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sour cream and salsa together on a taco salad - amazing!

I bet I could find you some nurses and doctors who smoke too.

Ninety nine percent of the time I dont use up all my daily allotment of calories, but I also have to be mindful that I want to change my eating habits for a lifetime and learn to make choices that are better for me physically and psychologically. That said, I love me some chips, and have found a marvelous product (Kelloggs…

I dont own a scale, so I only check on my weight when I stop by the doc's office and get weighed there - about once every 6-8 weeks. I use clothing and how it fits to keep me motivated - it has worked a treat since October 2015 and the loss of 65 lbs

Not a show I would watch - cant stand either of them. I dont think their egos would fit in one room at the same time, regardless of how big it was!

You answered your own question - was it sustainable for YOU?

My (current)m favourite is Concha y Toro which runs 125 calories for 5 ounces. I think its South American.

CICO for me - I dont eat out often, I eat a mix of processed food and "whole" foods, I dont drink alcohol often, I dont exercise due to medical issues, I love chocolate and indulge on occasion, I love chips so have them almost nightly in a controlled portion and have lost 65 pounds since October 2015. I know I can eat like…

Have you tried GNC?

In my house, if I make it, you eat it - you can tell me that its crap, and I wont make it again though. My dad was always very respectful of my mothers cooking - if he didnt like what she made, he would eat a portion, decline anything further, and tell her that he meal was wonderfully "nutritious"!! So for picky eaters,…

I split a vegetable greek salad with a friend, and used the barcode app for the first time on my phone and it worked perfectly!!I can see that it will make checking calories on products in the grocery store so much easier

I hope everyone here realizes how privileged they are to even be having this discussion. The fact that we in the Western Nations have so much choice is staggering - I cannot understand how so much angst can be generated over what YOU eat versus what ANYONE ELSE eats.

Here is one from one of my favourite cookbooks http://www.healthdiscovery.net/bcb/threads/57715-Tickle-Me-Elbows-%28Tuna-Noodle-Casserole%29

I love (and collect) cookbooks of all types. I have been cooking and eating out of three since last October because the food is good, easy to prepare, ingredients are easy to find, nutritional info is given, and did I say the food is good?! The books are by the Podleski sisters, Janet and Greta - http://janetandgreta.com/…

Just make sure you picked the right entry from the data base - whether its roasted, oven baked, boiled, or whatever. Use the cooking method in your search request - "white potato, with skin (or without, as you like) baked, 100 grams". I tend to weigh my food after it is cooked, as that is how I consume it. I cant imagine…

I cook everyday too, and I love it! Its my creative outlet. When I have anxious times, I would bake - thus, my attendance at MFP!! So I dont bake anymore, and have found other outlets for stress - like cleaning things! Cooking at home does take time and organization, and if you are not keen on doing those things, you wont…

I didnt put her down. I just asked a question. I know that as a teen, looks are BIG. I am suggesting - never mind.

Kingston Ontario here - weather today is overcast and grey, we are expecting rain, but the tulips and other spring flowers are up, so it looks like we survived another Canadian winter! Feel free to add me as a friend, wherever you are in this Great White North!!

Wouldnt you rather be complimented for your wit, your intellect, your empathy, your personality, your ambition or virtually anything else more meaningful than your looks?

And shouldnt we all be "used to" living and breathing, yet they still burn calories!!

I weigh things as I eat them, so I weigh cooked chicken, beef, etc as I dont eat it raw! The only exception that I have found so far is pasta - I weigh that before cooking so that I dont end up making too much, which I will then try to justify so I can eat it all. But in the data base there are both raw and cooked weights…

This discussion highlights how incredibly frustrating it is to have to deal with non standardized clothing sizes and the whole "vanity sizing" phenomenon prevalent in our society today. For example, there really is no size "000" - its just a 2 or a 4 thats had the size arbitrarily changed downward!! XSmall doesnt exist…

Hi kelseyframe91! I am at least double your age, so have had so much more time to learn from my mistakes! I have done pretty much every diet fad ever created in one form or another, but the ones that make me feel deprived, or restricted are the ones that end up being unsustainable, and I lose motivation because I cant see…

As others have said, your weight is not the key to your overall happiness. Usually, relationships are - whether its with yourself, or others. I hope you find your mojo, its sure to be out there!

For lunch today I had roast beef and mustard on an English Muffin, with watermelon and yogurt for dessert. Yummers!! Tonight is a chicken thing - I think its a stir fry with red peppers and sugar snap peas. I will have mine with couscous, and hubby will get some roasted sweet/white potato sticks. Tonight, I may snack on…

Slim Fast is only going to help you if you plan on consuming Slim Fast for the rest of your life!! Better to find inexpensive and satisfying recipes, use a food scale and plan out your menus while following the MFP guidelines. Its easy and most important, you can keep it up for a lifetime.

I too absolutely love any roasted vegetable- asparagus on the grill is divine!! Try grating the veg and incorporating them into meatloaf or meatballs, just like you would with kids - broc and carrots are good for this - and maybe mix some cauliflower mash in with your potato mash - but just roasted cauliflower with salt…

My favourite is toast and peanut butter - my brand of bread and peanut butter together comes to 180 calories.

Its all a mind game, isnt it?!! I too agree that I tend to use my calories like a budget, and I want the best that my calorie money can buy. So I have to mentally assign the value of something and decide if its worth it. Or, if I just exercise a bit of restraint, I can have something even BETTER tomorrow. Or at the end of…

Congratulations on your impressive achievement! Dont you sometimes wonder "why didnt I do this sooner?" because you feel so good and its wonderful to see the kind of results you (and I!) are getting by just being conscious of what we are eating. Dont beat yourself up about the exercising - I have mobility issues and do not…