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Nature’s Path Heritage Flakes or Flax Plus Multibran Flakes mixed with 5.3 oz of Oikos Triple Zero or whole milk flavored yogurt, with a bit of artificial sweetener mixed in. With nonfat milk in my coffee. High protein, high fiber, 343-383 calories (depending on which yogurt).

Ultimate SW: 162 (2012 - have been yo-yo-ing since then.) Challenge SW: 126.6 Challenge GW: 122 Ultimate GW: 122 My goal is really to hit maintenance and successfully maintain by Labor Day...and beyond.

If you have time, it pays off to prep a lunch or picnic dinner and snacks to take with you ahead of time. Sandwiches, baked cold chicken (make ahead, freeze, and pull out of the freezer a day or two ahead), fruit, nuts, hard-boiled eggs, protein bars, hummus or peanut butter and carrot or celery sticks, even a salad made…

I have Oikos yogurt for a snack after dinner almost every night.

High fiber cereal with nonfat Greek yogurt for breakfast most days; open-faced tuna or chicken salad sandwich with avocado on high-fiber/whole grain bread for lunch, sometimes with cherries or watermelon on the side (sometimes a hard-boiled egg); but today I had a quinoa and black bean dish with veggies and a dressing of…

Losing weight every day? Just not gonna happen throughout your weight loss journey. I weigh today what I did on June 17, after bouncing around both a pound higher and lower for the weeks in between. If you can’t handle the fluctuations, daily weighing is not for you.

Lima beans and rice sounds yummy (CARBS!) Best thing for me was a toss up between my Greek yogurt and blackberries dessert and the arugula/watermelon/feta cheese/pine nuts with balsamic glaze salad I had for dinner.

They offer free pizza at your GYM? Talk about business development!

I don’t live in the Pacific Northwest, but thank you for doing trailwork! In the area of CA where I live, no one does trailwork, and many of the National Forest trails are unusable as a result. And I'm sure everyone on the PCT is thankful, too!

Nope. I’m 1.5 pounds from goal after 4 months (almost 15 pounds down). Do you weigh your food using a food scale and log accurately?

You don’t count your protein powder? A scoop of mine is more than 100 calories. I definitely count it (and weigh it).

Never heardof these! Must Google...

Cheese and alcohol. I have had only small quantities of both since late Feb. alcohol more for health reasons, and cheese because it’s one of my trigger foods. I’ve eaten both on special occasions, though. And I plan to eat a LOT of cheese and drink my share of wine when I go to France later this year.

Why must you follow a “diet”? All you need to lose weight is to weigh and log food and make sure you’re in a calorie deficit.

^^This! I finally let go of my “all or nothing” mindset. Consistency in the long term WORKS. if you’re over calories for a few days or a week it doesn’t matter, as long as you go back to eating at a deficit and DO NOT QUIT. It might take longer, but it WILL happen. Go read the Success Stories board for motivation and…

Here’s the thing. Losing weight isn’t something you do and then go back to the way you ate before once you reach goal. Been there, done that...and that’s why I’m back on MFP eating at a deficit again. In addition to learning a way of eating that is sustainable for you IN THE LONG TERM (for the rest of your life?) you have…

I am a pound and a half from goal. As I was running around doing errands and some shopping yesterday, almost every single minute I was aware of how glorious it felt to be at this new, lower weight.

Ya, that comment was way more rude than the one it’s complaining about.

I’m usually really hungry on heavy cardio days, like when I do a hard hike (even if I eat back all my estimated calories). I don’t have an increase in hunger when lifting. Interesting.

^^This is why I have a protein shake or bar most days. I’m in a deficit and eating only 1300 (I’m older and sedentary). I want to take in enough protein to preserve muscle while I’m losing but getting it all feom food would require too many calories, unless every meal was almost entirely made up of fish or chicken.

I like both. Cardio in a gym is awful (boring) but my passions are hiking, kayaking, bike riding, Nordic skiing and snowshoeing. I did start lifting in earnest a year or so again (in a gym) and now I feel so strong, which is awesome and amazing.

Keep in mind that if you eat lightly to save calories for drinking/eating later in the day, you may be so hungry by then that you binge.

I have lived in California all my life (much of it in SoCal) and get plenty of year-round sun hiking, kayaking and just going about my day. I was very surprised when I was diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency last year. No symptoms whatsoever. After a year of daily supplements my levela are now good. Would rather take a…

MFP also over-estimates exercise calories.

Mint chocolate chip ice cream.

Perhaps the weight you lost was muscle?

I lost 27 pounds at age 52 and had no loose skin whatsoever.

This was my motivation to lose weight. I was at my heaviest when I ran into an old boyfriend (we were both with other people) who had only ever seen me slim. I was completely mortified.

Baked falafel in whole wheat pita bread with shredded cabbage, tomatoes and tzaziki sauce, with a large salad on the side.

Probably a protein bar.