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I know right! of course right after I made this salad I found the ones I bought just for this - doh! next time. I buy them in bulk from one of the fancy pants stores so it's not too bad

I read "Mindless Eating" and one of the big tips is that you should not under any circumstances have any visible food in your kitchen when you walk into it with the One Exception being a fruit bowl. I don't have a fruit bowl BUT I do stick to the "no visible food" rule and it's tremendously helpful as I find when my…

well - at around 5'5.5" and 215ish I finally got properly fitted for a 36HH. I am now 152 and 30E (and possibly smaller, gotta do my monthly measurements this weekend). I've lost a LOT from my bust. It was the first to go and if I were a millionaire I'd sign up for a breast lift upon hitting goal. But the right bra helps…

cheeseless pizza (I make the dough in a breadmaker so I know it's vegan) or you could even add cheez to it, bread with oil and balsamic and italian seasonings, a panini sandwich (okay can you tell I really miss eating lots of carbs?!) Peanut butter, clif builder bars, desserts made with tofu (tofu cheesecakes!) dark…

I try to eat back the majority of my exercise calories, with the goal of being 100-200 in the green at the end of the day as a buffer, not always successful though. Lifting days and resting days make that pretty tough though. Statistically I maintain at 1800ish while sedentary so it's not a huge deficit. Probably have to…

Okay - when you're only having 1200 calories per day before exercise calories, that extra 100 calories would be nice. Again I REPEAT - Humor Me Anyway.... 3 responses and still no one answering my question.

How about little mini pizzas? like grab a baguette, slice into little pucks, add cheese and sauce and whatever toppings? Mmm

Just got back in from a run and I was feeling pretty good so I thought I'd share my little story. At one point in my life not so very long ago, I was 100 lbs overweight. I tried Couch 2 5K numerous times and failed. It got too hard too fast for me and I got demotivated for a bunch of reasons (probably the scale not…

I thought about doing this when I was sedentary and about 80 lbs overweight. Figured I could just eat 1800 cals and slowly lose. In hindsight, I don't think I ever could have stuck to that. I would have been frustrated at the restriction and what I would have thought was progress that was much too slow. If you need to see…

I find having the bigger clothes around makes it easier for me to be in denial about gaining back the weight, which was absolutely the case last summer. Therefore when I got serious I actually got rid of anything that was baggy or even "fit" well at that very moment (leaving every bit of clothing I had as between a…

fruit, clif builder bars, a diet soda :D, 20g of dark chocolate (non-dairy), high protein granola bars, tea, almonds covered in cocoa (omg yum)

Is there a possibility that once the restaurant sees how much food is wasted when so much of it is thrown out rather than taken home by the employees, that they will use/prepare less of it, thereby using less animal products? If so then I would do my best to approach them with that. It saves them money too and it's a good…

my calorie budget has been 1200 with working out 6 days per week (but mostly eating it back). So yeah I would definitely expect your rate of loss to slow down, even if you did eat less and work out more.

I started at 240 and yo-yo'd between 220 and 185 for years before finally breaking through this year. I weigh nearly every day and just hit 75 lbs. In short, I have been lucky to average 3-4 lbs/mo at this stage. My weight graph: https://trendweight.com/u/e2ba4e7607bc44/

I don't go out of my way to reduce salt unless I'm in a plateau and desperate to see the scale move (sodium causes water retention). However, I have used Nu Salt as an alternative and it's pretty good for most things. It's best as a garnish for taste but I don't know how it would work in a recipe where it performs other…

Excellent! I will keep that in mind - the oil added a LOT of cals.

I use the vegan optimizer formula from TrueNutrition.com - it's made of peas, rice, and hemp. :) It's about $8/lb and while shipping is expensive, once you decide you like it you can bulk order to make the shipping cost per pound much more reasonable.

just ordered some peanut butter Clif Builder bars which i am super excited about! 20g of protein yeeehaw

I weigh daily and let trendweight.com graph it for me via my wifi scale so I can see the daily weight in perspective with all of my other weights. I have to tell you that I've had your mentality in the past and that is partially what kept me fat for twenty years. I would be "good" for six weeks and not lose even 2 freakin'…

When I had a job like that I found 5 almonds was enough to keep hunger at bay (not get rid of it, but I could then hold on until lunch). I would also try diet soda/coffee. I like air popped popcorn too as a snack, baby carrots with a low cal dressing, 16 oz of water too. I find a lot of time even if I'm really hungry,…

5'5.5", 165, MFP has me eating 1200 calories to lose 1.3 lbs per week with a sedentary activity level (which I very much am unless I'm actively working out). I do try to conservatively log my exercise calories and eat back 75% ish of them though,and I do work out 6 days per week. So probably I average 1400-1500 per day.

I would say on balance it's neutral for weight loss. You still have to watch what you eat (count calories). You could easily get fat being vegan because a lot of the recipes out there aren't diet food, for sure. If it's important to you to get a lot of protein while losing weight, it's definitely harder as a vegan. For me,…

You're frustrated enough that I'd throw money at the problem. Skip going out to eat a few times if you have to to afford it. Get some fitness testing done. The particular one in mind is the one where you breath into a mask for 10 min and they literally calculate your BMR from that based on what you're exhaling and go from…

Caffeine! I'm serious. I usually have coffee (and sometimes I add diet soda on top) along with a bowl of cereal + almond milk for a workout. I'll add a mandarin or an apple if I feel I should. Caffeine is statistically shown to improve workout performance. I use it shamelessly.

My go to is vegan dark chocolate (Safeway Select Almond & Blueberry Dark Chocolate is my go to but there are others) along with a cup of tea. I break up the dark chocolate into teeeeeeeny tiny pieces and savor each one, letting it melt a little in my mouth. It takes forever to eat like this and totally satisfies my sweet…

I buy rice protein powder and pea protein powder, mix them together (2:1 ratio to get the right amino acids mixture) and add sweetener, almond milk, and sometimes sugar free chocolate syrup, and eat this every day to help me hit my protein goals. I usually use it as a meal replacement as it's quite filling, and you can use…

Okay! Here's what I do. I buy extra firm, and take the whole bit out of the package. I put it on a large dinner plate, and put another plate on top. I put something heavy on that second plate (fruit bowl, book, etc) and let it sit for at least 15 min but usually longer. THEN I cut it up into pieces (your call) and bake at…

I do eat it but generally only as a part of vegan recipes I find on the net.

I've been using this: http://www.runnersworld.com/what-to-wear with the setting on "easy run" for a walk and long run if I'm doing jogging, and it hasn't steered me wrong yet! I just wear ebay long underwear for tights and it works fine. any type of leggings have worked for me. I bought a running cap on amazon for $6 that…

I mostly eat vegan - oddly I still have animal based products around the house bought months ago I'm still going through sloooowly but I'd say 90-95% vegan. My weight loss has been averaging about 1 lb/wk. Not as fast as I like and not as fast as it should be (calorie deficit math says it should be more) but it is…