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Good Greens+ bar, 1oz of almonds, a boiled egg (if I know I will for sure eat it within an hour), water bottle (big purse!)

Under cardiovascular- Strength Training Calisthenics, vigorous effort High Impact Aerobics (depending on what you did that day)

I sat around playing WoW for 7 hours a day drinking 4-5 cans of soda, pasta with cream sauce, taco bell, and late night binges to deal with emotional problems. It crept up on me throughout high school until I saw pictures of me at a New Year's party and my weight was 195 pounds that it was a real problem.

Thank you so much! I was lying to myself about the weekend calories, but reality is real, and I ate that food even if I told myself it wasn't so bad! I'm definitely going to be more vigilant about tracking. Late night snacking is a problem with me, and it's because I'm bored or don't want to go to bed, so I'm gonna close…

Sorry, but you can't spot reduce! I feel your pain- I carry most of my weight in my thighs, hips, and butt, so I understand how frustrating it is, but you have to lose fat everywhere by being in a caloric deficit. You can strength train, however, to develop strong muscles underneath the fat(plus muscle burns calories at…

Awesome suggestions, thank you.

If you want to do double reds, start eating more iron now. Also, do you mean hematocrit? A hemoglobin of 38 is off the charts! It'll take a while for the hemoglobin/hematocrit level to rise without a transfusion/epogen. A hematocrit of 38 for a grown woman isn't too bad, and 12-18 is the normal hemoglobin (but 12.5 is the…

What they said ^!

You should probably just eat something with sugar in it and count the calories. Your total blood volume is dropped, which can result in light headedness as well as getting something a little carby in you helps. So, eat the cookies and the juice, make it work in your daily calories. Besides, it's a once every 8 week thing,…

I forgot some commas. real, good food. I mean, for what you spend on Shake-o, you can buy so much more at the discount grocery. Ripe fruit, tough cuts you meat you can stew to be tender, in-season vegetables. If you worry about vitamins, getting them in a more natural form from a high quality multi is better than getting…

I have tried Shake-o. I'm also doing turbo fire. I eat real good food, I do turbo just fine, save money, and feel great. PS my running shoes were only 75 dollars, and that's a once every two years purchase, not every month.

Thank you ACG! Your words of wisdom are always welcome (to me at least!)

For example, I'm not. All of my meals are already around 3 dollars. Eggs, beans, meat, and homemade yogurt/on-sale yogurt. I have a busy family life too. I plan ahead, cook ahead, pack ahead, or keep easy stuff on hand that doesn't cost 120 dollars a month. I'm just trying to see how it's a benefit when I can get the same…

Eggs almost everyday (I have chickens, so I sort of have to eat them up before they go bad!). Some sort of meat if it's a little chilly out and I want something heavier. Canadian bacon, regular bacon, chicken sausage. If it's hotter than hell (like today) I'll have a veggie omelet and a serving of fruit and cottage cheese,…

Good Greens bars are vegan and raw. 10 grams of protein, 5 grams of fiber. Taste good, relatively cheap, and high quality non-gmo ingredients.

I just use real butter, but less of it. Saturated fat is not the devil it was made out to be for years, again, mother nature isn't stupid. Why would she put the best sources of protein for early humans next to something that would kill them? Fat Head rant aside :P Yes, real butter all the way. Better taste, better product,…

It's doing that because it has probiotics, fiber, and whey protein. You can get all of this from much much cheaper supplements, as well as real food and not spend 120 dollars a month on it.

Just get a good quality multi and some whey protein. Seriously, purity products 30$ for a month supply of capsules (again, quality. Not some rock hard tablet from K-Mart that you just poop out whole) multivitamin and a huge 2 pound tub of optimum nutrition is all I need. Multi-level marketing at it's best.

I'm in the same situation as you! I have lecture and lab, then nursing clinicals all day from 8am to 9pm (ADN student, blech.) And we only get about an hour inbetween lab and clinical, which means no sitting down for a Panera salad and grilled chicken unless we order ahead and leave the car running in the parking lot! I…

Love Aldi's! There's this big stigma abut Aldi's because it's "where the poor people shop." Phooey. I can get Kefir for 2.59 there, fage yogurt, almond milk, frozen fruits and veggies, and stir fry mix (frozen veggies with a little sauce packet) for ultra cheap. They often have good produce too, but I can find a larger…

Good advice guys! I'll check out the price of almonds at the bulk store next time I go.

I would do almond butter, but it's 12 dollars a jar. I'm a poor college kid already scraping the bottom of the barrel for money, so peanut butter is a cheap and easy way for me to get fat and protein. I thought natural peanut butter was okay?

I love the Good Greens+ bars. They're raw, organic, but it's not 100% paleo. It has some non-gmo soy powder and gluten-free oats, as well as non-gmo flax. It's way better than most bars out there, they taste pretty darn good, and they're cheap as heck (which is the main selling point for me, a poor college kid. I can get…

Oh, sorry! I thought you were trying to measure coffee! Most scoops are two tablespoons, yes. If you don't mind spending a few dollars, any dollar general/dollar store has cheap measuring spoons and cups you could use.

Here's a good FAQ about paleo. http://thepaleodiet.com/faq

For my maxwell house, they say use 1 T, but I've always been fond of the 2T scoops and just adding more water. Besides, coffee as almost no calories; an 8oz cup has 5 calories. Just measure your liquid result.

Grilled chicken breast over italian blend salad with some balsamic dressing on the side, plain mangos and strawberries, peas and broccoli with a tsp of olive oil, a luna protein bar, and some fage 0% with cherry for dessert (or peach, depends of what I'm craving at the time). Eating dinner at the hospital tonight since I…

Well that makes perfect sense.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/you-are-not-different.html

Nice broscience. Do what works for you, drink water, eat less, move more.