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Tortilla pizzas. Lightly oil both sides of a tortilla and put on a baking sheet. The kids can put on whatever toppings they like (bonus if your kids like different things), you can control the topping variety. Bake at 400 until tortillas start to crisp. Breakfast for dinner. Stir fry. Shredded chicken tacos. Sear boneless…

Why are you reading "fatspo" blogs if they bother you so much? Also, Tumblr is the devil. How do you know that some of these blogs you were looking at weren't real-life thin people posing as fat people and "glorifying obesity" and "claiming thin privilege" to either be ironic or to bash those "fat/happy" people? For the…

That's what I originally typed, but deleted because I didn't want to be "mean".

Only if I can smother it in blue cheese.

I just want to look at this steak some more... ETA: Can we quit arguing already and just look at some food porn?

This meal? Oh yeah, I could eat that meal several times over in one day. Especially the steak-y park. And I do binge on meat...it's one of my issues. I freakin' love meat.

I tried MFP last year and started out really great and then fell off very quickly and gained all my lost weight back because I got very obsessed and very confused with all the differing information regarding macros and micros and healthy vs. unhealthy and clean vs. unclean and IIFYM and IF and blah blah blah. I've started…

I meal plan and grocery shop for two weeks at a time based on our schedule for that time period so I don't have to think about it. I'm not a fan of leftovers, so I'm not big on making a weeks' worth of food at one time, but there are parts that I will make ahead. I'll make a couple pounds of shredded chicken or pork in the…

OP: You have to understand that people are getting on you over the fact that you're complaining about being judged while doing plenty of judging yourself. For example: "Its about the girls that spend the whole time with full on make up and hair done and are clearly not trying to break a sweat so they don't mess it up. Who…

My mother, sister, sister-in-law, and I were sitting around at a family event and they got talking about how much weight they gained when they were pregnant. My mom confessed to weighing 198 pounds at her heaviest and that she would've wanted to die if she would've gotten over 200, and the other two agreed. Not meant as an…

I feel ya...I work in an office with a dozen other women. There is always a reason to have a celebration, it nearly always involves sweets and/or a potluck (sometimes they will stretch an "event" into two separate work-avoiders in the same day, both involving food). I used to go, I would try a little of everything, be…

Salt, pepper, garlic, a little teriyaki sauce, a little pineapple juice into the meat. Grill. Also grill sliced pineapple rings. Top with a slice of provolone, a slice of ham, and a slice of pineapple, add a little more teriyaki sauce if you want. Salt, pepper, garlic, shallot, curry powder, a little sriracha into the…

You should try it with French's cheddar cheese fried onions, layer on top of the meat and then on top of the whole thing. Yummy!!

I've always been bigger in the hips and thighs with a small(er) waist, and my favorite jeans are Levi's 515 Boot Cut. They are a little roomier in the thighs and sit just at at the navel. They also now have something called Levi's Curve which are jeans designed for curvier body types but I haven't tried them yet and…

I LOVE Pepsi. And for me, Coke will not substitute. If there is no Pepsi, I don't have soda. I have gone from 2-3 per day down to maybe 1-2 per month, if that. I do drink Diet Pepsi or Pepsi One now (Diet out of the can, One only over ice...I'm totally weird), maybe 3-4 per week and it has helped the cravings some. But if…

Body weight exercises and calisthenics. Run from class to class. Play tag with your kid. If you have lots of homework to do on the computer, make your desk a standing desk. Do 10 air squats every 10 minutes, half hour, hour, whatever. Just be active. Exercise doesn't have to consist of a "workout".

I walk on an incline on the treadmill, squats, lunges, deadlifts, and weighted hip thrusts for my lower body; pushups, bent-over barbell rows, overhead press, bench press, and lat pull downs for my upper body. I'm planning on starting to incorporate pullups soon, but I'm just not strong enough yet. It's still very slow…

Make a wrap sandwich...mix some garlic, red pepper flakes, and cumin (or whatever spices/seasonings you like) into some sour cream and spread on a tortilla. Throw in a couple pieces of lunch meat, some spinach, some sun dried tomatoes, again, whatever you like, and roll up. Wrap in plastic wrap, and you have a really easy…

These are the instructions I used the first time I prepared artichokes: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_cook_and_eat_an_artichoke/ I've also tried cleaning them and then standing them up (stem side down) in a pot of hot (not quite boiling) pot of acidulated water until the leaves come off easily. I like this…

I like Ryan Reynolds' abs, so I had a huge WTF moment when I sat all the way through Definitely, Maybe and he never took his shirt off. WTF?!?!

"Real" cheese still goes through a process, one that includes the following ingredients (cheddar cheese): milk, starter culture, rennet, salt, flavor/color agents (annato, b-carotene, chlorophyll, paprika to name a few possibilities), calcium chloride, preservatives (propionic acid, sorbic acid, etc). I don't actually eat…

WHHHAATTT?!?! That sounds awesome!! ;)

This made me snort. We also use colors in our household (blue cottage cheese, green sour cream, pink and red milk).

Is the issue that it's McDonald's or that it's an egg, english muffin, canadian bacon, slice of cheese, and margarine, meaning that 4 of the 5 ingredients are "processed"? If you're arguing that processed foods are bad in general, sure, fine, whatever. That debate will never end. If you're arguing that McDonald's is the…

I LOVE Idiocracy! Its accuracy is a little scary though... I've only seen Killer Joe on stage and thought it was fantastic. I hate Matthew McC, so I never bothered with the movie. WTF disturbing was the original Last House on the Left, probably because I was much too young to be watching it and it gave me nightmares for…

I've also worked with a Honey, and it definitely could get awkward. Vistors must've thought we had some major sexual harrassment going on.

It sounds like your main meat issue is that you don't like the smell of it raw or cooking, but it's usually okay once it's done and in something, right? That's easily fixed...go for a walk or something while your husband cooks and don't come back until he's done. :) I don't like just eating a piece of chicken by itself…

Pshaw...so you can't do a pull-up yet. Big deal. 75 pounds on bench is awesome!! If I remember correctly, you belong to a gym. Check to see if there is a pull-up assist machine and start using that if you want. Or do some lat pull-downs. Or don't worry about it.

I was struggling meeting my calorie goal for awhile because I have OCD and was fixated on macros. A typical day would have me reaching one macro goal before I was even close to the other two, and therefore it was a struggle to find foods that only hit those other two macros without going crazy over on the third. Most days…

As you lose, your body's requirements will also change. You will need to either increase intensity of your workouts or reduce calories in order to continue losing. I am just coming off a 6-week plateau. Last week I re-ran my numbers and found out that I needed to drop 60 calories per day from my goal. It may seem…