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First, you're hitting the low end of healthy BMI according to MFP. I hope you're trying to eat real near maintenance. Second, if you've got a good, adequate routine and just need to add a bit more to fill in the corners add a glass of milk, put the good sour cream and cheese on your chicken wrap, drink orange juice. There…

You don't have to enter your foods to access the MFP calorie counts. Go to the MFP webpage, log in, click on the food tab at the top, and go to "Database." You can search the database by food name without entering anything into your food log. That said, I still like the reference books. The book that fits in my purse is…

This is the best tuna salad recipe I've found. I admit, I change the proportions for my taste. I am not a fan of mayo. Edited to add: if not avocado or hummus as @shinycrazy said, try plain greek yogurt in whatever recipe you currently have. It's what I put in chicken salad.

I've been doing budgetbytes.com lately. The sesame chicken broke down to 80 calories per ounce when made with boneless skinless chicken breasts, including the full 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil for cooking. The kung pao chicken was also tasty, and 315 calories with my ingredients (I hate broccoli, and used cauliflower…

HCG is a Very Bad Idea. You can lose weight and eat good food, or you can take HGC, follow your list of "magic" food, fail, and be even less healthy than you were when you started. Please, please, please, try something else.

Wow, I was hoping you'd have some replies so I could steal the ideas too. I don't know any kid friendly diabetic snacks, but there might be some ways to make normal diabetic snacks a little more kid friendly. Cut lunch meats, veggies or cheese with a cookie cutter, or chicken salad in a cherry tomato and call it "cherry…

I usually eat/drink one of the following: Diet coke, Nature Valley protein bar (they're like candy), some form of yogurt ranging from 100 to 230 calories, apples, cereal, or actual candy. Once a week I get ice cream. I have the calories most days to have a little bit of ice cream, but my portion control isn't there yet so…

Sorry to answer for someone else, but nobody said "no one will care." People said no one will know and "it won't make a lick of difference." They said this because three pounds makes almost no visual difference, not because you shouldn't be proud of or track weight loss. You added the criticism. The fact is, no one will…

On the gummy bear thing--you should get a friend (and we all have this friend) to eat a ton by saying, "hey, I heard this candy makes you poop. Want some?" Hilarity ensues.

So you made the choice not to have them. You're still the one making a choice every time you buy groceries, not some device, and someday you'll probably be able to have those "trigger" foods in the house again. Hell, to use your Ben 'n Jerry's example, you could buy the single serving cups, and see if that satisfied you…

If I need that, then I'm not ready to change how I eat. If I'm not ready, the food safe won't help. The point (for me at least) is that I could have that second slice of pizza, or piece of cake, or even cheese and apple, but I choose not to. I'd go nutso if some person, gadget, or diet told me I couldn't have ____.

I really like this recipe for scones. I sub out other things for the currants, but leave the rest the same. It's a dry, crumbly thing that's amazingly good with morning coffee, and insta dry mouth without a drink or sliced butter on top. If everyone's suggestions for other ways to make oatmeal don't work, then seriously,…

You started a thread asking everyone to judge the actions of a third party. If judging is bad, you never should have posted this in the first place.

Go slow, maintain just a calorie deficit for a while, and don't cut out all of your old foods. Half of this is figuring out which calories are worth it for you, and finding new things that you actually enjoy. I learned weirdo things about your food by paying attention to the calorie counter. Ex-I bought reduced fat…

I want to ask this without hijacking, but what protein powder do you use that tastes good with ice cream? Mine is vileness disguised as chocolate. Vileness that I drink to get closer to my macro. And for high protein desserts--all I can think of is cheesecake, or greek frozen yogurt. The cheesecake of course requires more…

^^THIS! This one time, in diet and nutrition, a girl got angry when people told her drinking salt water until it gave you diarrhea was a Bad Idea. They were mean bullies who didn't support her choices. She only wanted to hear from people who had tried the "salt cleanse."

Guys, it's okay: she's taking it back!

I think you haven't seen studies because you haven't looked. Seriously, google it. It is a very ubiquitous concept and I think you'd respect your own search results more if you cannot take this baseline as a given. This whole website is based on calorie counting, so your comment is a bit like going over to a beer brewing…

Just in to quadruple the best advice--get on your meds, track your calories, and kick some *kitten*. It is a reason you will have slower weight loss, but it doesn't have to be an excuse keeping you from your goals.

You can also put in breastfeeding by creating a custom food that has negative calories. Go to the My Foods section off of the webpage to set it up.

For the web board: 1. View the person's profile. You can do this by clicking on a person's user name to the left of their posts. 2. On their profile page there's a green button that says "Add as Friend." It should be right next to their photo. Click on it. 3. Send them a little note, even if it's just "hi," with the…

**Obligatory gluten is good dis clamor** Gluten's just a protein found in grains like wheat, barley and rye. It's gotten a bad wrap lately as the new dietary villain and quick fix. For people who don't have health problems there's no benefit to going gluten free. End dis clamor. Now for recipes! Polenta can be pretty…

I've gotta say, replacing all oils and butter with olive oil will still give you a high cal fat source and can hurt your recipe. Olive oil has a low smoke point when compared to other cooking oils and sometimes that's the difference between tasty food and "eww, what's that burned taste?" Baking substituting anything will…

My husband uses Open Office for a Microsoft Word ripoff alternative. They have a version of visio.

IRL I've only seen people go low carb without counting calories. They don't understand that they've suddenly cut out tons of high calorie foods as well as high carb. Then they reintroduce bread. Lovely, wonderful, tasty bread and go ballistic. Because they never understood that there was a calorie deficit in play they gain…

I almost bought a Nickleback CD specifically for putpocketing prank purposes. Then I realized I'd have to buy a Nickleback CD.

I put olive oil in a spritzer. Upside: several sprays are still under a 4th of a teaspoon. Downside: you have to say "spritzer."

Congratulations on starting your weight loss. There's usually a big drop at first. Most people stop eating a ton of salty food, and have a big loss of water weight in the first couple of weeks. After that you're in for the slow, steady weight loss. Don't worry about one or two weeks with no loss, it's not a stall until…

SHUT UP!