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For dinner sunday I'll be tossing in some pork chops, some 'kraut, a sliced onion, a couple of chopped green apples, with some homemade apple butter (I did it wrong....added vinegar instead of apple cider...TART!), dijjon mustard, and fennel seeds. Will serve with mock mashed potatoes. (cauliflower)

This is funny, thanks for posting....ah, 1st world problems. But really, i have one of those $79 imported pickling crocks (ok, I think mine might have cost more than that)...but I don't pickle for the health benefits. (what?)...my homemade sauerkraut is vastly superior in taste to the grocery store stuff. Mmmmm. 'Kraut.

Bread. My 5 yr old's go to snack is a piece of bread. usually plain, maybe with some peanut butter. I bake our own, so it's usually a whole wheat or whole grain bread of some sort....give him a choice between a white bread and a dark bread, he'll always pick the dark bread. He also likes pepper jack cheese sticks,…

the cooking day is a savior for me....often it's like. "ah! I don't have time to cook....I'll stop by wendy's>" then a little voice in my head says....'Um, you have stuff at home, don't waste money' I've also done chili, cooked rice, twice baked potatoes, potato puffs, quiches, baked french toasts .... so I try to plan for…

1) Metabolism does slow down with age, can be countered to a point by increasing your lean muscle mass. 2) You can eat what you want, just plan for it, measure it truthfully, and LOG it. Stay within your calorie goals. 3) Every journey starts with the first step.....just have to be consistent, realize that when you do…

*laughs at the ideal weight range for someone of her height* 112 to 151 pounds..... Man at 5'5", below about 130 pounds I look sick. Bones everywhere. *shudder* Even at my lowest weight (125 pounds in highschool) I still had to wear a mans sized/cut jacket for marching band (ribcage alone was 37 inches and that was when I…

Today was 1/2 c old fashioned oats, half a banana, 1T chopped walnuts, cinnamon, and a cup of skim milk, black coffee. Tomorrow I'm planning on a toaster waffle topped with 1T real maple syrup, two cooked egg whites, and two applegate farms chicken breakfast sausages....(like a McDonalds mcGriddle, yum!) with black coffee…

Yeah, learn to be a person independent of your kids. Ever since my kid was 2 he goes for a MONTH during the summer to my parents house 1800 miles away. We call once a week while he's out there. healthy for kids, healthy for mom, healthy for your marriage.

We do something similar Chopped cooked chicken (really easy to shred a store rotisserie chicken) Can of black beans rinsed Can of corn, drained diced onion diced jalapenos diced peppers diced tomatoes lime peel Season with some salt juice from a lot of limes chili powder cumin cayenne pepper Diced avacado We eat it as a…

*lol* People, think it's ok to comment on fat people too.

I bake a lot. Baking is chemistry in the kitchen. (that's why some recipies can be straight doubled, some can't) I use unbleached all purpose flour. Generally you can't substitute 100% ww flour or the like for the all purpose flour in baking and keep all the other ingredients the same. I usually substitue some of the all…

Graduating college and having an hour and a half commute each way to work, along with a job where I lived in hotel rooms (before the whole microwave and mini fridge were almost standard), AND getting heat exhaustion and exertion migraines very easily (living in Houston TX didn't help there) .....contributed to me putting…

You do it once a day....lets say that's an extra 10 calories...maybe no big deal but if you do it multiple time a day.....because it's just a taste, a lick, a nibble, a bite......those 10 calories each time can add up to a meal's worth of calories.... Past my lips, in the log it goes.

We played on the tech side... Haven't played in a very long time.

We played Palladium (ah, my shape shifter elementalist) and Shadow Run......good times. Vodka and Haiwiian Punch fueled nights with greasy pizza and doritos.

You do realize that it takes an excess of 3500 calories to gain a pound of fat...... If you went over by 17 calories one day.....you didn't actually gain weight. I'd bet it's 99% likely to be water weight from a) too much sodium/starting b) increasing a workout/activity or c) from having been dehydrated and then…

The 'eat what is served or no snacks later' is what we do. And if he doesn't eat his dinner, it gets set aside for when he says he's hungry and wants a snack...hungry? Eat your dinner, it's still there waiting for you. No way I cave and let my kid get chips and cookies in place of eating somethig healthy. New foods that…

At 5'5" and 149 she probably doesn't have that much weight to lose. She should be aiming for a 0.5 a week weight loss. with your age and exercise levels 1400 calories a day is probably too little unless you are eating back a portion of your exercise calories.

Depends on what you eat. Overall it's cheaper for us.....we don't buy as much junk food (cookies, chips, pop, crackers, frozen meals) as we used to We spend roughly ~350 a month on food for 3 people. And that includes meat that we purchase 1 or 2x a year and freeze for use. And I'm not a sales or coupon shopper. And I live…

I'm fluctuating with a loss of 10 pounds since I started MFP (14 if i go by my true HW), and some pants that I bought when I was at my HW fit TIGHTER (like I can't button them!) now....weird since I have some inches lost too. I hate clothes.

I'd say you aren't necessarily looking to lose weight then, but to tone up. Ditch the scale, get a measuring tape, lift weights, eat protein. I'm 5'5" and (when I was in shape) at 135 pounds and 18% body fat, I wore a much smaller size than my 5'7" friend who weighed 120.

I have the BodyMedia LINK armband. When I was wearing it religiously (we started remodeling and I misplaced the power cord, but found it again!) i totally forgot I had it on....even hopped in the shower with in on (thankfully didn't get it too wet, still works!) It's comfortable. I've never gotten 'dimples' or a rash from…

So glad I have a wonderful husband who's response to me right away when I made a comment about my weight was: "I think you'r sexy no matter what you look like. But I don't love you for your body, I love you becuase of who you are." He's so awesome. Never recall being fat shamed, at 5'5" the heaviest I ever was was 155…

I had three beers overr the weekend. And they fit into my calories :) Plus we do homebrew.....why would i NOT drink something we made? And we'll be brewing some beer tomorrow night (mmmm......mocha stout!)

Take a look at what people are eating. Look for people that have open diaries. (I love open diaries, gives me some ideas/new combos) Eupicurious, Foodtv.com, Skinnytaste, some vegetarian sites (can't remember then all right now), allrecipes.com good resources for recipies.

Cutting out processed foods would mean no more crackers, cereal, cheese, ice cream for me..... Yeah, I could go dreid beans instead of canned (but canned is so convienent), and fresh milled peanut butter instead of jarred (but I like that it's so smooth!) Would your own homemade 'processed' foods count? 'Cause canned…

Good luck :) But controlling binging is a constant battle, and requires constant vigillance. I'm down from a couple of times a week to maybe once a month. Lots of different teas.....red tea/rooibos (republic of tea brand is my fav) is really good. The vanilla has a naturally slight sweet taste.

Yep, when breathiong silica dust, important to wear a respirator/mask.... Can cause silicosis.....kind of like breathing in asbestos fibers.

I'm a binge eater, not so much a stress eater anymore, but stress can trigger binges. I used to keep sugar free gum around....until I'd start chew-binging on packs of the stuff a day. Now I have a hot-pot at my desk to heat water. I drink a lot of hot tea now (no sugar). Keeps me busy and doing the hand to mouth…

Um, just because that might be how he was raised to 'show love' doesn't means it's not verbal abuse.....it's still abuse. Would you say that same thing if she was actually egtting hit? "Oh, but be careful about calling it abuse, maybe that's how he was raised and that's how he shows love.' Yeah, nope. It's verbal abuse…