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At my house we pan-fry ground pork and make rice-paper rolls with the pork, and a wide variety of veggies and fresh herbs. A little dipping sauce and you have a low-fat meal that everyone can specialize for their own tastes. :-)

Well done! Fajitas without the shells, I hadn't thought of that! That's a great idea!

If any of these products worked there wouldn't be any fat people.

The money thing can be tricky, when I lived with my boyfriend it irked me that he wanted meatloaf and frozen brussel sprouts every single day for lunch (it was healthy options so I REALLY didn't want to rock the boat!) but the cost of all that ground meat and single-serving packaged frozen veggies was astronomical which…

top? I feel this question can be taken SO many ways.... Sportscar or SUV?

spaghetti for SURE (alfredo is grosssss!) spend a decade in a country where you don't speak the language (I guess you can learn it!) OR spend a year unable to see?

going into third year of a PhD in Medical Anthropology! Hiya! One of my friends had a post on her facebook that said "Grad school makes you fat" and it had SO MANY people agreeing with it! Kinda sad....

What cannot be cured must be endured. If you absolutely HAVE to go to places with food and can't pull a trick like leaving your wallet at home then you need to find other things to do rather than eat. Try.... - avoidance: sit or stand far away from the food - bait and switch: have a big glass of water and take two sips of…

:-) Nice Smile :-) (@Charelg: I don't wear earrings?)

big boobs! wear a t-shirt every day forever OR wear a dress shirt w/ tie to bed every night?

you look INTENSE! Like if I saw you on the street I'd be like....yow! she's got somewhere to be!!!

We're doing a red-and-white themed family dinner which consists of... Appetizers: Red and White Veggies and Red and White Dip Red Veggies : red pepper, cherry tomatoes, red carrots White Veggies : fennel, mushrooms, cauliflower, radishes, jicama Red Dips : red pepper hummus White Dip : White dip - white bean and garlic,…

^ what they said! I always guess higher, and I always track everything. If I had been doing so great with guestimating I wouldn't have a weight problem!

I got for apple SAUCE. Toss a bunch of apple slices (skin or no skin as you prefer) and cinnamon (and nutmeg and ginger too!) in a crockpot and set it on low. Stir it every hour or so until they are competely mush.

^ how could one do that without a grill?

1. make a plan, plan in advance what you intend to eat 2. get rid of temptation. If you've only got fresh fruit and veggies in the house you won't eat chips...because they aren't there! 3. make a new routine. If you find you're hungry at night, adjust your calorie intake so that breakfast and lunch are smaller and dinner…

- grilled veggies on skewers, try making skewers of onions, peppers, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, mushrooms, and whatever else you can think of. Make it fun by having a "veggie skewer" station where people can make their own (the REAL fun starts when you try to remember whose is whose!) - vegetarian hot dogs taste the same…

I've often left stuff meant for 8 hours in for 10 hours and it only ever once hurt something (a dear batch of chili didn't survive).

It's a complete mystery to me where "plus size" starts anymore. Would plus size be the size that "overweight" people wear? Because I'm technically overweight but I wear a size 6 (at old navy, so maybe an 8 elsewhere since old navy does vanity sizing).

the weight/size thing is completely variable, yeah I lost about 10 pounds and went from an Old-Navy size 10/12 to a 6/8. And yet my upper body has stated pretty much the same!

Dinner = Lunch Tea time = Supper

Thank you to (almost) everyone who posted! Good to know! I don't typically eat back my exercise calories, I maybe eat half of them, but with Canada day and a big family weekend at the cottage coming up I'll be lovely to indulge a bit and not have to jump in a canoe/kayak/on the hiking trail for hours to justify it!

Looks pretty good, some very common sense things are included. One that caught my eye was about tea "Research suggests that those who drink tea -- black, green, or white, as long as it’s from real tea versus herbal tea -- have lower BMIs and less body fat than those who don’t consume tea." Is that correlation or causation?

One of the routes to unhappiness is trading what you want MOST for what you want NOW. I try to keep this in mind when making choices. Does doing X lead me to what I want MOST or just what I want NOW?

Hey Namml, not to nitpick but isn't that 1/2 a sweet potato? not a butternut squash? and OMG these meals all look amazing!!!

I do something pretty similar but I strettttttcccchhhh it out with diced celery!

I think I'm pretty interesting sometimes, and I like to ask a lot of questions! I do try to log in a lot (although not everyday because I go to the cottage on weekends a lot). Two random things that make me neat-o 1. parts of my liver currently reside in FOUR places (in me, in the guy who recieved part of my liver, in the…

It depends on your reasons for logging as well as the things stated above. Why do you log? Do you log so later you can choose whether to go to the gym/do exercise or go to a movie/not exercise? If so, I'm not sure I'd replace a more vigorous exercise (say an aerobics class) with a less vigorous day of strolling. If you're…

a big greasy burger with dripping cheese and french fries drenched in gravy topped with ketchup and extra extra salt, with a chocolate milkshake on the side and a big bowl of buttery-salty corn niblets. dammmmmn

I just got back from a cardio kickboxing class! I used to dislike it too, but now I love it! I believe as part of my overall scheme to lose weight and get more fit that it "works"