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  • I mix oats with orange juice and leave them overnight (or for at least an hour). Then in the morning I add yogurt and eat it cold. It's even better to mix in some dried blueberries and maybe some nuts before adding the orange juice. I just do enough orange juice to barely cover the oats and mix in however much yogurt I…
  • This roasted veggie quinoa salad with feta cheese is amazing https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1940688/quinoa-and-feta-salad-with-roasted-vegetables
  • This is a cool article about what happens when your body burns fat, on any diet: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/12/16/371210831/when-you-burn-off-that-fat-where-does-it-go
  • If you're roasting vegetables anyway, throw in some garlic cloves with the skin still on. You can make an amazing dressing with olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and some mashed roasted garlic cloves. You can vary the amounts of each depending on your goals or preferences, but a 1:1 ratio of oil and lemon juice works well.…
  • I make simple "meringues" by whipping some egg whites with a little bit of sugar and baking them at like 325 F until they're brown like toasted marshmallows and really fluffy inside. I like eating them over canned or fresh fruit. 2 egg whites with 3 teaspoons of sugar comes out to about 80 calories. Using artificial…
  • Natasha's Kitchen has a lot of cabbage recipes https://natashaskitchen.com/?s=cabbage including a really nice borscht recipe https://natashaskitchen.com/2014/02/08/borscht-recipe-with-meat/
  • PCOS lowers your BMR, sometimes by hundreds of calories. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18678372
  • America's Test Kitchen did a review video on kitchen scales. They're always really thorough when testing things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSm1hoyjoyY
  • We always cut ours in quarters with scissors over the salad bowl. They're much easier to eat that way.
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