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Some sort of quesadilla... loved it for breakfast and a good way to use left over boiled chicken breast. Stew with chicken hearts and gizzards, over cus-cus... mmm... delicious, filling and under 400 calories. Pizza on a tortilla... a whole pizza for about 500 calories (well, it could have been lighter).

If you want to look good on your birthday, losing weight might not always be the choice. Doing some hard toning execises, following rutines and DVDs like the one Jillian Michaels has or P90x or Insanity or even Beach Body would really transform your body in 9 weeks. Doing that you would be more tones, maybe lose some…

When I started here, I could not do even 10 minutes of some of the challenging workouts of Jillian Michaels. But that was ok. I made myself as a target do everytime a minute more. And after trying and trying, I got to do some whole workouts. To mention that I don't do JM daily, I alternate them with lower impact workouts.…

Food porn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I tried on some sport pants I never tried on since starting here on MFP (I used them for going to small errands, like the nearby farmers market, going to get water from the neighborhood mini-market, etc. not actual sport)... and they look so baggy around the legs (they used to be quite fitted). :D Also, bought some…

a cinder block and a guineea pig :D

Lost 34 pounds, almost half the way... people don't seem to notice. Well... my brother asked me if I lost weight at about 25 pounds lost, but he doesn't counts. :lol: We practically live together and he knows most of my efforts. My mom visited last weekend, not seeing me after December... she said that I looked like I lost…

Salad, eggs, some bread... nice low calorie meal. Mediteranean style chicken (about 300 calories) + 2 scoops of mashed potato with feta and green onions (about 200 calories) for a 500 calories filling lunch.

Almond oil and wheat germ oil (cold pressed versions are the best) are good for toning skin, especially boobs tissue. I like best almond oil because I don't like the wheat germ oil smell (it's just... that cereal farm smell, it's not bad, but it's not my style, even if the smell dissapears quickly). I also recommend arm…

I'm a 24 years old, 5'7'' woman. Started here at 210 lbs and now I have just reached 175 lbs (meaning from 95 kg to a little under 80 now). I have a desk job, but I am pretty active in rest, I always have been walking a lot, mostly using stairs, I am always doing something around the house... I get bored from just…

Salmon I eatther grill (with no added fat, in a non stick pan or a grill pan) or make my own gravlax (you can find many recipies online). I serve it with veggies cokked or a salad. White fish I generally use in stews rich in veggies. If I have a big whole fish I put it in the oven, garnished with slices of lemon, some…

Any variation of stew (little meat, plenty of veggies, no fat) or chilli bean soup (http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/02/turkey-chili-taco-soup.html) can be made to have around 300 calorie... and be filling. I just grab any recipie and make it lighter. A salad with lots a veggies and 2 egg, or grilled chicken or beef... with…

That's also what I do. Well I know when a brithday or a celebrations comes, so when I plan that day, I eat less calories at breakfast and lunch to make room for that little cupcake that seems to always have tons of calories. And I make sure I have at home a low calorie, but filling dinner. And I would work out in the…

At home I weight everything (except things I use a whole container of, meaning I know exactly how they weight).

Simple no bake cake. Base made from whole digestive biscuits with walnuts and a little butter. Then a layer of strawberries slices, then 2% greek yoghurt, then another layer of strawberries and then again. 133 calories/100 g. Made several jars and had breakfast all week. :D Paella with grilled shrimp.

I'm not following a diet... just trying to keep up with a healthy lifestyle, but with reduced calories intake (well... I use a 500 calorie deficit). Just the usual eat more veggies and greans, less fat (for cooking, but I still eat full fat cheeses, but in smaller portions), with some home cooked indulgence meals, I eat…

I do exercise... even in school, I did physical education / sports class on my period. Sometimes I feel crappy in the first day (pain and the icky sensation), so I might use it at a rest day... but mostly working out (like low intensity stuff, maybe some Pillates, arm exercises) comes at hand even in the first day. The…

Legs - Always without hair; waxing/epilator preffered but sometimes I have to cheat and shave Arms - Most times, always waxed Pits - Always, shaved ( :cry: my armpit lymphs get swolen when I use wax/epilator and my doctor advised me to stick to shaving... but I sometimes feel the need to use the epilator because they look…

I don't use my phone for facebook/twiter & co. as I don't have accounts for them (I had a facebook, but I closed it last year)... and I don't use it for browsing the internet, even if I can. I prefer reading in the situations I get bored/travel long. I also use MFP from my computer only... and I read my mail from the phone…

Well... I did maintained at 95 kg for a couple of years, so I guess I averaged daily at 2300-2400 calories, but I was having most certain some days when I would have gone 3000+. Most calories being all kinds of cheeses (full fat, things like 45% fat) and fat meats/sausages and cooking with lots of butter and eating nuts in…

MFP does not pick how much to eat. When you set a weight loss goal, you choose how much you will eat (you choose 1 lbs/week, MFP cuts 500 calories, you choose 2 lbs/week, MFP cuts 1000 calories per day). Other calculators have a default weight loss, like 1 lbs/week or a certain percentage of you body weight (percentahe…

`Cream` of potatoes+carrot+onion (works just fine made as mashed potatoes, but I like it to be finely blended) served with fennel cooked with brie and bacon. It may seem over the top, but it's a 500 calories meal and it is so good that it is almost madness. Another 500 calorie meal: whole wheat linguine with brie, bacon…

Homemade cheese spread. :D With fresh cottage cheese, chopped olives and pine seeds. :D And chopping olives leaves marks... Beef steak cooked quickly with some red onion and mushroms, on top of a lovely quik cuscus. 400 calories, delicious and filling.

I also have gone through my closet today. Put in keep the winter clothes, getting out spring clothes, gettiing out of th way big clothes to give away, getting to the light clothes that used to fit me and fit me again. :D

If you do tons of hand kneading one day (lots of bread or sponge cakes - hope I'm getting right with sponge cake, I translated it but in my country there are some cake doughts that require tons of hard kneading) you could count it as exercise. It's like arms day. :laugh: Or when you beat home made butter in those rustic…

Is anyone here not using a scale? :)) I find it difficult to truly track calories without scale, it's my number one tool. I weight all ingredients before cooking (the cooked weight is a bad measurement, how much is cooked and how is too much of a variance), food after cooking (I don't just aproximate serving size), etc. I…

Fruits are good, fruits are healthy, sugar from fruits should not be a great concern. BUT... Limit yourself to 2 fruits a day and try to make one a choice of fruit with lower sugar intake; also eat them between meals and as early in the day as you can. I have heard this from many experts in nutrition and from personal…

In my area we have the `basic` climate, the all four seasons in their bloom. But I love winter and snow. Especially winter and snow in the mountains. :D We have only 3 months of winter and I would want more. :D

Long time not posting here! :D Some pictures I gathered these weeks. I just love goat cheese in crumbles and chopped green onion... but well... it's fried and has to many calories. So I made some and served them in little portions and with a big fresh salad. :D Another favorite. Oven baked chicken topped with mushrooms,…

No. But I would want at some point. Not to brag, not to show off. Along the relationship he pushed me to start losing weight and I know he would be very happy that I finally did it (we currently live in different city so we don't have `unplanned` opportunities to see each other)... or at least I started doing it. Although…