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  • I cook 2 scrambled eggs with some turkey sausage crumbles mixed in (about 180cals). It usually keeps me satisfied until lunch.
  • I bought a new BP machine (Omron 10) that takes 3 readings a minute apart and averages them before giving you a read out. That tends to do away with the one time high/low readings. I keep my BP readings in a spreadsheet and look at an average for the month. My BP is always much higher at the doctors office. On my next…
  • I have to have a somewhat "full" feeling or I can't sleep. I usually pre-log what I'm going to eat in the evening. It makes it easier to tell how many calories I have available for regular lunch and dinner.
  • I currently am eating 1,750 cals per day (12,250 per week). I set my MFP calories as 1,650 per day (Sun-Thur) and 2,000 calories on Friday and Saturday - which are normally days we'll eat out for dinner. I don't really consider these "cheat days", but just my normal calories for those particular days.
  • I've done my share of yo-yo dieting over the years. I'm 60 now, male, and have probably 60 lbs left to lose (lost 30 so far). I can for sure tell you that even though I've rarely gone over my "high weight" of around 290, the composition over time is much more fat. When I was 35 and 290lbs, I was much less fat than I was at…
  • Just last night I saw a "study" on the news about how people that eat breakfast lost more weight than people that don't. I has to be right. It was on TV. Also, the book I'm reading (You! On a Diet) was co-written by Dr. Oz. He said that breakfast is very important and if you don't eat it your body will go into starvation…
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