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I aim toward 40/30/30 C/P/F but am nearly always over in fat and under in protein. I figure as long as my protein intake is over 50g/day and I keep the saturated fats to a minimum, it's fine. As I lose more weight and my daily calories go down I will have to diminish fats to keep up the protein. For those of us still VERY…

A bag of frozen grilled chicken strips works out to about $1 per 3 oz (84 g) 100-calorie serving. It would probably be even cheaper to buy chicken on sale, cook in bulk, and then portion out before freezing. 1 minute in the microwave makes a tasty snack (and drives the cat crazy). Same thing is true for a bag of pre-cooked…

We got the Ghana French Roast because we like a French roast coffee.

There's no reason to weigh yourself if you can use other "metrics" to assess your progress like measurements or the way your clothes fit. Weighing more than once a day doesn't really tell you much since our weights vary throughout the day naturally. Indeed, for younger women who are cycling, weight changes a good deal…

I find it helps to try to figure out what made me want to go over. For me, late in the day starchy carbs make me want more and more and more. I think of what I eat in terms of will-it-kill-my-craving-more rather than how-much-will-I-enjoy-snarfing-it. If you are carb sensitive like me, perhaps the personal pizza got you…

I may be ten years your junior but still in all we can work together to do what we can to lose weight as we take care of ourselves. I turn 70 in a few months. Happily, I live in a seniors community where I'm considered a youngster and there are many happily living into their late 90s. I'm very sorry about your husband. I'm…

As a flip side to this, those that assume we are insulting them when we are just giving them facts that contradict their incorrect information, e.g. that eating fat makes you gain weight. Yes, Tesha231, you have a point. Both exist here but for the most part this is a very polite and helpful group.

Yes, there are VLCDs (very low calorie diets) overseen by physicians -- but that's the thing, they are overseen by physicians. To stay on a VLCD for any period of time safely you must follow specific nutritional rules and take doctor ordered supplements. If you are young and otherwise healthy, you are likely to survive an…

From what I read, Eleanor/Levlen don't have weight gain listed as likely side effects. You do have to be aware of all the possible side effects of "the pill" in general. I stopped taking the pill when I was hitting my thirties and was an overweight smoker but I was only taking it for birth control, not other issues. You…

Weight varies with water retention, gut contents, time of day, what you are wearing, how you are standing on your scale, etc. Everyone's "weight" is a reasonable estimate of one's mass at a particular time. No one maintains the same weight 24/7 on every day of the week. Watch your weight for a month or two. If you are up a…

Most machines are really not very good at measuring body fat accurately so I really wouldn't worry about it. You know what you are seeing and feeling. Here's a link to a page that discusses various methods of assessing body fat percentage and note that all of them put your "increase" within the expected margin of error in…

I'm a daily person because doing it first thing in the morning gets my attention for another day of mindful eating. Some folks like weekly, some monthly, whatever works for you. Frequent times in the same day will drive you nuts since we all vary a good deal over the course of a day. On the other hand, the cheap electronic…

I, too, have become very lazy as to food prep -- partly because we live in a place where our suppers have been delivered for a few months now due to quarantine. We don't choose "sides." They just arrive and sometimes just aren't terribly good or we just don't like them. Some go directly in the trash. We love to replace…

I like listening to The Honest Guys meditations on Youtube. In particular, the "Running with Wolves" 18+ minute session is great for walking or running. Consider it to be "directed daydreaming." Let the calm voice have your attention and let go of other thoughts. Worries can be put aside until later.

Thrive is another multi-level-marketing (MLM) scheme -- a barely legal form of Ponzi scheme. It is expensive and has no proof it works. Read the review at https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/thrive-patch Some information from the review site:* No studies have assessed the effectiveness of the Thrive Patch for weight loss.…

Some people only calculate their calories by the week so don't worry about it. Overall, if we eat 3500 fewer calories than we expend in a given period of time, we will lose 1 pound in that given period of time. Unfortunately, this can be camouflaged by water weight fluctuations but in general that is how it works. If you…

Soy milk is actually powdered soy in suspension while most other non-dairy milks are made by soaking and then filtering out the original ingredient like a broth. That may explain the difference. I don't know since I make oatmeal (porridge) with water and then stir other things into it like peanut butter and/or a ripe…

Errors and slow downs happen periodically on this site. Just go away and come back awhile later. As to whether anyone is truly listening to complaints about such things? The years long existence of these problems seems to indicate that, although they may be listening, they are unable or unwilling to fix them.

I enter salads vaguely. Our provided dinner salads are often a bunch of lettuce with a few carrot shreds and a couple of cucumber slices. Any tomatoes or onions I give to hubby because of allegies. So, I usually just enter a cup of lettuce and skip the others. I do assiduously count any dressing because it tends to be high…

A juice cleanse is, in a nutritional sense, actually bad for you. Fruit juice is a quick sugar hit with no attendant fiber. That's why current pediatric recommendations don't even recommend it for kids anymore. Too much of any one food can mess with your gut flora and the more we learn the more we find healthy gut flora is…

Excellent idea. An endocrinologist will have a better understanding of your condition. In general, physicians know remarkably little about nutrition. For the most part, they had no training or education in nutrition in medical school. The good ones know this about themselves. The bad ones go with whatever they heard at…

Start with changing one habit at a time. For example, start replacing soda with unsweetened seltzer or sweet tea with unsweet. I stopped doing artificial sweeteners at first because tasting sweet without calories just made me hungry. Now, after years without them, I can't stand the taste. I now like my coffee with just…

I like a good seeded bread, toasted, with guacamole on it. Two slices of Dave's Killer seeded bread with a 100-calories container of Sabra guacamole is a tasty/healthy breakfast. Guacamole singles, though not the cheapest way to buy it, is an easy way to get a serving of avocado without worrying about it turning brown. We…

There used to be specific recommendations of how much water to drink per day, often 8 glasses, but these were more tradition than anything scientific. You should get enough water to keep your urine a pale yellow or straw colored. If you urine is dark, you are insufficiently hydrated. You can get enough hydration without…

Our grocery bill plummets when we are eating "healthy" and limiting our calories. One expense I would recommend first off is getting a food scale. It is very important for measuring servings accurately and by measuring accurately you are likely to eat less (which costs less). A ten-buck kitchen scale from Walmart or…

You mean the calories don't fall out of a cookie when you break it in half? Bummer.

Is there somewhere you can get pool-based exercise? I water walk and it is great exercise.

I turn 70 on January 25th. I'm hoping to reach ONEderland for my birthday. I have 48.5 pounds to lose in just under 27 weeks. A very hard slog. I've lost at that pace for the last 11 weeks (20 pounds in 11 weeks) so it is still not completely out of the question but as someone who last weighed less than 200 pounds in the…

Good for you! I think Americans are unduly scared of grams because they are so tiny but if we just think of them as handy numbers on a scale we can add, subtract, multiply and divide they make life very easy. I'm a bread baker. Many recipes want you to adjust the flour until it feels right. This is horrible for the novice…

Carb snacks don't satisfy me, they only make me more hungry, so I find protein snacks the best. I have turkey meatballs and grilled chicken strips in the freezer. Nuking a helping in the microwave only takes a minute and you have a tasty, filling snack -- you also may be harrassed by your cat, just sayin'