Kaydana123 Member

I just adjust my goal to whatever I want it to be each day. It only takes a few seconds to change it (so if you want a different goal at weekends, you'd change it Saturday morning and change it back Monday morning), definitely not worth paying extra if that's all you want it for.

A slice of wholegrain toast, with a scrambled egg and grilled cherry tomatoes.

Soups are filling, easy to make, and can be very low calorie. A couple of portions of your favourite veggies and a stock cube are all you really need. I like to add a little meat or creme fraiche for extra flavour. Boil it, blend it, eat.

My favourite <100 kcal snack (more of a meal, for me) is baby sweetcorn or green beans with sour cream and chive dip. I make the dip with reduced fat sour cream and chop chives up into it, then leave in the fridge overnight. An entire packet of baby sweetcorn or green beans with 50g of the dip is just under 100 kcal.

Just because you can't do something, doesn't make it impossible. There's no guesstimating in my cooking, I weigh everything. I don't use several tablespoons of olive oil to cook chicken, because I don't need several tablespoons of olive oil to cook chicken. I measure out the amount I need, and use that. There's very little…

I think about it for a second, then go home and eat one of my clean chocolate brownies, which are tastier, healthier, more satisfying and don't use up such a huge portion of my calorie allowance.

You don't need to count calories to lose weight. Your body doesn't know whether you're counting calories or not, it just responds to what you put in it. If you're eating more salad and greens and less other stuff, it's not really a surprise that you're still losing weight.

Do you have a fridge? It's perfectly possible to create healthy and tasty meals in a microwave. Rice (no, not the expensive single serving "microwaveable rice", the normal stuff!) works particularly well in the microwave. Add stock, veggies and spices to the rice while it's cooking and you can make a cheap, tasty, healthy…

It never ceases to amaze me how many people here have special bodies that can tell the difference between accidental exercise and intentional exercise. If your lifestyle thing that mfp uses to calculate your daily calories is "sedentary" and this is a lot more work than you normally do on a daily basis then yes, you should…

There are plenty of ways to turn leftovers into to something different so you don't feel like you're eating the same thing multiple days in a row, you just need to use a little imagination and start viewing the leftovers as ingredients rather than just something that needs to be used up. You don't have to eat all the…

You could be better hydrated, you could be consuming more of the nutrients associated with increased concentration, you could be eating foods that are digested more slowly so you're not getting dips in how much energy you feel you have, you could be consuming nutrients that you need that your "junk" diet lacks. Or it could…

I'm amazed by just how many people won't even contemplate trying them. They're the best bit!

Too much of anything is bad for you. How much is too much depends on the individual food.

But it IS temporary. I have no intentions of losing weight forever. I intend to reach my destination, and then I intend to stay there. The journey isn't forever, the destination will be. I have no intention to make this journey again once it is complete.

haha

You do know what a chemical is, right?

My ancestors' bodies put a lot of effort into adapting so that when I was born I'd be able to eat yummy things like milk and cooked meats and lots of other things that humans have figured out how to produce that taste yummy that other animals haven't worked out yet. If I CAN eat it, and eating it won't cause irreversible…

Wow, with five pages of responses I figured that at least one person would have mentioned this... seems everyone's too busy arguing about whether or not we're "meant" (lol) to drink milk. If you want to lose weight, and aren't lactose intolerant, then drink milk. There have been numerous studies that suggest dairy (and…

I know I'm a day late but... 174. That 4 lbs less than last week!

Why?

There is no minimum of 8 glasses, and it doesn't have to be plain water. It doesn't even have to be liquid, if you do it right you could technically get all the water you need from food, though you'd probably get bored of that very quickly. Drink when you're thirsty, drink whatever you like (just make sure you log the…

What works for me, is making most of my food in bulk and storing it as single portions.Then I can put in the whole recipe (usually very easy because I mostly use frozen veg by the bag) so I just need to add one portion of that when I eat it. Because it's just me eating it it doesn't matter if each portion is exactly the…

If you mix two hydrogen molecules with one water molecule then you have two hydrogen molecules and an oxygen molecule. If you burn that mixture, then you get two molecules of water. IT'S MAGIC. When you add coffee to your water then you have water with some other stuff dissolved in it. The coffee doesn't react with the…

You can eat anything you like, just think about your portion sizes. So get the smallest pizza, or an individual sized chocolate bar, or just one baked good and you shouldn't have any problems.

Because they don't want people who make absurd assumptions like "anyone who doesn't have an open food diary must have an eating disorder" looking at their diary. Because god knows what that kind of person would think of them if they saw what they ate!

As I said, I got a little sidetracked. And I admit that my first example was a poor one, I believe the pasta and frozen veg example illustrates the point better as they are both pre-packaged foods. But I'm not extrapolating anything, I was simply interpreting the statement in the way someone who knew nothing about clean…

I like you. It's nice to finally meet someone else who doesn't scream and run away from the meaningless "scary food words."

Put porridge oats and some raisins in a vacuum flask and add boiling water before you leave for work. When you get to work it should be ready to eat!

I'm not trolling. I'm was trying to make a point but got distracted by how funny it is that people are so scared of hugely broad terms like "processed". Now, I'm going to explain this as clearly as I possibly can. The original statement claims that the less ingredients the better, but this just isn't true. If someone is…

Because people being able to see what I put in my food diary doesn't stop me eating bad foods, it stops me logging them. If people can't see then I feel comfortable with logging everything and can look at the days where I've munched my way through 2 bars of chocolate and 3 bags of crisps and actually SEE the effect that…