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The only dessert I miss is one I can't have anyway; my mother's secret recipe for what she calls "Magic Bars." She won't give me the recipe, and she lives 12 hours away and they don't mail well, so I get them twice a year when I see her: Once at Christmas, and once in June when I usually visit.

Haha, I don't mind. Thank you for the motivation and the well wishing! I decided to go dessert free for a while because, while I like desserts, I would rather eat other things. If giving up my dessert for today means I can eat another serving of meat-ful spaghetti, or another chicken taco, or another cup of soup, I will…

Good luck! Know that we are cheering for you.

I think cheat meals give you something to look forward to. Cheat meals help to "shock" your body and your metabolism and can help you to get over weight loss plateaus. They are great motivators (If I'm good this week, I get a ____!). But there is a good way to cheat and a bad way to cheat. Still try to avoid really large…

I usually mix unsweetened almond milk with some kind of frozen fruit and that's my whole smoothie. Then I spread some Naturally More Almond Butter with Flax seeds on a piece of bread (it has Omega-3s and stuff too. Super yummy). It's super filling, and is about 300-350 calories just so long as you don't use too much almond…

Home made pizza. You think it has a million calories in it, but you can eat almost half of the pizza and not hit 600 calories (depending on what you put on it). Homemade crust and sauce and home shredded cheese. If you make it right, you can splurge without actually splurging. I LOVE pizza, so this was a big help to me.…

Add some fat to your oatmeal. Almonds, almond butter, peanut butter, other nuts.

Good luck, friend! I am a bit of a weirdo, and I didn't have much trouble quitting sugar. But I have friends that had a hard time. Something I know helps my friends when they are trying to purge sugar it to brush their teeth more often. My friend, Nadia, read a study a few years ago that said that your saliva and tongue…

Maybe you could work a little harder on letting your daughter know you love her the way she is, so she can learn to love herself instead of trying to force her to lose weight. You are essentially saying "You aren't good enough the way you are." Why don't you try some positive reinforcement, and get down to the brass tacks…

Thanks everyone; I switched out my normal salad meal last night with some salmon and avocado and a salad and felt super full. I must have just been short on some fat! I'll have to start adding a little bit of extra good fat into every meal and see if that helps.

Is there some kind of calculator to know if you are eating enough fats? I do have yogurts, nuts, natural oils (like olive oil) and almond butter/milk almost every day, but I'm not sure what the right number of them would be for me.

I started taking multivitamins a while back, just to fill in the gaps in my diet. It seems to help; I feel like my skin and hair benefit. Just make sure to read the labels carefully. I like Alive Gluten Free gummies because the ingredient list is all things I can pronounce and don't mind eating. They do have a little more…

Hilarious; I noticed a heightened sense of smell because my circulation is better. It's awful; I didn't realize how bad my downtown work environment really smelled until I started working out and losing weight... :P Oh, and to the clothing thing; one of the best things I ever did was to find a high quality tailor. You can…

The Slim Fast tastes way better, but the Special K is better for you, with a lot more protein and vitamins (but more sugar). Either way, they are expensive, and I would make my own. But, if you don't have time, like me, I would go with Slim Fast. It keeps you full longer and taste waaaaay better, less sugar.…