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Calories are the most important thing. How many calories are you eating. You could eat junk food exclusively and still lose as long as your calories in are less than calories out. I lose between 2 and 3lbs a week eating between 1300 and 1600 calories a day. I dont really exercise since my job requires a lot of manual labor.

Most women over 5'5" cannot attain a size zero because of the size of the pelvis bone (except women with very small frames). I remember being a size zero before my last growth spurt. I cannot get back down to it without surgically altering my hip bones. It really depends on the size of your skeleton. A 5 foot tall woman…

Deseed skinless canned tomatoes with thumbs. Shove in blender with olive oil, basil, oregano, garlic,and some chives (or onion). Press the little pulse button a few times until its a chunky sauce like consistency. Either microwave or better yet use the stove to heat it up. Add salt and or cheese to hot sauce. Enjoy. Prep…

1/10th of a muffin. Wtf

What do you mean extra? I drink nearly a whole blender full each morning. Its only 250-350 calories for a blender full. Its just banana, strawberries, spinach, nonfat greek yogurt, and water (and maybe a dash of splenda). Color me confused. How big exactly do you call "one smoothie". Seeing as how I puree nearly all my…

Its 36 inches right now. The smallest my waist can get before my ribs show is 33 inches. I have an oddly wide waist for a woman. I have scoliosis so maybe thats why. My ribs nearly touch my hips so there is no real space for there to be a smaller part below them. My goal is prolly gonna be 34 inches.

Well, I ran a little experiment where I ate nothing but pizza for a week. One slice in the morning, a slice at lunch, and 3 slices at dinnet (I prefer a large meal at night). Thats 5 slices of drippy, greasy, melty, delicious pizza. So I lost exactly 2lbs that week. I did not exercise beyond 33 hours of retail work…

Dont weed. Buy black weed block cloth and cut X's in it where you are gonna plant stuff. At the end of season yank up the plants and then roll up the cloth. Its too late to start many things from seed so dont bother right now. Drilling holes 3 inches up the side of plastic kiddie pools makes an easy and cheap raised bed…

So you have only counted calories for a week. A week is not long enough to really see any results. It took me 2 weeks before I saw the scale suddenly drop 4lbs. I think it has to do with water weight.

Im here with you. I have a seriously messed up skeleton and my back has so much metal in it that I should be considered bionic. Ive been steadily losing 2lbs a week since I started trying to lose weight and I never run for exercise. Power walking burns a lot if you are hell bent on non lifting exercises. Lifting,…

This is easily solved by drinking your calories. Milk is fairly high in calories and tastes yummy. Replace some water drinking with some milk and you should be all set. I had 438 left after I stuffed myself with pizza. So now im drinking a big cup of ovaltine (thats chocolate milk if you arent familiar with the brand name)

Yup, just calories. I do not bother with sodium because I really dont care about water weight. Fat weight is whats important. I eat whatever I feel like eating.

Huh. Well I was never really a dessert eater I guess. I have chocolate when im experiencing my girly time, but I would rather have a big hunk of steak.

Well I started my diet with under 250 calories every 3 hours. Its not hard at all and it causes you to never ever be truly hungry. Wake up. 2 packets of sugar free oatmeal (or those 100 calorie packs of grits), and 1 hard boiled egg (give half of the yolk to the dog) Second breakfast (because you are a hobbit now). Measure…

Um im barely 5'6" and 4.5mph is a power walk. Also, since when is 5'5" petite? I thought the word petite was for those tiny 5 foot tall ladies that I typically tower over in all my freakishly tall glory. Average height for a woman in this country is 5'4", so you are actually taller than average. I think its about agility.…

No tyler hoechlin yet?

I dunno. How many calories are in an entire 15lb ham including an inch thick layer of fat surrounding the meat? Of course I became very sick the next day. I was a kid at the time. I think I was going through a growth spurt. Ive also eaten an entire 14 piece of kfc dark meat in a day with about a pound of pasta (pre cooking…

Crab, sushi (vinegar rice is nasty), cold cheese, lobster, pretty much anything on the show diners drive ins and dives, beer, turkey bacon, yogurt (except in smoothies), fresh fruits other than bananas and melons, pizza in any other flavor than plain cheese, any chain made variety of pizza including ALL frozen pizza,…

Crystal light has calories. 5 calories a cup. However it is likely better gor your teeth. As for people saying water is the way to go, I disagree. People drink more when there is flavor in the fluid. As for people saying that its a poor choice and such poor choices made the people fat in the first place,, I never drank…

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I meant a giant pot full of dirt when I said planter. When I filled it up it took a bag and a half of topsoil. Each bag is 40lbs, so thats 60lbs of dirt and then the weight of the actual pot too. No idea what the pot weighs.

I knew I was fat when I hit a 12 in pants. With dress sizes you can be thin but with large breasts at a size 12. That is one of the reasons I detest dress sizes. Pants are what matters. Thats where the belly, butt, and thighs are.

I had my period everyday for over a year. Oh yeah and I gained 50 pounds

The pill didnt make me gain any weight. However when I was on the depo shot I got my period every single day for a year and so I became a bottomless chocolate eating machine.

I "cheat" maybe once every 2 weeks. Usually when im sick or injured or in any way unwell. I cheat, but I never cheat past 1800 calories. Well not so far.

You cannot get stronger while on a calorie deficit. I eat 1200-1500 calories a day and ive grown so much stronger in the last month that I can no longer tell what I can lift and what I cannot. Out in the garden today I looked at a big heavy planter and since I have never been able to lift it I assumed it was still very…

Um, am I the only one not feeling like its some great thing? I know well how to budget for this. Its not hard at all if you take the time to think ahead. How exactly is living like you ran out of money supposed to make you wanna donate money? Its not unheard of for my family to run out of money a few times a year. If not…

I like frozen meals. I do not watch my sodium at all though. I dont give a flying cows butt about water weight. If its not losing fat why should I care? Anyway, the portions are small but filling if you have a big cup of water with them. They are easy when you are on the run. I have a frozen meal every friday, saturday,…

Im a heavy splenda user and my weight is coming off just fine. I tried stevia but im in the small percentage who has a bad reaction to it. I got pretty sick. I tried the powder, and even the leaf itself and I always react the same way. Anyway there are some people who think that they make you crave sweets more, but I have…

Are these green smoothies or regular ones? Also some yogurt brands are yuckier in smoothies than others. Like, some are more sour/bitter. I am not familiar with smoothie king, but im sure there are copy cat recipes out there. Also sometimes all it takes is one slightly unripe berry to throw off the whole flavor of the…