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I enjoy The Ginger People Ginger Peanut Sauce as a salad dressing. 25 calories for two tablespoons. I like to add a couple of drops of sesame oil. Also Rachael Ray Balsamic Glaze. 20 calories per tablespoon. Both full of flavor for much fewer calories than traditional salad dressings.

Washington

Bad Moon Arising Creedence Clearwater Revival

I'd say mine is severe as well. It started when I was pregnant with my first child; she is now 30. I have been on most of the standard medications at one time or another. Right now I am taking Nexium, morning and night and Tums if I feel a flare coming on. If I don't take the meds, I am miserable. I just put a mattress…

Also reading Calypso and listening to The Last Letter from your Lover by Jojo Moyes.

Eastern Washington here.

All That's Left of Me by Janis Thomas

I've found a lot of great recipes on Kalynskitchen.com.

Internet is not working. My reaction is proportionally unreasonable. 😈

I understand OP. I too have heavy meeting days when it's hard to get steps in during the day. I have to get them in before or after work and since my work days plus commute can be 11 to 12 hours, I am challenged some days to get over 5,000 steps. My goal is 7,000 with a stretch goal of 10,000.

I make a salad using CC, cucumber, grape tomatoes, green onions, olives, and lots of dried thyme.

Me too but I try to keep it around 1400.

I liked this article I found in the blog: http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/how-a-nutritionist-spends-50-at-trader-joes/ It helped me to easily locate some "healthier" items. I could not find the cauliflower fried rice though. Will look for that next time.

I've been consistently recording all my food and getting my steps in everyday. That plus cutting back on about 90% of my drinking, I'm down 11 pounds since the first of the year. There's no way I would have done this and continued drinking as much as I was. I mostly started down this path to lose weight and seriously…

Pennies from heaven

I love this thread-read it everyday for inspiration. I have succeeded in not drinking at all during the week but have allowed myself to have a few every weekend since the beginning of January. I am going to try to be AF this weekend and see how that goes. I think the weekend indulgence of food and alcohol is preventing me…

Ugh! Accepted an invitation to have a beer after work last night which turned into 3 followed by 3 pieces of pizza. Clearly I have control issues (with both alcohol and food) like many here have said. I know 3 beers is not that many but I drink heavy dark beers with high alcohol content and calories. I know I would have…

Original starting weight - 202.4 lbs 1/1/18 February starting weight -195.4 February goal - 190.4 Ultimate goal - 150 lbs I weigh in on Fridays. 2/2/2018 194.6 2/9/2018 194.4 2/16/2018 2/23/2018 2/28/2018 Disappointing week. I need to up my activity!

I am so inspired by this thread! I read it everyday and find myself nodding along with many of the comments made. I am one of those who is not planning on never drinking but I've gone from several beers a weekday (more each weekend/non-working day) to a few a weekend. My goal was to stop the daily drinking and to lose…

I've been lurking here and on the January site and I'm inspired and fascinated by all of your stories. I've kicked my daily beer habit to the curb so that I can lose weight and generally be more healthy. I've had a few occasions to have a beer or glass of wine and I've done so but the daily habit is gone and I am thrilled.…

I thought the same thing! Like Woo Hoo!

Original starting weight - 202.4 lbs 1/1/18 February starting weight -195.4 February goal - 190.4 Ultimate goal - 150 lbs I weigh in on Fridays. 2/2/2018 194.6 2/9/2018 2/16/2018 2/23/2018 2/28/2018

I'm in: Original starting weight - 202.4 lbs 1/1/18 February starting weight -tbd February goal - -5 Ultimate goal - 150 lbs I weigh in on Fridays. 02/02 02/09 02/16 02/27

Sixty today

If you like cheese and want a chip altnerative I found Cello Whisps at Costco. They have 1 carb per serving of 23 "chips". Very calorie dense so if you're also watching calories/fat you'll want to pay close attention to serving size. There's recipes for similar cheese chips on the internet. I also package up snack size…

If you're a Pinterest user, search for 350 calorie meals. You'll get plenty of ideas. :)

Tracked...yes Under calories...yes Exercised....no, virus kicked my butt I'm calling a sick day :)

Happy New Year! Tough day for me in some ways. I have a virus with a nasty cough that killed my appetite so I ate way under my calorie goal, but getting any real exercise in was out of the question. I did spend a good deal of the day removing Christmas decor and cleaning up afterwards and about 10 minutes stretching and a…

Hi all. New to UAC and hoping the competitive nature of the challenge will motivate me to stick with my goals. Good luck everyone!