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This slow cooker thread has gotten insanely long.

Please stop the raspberry keytones and garcinia stuff. They're pretty pointless. I also have a family of four, with two active kids and a husband with a physical job. I make dinners work for everyone with portion control and sides. Enter some of your normal recipes into the calorie counter. You might be pleasantly…

Look up normal recipes. There are tons of foods that are in a decent calorie range. Budgetbytes.com isn't a diet website, but it is my current favorite. I get recipes that fit my goals and taste good.

Oh, and make sure you don't get notifications on all discussion you've replied to. Well, don't do that if you've congratulated someone in a Success Stories thread. Seventeen pages of "way to go!" while well deserved for the OP, make it hard to see any other ongoing discussions.

*sigh* Say you need leeches to cleanse the bad blood, and people will find it ridiculous. Say you need supplements or special diets to cleanse the toxins by pooping, and people want to sign up. It shouldn't be this hard to convince people that weight loss through pooping, peeing, and insufficient food is bad. It really…

Detoxes and cleanses are not beneficial. When they aren't useless wastes of money they can be actively harmful. Please check out MFP's Most Helpful Posts , specifically this one about detoxes and cleanses.

I made sweet potato and black bean empanadas a while ago. They were good, but the recipe makes a ton. I also want to try this sweet potato corn cake recipe, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

I just ate this roasted cauliflower recipe with dinner. My ingredients and serving size (six instead of eight servings) put it at 123 calories per serving. I drained the wine off and used a slotted spoon so there are fewer calories than I estimated, but I'd rather over estimate.

Many restaurants in the southern US use more sugar for Sweet Tea than is put in Kool Aid. Unless you're making your own, don't assume there is less sugar than a soda.

Hey, carbon dioxide can kill. What if she accidentally put her head in a box and inhaled nothing but bubb... yeah. I couldn't even finish that hyperbole. As you were.

Oh, there is. It is a one week diet that's supposed to "shock your metabolism." Those things really torque me off for all of the reasons I listed. They prey on people's fears and gullibility. As far as the sodium/sugar tracking... if you don't have a medical reason to track them, don't worry about going over. Keep the…

I don't avoid sugar, but just cutting calories has reduced sugar for me. There aren't too many filling high sugar foods I can have in the average day. The sugars that I regularly eat usually have something else going for them as well (yogurt with protein, fruit with fiber, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with fiber). Once a…

Please, please, please beware any diet that says it will "shock" your metabolism. If something's wrong with your metabolism it is because you have a metabolic disorder and need a real doctor. Fruit, salad, and an omelet are not going to fix this in any way, shape, or form. Any weight loss will be from going to lower…

There's usually at least one restaurant meal or a special ice cream run every weekend. At restaurants I have the basic MFP strategies for controlling calories (cut the entree in half, order something simple, look up calories ahead of time). Some meals I just say "screw it," order what I want, then log the best I can at…

Lapband concerns should be brought up with your doctor. I know just enough about lapbands that I don't want to give any other advice.

I can usually get them for .90 to .50 a pound, sometimes on sale from that at a local grocery store. In the same area, at a different grocery store, I can get one plastic wrapped sweet potato for one dollar.

If you're counting calories as well as dealing with the lapband stuff it might be worth your time to put your measuring cup on the scale and zero it out. That way you'll have the grams for calorie counting and the volume to conform to the doctor's instructions. It would also be an interesting look at how volume vs weight…

I used to try to correct common grammar and spelling mistakes on boards because I thought people were basically smart and capable of learning. I now realize they are dumb, enjoy ignorance, and assume attempts to help them better themselves are attacks. I don't waste my time trying to help anymore. I didn't realize this new…

Here is my interpretation of macros gleaned from the people of MFP. I admit this is slanted towards why I need them as I lose weight. Read this, it puts things much better than I do. And read this. Protein: It is muscle insurance. When you lose weight you really lose fat (yay!) and muscle (boo!). Protein helps preserve the…

Welcome to MFP! Where calorie counting's for weight loss and exercise is to look better naked (or for fitness, your mileage may vary). Here's the wonderful recommended beginning reading. There's at least two threads on Starvation Mode. Eat back at least some of your exercise calories every day. Some of the calorie…

I can out run anything!!!* *As long as it's really, really slow.

Realistically, if you get loose skin and it bothers you you can shop around for a surgeon to fix this. I have no idea how much that costs. I bet it is better than spending money on doctors for problems that are caused or exacerbated by being over weight. The one person I know IRL who has had excess skin removed is veeeery…

Height, start weight, and how often someone sees you will affect whether or not someone notices. Some people might notice, but not say anything. Finding the right way to say you noticed weight loss is hard.

I made the recipe with my chocolate protein powder (it's all I have), with the OP's suggestions of strawberries and vanilla extract. The pancakes made my protein powder taste less like *kitten*. This is, believe it or not, high praise--my protein powder is vile. I ate the whole pancake recipe. I am definitely full, and am…

Vinegar is pretty great stuff. Malt vinegar on fries and chicken strips tastes amazing. Sherry, balsamic, and red wine vinegar are great on chicken, cooked with veggies, or as part of salad dressing. Rice vinegar, soy, and sesame oil make any stir fry tasty. Apple cider vinegar goes in my favorite brine. None of these have…

Just to hit both threads (and because I did math) here's what I posted about the diet in @yoamba 's thread: To be clear, criticism of this harmful diet is not the same as criticism of you. This diet nor any other will magically jump starts weight loss. This diet nor any other will remove toxins. This diet nor any other…

To be clear, criticism of this harmful diet is not the same as criticism of you. This diet nor any other will magically jump starts weight loss. This diet nor any other will remove toxins. This diet nor any other extremely low calorie diet is safe for someone anywhere a healthy weight. This diet is actively harmful. To put…

I buy the big jar of minced garlic for most things. I roast bulbs of garlic for pizza nights and just for the joy of roasted garlic.

It's more criticizing the GM diet than you, although I understand from some other posters that you've been in or started this thread elsewhere. They may be criticizing that. No one who actually likes people will support this diet. If I ever get an evil villain volcano layer, yes. I will sit back and cackle as I encourage…

^^That. If I did a crash diet I'd not only miss my old tasty foods, but I'd miss discovering new tasty foods as well. I've found foods that are more filling, I've played with my macros (and still am), and I added more vegetables that I never would have considered eating before. And I still get to have ice cream. If I did a…