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Salad: baby spinach & butter lettuces with (cold) grilled chicken, strawberries, blueberries, a few candied walnuts and pomegranate blueberry vinaigrette dressing. So refreshing and "cool" on a hot day!

Feel free to add me. My goal is also to lose 150 pounds. I lost 53 last year, and am working on 50 more this year. Wish it would go faster, but guess it's just not meant to be fast for me. At least I'm losing something now since joining MFP! Yay for friends and MFP!

Wow - summersbest! That's an awesome list! Thanks!

Yesterday I was changing in the locker room at work (I bike to work almost every day) and happened to turn/bend just right and all of a sudden noticed that my ankles looked skinnier. I haven't had "skinny" ankles in years! But dang if it didn't just strike me that they looked smaller than they used to. Then, I turned…

I like a lot of stuff by Flo Rida off his "Wild Ones" album to work out to. Fun songs with just the right beat to keep going! Let it roll - Flo Rida Good Feeling - Flo Rida I cry - Flo Rida

I do this too, except I like whiskey, usually Crown Royal. I just order a whiskey & water in a tall glass (get more water that way) and add Crystal Light or Mio to it. Crown Royal is 96 cal per oz/shot

for squash like zucchini and yellow squash, it's good just sauteed with a can of dices tomatoes and whatever type of seasonings you like. they are also really good "stir fried" with carrots, onions, mushrooms, etc and use some of the herb flavored marinades that are out there for the sauce.

Thanks for all the great ideas everyone! Bump bump!

I go camping a lot, and I like to bring stuff like: Sandwich thins bread, lunchmeat, lettuce, tomato (good replacement when everyone else is eating hot dogs) Low carb tortillas, cream cheese, cucumber, cooked chicken breast or lunchmeat Low carb tortillas, scrambled eggs & salsa for breakfast burritos (assuming you will be…

This weekend I was over visiting a friend, sitting on her couch talking, when I all of a sudden realized I had my legs crossed. At the knee!!! Really, One knee over the other! I can't remember the last time I could do that ... it's been years! I lost 57 lbs last year, but have been stalled for about the past 4 months. But…

I've tried them with several different types of veggies & sauces, and I like them. With that said, and like another poster already mentioned, you must prepare them correctly! There are some other threads on here that go into great detail on the best way to prepare them, which is dry frying them first before adding them to…

When I get to my ultimate goal weight, then definitely a boob job! I have never, ever had perky boobs in my life (even when I was younger, as I have always been overweight as long as I can remember) and it's something I desperately want. Not implants, just normal shaped, normal sized, normal looking boobs that I don't…

I have been dreaming of opening a small restaurant with a drive thru window, that caters to healthy food. I would have options for low carb, low sugar, high protein, gluten-free, low salt, weight watchers, etc, etc. So whatever someone's dietary restrictions were, we would have something to suit them. I have found so many…

bump... want to read this later and share it with my sister who is struggling with whether to increase her calories or not

bump for later! Yum!

Bump... I would like to read the responses here.

Sounds good! I might try it for dinner.

I use RunKeeper too. I don't run, but I use it to keep track of my cycling miles as I don't have a cycle computer on my bike. I really like this app. It's fairly simple to use and works really well on my Android. (I have an HTC Incredible 2)

Oh my gosh, you look like a totally different person! Your hard work definitely paid off! Way to go! I love love love softball, it is my exercise of choice in the summer as well. I hate being stuck inside a gym, so I'm a lot like you and do sports and activities to burn calories rather than go to a gym to work out. The one…

I'd say once you have kids your waffle eating slows down. But then, once the kids are grown (and you are older & wiser!), you can have as many waffles as you want again. We have waffles 3-4 times a week now (was much less when kids were younger) so there is hope! In fact, now that we are older, we like taking our time and…

Wow! Great job! You look awesome! I am inspired to hear that you started your journey more than a year ago. I sometimes feel like my journey is going soooooo slow, and it's easy to get impatient.... I started losing around May 2012, and have lost 49 pounds so far (9 months). It's nice to hear from others that have been…

I do this too! I weigh myself almost every day, and use it as a tool to help me learn how my body reacts to what I do and what I eat. I don't worry about the couple lbs up and down from day to day due to water retention, TOM, or whatever. I expect that, because it happens to everyone. But by checking in every day, I am…

Fire It Up by Thousand Foot Krutch or Smackdown by Thousand Foot Krutch

I agree!

WoWWWWW! You look great!!!

I totally agree with this. I weigh myself almost every day. I don't freak out over a few pounds up or down on a daily basis, as we all know water retention, etc can affect you. If the scale goes down to a new low weight I haven't seen before, I count it as a loss. If it goes up/down a couple pounds from day to day, I don't…

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I am 43 and have lost almost 50 pounds since May of this year. I have my calorie goal set at 1800 calories a day, and do not eat back exercise calories on purpose. The weight is coming off slow but steady, I have consistently lost 6-8 pounds a month. I have been overweight as long as I can remember, all through high…

I have another 100 lbs or so to lose. (hoping to lose 150 total!) I started at 310, and am at 263 now. Progress is slow, but I think that's a good thing. I am learning to make changes that I can keep for a lifetime, so that I don't ever go back to that weight again. Since slow & steady seems to be working, I'm just gonna…

This! Well, the first thing I did to help kick my habit was to start looking up the calorie counts of all those things that I loved to eat when I would eat out. OMG! You just don't realize how many calories are in some of those dishes! Even the ones that you think might be a healthier choice, like some salads - they are…