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I love little mini egg cups. Use a muffin tin and fill with ingredients like bacon, cheese, ham, onions, peppers, ect. then fill the cups with egg whites. Bake until firm. Like quiche but it's easy to control your ingredients and portion sizes. Some recipes call for potatoes as a crust, but I like them better without -…

My hair thinned a few months after I started eating at a deficit, but once I started really watching my macros I realized I wasn't getting nearly enough protein. Bumped up my protein levels and it seems to be working and fixing itself, but I know it's going to take some time!

Bought a cute dress on an Amazon lightning deal. I wanted a certain color but they were out of the XL, so I went with the large and figured even if it didn't fit now I could use it as a goal dress down the road. Got it yesterday and tried it on and it fit! Showed it to my hubby and I pointed out the "flaws" (little tight…

I typically shoot for maintenance calories on the weekends. It'll slow your weight loss by a bit, but to me it's worth not feeling deprived on my days off. I also try to go to a fitness class or at minimum get a good walk in first thing on Saturday mornings so that I have a little more wiggle room when it comes to…

This is what I do, and I've lost over 70lbs. We eat out every Friday night (I refuse to cook on Fridays!) and quite often once or twice over the weekend as well. If we go to Taco Bell, I know that the combo I like is 740 calories, and I make it fit into my calorie allowance. If we go somewhere without calories on the menu,…

I've been working through a box of the 14 calorie ice pops and they're not half bad! I'll be getting another box when mine runs out because you can't beat a sweet treat for only 14 calories!

I've shopped at thrift stores, but found that a lot of what I found wasn't my style in the least. I really like consignment stores and resale shops (like Plato's closet) where they get higher quality items. I may pay a bit more than I would at a Goodwill, but in my experience I've been able to find a lot more in my style…

My friends have been a mixed bag as well, which really surprised me. One has been extremely supportive and outspoken. Whenever she compliments me, she says how "healthy" I look, not "skinny" which I appreciate dearly because in my mind, "skinny" is not a word that describes me. I've had other friends try to talk me down…

Thanks to this I tried it on my popcorn last night - Delicious! :)

I was a little disappointed when I cracked open the Archer Farms pint to see that the mint was white instead of green, but it didn't matter in the long run. I actually preferred it to any of the other "mint" low calorie ice creams I've tried. The mint flavor is super strong compared to halo top, and the chocolate cookie…

Here's the ingredient list for the Archer Farms mini donut. No stevia listed, so my best guess was that the funky taste was from the erythritol. I grabbed a few of the other flavors, so I'll have to try them out to see if they have the same sugar alcohol taste. As far as texture goes, I let mine sit out for a while and it…

Went to Target the other day and got to try the new Archer Farms Mini Donut ice cream. All in all I wasn't super impressed. My first taste was almost... boozy? I'm usually not one to be bothered by the flavor of artificial sweeteners, but the erythritol in this was STRONG and it came out in the first bite. It tamed down a…

@crazyravr What did you use for your glaze? Those look amazing!

Avocados continually surprise me with how calorie dense they are for being a fruit (and they surprise me for being considered a fruit). I can easily eat one a day, but they can be difficult to fit in sometimes, especially the large ones once you weigh them. I'm also surprised often by what foods they make in "0 calorie"…

It may have been 95 degrees outside, but I wanted soup. Made Stuffed Pepper Soup (original recipe is from Skinnytaste, but I change it a bit to fit my tastes). It was perfect!

Toasted raviolis are a big thing in the Saint Louis area. You can get them at a lot of restaurants as an appetizer, and they sell them frozen. They can be baked, or fried. Lots of yummy deliciousness. :)

I can fit SO much more clothing into a suitcase. I just started packing for a trip, and I have a pile of about 10 tank tops and t-shirts and I just can't get over how TINY it is. I feel like I don't have enough clothing because the stack is so much smaller than it was last year!

I'm a big fan of wraps. Deli meat with a bunch of lettuce and tomato makes an easy meal. If I'm really feeling ambitious on a lazy night I'll fry up some egg whites and put them on a tortilla with some salsa and cheese for a breakfast burrito. Or just a smear of peanut butter on a tortilla heated in the microwave until…

I get "well you lost so much because you're young" all the time. No, it's because I am careful about measuring and logging my food so that I can stay in a calorie deficit and I've worked hard for it - age has nothing to do with it! My favorite was when a well-meaning coworker told me, "that'll all change once you have…

I had an ice cream sundae for lunch yesterday because it was free in our cafeteria for employee appreciation. No shame in the calorie counting game! CICO works for me!

I've noticed that now that my face is slimmer, more features tend to stick out. My nose looks GIANT to me now because it doesn't have fat cheeks to fill in the extra room.

I find that I've definitely started caring more about my appearance. It's not so much about clothing though. I'm still losing, so I don't want to blow my budget on new clothes that won't fit in a few months, but I find that I care more about other aspects of my health. My skincare routine has gotten measurably more…

I stay at my deficit during weekdays, and on weekends I eat closer to maintenance (my deficit is about 1400 calories/day, and on weekends it's about 2000). It may slow my weight loss, but it gives me some freedom for my crazy weekends. I'm still careful to stay under my maintenance calories, so either way, I'm not gaining…

Grabbed a pair of pajamas at the store yesterday - size large. I put them back and grabbed the XL "just in case." I was able to talk myself out of it and took the large again and moved on. Tried them on last night and they fit perfectly! My brain still hasn't caught up with my body, but I'm getting there!

Haven't tried this flavor, but the Chilly Cow Brownie Batter is one of my favorite low calorie ice creams to date. I've been able to find a pack of two containers here in the $3-4 dollar range on sale. Enlightened is also miles above Halo Top in my opinion (especially the Chocolate Peanut Butter... SO good), but I like the…

I skip breakfast nearly every day, and I've lost about 70lbs. I have similar eating habits with you, so I make them work within my calorie goals. Breakfast is a cup of coffee, I eat a very small lunch, and I let myself have basically whatever I want for supper. I regularly have over 1000 calories left for supper alone, and…

YES YES YES THIS. With clothes on, nothing looks amiss, but good gracious I have a lot of weirdly saggy skin in a lot of weird places. Trying to find a swimsuit that covers up my butt's bags has proven to be extra difficult. I was in the same boat as you though - I thought it would never happen to me, but all of a sudden…

I had heel pain for months before I finally cracked and went to see a podiatrist. Turned out I had a cyst on my heel that was causing a lot of inflammation and it wouldn't go away by home treatments alone, and by not getting it checked out I risked a major injury that would've resulted in surgery. The above posters have a…

Forget the frap.... do you think they'd sell me just a grande cold brew whipped cream? That sounds divine.

There are a lot of outspoken people at my work, so I get asked this quite a lot. My short answer? "I don't eat anything fun anymore." We have a good laugh, I tell them I'm using MFP and counting calories and that I still eat ice cream almost every day, they tell me that's super hard and walk away. Rinse, repeat.