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There are lots of suggestions online for budget friendly meals. The word "frugal" is great for searching for them. Just google "easy frugal meals" and lots of links appear. You could even search "easy frugal meals calories" to find lists of meals with their calorie counts.
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To get an appreciation of how good losing ten pounds feel, pick up something that weighs 10 pounds and carry it around the house a bit or climb a flight of stairs. You may see some weight loss as something un-lovely so don't look too hard. One of my first bodily changes is that my cellulite starts to show as I "deflate."…
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This is true for some of us but not all. Sweet without calories sends my appetite into hyper-hungry mode but others don't experience this.
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If your ankles are swelling every day from working on your feet, you should really tell your doctor and consider compression hose of some sort and time with your feet raised. Those who have standing jobs like yours are susceptible to developing varicose veins and other leg circulation problems that can shorten their…
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Here's a useful link for learning about macros: https://fullscript.com/blog/counting-macros
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Best wishes.
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As folks have said, there is no one set of percentages for macros that works or doesn't work for weight loss. As long as you are getting sufficient amounts of each of the three you should be fine. As to losing "belly flab" as opposed to weight. You indeed have little control over where you lose weight. If "belly flab" is…
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One take-out Chinese meal and I gain 4 pounds within 48 hours of eating it even if I haven't overeaten by thousands of calories. It then takes about 6 days to pee it back out.
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Bagels. Definitely bagels. They are dense so calorie heavy even when compared to other breads. Add cream cheese and lox and you might die happy but at what cost!?!
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I pay for premium because I like the freedom to set my own goal numbers and adjust how I what I want to track.
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To some degree (less so after recent law changes in the US and elsewhere) manufacturers can choose any serving size that makes their label look good. This is used in particular by manufacturers who want to be able to "round to zero." They can claim zero calories anytime something is less than 5 calories per serving. This…
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If you are doing this at home you can weigh things like your chicken serving and then use a listing for chicken speidini that has a weight for its servings. You can divide your number of grams by its number of grahams using a calculator and that will give you a number of servings. Speidini is basically just breaded chicken…
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I have to do this every evening because we live in a community where our dinners are made centrally and I have no idea what they include other than they tend toward low fat and low salt. It helps to develop a good idea of how many calories are contained in the basic ingredients. For example, a cup of cooked white rice is…
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Don't underestimate the importance of this statement. You don't need any special diet to lose weight. Make sure that you are learning a way to eat that works for you long term -- and long term means not just months but years and even decades.
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Since some of the pleasure of consuming wine is the opening of a new bottle and the subtle differences in flavor among wines, how about starting slowly by substituting a bottle of a good still or sparkling water one or two nights a week to start. I like Gerolsteiner, which has a very distinctive taste. They also have the…
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Whether or not to eat back exercise calories "depends." Every number we are dealing with is an estimate. Our TDEE, exercise calories, food log calories all are estimates. If you walk a mile or two like me, you are only talking a couple hundred calories of exercise. To eat these back assumes I am "perfect" in my food…
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Rather than look for low cal bread, I head toward high fiber which also tend to be high protein (for bread). Dave's Killer 21 Whole Grains & Seeds bread is the usual 110 calories per slice but each slice also has 5 grains each of protein and fiber.
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Cans of food in socks tied together make great weights that are easy to hold.
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Measuring cups and spoons are, themselves, unreliable, even if you level them. Scales are the way to go! Consider the following: https://www.dontwasteyourmoney.com/measuring-spoons-test and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2019/03/04/you-cant-always-trust-measuring-cups-but-heres-what-you-can-do-about-it/
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When you say "low-fat diet" does he mean anything specific? There are different kinds of fat, some good for us, some terrible for us. Some answers depend on why he specified a low-fat diet. If simply for calorie restriction, that's one thing, if for some other ailment, that's another. For the latest take on this topic,…
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I keep my high of several years ago because it was my "normal," not-paying-attention weight. I want to have credit for all the pounds lost no matter how long it takes!
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I find supper/evening starches like rice or mashed potatoes make me hungry an hour later. If I chuck those and substitute another veg, I still have room for some nuts for dessert and that holds me until bed. Start to think about what will satisfy you. Whereas my lifelong habit has been to eat cookies by the bagful, I can…
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Especially for those of us with Type II diabetes, looking for which rice has a lower glycemic impact has some importance. From Tufts Univ. School of Nutrition & Science Policy, “As general advice, choose a parboiled rice or long grain brown rice over short-grain white rice, and remember that cooling rice or adding legumes…
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A friend once taught me that there are a finite number of pounds in the world and we all just keep passing them around.
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I find some relaxation meditations on Youtube do the trick -- try the "Honest Guys" -- calming voice helps you relax and wander into happy dreams. If you let the voice convince you that you're lying in dappled sunshine next to a babbling brook it's a struggle to get the headphones off before going out like a light.
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Make sure you are eating enough for your level of activity. Nothing can "mess up [your] progress" except giving up and gaining back weight by eating well over your calories expended. If Insanity workouts do as they claim and you burn 1000 calories an hour, then you must up your calorie intake by 1000 calories per hour…
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As a 45 yo female it could easily be hormonal. Swings in female hormones cause swings in water retention. Another thing to examine is salt consumption as changes in it can cause a swing in water weight. It could be an electronic scale issue. Mine did what yours has done and I flipped it over and discovered it had a cracked…
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Using percentages makes more sense than using actual numbers for many of us since our calorie numbers change. My aim is 40% carbs, 30% fat and 30% protein. I came up with these percentages by reading various sites recommendations for an old fart with Type II, sites like…
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Different strokes for different folks -- and the same folks at different times! Some folks here like monthly weighing to "keep themselves honest." I'm like you used to be. I need daily weighing to keep me on track. Whatever works is good!
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Fantastic!!
