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Perhaps you could make one meal, but prepare some extra carbs as a side-dish for him (or encourage him to do it himself)? Rice or mashed potato or even a baked potato with cheese on top can make a meal more satisfying for someone who isn't on the diet with you.

Remember that MFP's recommendation is for NET calories and most other sites give a recommendation for TOTAL calories. Add your exercise calories to the MFP recommendation to get a total calorie recommendation: you might find it works out about the same as the total given by the other calculator (it does for me).

I've lost 40 lbs while acquiring a new diet cola habit. Before the diet, I only drank it on weekends. Since I started the diet, it's been every day. I doubt it's healthy, but I really don't think it has adversely affected my weight loss. It's a sweet treat when I want it, without the calories - and no, it doesn't make me…

I'm 5'1" and lost almost 20kg (over 40 lbs) in 2011 by doing lots of cardio and sticking to 1200 net calories per day. I don't have a big breakfast, but reserve calories for a big dinner. If I don't do cardio, I have trouble sticking to 1200 calories and am hungry a lot. If I do a lot of cardio, I have much less trouble…

Interesting to see so many people doing something special on Christmas Eve. For us, it's Christmas Day that's the big day. Christmas Eve is just another work day, except that we usually go home a little early and eat a little lighter in anticipation of over-indulging on Christmas Day!

I think the key is to enjoy your treats once you're at goal, but remember that they are treats. If you go out for a special dinner, enjoy your 3 course meal. If you go to a party, enjoy that fantastic-looking cheesecake. Just don't eat cheesecake (or whatever) every day just because it's cheap and available. Keep tracking…

Perhaps you could get a TV show that you're looking forward to on DVD and watch an episode each night only if you have eaten well? Or have a special, extra nice shower gel or perfume that you can use only on days when you've done well? Or start a savings account for something big. Each day that your diet is healthy, add $2…

In my view, a jogger is someone who runs/jogs for fitness or fun. It isn't derogatory. A runner is a serious athlete who competes with an expectation of placing, or competes at a high level (e.g. Olympics). I go jogging from time to time. I covered 11 km the other day at a 9 min mile pace (just under 11 kph). I felt…

I'm 5'1.5", 115 lbs and have my net calorie goal set to 1200 to lose weight. With daily exercise, though (and eating back exercise calories), I've been eating around 1900 cal/day and still losing weight (fat and muscle, since I'm only doing cardio). So if you are trying to gain muscle mass, you will certainly need more…

I look enough like my older sister that we got mistaken for twins once or twice when we were kids. My younger sister is another matter. I'm under 5'2", she's more like 5'9". I have dark brown hair and eyes, she has very light brown hair and blue eyes. I'm pear shaped, she's apple. And she's 6 years younger than me, and…

My family does a very traditional Christmas day feast of baked ham, turkey, baked vegetables, yorkshire puddings and gravy, followed by Christmas (plum) pudding and custard. It makes no sense at all in the 40C (>100F) heat of a typical Perth Christmas day, but I love it for the tradition anyway. An increasing number of…

I find it helps to eat dinner late. I can hold out until dinner because I know it's coming. There's not enough time between dinner and bed to get hungry again, and I can go to bed with a comfortably full stomach. I also tend to have a lighter lunch and breakfast so I can have a full, normal dinner.

Perhaps a mug of hot milk would warm you up and leave you free to have other parts of your breakfast cold? Otherwise: baked or stewed apple or pear, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, baked or stir-fried mushrooms, kedgeree, rice porridge, cheese on toast, grilled banana on toast, warm rice pudding (just be careful with how…

A handful of berries, a slice of watermelon, or some other fruit. Sugar-free jelly (jello). A cup of hot skim milk with a drop or two of vanilla essence stirred in. Ice-cream made by freezing a chopped-up banana, then blending it together with a spoonful of low-fat yoghurt (no need to add sugar or anything else, and it…

Larb, if you have the herbs. Dice a red onion, brown with the turkey and some grated lemongrass, add chicken stock, a little fish sauce and a little chopped chilli, simmer to reduce the stock, stir in coriander (cilantro) and mint, then serve over rice or chopped lettuce. But that does require quite a few ingredients you…

Two more suggestions: 1) Serve it over baby spinach leaves or chopped iceberg lettuce, or in lettuce-leaf cups. 2) Serve it by itself, but add kidney beans to the mix to make it more filling and less runny.

Depends on the quality of the meat and the cook. At a big bbq (cheap meat, cooked without skill) I like it well done. Stuff it in a bread roll and enjoy the umami taste of the burnt bits. If I'm cooking it at home or ordering at a 3 star restaurant (good meat, mediocre skill), medium suits me. If it's a top quality piece…

I only cook brown rice for 30 minutes, not 50. It comes out basically al dente - soft, but with a bit more bite and flavour than white rice. If you are using the absorption method or a rice cooker, it needs more water than white rice (2:1 or a little more).

When I have a very large burn (e.g. I rode my bike 120 km on Saturday), I find I'm not really any hungrier that day, but I get very hungry the next day or the day after. What counts is the average over the course of the week. If you aren't hungry on the day of your burn, don't eat the extra, but do allow yourself extra…

Christmas cake and rum. And we sometimes gathered lawn clippings to feed the reindeer.

There's a summary of the changes at the bottom of this page: http://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/page/about-guidelines No major shifts, perhaps: they've mostly just strengthened the recommendations on eating lots of fruit and veg (and less starch), and tweaked guidelines on meat.

I've gone from M to XS in tops, from an Australian size 12-14 in jeans to size 7-8 (depending on the brand), and from a size 12 to size 8-10 in dresses.

Yes, suck it up and eat healthy foods until... you find you do like them after all. Once your body gets used to less salt, sugar and fat (which might take months of consistent healthy eating), you probably will find that you actually prefer healthy food. One tip is to mix it up and makes sure your diet is varied... that…

Perhaps the problem is the sugar? Oranges, pineapple, apple juice and raisins all contain a fair bit of sugar, which you metabolise quickly, which will tend to give you a quick spike and then leave you hungry. Use water instead of fruit juice for your oats and that will give you free calories that you can use to add nuts,…

Is that whole blood? Here in Australia, we're not allowed to donate whole blood more often than every 12 weeks.

Can you drive or catch a train somewhere safer to run outside?

I agree with those who have said, "if you feel up to it, go." I get my exercise outside rather than in a gym. The only thing I change is that if I'm unwell, I don't exercise in the rain. When I'm well, I go outside and get my exercise regardless of the weather. If I'm a little sick, I do find it slows me down, and I don't…

I don't mind seeing people in their underwear, as long as their underwear covers what it ought to. If I can see whether or not you wax down there, I'm seeing more than I want to.

When I have telephone meetings, I sometimes take them on my mobile (using earphones with a built-in microphone) and go for a walk. I hit "mute" when I'm not talking so I can walk fast enough to get my heart rate up a bit without subjecting everyone to heavy breathing.

My metabolism is pretty much exactly what MFP says it ought to be for someone of my height, weight, sex and age. Lower than average? Yep! I'm smaller than average. Extremely low? No, normal for someone my size. (By the way, I'm not eating under 1200 cal/day. My NET consumption is under 1200 calories per day. Most days, I…