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I love avocado! I try to introduce it to my meals as often as I can! Filling and good fats! - I put it over my home made quesadillas (Mexican quesadillas only have cheese). Mixed with salsa is amazing as toping! - Over omelettes! - With grilled fish, over it.. - Shrimp, tomato, avocado, lime salad..!! - On sandwiches…

If you really knew what constitutes an eating disorder, then you'd know that it takes more than a "fad" to create one. An eating disorder is an illness, and believe me when I say that people who are sick with this do a lot more damage than "eating normal five days and low cal on two days". Like some people said, it's a way…

So glad you tried it! I love that on "feast" days I don't binge either... ANd I'm actually looking for ways to up my calories so I can average well at the end of the week! Never though that would happen! Keep with the good work and you'll see. People really don't understand that this is, as it is said by others, a way to…

I weight after a fasting day.. so probably between two or three times a week... I'm learning to recognize those days where ToM is near and my body is retaining liquids, and for that reason I've lost no weight.. Still working on it!

I take that with a knife and nicely cover two small slices of bread and then cover them with half an apple or pear... Instant breakfast for around +350 calories and that fills me until lunch and that I love... Obviously, if you try to put 1 cm layer of peanut butter on the bread.. well.. maybe if you try ONE bread instead…

Me and my sister are like that... Until I realized that she has no magic metabolism, she is/was more active than me and she skipped meals (she used to not eat breakfast, and maybe have only one main meal a day). When she took a less active life (out of college into the work world) she gained weight and she started working…

That made me laugh... Thank you! hahaha

This! I used to work out 7 days a week, mix of cardio and lifting. And one days I was just exhausted, so I realized that I was over doing myself, so Idecided that in order for me to keep with my habit I had to give me the opportunity to have a rest day. Usually, I fix the rest day with a fast day (5:2) so I get it…

Do you take measurements? This last week my weight losses have stalled... I've literally maintained even if I follow the 5:2 and I exercise 6 days a week (two cardio days, four mix cardio and weight lifting). However, I measure myself weekly and I found that even if I'm stalled, I lost 2 - 3 cm of my waist! You should take…

Research about sports clubs, exercise classes or activities that you can do as a student. I used to love my all girls boxing class twice a week my whole 4 years of University. It was fun, I was in my best shape ever and it was free!! I loved it! Edit to add: Exercise also helps you with stress.. so you should try that to…

OP I'd recommend that you go for the 5:2 groups instead of out in the public because you'll get much more information, experiences and help over there :smile: Apart from that.. I follow the 5:2 and sometimes 4:3 and it works for me. Yes, it is a calorie deficit program, but let's face it, the only way to lose weight is by…

bump!!

The baby actually calmed down! Wow...

It's back in Mexico, probably in a box at my parents house... One day I will look for it!!

I met two famous people in my life: - Prince Charles... By luck, my family and I were on a tour around UK, we stopped in a tiny town in Wales, while all the tour people went to go to see the castle, we followed the crowd that was waiting for the prince (we didn't know at the time). The crowd was quite small and when he…

When I'm on my fast days I skip breakfast and with the time I'm just not that hungry and I rather save my calories for later. In normal days, sometimes I eat breakfast and sometimes I don't, depending on my hunger. I used to think that I "had" to eat breakfast because of the metabolism, and it only end up in me gaining…

My cats ask for food the same way... They live with my sister right now and she sent me this pictures... She is now their slave! (And she loves it!)

You're really a champ! But if she is only starting, she might want to do it easily. I remember my first week in 5:2 I ate more than 550... With the time I've been able to control that and I need less food to feel satisfied. Hopefully one day I will be able to see that I don't need food on my fast days, but for now, I think…

This. You can either fill your 500 calories with a lot of healthy food or with very limited amount of calories dense food... You can include protein in the form of egg whites and lean meats. I usually eat a salad for lunch (not protein) with a coffee, some nuts before gym and then end the day with a HUGE mix of egg whites,…

I have a series of pictures of my cats staring at the water in my bathroom... They love to play with the water...!! Aww I love kitties..!!

- Grey's Anatomy.. Multiple episodes, but I just couldn't stop crying when Lexie died... Seriously, I was sobbing and out of breath! - When Sybyl died in Downton Abbey... I was so angry at the father and the doctor... I actually called my parents and cried my frustration with them haha. - I cried when Buffy's mom died. -…

I log in advance. Specially during fast days (5:2 here). So when I'm ready to eat I just check MFP and follow the ingredients and the amounts. Most of the fast days I eat my "safe for fast" menus so I really don't think too much about them. During non fast days I also log in. If I'm going out for lunch/dinner, I log in an…

I never knew my body knew how to read a clock.. Such an amazing thing..! So, if I go to the other side of the world, and the time changes... does that mean that my body will automatically detox at 11pm home time or 11pm host time? Oh the mysterys of life. If you're trying to explain the IF then, fail for you. IF has…

That's silly. I'm doing IF and I count my calories and control them in a weekly basis and I'm losing weight. The body doesn't have a calendar and doesn't "restart" every day. All changes, all calories (restriction or overeating) happen in a long time basis, not one day to another.

Depends.. If I'm really hungry and I know that my dinner was light and that I have calories left, I eat something. If I know that I ate enough and I'm just craving something no. I don't like going to bed with my stomach full.. I have nightmares and I don't sleep well. It's a personal preference and seriously it's not…

An advil helps me with the soreness... and a friend who used to be on a college football team told me to have one aspirine before going to bed (if I had a very tough workout) and that would help me in the morning.

This. I usually have really strong cramps (to the point of having to go from the office due to pain!) and since I started regularly working out the cramps almost dissapear. However, I tend to give in into cravings. So, I never weight myself the days before my period and only after the second half of that week.. I always…

I love, love, love adobo!! Amazing over some tostadas with beans :glasses:

Once I went to a 4 of July fair in Dallas, they were selling fried oreos, fried butter, fried snickers, fried everything... That would go to my no-no food.. Because it's just wrong... Other than that, everything goes if it fits on my allowance. I tried the no carb diet, worked for some weeks and then I was back to the…