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If you think it might offend someone, you could have a small portion but then eat fewer calories for the rest of the day. Or you could have the small portion and exercise more. Or if it's your housemate bringing the food or someone visiting your house, when they pull out the "not healthy food" then YOU can pull out healthy…

Today will be Day 3 Level 1 for me, but my measurements are about the same as about a week ago (took them again to be certain I was getting the right ones.) Age: 21 Weight: 211 Waist: 36" Hips: 49" Thigh: 29.5" Calf: 17" Pants size: 18 jeans (one pair fits but is still a bit tight in the thighs, and the other pair gets…

Please call me Kairi, I'm a 21 year old newlywed and my husband is 24. Today will be Day 3 Level 1 of the 30DS for me, and my husband just started doing it with me so it'll be his Day 2 Level 1! I'm 5'7" and my highest weight ever was 218.6 (at the beginning of this year.) On a good day I'm 211 lbs. Lowest weight I have…

I didn't have any weights to start with, so I just use 1 lb soup cans for now. It's better than nothing until we get some weights, maybe this week.

Not sure if anyone has said this yet, but I love sliced avocado on a cold-cut ham sandwich. With shredded lettuce and cheese, yum! I once had leftover avocado slices from tacos, so I had an open-faced fried egg on top of avocado on toast, for breakfast. Wish I had some now...

I barely have any jewelry, so for the first 5 pounds I lost, I bought myself a pair of earrings. I haven't really thought about future non-food-related prizes, but I think I will now... Surely for more weight than every 5 pounds though.

Well, I didn't start on May 1st but I just finished Level 1 Day 1 about 20 minutes ago! I feel really great even though it was difficult for me... I'm obviously out of shape or I wouldn't even be here, ha. My husband's birthday is in about a month, so I'm still deciding if I should surprise him by getting fitter, or have…

Personally, I think your belly looks great. And it might sound strange, but you've got lovely shoulders. You should be proud- you've lost a whole small person! You're awesome!

Seriously, you look amazing. I too love that your shirt became a dress! You rock!

To the OP: I'm terribly jealous of that banana peanut butter cream whoopie pie. (: I grew up in "whoopie pie country" and they just don't have them here like they do in my hometown... My minor confession is that I'm having 2 slices of homemade mushroom/bacon pizza tonight with a hard lemonade tea. "Healthy" dinner, oh yes.…

Eat more than your BMR, but LESS than your TDEE. Eat between those numbers and you should start to see the weight come off. If you eat at TDEE, then you are eating back everything that you burn from daily activity/existing... Total Daily Energy Expenditure. But by eating more than you need to live/function properly and…

Bump! Saving this for later (: Sweet potatoes are part of my favorite quick and healthy dinner... If I don't have a lot of time, I'll pick up a rotisserie chicken from the store, 2 zucchinis, and some pre-wrapped microwave sweet potatoes. Then when I get home, I put the sweet potatoes in the microwave while I chop up the…

It's delicious in a good miso soup, or tofu tempura (lightly fried) with a nice dipping sauce is great too. It's best when it's prepared in such a way that it takes on the flavor of whatever it's paired with. Try it at an Asian restaurant sometime!

"Almonds/avocados are high in calories, so avoid them!" Or when I was on Weight Watchers, people mostly avoided almonds or avocados because they were high in "Points." They're missing out! Instead I just eat TDEE - 20% and I love my avocado slices and handfuls of almonds! P.S. Hey, if Weight Watchers works for you, then…

While I should note I'm not taking friend requests now, it's still nice to see others with similar interests on here! (: My husband and I are a very geeky blend. He grew up on the Playstation and Xbox, and I grew up on Nintendo. Now we're married, I'm pretty sure we've heard of everything... We've also seen a decent number…

Love this! Great job!! (: How you were sounds like me right now, unfortunately. Sitting here in my size 18 jeans... ): BUT! Thankfully, I'm already on the right path of healthy weight loss, and I hope I can write a similar letter someday! You're inspiring!

It might not be some bug or other nasty thing, but... When I was little, maybe 6 or so, my mom took us to visit my aunt who was living in California. We went out for dinner and I ordered a lemonade, but when I tasted it, I told my mom it tasted funny. She tasted it and found it was alcoholic! Who gives a little girl a hard…

I don't consider myself a "grocery store snob" but I do get a little self-conscious about myself buying groceries. I shop for my husband and me, and we eat totally different, except we have the same thing for dinner. He's naturally very slim, and he loves to eat processed stuff for snacks. He can eat toaster pastries for…

I'm wondering the same thing...

In no particular order... 1. Same, clothes that I like don't look good on me. 2. Can't shop at any store with clothes that I like. 3. I can't sit and put my knees right up to my chest. 4. I'm not light enough that my husband can carry me up to our bed... yet. So if I fall asleep on the couch, he has to wake me up. ): 5. It…

If the measuring cups and measuring spoons are clean, I'll measure. If not, then I try to get it as close as possible by eyeballing it and then overestimating it. If there's a day where I know I went way over my daily limit, I acknowledge that I should've done better, but then I get right on track the next day. Example...…

My mom brought me some green coffee bean extract as a gift. She said it gives her more energy and assists with a little bit of weight loss. I don't buy into that kind of thing, but it was a gift and I wanted to be able to tell her that I tried it, so I did. I really didn't notice any difference in anything. One day I…

This! Some days, I have 150-200 calories left and I need to put in more for my protein macro. It's a "nutrition" bar, but I like to reach for a Luna bar to curb off hunger with those calories instead of reaching for something empty. I COULD just eat chocolate or whatever I fancy, but the Luna bars are tasty and I feel good…

I too, make homemade pizza every Friday, and I change up the toppings so we don't get bored. And then I have a frozen Greek yogurt cup with it. Pizza and ice cream once a week! It's my "cheat meal." Or at least it makes me feel like it is. But it fits into my daily calories if I cut back a little from the rest of my meals…

jjuullzz: Honestly, I don't claim to know anything about Type 1 diabetes, but when I drank diet soda constantly, it made me hungry- constantly. Your body still registers the diet soda as tasting sweet, and releases more insulin. Your body's anticipating sugar that doesn't arrive, so you get stuck with more insulin in your…

By the way, someone else on MFP referenced this medical lecture, and I was watching it this morning. I'm only half-way through it, but so far, it's been astounding! It's called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" by Robert H. Lustig. Here's the link:…

Try transitioning to fruit-flavored seltzer waters instead, they taste just as good as diet soda (and practically are.) But don't stop there... Go from that to flavored waters, and then from that, to just water. Or you could try soaking some fresh fruit slices in a jug of water in the fridge for a day, and see how you like…

Bump! Saving this for later, can't wait to try some of these. (: Looks delicious!

Wow! You look awesome! (: Good job!! I look quite a bit like you in your "before" photos. Hope I can look as healthy as you someday soon!

I took the quiz, and it said I'm between a mesomorph and an endomorph, but I DEFINITELY have all of the endo characteristics over meso. In 2010, I lost about 30 pounds on a low carb diet (Carbohydrate Addicts' Diet... Practically starved myself! Bad!) but then gained it all back in the only 4 months of college I've ever…