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Try the Recipes section of the MFP forums - you will be able to get lots of ideas

I am having chicken thighs in sauce with cauliflower fried rice. I found an absolutely fabulous recipe for the cauliflower - combines carrots, peas, soy sauce, onions, spices, egg and the cauliflower and according to the MFP recipe builder, I can get 6 serves of 138 gms each for 143 calories. I like it very much - I am not…

I lost over 100lbs eating a bowl of special K cracker chips every.single.night. It curbed my cravings for chips. Always within my calorie budget. It was great to know there was that treat waiting for me at the end of the day.

Its very difficult to eat in a more healthy fashion (however you define that) if you are sabotaging yourself by buying what you know are foods that are not going to get you to your goals. Theres nothing inherently wrong with what you bought, but if those are your trigger foods, or foods that you cannot control yourself…

Wow - how have you been doing in the last nine months?

Dont strive for perfection - you are just beginning this journey, and you may have to play around with some of the numbers to find what works for you, through experience, and trial and error. For losing weight, just focus on the calorie number, and dont exceed it. Earn more calories with intentional exercise. Try not to…

So my question is (forgive me if already asked) - are you gonna eat like this the rest of your life?

I'm pushing 61 this year, and from November 2016 to now, I have lost over 100 lbs with my "crapped out" metabolism. I think you are making excuses for even trying. thats definitely not going to move the belly fat, which you CAN shift by losing weight generally, and especially if you pair it with some focused exercise. I…

For every one pound of weight that you lose, you take 4 pounds of pressure off your joints, so it is worth even losing 10 lbs. I too suffered from weight related arthritis, and in November had a knee replacement, but not before I had lost over 100 lbs. My doc was pretty pleased, and of course, I was over the moon! Your…

Its a hard habit to break if you have a history of food insecurity. But like someone else mentioned, their germy little fingers have been on it, their snotty little noses have probably dripped on it and that makes it just so unappealing that I couldnt eat it without gagging (this may not be true of your Precious, but its…

Its a "problem" that many of us share!! You can enjoy a glass (or two) of wine as long as you build it into your daily calorie allotment. Its not wine thats making you gain weight, its too much food and wine, and the calories that go with it. Put your personal stats into MFP, tell them how much you want to lose and in what…

Just remember that you dont "owe" ANYONE an explanation for what you do - you are an adult, you make adult decisions and you live with the consequences. You establish your boundaries, and dont let anyone cross them if you dont want to. You are not obligated to answer rude or insensitive comments or questions. People may…

I have followed your story for some time and am thrilled for you that it has culminated in a beautiful daughter- congratulations!

Once you are on the correct type and dose of thyroid meds, you should have no trouble losing weight. I have been taking thyroid meds for 28 years, and have lost over 100lbs since Nove 2016. Try not to use your thyroid condition as sabotage for your weight loss efforts - you can do it!

Me too - I only eat breakfast on the weekends, like a brunch so that I know I can have more food at the regular lunch time!! I stick to coffee for brekkie during the week - thats enough to keep me going till lunch.

For me, some sweeteners, like Stevia, dont taste sweet to me at all - even if I use a tablespoon of the stuff in a mug of tea or coffee it just tastes peculiar, whereas a product like Splenda DOES taste sweet to me, so I use one packet - same with Equal. I still keep sugar in the house, but also use artificial stuff in…

Thank you for recognizing the error of your wicked ways and fixing it - not too many people do that, you are a-ok in my books for it.

Like other posters, I have lost enough weight (111 lbs) that I have gone down a shoe size, needed links taken out of my watch strap and have gone down at least 2 ring sizes on my right hand. My left hand, where I normally wear my wedding band, probably also changed because I can now wear the band on my hand, instead of on…

Neanderthals aren't homo sapiens sapiens and are actually quite different. Even homo sapien sapien from paleolithic era are quite different. There have been 100s of genetic changes in homo sapiens sapiens since the paleolithic era, and the Neolithic era brought a host of different selective preasures. For one, dairy…

I bet you could get some great answers in the Recipes section of the Boards.

No no and no again. You will be slayed here for holding such a ridiculous position. Be warned.

The thing about losing weight and keeping it off is to find a way of eating that is sustainable - are you going to be able to eat like this for the rest of your life. My guess is no. I really recommend that you just plug your stats into MFP, get a food scale and weigh your food, and start a food journal or log to keep…

Me too, especially the parts about the poplar tree/aspirin and the mold/penicillin.

The key to losing weight and keeping it off is to find a way of eating that is sustainable - that you can follow for the rest of your life. It has to be convenient and easy to figure out. Ultimately, weight loss is about calories, while the labels such as Paleo, IF, etc are styles of eating. I dont know if Paleo will work…

Could they be subtracting the fibre count from the total calories? I cant do the math, but that might explain it in part.

I have become far more "budget" conscious - I have about 1350 calorie "dollars" to spend every day, so I am paying a lot more attention to how I spend them, giving up calorie dense, unsatisfying foods that really dont make me happy for ones that I truly love and enjoy completely. This means that I rarely have alcohol (nice…

Really, you can snack on anything you like, as long as it fits into your calorie budget. I like medjool dates, special K cracker chips, pistachios, those little kits of canned chicken salad and crackers that you can get near the canned tuna and stuff at the grocers, Cadbury cream eggs, or the oreo ones, or the other…

I have been doing this pretty much my whole life without knowing it had an official designation - and I have been both fat and not so fat during my life, so in and of itself, IF doesnt cause weight loss. It is a style of eating that, taken in conjunction with calorie counting, can make some people feel more satiated, less…

The egg bleaching thing relates to an urban myth that has been debunked on the snopes website.

Got one of those flyers in the mail recently (Ontario) from KFC and it had the calories listed - I think this is truly wonderful and certainly helps me plan a meal when i am eating out. Also in a little bistro pub in town, they have been doing this for quite some time even though its not required for a place of their size…