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I take the total weight in grams of the finished item for things like a loaf of homemade bread divided by 100 as the number of servings. A loaf of bread, for example, might weigh 1150 grams so I put 11.5 as the number of 100 gram servings. When I hack off a slice, I weigh it. The slice might weigh 87 grams or some other…

Thank you so much, Cyranda! This challenge has kept me going with no thoughts of quitting. I get so much out of reading everyone’s daily squibs! Thank you all for sharing. And persisting!! I’ve done 14 of these challenges which is exactly 20 weeks. I started MFP before joining the challenges so there’s no starting whoosh…

Oil-cured olives in yogurt.

Why would you want to eat pasta that tastes like nothing? Try any pasta brand made with Italian flour like De Cecco which is readily available in super markets. Or try good homemade pasta. Pasta should taste like good flour, eggs, and a bit of salt. Homemade pasta is easy to make. Here's a recipe I wrote several years ago.…

Why eat a pasta that tastes like nothing? Good pasta tastes like the flour and eggs it was made from with appropriate amounts of salt and occasionally flavored with additional ingredients. Cheap, store brand elbow-mac is okay for mac'n'cheese but try some of the better brands like De Cecco that are made with Italian flour.…

I've been thinking about my relationship with cheese and how it's changing. I used to be a cheese junkie. I'd eat great wads of it irrespective of quality. I am becoming a cheese aficionado. I savor small amounts of really good cheese.

There are a gazillion of them on Amazon for well under $20. No reason to spend $60. I go by style. What we prefer is a thin, flat, rectangular one that's metal. It's easy to put oversize things on it and to use it as a postal scale, too. We avoid ones with glass tops because we're clumsy. Even the cheap ones last for…

Thank you so much, Cyranda! This challenge has kept me going with no thoughts of quitting. I get so much out of reading everyone’s daily squibs! Thank you all for sharing. And persisting!! I’ve done 14 of these challenges which is exactly 20 weeks. I started MFP before joining the challenges so there’s no starting whoosh…

If anyone wants an example of the impact of sodium and water weight, here it is! In 12 days of traveling and eating out, I put on over 10 pounds. In the 11 days I’ve been home, I dropped it back off! Back to the inexorable trudge toward being simply overweight rather than obese! And finally on to a normal BMI!…

It took a lot of strength and self-knowledge to write this paragraph. You started out with "the usual whine" but finished it with strength! You can do this. And with this level of self-awareness, I'm sure you will be learning more about how to satisfy your cravings and control your appetite. Best wishes to you. I'm in your…

This is important to figure out and it's different for each of us. I need to avoid artificially sweetened things because sweet taste without calories makes me want to chew the drapes. I need a relatively high fat breakfast of eggs scrambled with cheese and cream to keep me satisfied all day. If I eat cereal for breakfast,…

That was really an unrealistic goal since a steady weight loss of .5 to 2 pounds per week is really all one should expect. Some folks are inspired by giving themselves unattainable goals to strive for, others are depressed by not reaching an unrealistic short term goal. I don't know which you are but make sure you do what…

A family celebration like this takes precedence over a few days weight gain or loss. Congratulations to the happy couple and joy to the parents!

Some do but I can't. I slide right back up to eating like a 280 pound woman and become a 280 pound woman. I'm finally accepting that I will always need to weigh and measure both my food and myself. If I could do it without those tools I wouldn't have spent the last 50+ years of my life fat.

Roughly translated by Google: I started to lower 20 dollars a pound and now I am .. Poor I lost Estoy confundido. (Google's version of I'm confused.)

Another way to look at it. One-and-a-half cups is three half-cups. So, saying it a different way, half a cup is one third of one-and-a-half cups. Half a cup therefore has one-third the grams of one-and-a-half cups. 140/3 = the number of grams .5 cups = 46.67 calories. Now grams are very tiny. There are 454 of them in a…

I used to eat light cheese but I don't anymore. Light feta from Trader Joe's is almost indistinguishable from the real deal and light string cheese is okay but I've found happiness now going in the other direction. I'm eating good, strong cheeses one ounce at a time. Real parmigiano reggiano. Good pecorino romano.…

There are a couple reasons why I eat a loss less bread than I used to. First, I love bread with butter on it and find limiting it hard. Next, bread doesn't slake my hunger over the long term whereas proteins and fats do. Finally, bread is calorie-dense and I can eat more of something else if I don't eat so much bread. That…

Call it soup and have at it! It may be that you find you like different ingredients in your hot soup than in your cold smoothie but there are great veggie soup recipes around and I can't imagine why you couldn't convert these into the hot equivalent of your smoothie.

Seriously. I only use 1/4 cup to make a whole pan of spanakopita and that includes oiling the phyllo layers! It's 4 huge, no side-dish entree servings or 6-8 with sides.

Here is a straight, up-to-date, science-based statement on the matter: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-and-cholesterol/ And here's more detailed, similarly reliable, information: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2012/06/21/ask-the-expert-healthy-fats/

If anyone wants an example of the impact of sodium and water weight, here it is! In 12 days of traveling and eating out, I put on over 10 pounds. In the 11 days I’ve been home, I dropped it back off! Back to the inexorable trudge toward being simply overweight rather than obese! And finally on to a normal BMI!…

Just know that we are here for you. Try to remember to take care of yourself as all this happens so that you can be strong for yourself and your family. I wish you the best and I wish your MIL peace.

I think we can all join you and say, "been there, done that, got the t-shirt." Here's an online hug from me. We can do this!!

Yuck! I hope things are back to normal for you soon!

Re: all the woos. Someone clearly can't take anything nuanced. The nuanced answer is 1. you can eat anything and lose weight as long as the calories you eat are fewer than the calories you expend; 2. weight as shown on the scale often varies due to water retention which is affected by exercise, hormones, sodium…

If anyone wants an example of the impact of sodium and water weight, here it is! In 12 days of traveling and eating out, I put on over 10 pounds. In the 11 days I’ve been home, I dropped it back off! Back to the inexorable trudge toward being simply overweight rather than obese! And finally on to a normal BMI!…

No sense getting embarrassed among us. We're all in the same boat. We need to learn to love ourselves with all the vicissitudes of life getting in the way. None of us is totally consistent. We all have good days and bad for a variety of reasons. What's happening here is that we are taking a moment each day to learn about…

All the suggestions above sound good. Also, stir things in it to change the consistency. I like to throw in raisins, slivered almonds and all-bran cereal with a bit of cinnamon or pie spice. Makes it tasty-crunchy. I also like to add savory ingredients like oil-cured olives.

I'm about 1/4 of the way to losing 1/2 my weight. Love your inspiration!