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Breakfast: eggs scrambled with mushrooms, broccoli and soy sauce. (NOT filling. Needs cheese or toast or something) Lunch: A banana, a pear, some vanilla Greek yogurt, a baked potato topped with chili beans and cottage cheese. Dinner: I get a free catered dinner, so not sure yet! But I'm excited! And I still have 900…

Height - 5'7" SW: 147.6 November Goal: 146 Nov 1: 147.6 Nov 8: 146.6 Nov 15: 146.7 Nov 22: 146.2 Nov 29: 145.8 My trend weight has been under 146 for several days now, so I would say my goal for November has been met :)

I love them too! Total guilty pleasure. I can't/won't recommend any though, because as you said there is a lot of bias. (And I'd get booed by someone lol).

It doesn't do anything fancier than a "regular" electric pressure cooker. I do like mine for dried beans. Without the pressure, it takes soaking overnight plus 2 hours on the stove top. The pressure cooker takes 30 mins plus warm up and cool down. The warm up/cool down time is significant, but it's overall still way faster…

Long time vegetarian here! So not quite as restrictive as vegan. My strategy has always been to not make too big of a fuss. If I'm not sure what's in something, I'll just ask. People may notice if I pass on certain foods, or if my plate is less full. Most people catch on over time and take my diet into account in the…

5'7" 9/11: 151.0 9/18: 150.0 9/25: 150.4 10/2: 150.4 10/10: 148.8 10/16: 147.6 10/23: 147.4 10/30: 145.8 11/6: 147.6 11/13: 146.8 11/20: 145.4 11/27: 145.8 GW: 145.0

Height - 5'7" SW: 147.6 November Goal: 146 Nov 1: 147.6 Nov 8: 146.6 Nov 15: 146.7 Nov 22: 146.2 I can't believe it's almost the end of November! I feel good about my weight-loss progress. The rest of my life on the other hand...

Hey, great work! I've lately had a lot of the same thoughts you are having, and after some research decided to start a dumbbell routine. From browsing around here for the past couple months I've learned the following: It is worth lifting while in a deficit exactly as you said, you can help prevent muscle loss. One of the…

5'7" 9/11: 151.0 9/18: 150.0 9/25: 150.4 10/2: 150.4 10/10: 148.8 10/16: 147.6 10/23: 147.4 10/30: 145.8 11/6: 147.6 11/13: 146.8 11/20: 145.4 GW: 145.0

I wish I liked Tuna! Cheap cheap cheap and easy to prepare/eat. But I can barely stomach other fishes, and tuna has too much of a "meaty" texture for me :(

Tomorrow I plan to go to the gym to lift weights (dumbbells)! Yesterday was my very first time doing this at the gym...I was extremely nervous about it. For the past couple weeks I just used my 5lb ones at home, to get comfortable with the exercises. But it was awesome to use some higher weights!! I really wish I had a…

I love those foods too, and eat them fairly often. There's nothing inherently wrong with any of them, the big thing is just to eat a proper (smaller) portion. I often make my own homemade pizza with pizza yeast, and my slices come out to less than 200 calories each. So it's easy for me to eat 2 slices with a side of…

It's definitely hard not to get wrapped up in the latest news story either glorifying or demonizing particular foods. Unfortunately usually these studies are small, and don't really justify what the media would like to use for a flashy headline. It's best to try somewhat to ignore them, and use some common sense about what…

Today I ate a hostess cupcake. Ugh. I regretted that one, I don't even like them! I usually resist those sorts of temptations at work but I was having a hungry moment. :D

Cookie butter is maybe my favorite food. I eat it with a spoon. There are honestly so many good snack/junk foods there, I couldn't possibly list them. I can't do my regular grocery shopping there, because I walk down each aisle and find a million things I want to buy. ENJOY!

Breakfast: French toast flavored bagel with butter, coffee Lunch: I have a free/business lunch at another broken egg cafe! I'm going to have black bean Benedict, with potatoes on the side, and more coffee Dinner: not sure yet. Might be frozen pizza. Might be a packaged product from the pantry like mac n cheese or tomato…

Height - 5'7" SW: 147.6 November Goal: 146 Nov 1: 147.6 Nov 8: 146.6 Nov 15: 146.7 I'm taking a cue from @KelseyRL, as I've had the same problems with the scale this month! Also, today I weighed myself 4 or 5 times and got a completely different number each time.. is my scale broken??

I look forward to a single day of holiday eating. The harder part for me is to stay at "home" (where I grew up) with my mother for up to a week. When I come home my mom wants to have waffles and cinnamon rolls for breakfast every morning. Or if I ask for eggs, she'll make me 4 eggs scrambled with cheese and butter plus…

My faaavorite drink :D

This is going to be an impossible question for people to answer for you.. yet here I am typing :) For reference I have been pesc. for around 10 years. But I am 99% of the time not tempted by meat. Personally I think it'd still be pretty awesome if you were mostly vegetarian, I.e. only eating meat out to eat. It would still…

5'7" 9/11: 151.0 9/18: 150.0 9/25: 150.4 10/2: 150.4 10/10: 148.8 10/16: 147.6 10/23: 147.4 10/30: 145.8 11/6: 147.6 11/13: 146.8 GW: 145.0 Only 6 weeks until Christmas! Wow! I feel confident I can reach my goal by then, I'm very happy I picked a conservative goal to start with. Happy Monday everyone!

I personally almost never eat salads, because I think they are boring and not filling. Usually I just eat smaller portions of food that I really like. A box of pasta + can of tomato sauce is probably more than 99 cents, but it will last 4 or more meals, so it probably comes out to be less per meal. Rice and beans are also…

Inspiring! Slow and steady wins the race, keep at it!

Congratulations on your success so far! Looking at your photos there is clearly huge improvement! Stick with it, you can reach your goal.

Amazing accomplishment! Congratulations!

Do you use an app like Libra? I like to weigh myself daily too. Today I weighed a whole pound more than yesterday, but my "trend weight" according to my app is only up 0.1 pound, and it predicts that I'm still trending down. Remember that if you are in a small calorie deficit, fluctuations just show up more on the scale.

That sounds a little odd to me. Keeping certain foods in a different cupboard, so that others can easily tell you don't want them to eat it makes sense. But I would hate to live in such distrust of my partner to have put a lock on my things... then again, I don't know all the details of your situation.

I used to ALWAYS put chocolate chips in my oatmeal. OMG so yum. For the past several years it's always been peanut butter and a banana. Since counting calories on MFP I've ditched the banana :( (or saved it for a mid-morning snack). Lately I've discovered that I really like to *not* mix in the peanut butter completely, but…

Breakfast: coffee, oatmeal with peanut butter Snack: vanilla Greek yogurt Lunch: leftover vegetarian chili I pulled out of the freezer, braised rutabaga Dinner: probably cheesy pasta skillet with veggie sausages

Exercising is great for fitness and might make your figure look a little better once you lose the weight, but might not make losing weight "easier". Do any exercises that you enjoy enough to stick with long term. Cardio can help create a bigger calorie deficit (so you can eat more calories). On the flip side some people…