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Enjoy, OP :) I love Panda Express for the broccoli beef and the teriyaki chicken. Steamed rice and 2x broccoli beef makes for a very filling dinner without breaking the caloric bank.
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I'll likely be counting for life but recognize that that is not a solution for everybody. Some background: When I was in my twenties I lost 100+ pounds through diet and exercise, though I treated it as a (temporary) diet. When I got where I wanted to go, I said "Well I've got this now, I know what to do and some cheating…
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No, I do not take any days off of logging. Some of those days will be over my limit, and that's fine with me as I'd much rather have the hard data to look back upon later after I've forgotten about any one particular day. Everybody's different, but for me if I wasn't logging everything I ate I know I'd be taking little…
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400 was my number. Why so large? I was an obese teenager who just became an obese adult and didn't think much of it. Everybody in my family was (and is) obese and while I realized it wasn't normal, I didn't want to be fit so much that I was willing to give up the things that I ate, and as somebody who didn't like exercise…
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Still playing World of Warcraft, helping some guildies get their challenge mode golds before 6.0 makes those inaccessible. Looking forward to Warlords! Also playing some Hearthstone on the side. Finished up The Witcher not long ago and working through Witcher 2 now. They're both pretty fun games and the book series sounds…
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I think it's good to acknowledge where we started from and where we are, and if somebody is curious enough to ask I'll be glad to tell them. My starting weight was 391, and I discovered MFP at 366. Today at 289, I've still got a long way to go but any time I get frustrated by short term variance I just have to look back…
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Happens to me too. How you stand on a scale can definitely matter, and I try to be as consistent as I can but even then there's some margin of error. On top of that, some scales will cheat a little to look more reliable! My example: When I step on my scale I might see 295.4, and if I do something else that wouldn't change…
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Welcome back, and you can definitely do it! With some weight loss before MFP I'm down about 100, with another 100 to go still. MFP has made this as easy as I could possibly ask for and I can't say enough nice things about the site and app. :)
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Hello! Glad to see you're here. MFP is a great tool and you'll meet a lot of interesting folks along the way. I'm always happy finding more friends on the weight loss journey. I also lost some weight before coming here, but all told I'll probably need to lose 200 pounds and am about halfway there currently. In the past…
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I eat out a lot (like, a lot; check my diary) so I struggled with this as well. Here's what I do: If it's a fast food/chain restaurant, I'll look up the menu and nutrition info beforehand so that when we go, I'll know exactly what I can have that will fit my calories for the day. Saves time in ordering once we're there,…
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This advice is all spot on, but most importantly: baby steps to start with. I'd say start with the calorie counter and don't try to make huge changes to diet immediately, just get him counting calories and logging everything (everything!) and he should be able to work out pretty quickly how much of whatever he can eat.…
