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I made sticky soy and ginger glazed chicken today! Marinated chicken thighs in soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, fresh ginger and garlic and red pepper flakes, then pan-fried them, rested them, and sliced them up. THEN boiled and reduced the rest of the marinade til it became glazey, poured over the chicken, then topped…

Batch-cook something delicious on Sundays! I love chilis (veggie, turkey, or beef), spaghetti squash and meatballs (Italian, honey sriracha, Korean bbq, thai turkey, etc), turkey burgers with a side of Greek yogurt coleslaw, marinated chicken thighs with stir fried veggies, Greek marinated chicken with cucumber/tomato/red…

“Creamy” and “low calorie” don’t really go together. The delicious dairy fat makes it taste “creamy.” That’s why skim milk doesn’t taste creamy and doesn’t really cut it in coffee.

I put the double chocolate chip one in the microwave and put peanut butter on top 🤤🤤🤤 yum

Sausages are delicious. I find them easy to fit into my calorie goal, macros, etc. if you are watching your sodium, you should probably not have like three every day, because they are high in salt. But if not, go chicken-sausage crazy.

I came here to offer a response to your inquiry, keeping your other inquiries on this forum in mind. Hate to see people do something unhealthy based on incorrect or incomplete information.

If your aim is to keep it low-calorie, order just one dish to enjoy (no appetizer/entree combos, or entree/dessert, or entree/drinks.) Make it something delicious so you’re excited about it and will be satisfied with your one dish, and not want to order something else afterwards. If you want to eat the whole dish, some…

I don’t get it; why are you changing your way of eating if you don’t have a “why”? Why do you even want to change things to move into a lower weight, then? Just stay the way you are 😎👍

I feel the same way as you do, OP. Always hated purposeful exercise. I get around this by making it as quick and simple as possible, and getting most of my activity through increasing my NEAT levels (taking stairs, adding extra trips back and forth from rooms, parking far away from the store, walking whenever possible, and…

This is a good reminder for you, OP, especially considering your other thread. Eating 1050 a day and losing at a ridiculously fast rate will not allow you to tone your upper arms because you’ll be losing muscle along with the fat. (This is in addition to the eventual loss, sallow skin and nails, binging cycles, etc that…

I would do tacos! Guerrero small corn tortillas are 110 calories for 3, then your filling can be pan-cooked chicken thighs (marinated in lime juice, olive oil, garlic, and spices like cumin, onion/garlic powder, chili powder, salt, pepper). I always add diced white onion and cilantro on top.

Handful of pretzel crisps dipped in 2 tbsp of peanut butter

Are you saying that the heavy person at your office is jealous, just because he hasn’t mentioned your weight loss to you? That’s quite an assumption. I never discuss any of my coworkers weight loss or gain; it’s not my business and in my opinion it’s rude to comment on acquaintances’ appearances. Doesn’t mean I’m jealous;…

Can you track a different way that’s a little less arduous for a bit? Maybe just write down your foods and portions in a small notebook. Then you can roughly track and stay mindful, but it’ll be a nice change of pace from sloggiv through the app. (I LOVE MFP, but my app has gotten so slow lately that it’s getting annoying…

Another possible cause; I used to get nauseous every morning for months, and I couldn’t figure out why. I eventually discovered it was because I was taking a new iron-rich multi-vitamin right when I woke up, on an empty stomach.

Instead of “apologizing” to random women online and trying to get brownie points, I think your energy would be better spent challenging this kind of behavior when you see male friends or acquaintances engaging in it. When men make jokes about women’s appearances, generalize about women, talk about harassing women online,…

Weight loss is not linear. Don’t change your calorie target based on a single weigh-in number, especially since you’re only two weeks in. Water weight fluctuations easily account for a tiny 5 oz difference on the scale. Doesn’t mean you’re not losing fat. Stay the course, be consistent and accurate with your 1500 calories,…

I use www.budgetbytes.com which lists the amount of each ingredient, each serving, and the total cost of the recipe. Has some delicious-tasting recipes (especially the one-pot meals and casseroles) and it’s a really well-organized site (lots of categories to choose from, meal prep, lunch, dinner, breakfast, one-pot,…

I just came here to say that I KNOW THIS THOUGHT WELL. It kept me from my own successes for a long time, because I felt like it was unjust that I struggled with eating for comfort, and other people seemed to have such an easy breezy relationship with food. 1. Cognitive behavioral therapy helped a lot. 2. The idea of “some…

This is a second vote for CBT! I struggled for years without help, and behavioral therapy was the only thing that got me to change my relationship with food.

That’s a very original way to stop a binge! You should be proud that you took that initiative and stopped yourself with whatever tools you had. Lots of people wish they could do that during a binge.

I also have a huge sweet tooth. I buy my favorite sweet snack (like chocolate pretzel bark, or those mini entemanns cookies), immediately portion it out into 100 or 200 calorie packs (in a ziplocks or containers), and put them in my snack bowl. Every morning, I log one of the packs into my MFP food diary to have after…

Does your food package have nutrition information for cooked rice, and reference the amount of cups? If so, search MFP for that brand (make sure it specifies Cooked, not Dry) and log a 1/2 cup of cooked rice. If you don’t have a package with nutrition facts, I would just search the MFP database for the USDA entry for…

Same. I don’t work out very much at all, but I’m lightly active in my job. I’m 5’4”, 29 yrs old, and I lost about a .5 lb per week while I was eating 1800 calories a day. You don’t have much to lose, so you should pick a slow rate of loss to make sure you’re not losing muscle along with the fat.

Sounds delicious! You did nothing wrong. Were you planning on giving up all cookies for the rest of your life?! No way! Sounds like you enjoyed something yummy in moderation, which is a huge success.

I also love this lighter alfredo sauce for chicken or spaghetti squash. https://showmetheyummy.com/healthy-alfredo-sauce-recipe/?m

Honey mustard is delicious! Very easy too. After cooking the chicken (thighs are my favorite), sautée 50 g diced onions in the same pan. Add 1/4 cup of chicken broth to deglaze the pan and get all the brown bits off the bottom. Then add 1/3 cup of honey, 1/2 cup Dijon mustard, garlic powder, onion powder, and black pepper,…

Why 90 days?

Why not spread out your protein intake throughout the day? 100g of chicken has approx. 30 g of protein so you’d have to have more than 300 g of chicken. No fun to eat in one sitting, in my opinion. If you have eggs for breakfast, Greek yogurt or turkey jerky for a snack, meatballs for lunch, and a grilled chicken salad for…

Sugar and fat should not cause guilt There’s no bonus points for cutting out those things from your diet. Fat is actually necessary, and sugar is not the enemy unless it’s causing you to crowd out other nutrients. If you’ve hit all your nutritional targets for the day and you still have calories left, have a fun dessert…