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I find that when my weight stalls, my inches shrink. If you noticed your stomach shrinking, then you're losing weight, but just not on the scale. If the weight factor frustrates you, then stop weighing and go to measuring inches as your check-in in combo with the scale. One unit of measure isn't an accurate picture.…

I'm a fan of the Brookside dark chocolate covered pomegranates. They have other chocolate covered things too though.

I've got about 6-10 lbs left as well. Yes, stupid slow downward is better than upward trend.

Totally up your protein intake and lessen your carb intake. However, if you are sticking to your calories in the day and as long as you are accurate this isn't a huge deal. If you start to weight lift, this could start to hinder you though (not enough protein won't repair your muscles).

Overeating of anything is bad. Red meat, pork, veggies, fruits, fish, water (for Christ's sake) can all be bad if you have too much of one of them without balancing it out. No surprises there. That article isn't going to change what I'm eating from day to day.

Starting low carb diets will shed water weight initially, then the body has to reset itself (you end up stalling for a few weeks). This whole weight loss isn't linear, but the loss comes in starts and stops. Just keep to you deficit and don't weigh daily if you're going to stress about the stalls. I started to lose weight…

If you didn't need to log everything you ate to lose weight, you wouldn't need MFP. Right? Logging everything is the answer.

I'd go with the Burrito del Mar and tell them to put the "rico sauce" on the side. Even the Burrito Azteca sounds good and filling as long as the stuff on top is put onto the side (the chees, pico de gallo, and green sauce). Sounds like a yummy place!

Resistance training would be training with weights (dumbbells, body weight, or barbells). This could start with push ups, squats, pull ups or with dumbbells. You should try to keep as much lean muscle you have so that in the long run your weight stays off.

Every day cardio is too much. Even people who train for marathons have rest days. Your muscles need time to repair themselves. If you find that you hit a wall with weight loss though, try mixing things up. My trainer hates that I will run for an hour on lunch. He says that it will lessen your muscles (for weight training).…

Cycling is just another cardio exercise. Weights are resistance based, but can be body weight such as push ups, squats, pull ups. Weight training will not pump your heart rate especially high (maybe a little higher than resting), but you will definitely be sweating if you're doing it right.

Ever try a greek omelette (feta cheese, spinach, tomato or any other greek flavoring you can think of), or western omelette (ham, onion, peppers, and I like mushrooms in it too)? Canadian or turkey bacon can be used instead of real bacon or use more cheese that is part skim or low fat. Edited to add: turkey sausage is…

Rice can be another starch that is safely GF.

Measure the whole piece on a scale and then take the proportion for the smaller serving. For example 10 ounces for the whole 220 calorie cake, with the amount shaved off, it is now 5 ounces, then I'd take 110 as the approximate calories.

BMI is a guideline and totally does not take into consideration extra muscle mass. If you are on the low end of BMI, then you should definitely start to consider weight training and even gaining some additional muscle mass. Athletes with very low Body fat % but lots of lean muscle can be considered overweight by the BMI…

Yup, I hate that red when I'm over as well. The answer is simply switch to a lower sugar fruit if the mood hits for a smoothie.

Cooking the extra for a no-carb or low carb meal isn't as much of a problem as the clean up. I'd do it, but then make him do the dishes. :D

+1, this has the ability to use in smoothies much better than coconut milk (I'm not a fan of coconut though either).

My lunches are usually my leftovers from dinner. Fajitas are always nice and simple (package of seasoning from store with chopped up skirt steak or hamburger meat with chopped up onion and peppers). The Crockpot is my weekly savior on dinner time madness though. 15 min prep, dump into crockpot and set all day for dinner…

If you can't stop yourself, you've just got to stop stocking the stuff you're reaching for. Otherwise, it your family wants it, keep it somewhere that is REALLY difficult and a pain in the butt to get to (i.e. top most shelf above the fridge). If you REALLY want it, then you'll have to work a little bit for it. You'll have…

Avacado is another healthy fat source. Maybe eat that in a salad here and there.

I thought that too initially. Instead, I switched out my banana for blueberries or something way less sweet in the morning. I still will have lots of sugar if I do a smoothie in the morning, so I ultimately had to stop. But I am prediabetic, so I needed to watch my sugars. Unless you have medical issues, this shouldn't…

Instead of a banana you can also eat a cup or more of spinach for a lot less calories (unless you have the calories to spare). Also check your temperature at the time the leg cramp happens. I find the cramping will happen more frequently in colder temps. Maybe eat your spinach, make sure to drink your water throughout the…

You are really quite low on the protein side. Your carbs are way over the top too. If you find that you are crashing (energy wise) at night, try to lower your carb intake for the day (and perhaps your sugar crashing in evening). Concentrate on getting your carbs and you will totally feel fuller longer.

This isn't quite true. Hormones and medical conditions DO trump certain aspects of dieting. Prime examples would be the whole carb/sugar thing...for a normal person, not an issue, but for a diabetic can be detrimental. For weight loss...same thing. If your body doesn't process carbs well, you don't get the energy from it,…

+1 Also, if you do lose too fast, you can always use Spanx if not for molding a look for your body, it will hold things in tightly. If you can use some sort of snug all over body (or wherever you're worried about) type of Spanx or spandex, it will do wonders. This is why if you wear tight pants all the time, you would see…

Have you tried playing with your macro splits? Especially if you have PCOS or symptoms similar to it, this will mimic diabetes and insulin resistance. Try lowering the carbs to no more than 35% and try eating 1/3,1/3,1/3, at each meal (carbs/fats/proteins). It helped me and I'm pre-diabetic but I've heard that PCOS mimics…

+1 for this. The body will naturally detox itself. Just drink PLENTY of water to get the additional sodium and other crap out of it.

Don't trust the MFP number. Go with the more conservative number and don't eat back all of those. Some say 50% or 75% of exercise calories should be eaten back.

Waking up an hour or two earlier will give you 100-200 steps extra a day (unless you're working out in that time frame). So no real extra calories (maybe 5, so a bit of broccoli extra?). :D