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A Tablespoon of mini chocolate chips or Nutella, a crushed cookie or graham cracker, a chopped up apple with cinnamon or some applesauce, any planters mixed nuts energy, nuitrition, heart healthy, digestive all are good, dried fruit like cranberries, blueberries, or dried fruit trail mix, and any kind of cereal like…

I've done WW over the years and I agree they set you up to fail. It's a money maker for them, getting paid every week to sit and listen to 30 minutes of who did what right or wrong and here's a recipe to try. They are very forgiving if you stay the same or gain, heck that's another few weeks you add to your goal date.…

Everyone is different, but when I first started I didn't eat back any extra calories and I barely exercised. It was slow going. Then I started walking 5 miles a day and eating back all the exercise calories and the weight came off much easier. Now I've lost it all and I eat back ALL my exercise calories and sometimes even…

I have a donut pan, so tonight I took a spice cake mix and added a can of pumpkin puree, 1/2 cup natural applesauce (6 pack of the no sugar added kind about 50 calories each) and a cup of water. I then added some extra spices like nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon and put this batter in a donut pan and baked it for a spice…

18 Or, instead of making the mini size and getting 56, why not triple the size and put these in regular cupcake pan and just get 18 at 78 calories each. You could freeze them and take out 2-3 to eat every couple of days that way. Just a thought

My daughter, who is 29 now, saw my video of me I posted on Facebook bowfishing for the first time and hitting a carp, her comment was, "Yeah, my mom's kinda kicka$$". I liked hearing that. lol

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wow, whens dinner! Sounds awesome. This was almost exactly what we had at our wedding (no watermelon) .

I thought I didn't like sweet potatoes until I really tried them a couple of years ago, now I love them. Like most, I like them microwaved with brown sugar on top, I like them cut into wedges and sprayed with olive oil and broiled until crunchy, I like them boiled and mashed like white potatoes, I like them sliced thick…

I would shoot for the 1800 calories (net) and if you're not that hungry eat higher calorie items like peanut butter or nuts, they will stick with you throughout the day. Normal weight loss recommendation is 2 lbs a week, you are way past that at 17 for 6 weeks or less, so probably losing fpretty fast. You want to be sure…

I've only got a couple of pounds to go also, just had a physical and doctor said well your BMI is normal, so what are your plans? She said most never get to their goal, and out of those that do, they consider themselves "done" and then gain it all back. I will never stop what I'm doing or consider myself "done". It's taken…

Yeah, I just had my mammogram last week and 40 lbs less than last year made a big difference. My boobs are flatter and I can feel stuff in them much more than before, but that's a good thing because they didn't have to squish them near as much. But I also have a doctors appt where she will do a manual check. I know in the…

We like "complete" pancake mixes, just add water. For the topping, I use spray butter but it doesn't hurt to use just a T of butter, especially if you use the new 50% reduced fat butters. I also like the sugar free pancake syrups but you can top with any type of fruit or honey, peanut butter, etc. Also, it's not a crispy…

I like to eat several different things for breakfast: 2 frozen waffles with 1 T choc chips, 2 T FF cook whip and SF pancake syrup with coffee and SF french vanilla creamer. Or english muffin with an egg cooked in spray olive oil and a slice of pepper jack cheese and a banana or cantalope on the side. Or a sliced apple…

Wow, some really cruel stuff here, it's hard enough losing the weight off our bodies without carrying the weight of guilt people impose on us to boot. Let it go, I've been told most of these things mentioned her myself,. I guess we all just have to prove them wrong and keep on our journey. wow

If you have a dehydrator, slice up some bananas, pineapple, apples, dip them in lemon juice and they are tart and sweet and soo good for a snack. Also, if you thinly slice a sweet potato or white one, it makes a good crunchy chip in the oven or dehydrator too. I also love just a cup of low sugar flavored (cinnamon apple,…

I weigh every day and I know it can fluctuate from morning to night, but I still do it. I also bought a second scale that does tenths of a lb versus my old one that rounded up or down by half a pound, which I intended to throw away. Turned out they can weigh me as much as 2 lbs difference some mornings, so I kept them both…

RIght, I walk several miles each day, that is my only exercise really but I can burn anywhere from 400-800 calories so I always eat back at least half of that and sometimes if I'm hungry I'll eat it all back so my NET is still 1200 but I'm full all the time. I think it is important to eat things that fill you up also, I…

It's a stressful time for everyone and when we get stressed, we eat. Maybe you could get a turkey, ham or roast and bake it as a main meat and then just add vegetables, fruit or salad to complete it. What you need most is to eat healthy when you can to keep up your energy and you can always use the roast or turkey for…

It took awhile for me to get that and not be afraid to eat the NET like it says, it's so simple it scares people to be told to eat so much but then you earned it with the exercise that burned it, so that's the great thing about it, now you need to eat more to give your body the required calories it needs. How great is…

Best explanations I've seen on how to eat, most people think less is more and then don't lose and get discouraged when they are given a Net Calorie count prepared by the MFP calorie counter and then are afraid to follow it and eat half as much and then don't lose. THANK YOU!

Just a quick follow up, I'm really trying to eat back all the exercise calories which I hadn't before and RARELY did I hit the 1000 cal a day, I think that was my problem as the last few days I've added nuts and grains to help hit the 1200 net goal and feel better and weight went up a lb, down 1/2 pound and leveled back…

Thanks for the help and link, I am trying to get the minimum 1200 so maybe should eat more, fitbit keeps saying I'm over when MFP says I'm under so I didn't know who to believe. I also found this link which says go with MFP and eat back exercise, so I'm going to try that for the next few weeks and just see what happens.…

Thanks for this, I've been looking all over the message boards for some info like this. I will eat my Net calories and exercise every day from what MFP says and even though it's sync'd with fitbit, ignore that it keeps telling me I'm OVER 2-300 calories when MFP says I'm UNDER 3-400 calories. It was driving me crazy trying…

I'm in the same boat so don't have any answers but have read a lot of the blogs and thought I had it figured out but ended up with more questions, so I know it depends upon your settings. Here's what I have and have weighed close to the same for over a month now. Up or down 1 lb is the best I can do. I set my goal for 1 lb…

I look forward to those little sayings every morning when I pick it up and put it on. Sometimes, when it doesn't speak to me, I put it down and pick back up a couple of times until I get something. Makes my day. My husband is Canadian also, and my favorite sweatshirt says " you had me at Bonjour" so I loved it when it said…

I tried Butternut Squash for the first time this year, it was pretty good just like a sweet potato fry.