…

I hope you found a way to hold out until you got home to those dogs.

I've never had the opportunity to try it, but I'll be on the lookout for it.

I love that Aldi often has imported cheeses that I would not be able to try because of expense if I found them anywhere else. Possibly the best thing I've tried that way was the Transyvanian Hard Cheese at Hallowe'en time.

I advise googling for "piriformis sydrome exercises". The piriformis is a muscle buried under the glutes, that irritates the sciatic nerve when theey are weak, tight, or out of balance in some way. There are a goodly numbr of exercises that will stretch and/or strengthen the piriformis muscles. I used to have only a tiny…

I lost fifty pounds when I quit dieting and started intuitive eating. I was eating simply terrifyingly large amounts of food. The stark irrationality of that experience still breaks my brain. All those years I spent listening to whatever the latest diet expert said rather than to the cues of my own body - decades of doing…

I'd apologize, but we all know I'm not really sorry.

It does not matter how many times you get off track, what matters is how many times you get back on. Do you have someone in your life who gives you the kind of emotional support you need and want? Someone who tells you by word and by deed that you are precious and deserving of kindness? Or are the person everyone else…

Grieving is hard work. Be gentle with yourself. You may wish to try mindful eating exercises, where you stop before beginning to eat something to ask yourself how your body feels, and repeat the question in the middle of eating, and at the end. There are other mindful eating exercises that may help focus on providing care…

Of course, the cute graphic on the lid of it has earwormed me for "What Does the Fox Say?"

For me, other emotions are harder to fight, but boredom-eating I can satisfy with peppermint Altoids. They are very low in calories, and offer a great deal of flavor plus the minty-cool sensation. If you do not care for peppermint, perhaps you would be interested in one of their other flavors. Another strategy I find…

I think there are too many reasons why people engage in various self-harming actions to make blanket statements one way or another. Having both binged and cut myself, I can say that the urge for both in me is similar, yet not precisely the same, so I agree with RejsGirl and at the same time I would not want to discount the…

I hope you find the support and ideas here that will help you. In the meantime, I offer this: It does not matter how many times you get off track; what matters is how many times you get back on.

Gameliela, I hope you figure out a plan that works for you. It's tough, finding just the right balances on those macros. Edited to add: It occurs to me that you might be low on potassium, since you mentioned that salt craving. Potassium tastes similar to salt. And as an electrolyte, a shortage of it will cause muscle…