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Are you eating your exercise calories?

If you absolutely can't live without meat... put a 1/4 lb of burger/ground turkey into that bean dish... teensy bit of meat = very long way.

- Plan meals around the weekly ads. - Eat vegetarian meals at least a couple times a week. Dry beans are cheap, yo. - Make planned-overs. (Double the dinner portions so you have lunch the next day for everyone) - BountifulBaskets.org - Local Farm Co-Op (yes, it's $450; but it's once a year and I get six months of fresh,…

To pay the bills - receptionist at a welding shop Other - Photographer (just starting with paying jobs (1st one was a couple weeks ago) so won't support the family yet)

YES! That's the way the site is designed to work... and gardening burns a ton of calories if you're doing it right. (Per BodyBugg, my highest calorie burn days, over the last year, were heavy cleaning or gardening days).

Only user pics I've used that were people and not me... my daughter and a family shot. edit - Oh... and the Zombie Killer movie poster (was inspiration for photo shoot).

I corrected by going to full maintenance. As I got closer I actually went OVER maintenance by 100 calories to maintain a smaller deficit. Now I eat at just below maintenance all the time and only lose during the luteal phase, which works well with the body recomp focus.

Well... I'm within 5 lbs of goal, really focusing on composition now instead of weight. "after" pic taken on Mother's Day 2012.

600-800 on weekdays, probably 400 on weekends. I tended to forget to eat unless I had a scheduled time, such as a lunch break at work. Then there were the "binge" days when I ate chips and onion dip or a family get together where I ate everything offered. Those were easily 3500+ days.

You got it exactly right (I changed my account at New Year's... decided ZombieSlayer was way more awesome than baisleac)

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http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/246100-tom-experiment-preliminary-results

Derp de derp! 38ish weeks, I think. We'd just finished subdividing the bedroom into a bed room & nursery Munchkin was 4 months old... or was it 3 months old? *counts on fingers* 3.5ish. Munchkin was 2 years old (last summer) Mother's Day 2012

nutrawatch.com closed and I needed a new go to calorie counting website.

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“When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.” ~Jim Rohn

Use brackets [ ] and lower case img. edit to add: Lookin' amazing!

Don't wait for motivation. Just keep going. "Motivation" will follow. edit to add: Or... you could pretend you're preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

Yes.

I started by eating what MFP told me. I lost very little. 10/2010 I took my base calories up to my BMR, also ate exercise calories, and started shedding. 04/2011 Got pregnant, miscarried, off track, gained some back. 09/2011 - 12/2011 Got back on track at just under maintenance (calculated manually) plus exercise calories…

You have to join, but it's completely free.

Overcooking, not high heat. My trick to juicy chicken breasts is to pop them in a hot oven (425-450 deg). If frozen, 45 minutes; if thawed, 20-30 minutes. Perfectly cooked every time. The high heat sears the outside and locks the juices in. Cooking them too long, on the other hand, will dry them out.

Heh. I scanned my birthday cheesecake yesterday (new smartphone too) and MFP came up with Tyson Chicken Wings. Not!

For the recipes - My trick is to use SparkRecipes.com, recipe builder. It gives you ALL the nutritional information (including some you can't add on MFP at all).

Food = weight loss/gain Exercise = physical fitness. Do not exercise to lose weight. Eat to lose weight. Exercise to be healthy. p.s. You need to fuel your workouts.

Food = weight loss/gain Exercise = physical fitness. Do not exercise to lose weight. Eat to lose weight. Exercise to be healthy. p.s. You need to fuel your workouts.

Hee. My first thought was to say, "Go look at Yanicka1's profile". :drinker: :drinker:

Oh... I also highly recommend reading: Strong Men and Women Beat Arthritis. The author covers exercise with multiple types of arthritis along with nutrition. http://www.amazon.com/Strong-Women-Men-Beat-Arthritis/dp/0399148523

Osteo - hips & knees. Just do it. Start with low-impact stuff. Get some muscles built up (takes some of the weight off the joints)... and just do it.