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Chia seeds. I adore chia seed pudding, but if I eat more than a teaspoon of seeds in a sitting I end up getting what my grandmother refers to as "the trots" (I guess it's less offensive than "the runs"??).

You could make a pretty great Mediterranean spread for yourself! Canned dolma, Castelvetrano olives, cucumbers, radishes, cherry tomatoes, dried apricots, grapes and lots of crackers!

shameless self-promotion incoming - i have a brand new food blog with tons of healthy meal ideas. here are a few! Healthy Greek Yogurt Caesar Salad w/ Homemade Croutons Roasted Vegetable Pasta Grilled Chicken & Mango Salad w/ Avocado Cilantro Dressing

Grilled eggplant, onions and bell peppers are amazing! You can wrap them in foil to reduce messiness. With a little bit of marinara, basil and fresh torn mozzarella... mmmmm.

Always start with the "acidic" ingredients, whatever they may be - a bit of honey mustard & white wine vinegar, for example. Then start adding your oil of choice in a slow stream, and whisk whisk whisk! It should emulsify into a nice, thicker-type dressing. Just add enough oil til it suits your taste, and salt & pepper…

To quote Neil Degrasse Tyson, "A weightloss book written by Physicists would be 1 sentence long: Consume Calories at a lower rate than your body burns them". So yes, it's definitely simple, but easy? No, not for everybody. It's awesome that it wasn't hard for you, but I'm not sure I agree totally for my own case or many…

this is so sad! please don't give up sugar and white flour! think of all the amazing croissants and tiramisus and crappy pizzas and birthday cakes that you will have to miss out on on special occasions. it might be the pastry student in me talking, but life just isn't the same without such amazing indulgences. you can…

espresso on ice with two teaspoons of cream. it's so luscious and rich, i get really excited to wake up and drink it!

yep! i remember back when i rode horses, i had to always buy the men's riding boots because the women's boots weren't equipped for such big ol' calves. i ike Hue brand jeggings a lot! especially while i'm in the process of losing weight. they're so elastic that they fit for a long time even when i've gone down a size. i…

if you haven't been drinking a lot of water, it could totally be water retention, especially if you had an especially salty meal the day/night before. also, if you're sore from working out, you could retain water. if you're having your sharkweek times or they're around the corner, you could be retaining water. pretty much,…

i think you will be okay! i weighed like 240ish the last time i flew, and i was able to get the seatbelt on pretty easy, and i have a big ol' tummy. i would call ahead and ask, because every plane is different!

i literally could not be more honored :')

some delicious pumpkiny crap i made in the last week: i made this awesome pumpkin pasta a week or so ago with italian sausage. it was so good. the ingredients were (sorry for the wonky half weight/half volume measurements): 1 oz white wine some minced garlic 50g diced onions about 1/3 cup pumpkin puree 1/2 cup chicken…

hope it's okay if i include some pictures! here are some of my favorite healthy meals i've made, maybe hopefully one or two could give you an idea! seared tilapia tacos - easy and so fresh tasting!: asian lettuce wraps (just dice chicken, sear it in a pan, throw in some veggies like water chestnuts or mushrooms, and some…

going shopping with friends in highschool and awkwardly knowing nothing would fit at places like forever21 but pretending to browse anyway, and feeling so insanely out of place, that really sucked. but a lot of the stuff i hated most, like that one, goes away when the pounds go away. i think what i hated most is something…

that is amazing! it's the milestones that keep us going!! i remember the first time i saw myself under 200 pounds i damn nearly cried. congratulations!

you can do this!! it can seem painstakingly slow and be incredibly frustrating at times, that is for certain! but 8 pounds in 2 months is actually so good - that's a whole pound of fat a week! imagine how that's going to add up in a few months! i'm not sure if this advice is good for everybody, but i am so with you in the…

"I'm bringing booty back Go ahead and tell them skinny *****es that No I'm just playing. I know you think you're fat But I'm here to tell ya Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top" god forbid the influx of songs recently to make bigger girls feel good about themselves. if i'm reading these lyrics…

i always go under cardio exercises to find "strength training" and use it to estimate. of course, it's really difficult to get a good idea when the app has no idea how strenuous the workout is!

deli tuna salad with relish, tobasco, and crunchy tortilla strips. i genuinely have no idea how this combination ever happened but oh my goodness i love it so much

I don't want to make a slippery-slope argument, but I drank diet coke constantly since I was a child and only stopped recently - and I've read that it can cause certain cancers like lymphoma and leukemia. Lo and behold, I was diagnosed with Lymphoma last year. Of course, that doesn't mean much, but I have wondered if that…

here are a few of mine! :) roasted summer veggie whole wheat pasta! chicken and veggie stir-fry with bean thread noodles, so good~ salad with chicken, avo, black beans, fresh corn, and a homemade chili-honey dressing tilapia tacos! probably my favorite go-to lunch ever. check out my blog http://lumpycurvy.tumblr.com/ for…

I was always incredibly confused by her calorie counts of her recipes, as when I calculated them, it was always way more than she claimed it was. I love the concept of her website, and I've made tons of recipes, but none of them have ever been satisfying to me (and as a culinary student, I don't think my lack of skill is…

honestly, the fact that you came here to post about it before just going on that auto-pilot binge mode is a pretty incredible step in itself. i used to feel those urges come on a lot when i first started losing weight, but i tended to keep them at bay by working out instead or trying to occupy myself with other things...…

lol way to entirely miss the point. all i'm saying is that the name of the activity itself can't tell us if it's exercise or not, but rather the level of exertion in said activity. i forgot where i'm posting - you say the word "sweating" and suddenly you're "insisting it's all about sweating" and that you need the sweat to…

unless it gets your heart rate going and you're sweating and it's physically a push, then no, i wouldn't consider it exercise :) but that goes for anything. my buddy goes to the gym and just wanders around and doesn't do anything and i don't consider that exercise either lol. to me, the activity doesn't matter, it's how…

That sounds so good! I bet it would be even better to freeze coffee in an ice tray and use that for the ice...

i've always wondered this too, because i know you can't really gain muscle while eating at a deficit. BUT! i suggest you keep lifting heavy, because even if you don't gain big muscles out of it, it will still keep your body more toned than it would be if you were just losing by means of cardio. like, i lost 50 pounds…

i hope during my cool-downs and off-days, people aren't annoyed by me at the gym for my lack of effort. and i hope when i go to the gym at night after a long school day, people aren't severely bothered by my makeup! what annoys me are unsupervised kids at my gym who just kind of run around playing on the machines - not…

1. avocados 2. nature's own whole wheat bread 3. chicken breast 4. iceberg lettuce 5. olive oil i can dig it