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Skirt steak (on sale) is about $12.99/lb or a family pack ($9.99/lb or less), a couple of green (or other color) bell peppers, and an onion, mixed with fajita flavoring mix (or taco mix, I like it both ways). Saute them all chopped up and you've got a great tasting fajita for like a week. I forgot the fajita wraps if…
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It is HIIT (2 I's in this acronym). It stands for High Intensity Interval Training. Going bike riding can be HIIT, but the intervals may be what you are lacking, as well as the High Intensity part. You need to reach that high cardio heart rate at intervals (thus the high intensity), but only for bursts of time (like 30…
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Fluke and flounder aren't very fishy either. Typically, the white, flaky fishes aren't too bad. And if they are, then they are going bad.
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Just try to build muscle instead of actually lose weight. Stay at your 1600-1800 and just do some cardio and add weight training. You will lose weight without consciously doing it. Throw your scale away and JUST measure your 1600-1800 on the FOOD scale. You will look a lot better and feel much better with some muscles.
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Did you try upping your incline or resistance when you run? Or do you run outside? That could also help you to expend more calories (if you are on a treadmill or even an elliptical). Just a thought.
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I always attributed this to my lower resting heart rate. With my loss of only 13 lbs, I had this issue when I normally ran warm (my resting heart rate used to be high 80's prior to needing to lose the weight). If I drink cold water in the office, I am absolutely freezing. Since my RHR dropped from regularly working out…
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Your body is also getting used to your exercise routine. Is there a way you can increase your incline on the treadmill? You'd be surprised what 1% incline when you had none can do for raising your heartrate. If you do not raise your heartrate like you did before doing the same exercise, then you are OVER estimating your…
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As a pre-diabetic, sugar CAN be a factor of you stalling in your weight loss. Try and research low GI foods. This will allow you to not spike your blood sugar as high or dip your blood sugar as low. If you can, eat more of that 0% fat greek yogurt (since your protein is lacking). If I had to guess, the blueberries are fine…
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If online is easy for you, weightgrapher.com is a great website. It can link to a few wifi scales and such. I'm not sure about apps. I actually go online and enter it in (first thing in the mornings before I've eaten, but after I've peed). Be consistent about when and what circumstances and you will get an accurate…
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Did you have extra salt recently? Sodium/water retention could be as much as 3-5 lbs on some days and times of the month. 1-2 lbs are so in the normal range. You'd be better off getting on to a trending app and just looking at the trending weight rather than daily weight.
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I use Allrecipes.com which you can search by ingredient or type of cuisine. Skinnytaste.com is another one that I've heard of but haven't used too much (allrecipes.com takes care of my needs). Good luck! :smiley:
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I think vitamin E oil used topically helps too. It is a vitamin that is good for the skin. Get the gel capsules and prick a hole in it, then squeeze it onto your scar directly or onto your fingers and massage it into the areas. It worked, but was kind of messy. Time is the most effective though. Not even the vitamin E will…
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I can absolutely guarantee that the other women thinking that they were going to 110 were not lifting. There is only so far you can go down if you are lifting and actually have muscles to show for it. My original goal weight was 135 or 130 thinking that this is where I was 15 years ago (when I wasn't lifting). Now that I…
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Start with cutting some of those exercise calories out. If you can't cut them all together, then just eat back half. Chances are that you are eating more than you think, so this could all be in the error space. If nothing changes when you stop eating back exercise calories, then you really have to look at your diary and…
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Were you eating soups while your were sick? Could this be sodium/water retention?
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I love my grilled fajitas (homemade) with peppers, onions, and either skirt steak (yum!) or chicken if the steak isn't on sale with some taco or fajita seasoning and extra onion and garlic powders. The tortilla (only one) is your carb, put some salsa and greek yogurt (0% fat) instead of sour cream, and you've got yourself…
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Hard boiled eggs (they have them precooked in packages in supermarkets now) and grilled chicken (also prepackaged like Perdue short cuts, but higher in sodium, unfortunately). I fixed up my kitchen last year and this is what I brought in for lunch and snacks every day. I would sometimes bring in the package salads too so…
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Smoothies with spinach and kale can be a great veggie kick for the day, but make sure your liquid is low in calorie as well as any protein powder. If you blend that up, you won't even taste it. Put some banana or other strong fruit with a low cal almond milk or something, and you've got most of your day's veggies (just…
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Don't forget garlic with that olive oil. Sauteeing works wonders with the garlic and oil (or butter if you've got the cals to spare).
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At 5'5" and 132 lb, your weight loss rate shouldn't be at 1lb/week (3500 cal/week deficit). Maybe your body is rebelling and trying to tell you something? Try to reduce your weight loss to 0.5lb/week (so upping your calories as @midsterne... said). Have you calculated your TDEE and made sure you are at an appropriate…
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Antidepressants and antipsych meds can ALL affect your weight loss. The reason is that it is altering your body chemistry so you have to be aware of this. Sometimes it alters the way that you process carbs and it mimics insulin resistance (even though you don't clinically have insulin resistance, it prevents your body from…
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A few key facts here: -Your "normal" is very different from a male, 6 ft., at 200 lbs "normal" portion. -You can't create or destroy matter or energy (that food and drink weighs something and is going into your body, it doesn't magically disappear). -Until you peed and pooped, you have the weight of everything that you've…
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You sound like you have a very busy schedule. Is this new also? Lack of sleep could lead to difficulties in weight loss/gain as well as make you choose food unwisely (leads to sugar cravings, etc.). Just throwing it out there.
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For your beginning stages of weight loss, don't worry about the inches. When your closer to goal weight, then start taking your measurements as more of a gauge (and throw out the scale). Everyone will lose inches differently so if anyone gives you their inches lost and where, it could be COMPLETELY different than yours…
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Yes, it is because you're up so late and your body didn't account for that extra energy you are spending. In my college days when I was doing all nighters, I would be starving at around 2AM because dinner was at 6 or 7PM. You've got to eat smaller meals throughout the day if you plan on doing the late nights because…
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You may be in for a "whoosh" any day now if you think the fat areas are feeling squishy. There are other posts about this effect. Keep it up, your progress is great! :smiley:
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Steak if you have more calories to go and lean pork, poultry or fish when you don't. The fat combined with the proteins will help you get full quicker and stay full longer. When you just don't have the calories left in the day, stick with the leaner protein. Protein is protein, as calories are just calories (unless you…
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Brookside dark chocolate pomegranate flavor (sweet but not too sweet with a little tartness at the end of it)...around 16 pieces is 170 cals. I eat 4 (around 45 cals) when a craving hits and it usually stops the need for more.
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Pampered Chef is the brand of container I use, but there are lots like it online.
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Lemon juice (instead of vinegar), with some salt and pepper is plain and nice on simpler fare. Otherwise, I will also do the vinegar and dijon mustard. No oil is needed unless you want some, but I find if you want to water the vinegar down a little bit, put some salt and some water into the dressing. Salt will cut the…
