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Thanks! It's good to be back hanging out. I've been eating the soups as meals, so that soup might be a little low for me, haha! Maybe I can add crackers to it, that'd be delicious.

It takes time to work up to higher levels. Think of exercise as a way to make general life easier through conditioning rather than just burning calories.

Find something in a chain restaurant that looks similar and log that. It'll be close enough. Unless you're eating out frequently, any margin of error will be minimized through consistency on other days.

I had a pretty regular period for a while so I would weigh myself five days after my cycle starts (I don’t weigh daily) because that seemed to be the ideal time for fewer water weight fluctuations.

I used to say I wasn't a soup person either, but for some reason I got hooked on them recently. Mostly just Italian wedding soup and chicken noodle, though.

I have a bento box to make it fun and cute!

A more sustainable and reasonable way to go about weight loss is to focus on the calorie deficit first to lose weight, and then slowly add in more nutritionally dense foods to improve nutritional balance. There's no need to overwhelm someone at the beginning of their journey by telling them everything is necessary.

Oh yeah, this was a big childhood thing for us. I don't often remember really enjoying them, except for the dessert of course.

I'll put in another vote for roast. For me, I'm big on cutting in half, adding olive oil, salt, pepper, and parmesan cheese, and then roasting.

It's almost like a weird Google search for me, lol.

Yeah, if you drank hot water then sucked on the teabag, it'd be the same, haha.

Perhaps overnight oats? I also like some soups cold, like butternut, but that depends on your preference. I'm a big fan of eating leftovers cold, though, so I might not be the best source.

Me too. I only really like alcohol when it doesn't taste like alcohol. There's only been one or two times in my life where I was "driven to drink" but I think it that case making the drink helped me more (as a distraction) than the actual drink.

I remember making one comment during a therapy session, that by losing the weight, if I get hit with an extremely stressful situation, that I will only regain and not gain more. Kind of a weird way to look at it but it made me feel better. This was on top of finding other coping mechanisms, of course, but sometimes it's…

It helps me so much to log everything, even when it's ugly. It's almost kind of like sticker shock, haha.

What you need to work on is using food for self-soothing. In other words, you need to work on your mental health some more, and that will help you with your physical health. Eating too much can cause lethargy, so you may be in a negative feedback loop (eating to self-soothe lethargy, which makes you lethargic so you eat…

I've been able to reduce stress at work by aiming at the stress itself rather than just trying to cope. In other words, I worked on reacting better to stressful situations. This was very effective for me because work in general was stressful for me. I needed professional therapy to do this, and it did take a while, but I…

Fortunately, at least for me, it gets easier and starts becoming routine, and you don't have to focus as much. You just kind of know what works. Although I've still gotten off track for emotional reasons, it's easier to get back on track because it's my new normal.

Yes, I love fun restaurant cocktails. Trying to do it at home is too expensive, especially for me because I'm not a big alcohol drinker.

I feel the same way after exercise. I think it's the sweat evaporating off the skin and taking heat with it.

This is what I would do. Cook the meat and freeze that. We do that for taco meat when we have tacos.

I logged all my food today and even stayed under maintenance! Quite a feat considering the cookies and nachos. I might be a little more lax tomorrow because it is Christmas Day, but Christmas Eve went very well.

Oddly enough, I’ve never had an uncrustable even though I was prime age for them when they came out (I was 11 in 1998). I never minded the crust in bread though, so mom probably never felt the need for a more convenient solution to a problem we didn’t have. I have had a pasty, though. The ones I had use dough more similar…

Me too! They look roasted and I feel like I'd find them delicious and crunchy on pizza.

Maybe I'll try using a regular egg. I don't need as giant of a pancake as it makes, so that wouldn't be that big of a deal. It's kind of weird with the syrup because I'm fine with pretty much any other sugar free thing (I love sugar free jello and pudding) but sugar free syrup gets to me. Might be the amount of sweetener…

It's not too bad on the calorie front either, the banana is most of the calories.

Since this got bumped here's my update lol. I didn't care for the pancakes. The texture was weird, but it could be that my bread doesn't work well with it. I still love the french toast though. I can only have the sugar free syrup in small quantities though - it gives me horrible gas if I have more than a serving or two.

1 large frozen banana 100g frozen spinach 1 cup unsweetened almond milk 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp cocoa powder 1 tsp vanilla extract It's a nice frozen treat for me that uses up any spinach I didn't finish that week.

Same here! Raw broccoli and cauliflower make me feel like I just stuck my face in moss.