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Depression is a different beast for so many different people. For some people, it is a lifelong thing. It cannot be cured so much as managed. Please keep this in mind as you start your journey - a lot of it is going to be learning how to continue to live with yourself. Exercise and a healthful diet are tools in a toolbox…

Start adding soy sauce (NOT the lite kind!) to - well, everything. =) Put a dash on your salads (it does make a very good salad dressing), marinate your veggies in it, plop it on some rice and veggies, make a broth out of it (literally just hot water + soy sauce) and use that as a base for a noodle soup. You don't need…

I'm not a professional, but the workouts you listed don't seem to be 1,000-calorie burning workouts. I'd wager around 450-500 calories tops for those, with the exception of maybe 2 hours of water aerobics, but of course that would depend on the intensity of your water walking. Try changing those exercise estimations, and…

I'm on a strict budget of $30/week for groceries, so being able to buy one thing and making it last for a while is important to me. =) Breakfast is a protein shake, lunch is a salad with some kind of protein on top (usually a hardboiled egg or some beans - those are cheap!). Dinner gets switched up, but almost always…

I tend to be a firm believer that the wider variety a consumer has to pick from, the better. =) Ecologically speaking, plant-based meat replacements tend to be more sustainable than industrialized meat/poultry/etc farming (I'm not saying those are the only two options, but in our current system those are the two major…

I'm a veterinarian at a referral hospital in the southeast - one of our clients is the biggest dromedary camel farm in the US. =]

I legitimately cracked up when I heard that regulators were trying to crack down on the use of "milk" to describe non-dairy products. Peanuts aren't nuts, strawberries (and raspberries, for that matter) aren't berries, catfish aren't cats, the titmouse is neither a mouse nor a... well, you get the idea. People are smart…

I will always prefer to share the stories without the pics. :D :D I have some good ones!

I'm a veterinarian - in particular, I work in necropsy (autopsy for animals). My favorite responses allude to some of the grossest things I've seen on the job. "Wow, that looks JUST like an abscess I drained this morning!" "Still can't beat the bloody mass I took off the side of a cat." Or an allegory about the types of…

I love this! What a great outlook to have. =) Regarding the cake - when I was losin' weight, I skipped cakes (this included at events like the 4th of July and birthday parties and whatnot) - unless they were home-baked expressly for that purpose, in which case I'd ask for half the size slice that everyone else was having.…

I do log them, but since I'm in maintenance instead of losing, I just estimate the amount. =) I still weigh out the calorie dense stuff just to make sure I'm eating an appropriate portion (that's what's always gotten me in trouble - I've eaten healthfully all my life, just too much!), but I'm happy to estimate what a…

There is no nice way to "tell" your partner to lose weight. Telling someone to do something suggests you know better than they do, and that you're in a position of authority over their decisions. Partners have equal footing - there is no "telling" the other what to do. My ex didn't grasp this concept. =) He told me I was…

I'm glad that it's working for you, though I suspect your weight loss is attributable more to your caloric intake than to the foods that you're getting. Just be careful! Your brain is the largest consumer of glucose in your body, and it preferentially uses sugar over any other nutrient (not just for energy production, but…

Financial advisor first... then pay off my student loans and all the student debt of everyone in my graduating class from vet school (I promised them I would, haha). Then buy a crazy amount of land in the middle of absolutely nowhere, get my wildlife rehabber's license, and set up a rehab facility. Or a wolfdog sanctuary.…

LOL so true. Although, with our growing global population and our desperate drive to farm sustainable proteins.... we may come full circle.

I've nearly blacked out behind the wheel after a 12 hour shift without food. Was working emergency, didn't have time to eat even if I had remembered that I needed to - and I'm healthy, have no issues with blood sugar, normally. It can definitely happen. Have always kept food in my locker since then, that was too scary!

There is evidence we've been eating bread for 14,000 years (at least). Imagine the life of a typical hunter/gatherer. We aren't fast. We don't have strong jaws. We don't have very much protection, so if something bites us first, we're in trouble. Our hunting strategy focused entirely on our stamina. We could out-jog a…

Sugar is so important! Not only is it the most accessible nutrient for energy production by the cellular machinery, but the glycolysis pathway - the biochemical steps every cell in your body takes to break down glucose (sugar) - produces 6 of the 12 essential molecules needed for all living cells (glucose-6-phosphate,…

I've been in maintenance for just about a month, now. I still weigh myself daily and I still track, but not as strictly - I ballpark low calorie things, but measure out the calorie-dense stuff. The more convenient I can make it for myself, the more likely I am to keep up with it, at this point. It's easy (dare I say, kind…

This is a bit off-topic but as OP mentioned it's on youtube and it's BRILLIANT. They intersperse the stories with scientific experiments examining how behavior relates to food choices - it's honestly so well put-together. I love it. Plus, those accents, I mean...

And hormones and other cell signalling molecules... not to mention the membranes of the cells themselves... =D Cholesterol gets vilified so easily but it is vital for life!

The difference between vegan and organic - Vegans don't eat any animal products at all. This includes meat (of course), but also things like milk, cheese, eggs, and gelatin (which is rendered from animal parts). Eating "organic" can vary a little bit depending on who you talk to, but it generally means eating food that…

I'm 5'7" and currently 150 lbs (my goal weight). Big difference. =) My initial goal weight was 160, and the difference between 168 and 160 was noticeable; to drop another 10 lbs definitely showed. I was happy at 160 lbs, but the extra 10 lbs has been like refining the details, a bit! My hips look slimmer, my belly is…

I'm with everyone else on this thread. Your projected weight in 5 weeks isn't going up - it's still lower than what you weigh now. That's a success!

I'm in the same boat - I'm pescatarian so it's a struggle for me to get enough protein into my diet! I drink this protein shake for breakfast every morning with a cup of almond milk; it's 170 calories (+30 calories for the almond milk) with 30g of protein, it's easy for busy mornings (I can never get up the FIRST time my…

Oooo, these are brilliant. No dish deserves to be eaten without the benefit of ginger, but it's a pain to peel and cut every time I use some... I'm borrowing these tips, thanks!

Cadbury creme eggs are the bomb, I'd steal my sister's, too! She takes my clothes all the time anyway, it's not like we wouldn't be even. =D

Congratulations!!

It's easy to feel a little crazy tracking all of that stuff - but you can't argue with the results! =] Great job, kudos to you!

Aldi sells low calorie, high protein popsicles (basically Halo top, but the Aldi version and as popsicles rather than ice cream tubs - but they do have those, as well). I'm obsessed with the salted caramel swirl one, at the moment. Usually when I crave things I want salty/savory, though! My fave go-to has been popcorn with…