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After making chickpea blondies I am now expressly forbidden to make any form of "healthy substitute" foods without warning all who shall consume them. The blondies weren't too bad, but now I just save the calories and eat a normal dessert.

Hi, welcome to MFP. Check out the stickied posts here. There are a lot of great tips for losing weight at any age. Don't worry about being too old to lose weight. There's always someone older, or with more medical problems, or a tighter schedule, or a relative who pushes more delicious calorie bombs who decides to follow a…

Any resistance training will help (or so I hope). If for some reason you can't lift heavy, try some other exercise regime, although the heavy lifting results are impressive.

^This. Eating exactly as you ate before and changing one thing is a better way to cut calories than completely changing your whole diet but not counting calories. Bottom line: you can order a restaurant salad that's more fattening than steak and a baked potato.

Low carb isn't necessary. Every now and again, I think about going low carb, but just tracking my calories makes me more aware of picking my carbs. For example, I'd rather eat cherry tomatoes as a side instead of chips. It gives me more room for beer. :p

Cheesy Cajun beef and potato bake. Everyone in my family loves it, even the toddler.

But you can eat well and exercise and get the flu shot as well. Those things are not mutually exclusive. @GaleHawkins are you seriously implying that is okay to forgo vaccines because the illness will mostly kill the old and weak?

I've always heard farm fish is better than wild because it is more sustainable, and let's face it: cheap, lean protein is cheap, lean protein. Eventually you get tired of chicken. This is one I want to try, mostly because I suck at pan cooking fish.

Get your meds straight. Ask your doctor your questions. Many people can lose weight normally or slightly slower than others once the meds are straight, but you and your doctor have to figure out what your situation is first.

My problem with "thyroid foods" is twofold: first, there isn't a single "thyroid boosting" food that I can find backed up on the Mayo clinic website, which is my quick go-to double check for medical stuff. Therefore, I ain't believing it. Second, if thyroids really could be yanked around by foods in thyroid diets,…

What do I know about ketones? Well.... When ketones fight, it's called a ketone wheaton battle. And when they battle in a puddle, it's a ketone wheaton puddle battle. AND when ketones battle with paddles in a puddle, they call it a ketone wheaton puddle paddle battle. AND When ketones battle ketones in a puddle paddle…

Honestly, I used to believe all the horror stories about aspartame. Then I decided to believe the World Health Organization, the FDA, the European Food Safety Authority... you get the picture. Aspartame's been studied to death. It is perfectly safe.

Why are the two even related? I guess I've been on MFP too long. This question seems silly. You can "keep company" with someone virtually online without sucking down donuts. In a lot of ways it is just selfish and weak to blame an MFP friend's struggle for your eating habits. Why lay your calorie overage on someone else's…

"You can get all the benefits of running from walking. Besides, you run so slow you might as well walk." Someday I may ask this person to join me on a 5k. They walk, I run, we see who's done first. >:)

Whichever one you can fit in your schedule and stick with would be the best choice. Take the rest days with either program. I get waaay too bored with 30DS. I've tried it two or three times, and always quit around week two. With C25K the continued improvement, or change in running venues, or looming threat of a 5k is…

Serious question: what is the start point for "artificial ingredient?" If I buy sweet potatoes, most people here will say it is natural. If I buy tater tots, most call it processed garbage. Is the difference how long a shelf life something has, or how big a kitchen it was made in? I get annoyed. No one's brought this one…

NPR had this article on fitness trackers. It links to some different studies that may be the ones you guys read. Spoiler alert: Though it said the fitness devices did not seem to aid weight loss, one researcher said that "these devices are most effective when the people using them are already dedicated to tracking their…

So you're big Big Pharma! I was wondering. I thought you'd be less.... puddingy.

Oh god, I'd starve or end up chugging olive oil. I like vegetables and lean meats, and were it not for dairy products and grains my diet would be dangerously low calorie in the summer time.

In general these discussions boil down to: A. I get my information from doctors and peer reviewed science. People who have studied medical stuff say to do X, so I do X. B. I saw something on a blog with "healthy and clean" in the title/a celebrity said/my facebook friends think X. People I know on social media must be…

I get it, my husband gets it, my kids get it. We try to stagger the adult vaccines by about a week in case one of us has the "minor flu like symptoms" reaction a few days after the shot. So far the worst that's come of the flu shot is minor injection site reactions and very slight fevers. I've had the "fun" of arguing with…

Sometimes I bake things with low cal substitutes, sometimes I have a small amount of good ice cream, sometimes I eat an apple and cheese. It depends on my mood. Hell, I (and I know I'm not alone here) have tared out a spoon on the food scale and weighed out a big glob of cookie butter or nutella.

Hey, make sure you have a credible doctor you trust and listen to them. Advice from a licensed medical professional trumps all random internet advice, even mine. Tracking what you eat here, good and bad, can only help. These threads and these threads are also great for general fitness advice. As far as "motivation" goes,…

Honestly I always thought of IIFYM as more of a philosophy than a specific diet. Basically, if I am hitting my protein macro, and getting my fruits and veg per day, I spend my remaining calories on something less nutrient dense, like really, really good ice cream. The ice cream isn't going to undo my garden salad, and the…

The "calorie friendly" food that surprised me the most: pulled pork sandwiches. I make a sandwich for 200-400 calories, depending on size and ingredient portions. The more I logged, the more "normal" food I ate. The food is in smaller portions in some cases, with more veggies and less cheese, but for the most part it is…

Honestly? I have "normal" recipes with larger low calorie sides that I like. Tonight: homemade slow cooker french dip sandwiches, with roast mushrooms. Yesterday: tuna helper with cherry tomatoes. Earlier this week: pizza and salad. Check out your regular recipes in the recipe builder. A lot of home cooked stuff is easy to…

What happens after 8 weeks?

The cake flavored protein bar is a LIE! Seriously though, this is the saddest thing I've seen all day, and I just binge watched Sarah McLachlan's ASPCA commercials on Youtube.

I eat the cake, unless I don't want cake. Then I eat the ice cream. :smile: It's your birthday, it's just one day in a string of days. Don't confuse a day eating at maintenance or a bit above with some sort of failure. That's the best part about calorie counting--it is way more flexible than other weight loss methods.