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Thanks for this site! I bought a construction worker's neon reflective vest for walking and biking, once a road crew tried to get me to whack weeds with them!! And I always carry my ID & cell phone with me too. Don't forget to "ICE" your cell phone--(in case of emergency)

2 small corn tortillas with 1 ounce cheese, 1 egg + 1 white scrambled with one bite of sausage, 1 small red potato = nice little breakfast burrito.

Do ypu qualify for medicaid? That's public low-income insurance, but there are lots of hoops to jump through to get it and keep it.

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Love it! Posted this on FB too.

you can change the carb-protein-fat ratio by setting custom goals.

twice a week for the time being. I have to be a little more strict to get that discipline embedded!

I do that sometimes but I use a meat spaghetti sauce for more staying power :laugh:

A little off topic, but I just found out that Whole Foods frozen "organic" veggies are imported from China! As if there is any oversight there. Here's video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ31Ljd9T_Y

Are you eating your exercise calories?

definitely add some calorie-dense healthy foods like nuts & avocados, and a little cheese too (not the non-fat kind!). HTH

I nearly bought this book too, it looks good, I might get it later. I purchased "strength training anatomy" by Frederic DeLavier that is excellent! It has anatomical drawings of the muscles worked by each exercise, with detailed explanations of proper form, and how variations of the exercise works slightly different…

breakfast: 1 egg plus one white scrambled, on a tortilla with jalapeno pub cheese and avocado (350 cal) Lunch: family lunch at a chinese restaurant. dinner: garlic shrimp w/ brown rice tomatoes & spinach

I haven't actually used this tool much, but myrecipes.com lets you send items from your selected recipes to a shopping list you can print or email. The website has recipes from Cooking light and several other mags.

breakfast: Thomas whole grain english muffin, jalapeno pub cheese, 1 egg plus one white scrambled. snack: fage 2% greek yogurt, pomegranate, walnuts lunch: chcken pan fried in a little olive oil, with tomatoes. a vegetable...I'm going shopping this morning so the rest of the day is up in the air!

One thing to realize is that if you put soy sauce on your sushi, the sodium could be just as high as the Kentucky chicken.

MFP sets the protein on the low side--you can go into set custom goals to adjust your carb-protein-fat ratio to your liking.

it's also good with unsweetened apple sauce...

Maybe it will help to look up other threads about sugar. Many people have noticed that even if they get all their sugar from veg, fruit, & dairy, they go over MFP's sugar allowance.

I like the smucker's low sugar apricot preserves, or the orange marmalade. They actually have sugar and not HFCS. I don't eat jam very often--I go through short phases when I eat it a lot but right now I can't remember the last time I had some. Maybe tomorrow for breakfast!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/30898-bmr-vs-tdee-what-mfp-is-telling-you?page=2#posts-875286 here is a good explanation of what the BMR is...as Vivia Kay mentioned, it's NOT your maintenance calories.

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MFP doesn't actually adjust your calorie level according to your fitness goal numbers, just the activity level you choose (ie, sedentary, lightly active, active, etc)...this is why you eat back the amount of calories you actually burn when you actually exercise. The calorie deficit will still be there when you eat the…

I like the clif builders bars--the choc mint, choc, and pb are good.

I had the same type of reaction when I watched a couple of Dr. Oz's video clips promoting soy and complex carbs. I was amazed at how my opinions had changed since reading all the controversial posts here on MFP :bigsmile:

It must be a valid theory, since I have used the exact same logic in past.

In addition to all of the above, are you sure you're only supposed to be eating 1200 a day? That is usually considered the bare minimum and is for women of petite stature or the morbidly obese who can handle a larger calorie deficit. Are you eating your exercise cals?

what stormie said :happy: you'd weigh out 100g of dry pasta since that's what the label says is a serving size.

You mentioned you weren't eating all of your calories on a regular basis--maybe that's catching up with you. I suggest you eat your exercise cals :flowerforyou:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/30898-bmr-vs-tdee-what-mfp-is-telling-you Jerzee, I think you mean TDEE, not BMR