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Pizza with pesto and sauteed mushrooms

Marinade: 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped 6 tablespoons light olive oil 1 teaspoon dry basil 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon lemon juice Pour marinade over 2 salmon filets, refrigerate about one hour. Preheat oven to 375. Place each filet on a small sheet of foil.…

Martha Stewart put sour cream in guacamole and calls it "guacamole dip". But I agree--who needs it? Guac is delicious on it's own!

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Why do I get the feeling that I've seen this exact post here before--complete with the "McDonald's" angle?

About a month. YOU try living one mile from an In 'N Out Burger and not visiting it!

That is a great blog; thanks for the link!:flowerforyou:

I keep some as a last resort; I use it mainly to make chicken salad or to add protein to a green salad. I also use it as quesadilla filling.

Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal with 2% milk 1 banana 1 hard-boiled egg

A partial list: CANNED/JARRED -Tomato sauce -salad dressing -peanut butter -preserves -tuna -pink salmon -soy sauce -diced tomatos -crushed tomatos -black beans -maple syrup (pure) -mayo (olive oil) SNACKS -Skinny Cow candy -crackers/crisps -almonds -pistachios -popcorn (100 cal.) CEREAL/GRAINS -brown rice -Kashi Go Lean…

A nice-sized boneless skinless chicken breast is about 9 oz, which equals about 270 grams. That's about 2 servings. (I don't have my chicken breast thawed, boned, skinned, and photo-ready at the moment--sorry!:flowerforyou: )

It is quite yummy--and satisfying!

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/08/13/the-michael-phelps-diet-dont-try-it-at-home/

Two good breakfast sandwiches: 1. Peanut butter & banana (or sliced apple) on whole wheat toast 2. Tomato, avocado, & thin sliced provolone on whole wheat toast

Rotisserie chicken; Giant bag of Kirkland frozen Normandy vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, whole baby carrots, and sliced yellow carrots). And they're the big, restaurant-sized pieces, not the dinky little pieces you buy at supermarket. Giant bag of "festival blend" tropical fruit--great for smoothies; Kirkland raw…

MFP already has you in a deficit; so 1200 calories is the net calories you should shoot for each day. If you eat 1200 cals and burn off, say, 500 cals during exercise, then you're really only taking in 700 calories for that day. You'll need to eat those 500 calories back to bring your net back up to 1200.

When you set up your MFP profile, what did you set as your activity level? 1200 calories seems very low for the amount you are burning. Maybe change your goals to lose 1lb/week instead of 2.

To be honest, if this happened now, at my age, the asshat would be lucky to get an eyeroll from me. I'd probably suggest they get some new material or at least tell me something I don't know. I probably wouldn't engage them--any adult bold enough to walk up to a complete stranger and say "you're fat!" probably carries…

If it's any consolation, this really doesn't happen. I've been fat my entire life, and the last time a non-family-member said ANYTHING to me about my weight--"critical", "bullying", "shaming", whatever, TO MY FACE--was when I was about 14. They may think to themselves that I'm all kinds of fat-*kitten*, but they never say…

This. It's not the teacher's job or place to "point out" that a child is obese. And I'm speaking as someone who had this happen when I was about 8 years old. A teacher was not happy with some answer I gave during a pop quiz, so she decided to "punish" me by giving me an assignment: look up the word "obese" in a dictionary…

After five months on MFP, I think I finally get the hang of the the TDEE thing: if I'm correct, and if you truly do 3 days of cardio a week, 3100 is the calories you need to eat daily to stay at 331lbs. For a slow, steady weight-loss, you would have to cut 500 calories a day from the 3100 calories; so you'd be "short" 3500…

Usually some dairy, like a glass of milk with my lunch or some Greek yogurt as a snack. If needed, I also have an extra pat of butter on my vegetables. A very easy way to up my calories is a serving of nuts, like walnuts or cashews. I don't worry about the fat content in nuts because they contain the "good fats", and one…

Tropical smoothie: 1.5 c Wawona (Costco) Festival Blend (mango, papaya, strawberry, pineapple) 1/2 banana 1/2 c almond milk 1/4 c nonfat vanilla greek yogurt

Last year, when I started carrying paper towels in my purse because I needed to wipe off the sweat that was pouring down my face after walking for three minutes. Uncomfortable (but nice) cashiers would ask me if it was warm outside (it wasn't--sometimes it'd even be raining!). Also, at 47, I realized that I basically "sat…

MFP's sodium settings are limits, not goals. The USDA recommends no more than 2300mgs a day, while the American Heart Association recommends no more than 1500mgs a day.

Roasted garlic hummus with whole wheat pita.

Whenever I have a chip craving, I make my own corn chips. I take one corn tortilla (the 6-inch, fajita size) and cut it into 8 triangles on a baking sheet. I then spray it with cooking spray and sprinkle with Mrs Dash salt-free Fiesta Lime seasoning. Bake at about 350 for 10 minutes. They come to 59 calories, 8g carbs and…

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