demonelle Member

Eat at maintenance, it's your vacation! Prepare yourself mentally for some water weight gain maybe, be mindful. If you are eating out for dinner go lighter on your lunch and breakfast etc. Consider liquid calories. Enjoy yourself! You deserve it.

I used to be in a bad binge cycle. You have to break the habits and change your mindset over time. I found eating well prepared snacks that I can enjoy and planning my meals helped. Not removing too much of the things I enjoy. Not having a too large deficit helped me a lot. You have to just get into the habit of getting…

How much is the calorie difference? I wouldn't worry too much personally. Whatever the highest count is for cooked vs raw then just go with that to be safe. :)

Chopping them up for the week is a good idea, something I do when I get home after food shopping. Certain vegetables hold up better than others. I found if I lightly steam them so they are almost cooked but still slightly hard like broccoli or something, then when I take them to work and reheat in microwave they can fully…

Honestly the labels like paleo etc mean nothing, I would suggest the crowding out method. Add things into your diet and focus less on removing things and crowd out the "no" foods but still allow them. You will over time reach for the other foods over your old staples. I really love greek yogurt too and I used to eat it…

I dunno what other people do but I always weigh my vegetables/meat/fruit etc all raw and if I use oil, or cooking spray etc, I will log that seperately. I feel it's more accurate this way.

I have a flavoured whey protein that I use when I'm out and about, and I use my hemp protein when I can be at home to make some kind of smoothie with. I wanted to stop using so much whey because I have a weird feeling it's breaking me out.

I know how you feel, remember how you are feeling and consider how often you see pizza being an occurrence in your life in the long term and plan around it more next time. You might not want it for months after this experience. Don't feel bad, you have to stand back up and plod on. You'll be back to feeling great in no…

This is a pretty wide topic for discussion tbh, I personally keep my sugars tracked but pay more attention to fibre. I wanted to really really cut down on my sugar intake and I checked frequently used condiments, removed juices and fizzy drinks/sodas from my diet (as I assume most would, as most wouldn't like the liquid…

I would be careful, I did this for awhile and believed it would be gluttonous to eat more, but my body atleast always found some way to make it up eventually, I'd get a really strong urge to binge and would end up doing so at some point that week if I'm honest. Also you can't get your nutritional needs in 700 calories, I…

I am losing 1lb a week on 1800 a day. Entirely possible!