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Yesterday’s menu: Breakfast: overnight oats with milk, topped with brown sugar, cinnamon, and roasted edamame Noon snack (too many meetings for a full lunch, so had to push that back): frozen red grapes and a vanilla almond protein bar Mid-afternoon lunch: oven-roasted chicken shawarma with red onions, plus Mediterranean…

Breakfast: overnight oats with milk, topped with brown sugar, cinnamon, and roasted edamame Lunch: chicken shawarma with red onions and roasted cauliflower Snack: frozen red grapes and a chocolate peanut butter protein bar Dinner: taco casserole topped with Greek yogurt, plus a salad with light honey dijon dressing…

These all sounds awesome.

Well done! You should be on Chopped.

I didn’t start exercising til I lost 40 lbs. you can choose to start focusing on food alone if you feel that’s an easier route! (I couldn’t STAND exercise. It took me months and months to finally become ready to start adding more purposeful activity). If you feel you must add movement right now, start with the easiest…

Breakfast: overnight oats and milk, topped with brown sugar and roasted edamame. A black coffee Lunch: oven roasted chicken shawarma with jammy red onions plus Mediterranean roasted cauliflower Snack: frozen red grapes plus a chocolate peanut butter protein bar Dinner: garlic cilantro marinated slow cooker pork shoulder in…

YES to your last sentence. I am letting that idea be my guide 😂

Went out to eat todayyyyyy! Breakfast: red grapes, plus a frozen banana yogurt bowl with cinnamon, vanilla, and graham cracker. Black coffee Lunch: tabbouleh, pickled beets, falafel and white sauce, grilled shrimp in a garlic lemon olive oil cilantro sauce, a pita, and a bite of my friend’s pistachio cheesecake. Black…

Yesterday was SO FUN! Breakfast: banana peanut butter nice cream with cinnamon and vanilla, plus a banana-oat-choc-chunk breakfast cookie Lunch: chicken meatballs and pizza sauce on a potato bun, plus stir-fried bok choy, onion, and carrots. Dinner: garlic cilantro chicken burger topped with pickled onions and…

Yes I definitely experienced a flash of resentment when I started thinking I might want to go back to a small deficit. I had to positive-talk my way through that! I think I am on the other side, and choosing to go with just a 250 calorie deficit rather than something bigger (and deciding to limit the time to 6 weeks,…

Plan for today: Breakfast: overnight oats with a little milk, brown sugar, cinnamon, and roasted edamame on top Lunch: tamale pie with hot sauce Snack: frozen red grapes and a vanilla almond protein bar Dinner: slow-cooked Korean pork tacos on corn tortillas with slaw, and a small salad with light dressing Dessert:…

I’m sorry...one bean of coffee dropped in water? How would that change the flavor at all? (Am I missing a joke maybe 😂)

I struggle with this question too. So much of my life revolves around what food I was looking forward to. I think my replacement is the desire to strengthen love between me and my partner, my family, and my friends. When I started getting too bogged down in excitement or anxiety around food (during holidays, celebrations,…

How do I get out of the diet/weight gain cycle?

I hear you on the protein! To address that this week I made like 35 simple chicken meatballs from a pound of meat, pan-fried them up, let them cool, and now I have fully cooked meatballs in my freezer. If my dinner or day is low on protein, I can microwave a few of those to help get the macros right 👍 29 calories and 3 G…

Breakfast: overnight oats topped with brown sugar and roasted edamame Lunch: cornbread tamale pie with hot sauce Snack; layered vanilla almond protein bar and frozen red grapes Dinner: Korean pork tacos and a salad with light peppercorn ranch dressing Dessert: banana choc-chunk oat b’fast cookies with peanut butter glaze

This sounds so right. Those course corrections are all part of it! Yeah I think 10 weeks would feel like a lot for me.

LOVE IT

Thank you so much, friend!!

Thank you so much for this encouragement! I appreciate what you’re saying; this IS the process and i can trust myself to make it happen in a way I can feel good about.

❤️❤️❤️ You rock; thank you so much for sharing your methods and your mindset with these things. I really like your method of painless loss by reducing the amount of times you draw on the calorie bank. It’s heartening to hear that your maintenance numbers haven’t seen too much shifting! And I think we’re similar in that I…

Oooo I can get on board with carrying a backpack!

Hmm all good plans! I don’t know why I gravitated immediately taking a limited-time 250 deficit, rather than an extended-time 150 deficit. Maybe I am impatient; maybe it seemed easier to adjust to a shorter time of lower calories. I think if this ends up being hard, I may go your route instead. Or learn from this 6-week…

HEY GIRL!! 😊 It’s possible (I’m thinking my body is slowly getting used to me doing the same-duration walks every day, and maybe my logging/weighting food is not as tight as it has been in the past). Yes I totally agree that I’m attached to that 2100 😂 but I need to get more flexible with that. It’s just a number.

Yes same! I don’t think I can imagine myself trying to eat without logging. It’s too easy and the benefits are too clear. Plus, I like knowing EXACTLY what I’ve eaten so I can fit in as many treats as is reasonable 😂

Yes, I kept thinking “I mean what’s the REAL difference (in quality of life) between 126 and 125?” But then when it started being 129 more often, I started to think that soon I’d need to go back to a slight deficit. But just temporarily 😂

I’m really glad you have this healthy groove! And if it’s a few weeks at a deficit/logging/moving a little more (out of a few years at maintenance), that doesn’t sound so bad at all. I have to get over this feeling that I’ll never get to go back to my 2100 calorie maintenance level. We’ll see!

Yes, I think my 250 calorie deficit will help me be more mindful of those normal treats I go for. Maybe helping me get used to slightly smaller portions than I’ve been serving myself!

Thank you so much for your reply and story; sounds like you are really developing a healthy mindset around that thin line between maintenance and deficit. I like your slow approach (waiting to ensure it’s a trend, and taking a small a deficit as is reasonable). Yes I think the key is practicing it this time, because it’s…

I could take-or-leave the specific weight goals. I didn’t have one when I started (I just wanted to feel better around food). But the PROCESS goals were super super important to actually getting to a healthy weight and attitude towards food. Checking off the i-logged-my-food goal, the 64-oz-of-water goal, the…