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I make turkey and cheese sandwiches. 1 ounce of reduced fat cheese, 2 ounces of sliced turkey, 2 slices of low calorie bread, mustard. You can add lettuce, tomato, sliced pickles, sprouts, cucumber, bell pepper, etc. Instead of mustard you can use light thousand island dressing or light french dressing. Have a mug of broth…

Brown rice contains fiber so it will fill you up more than white rice. If you can only afford white rice that's okay, but I find white carbs just make me hungrier. Beans are a good source of carbs plus protein and they fill you up better. You can use them as a carb side or as a protein. Potatoes also have a high satiety…

Forgot to mention: Boca Burgers, TVP crumbles

- soy -- tofu -- soy milk -- edamame -- tempeh -- soy grits or granules, add them to cereal or other foods like grains -- soy flour can also be added to cereal or other foods like grains - nonfat greek yogurt - low fat cheese - 1% cottage cheese - low fat string cheese (Sargento makes one that is 50 calories) - sliced…

If you drink enough Soylent you should put on weight. I hear it's thick like pancake batter with a vanilla taste. As for vitamin K and coumadin, anytime you change your diet you should get your PT/INR checked. Ideally you should be getting it check monthly, more if something changes. It's not that you can't eat vitamin K…

Wow, will give it a shot!

Shower at home before you go, because you're supposed to shower before you get in the pool. Shower at the gym afterwards then sit in the sauna and slather on the moisturizer.

Pretty impressive.

Just keep working it. It will happen. Don't try to rush it, slow and steady wins the race.

She asked for people's opinions and people are giving them. How is that concern trolling?

A turkey and cheese sandwich. I get reduced fat cheese. Add sliced tomato, lettuce, red onion, any other veggies you like. You can put sandwich stacker pickles on it too. I use mustard instead of mayo. I used to make my own miso soup to take to work. Put some chopped veggies and tofu in a wide mouth thermos. Add a spoon or…

First of all look up the definition of "thin". Thin used to mean underweight. Nowadays people confuse that word with being within a normal weight range. Secondly science is on the side of being within a normal weight range. You are less likely to develop various diseases and medical conditions within a normal weight range.…

I think the problem with going below 1200 is getting enough nutrition and hitting your macros and your micros. You may get tired too. I vote with exercising a little more. Remember it's a marathon not a sprint. Are you perimenopausal? Is it possible that this is water gain? Have any of your measurements changed?

Sounds about right.

This is from WebMD: Eat a balanced and healthy diet and increase your physical activity. In addition to limiting calories, avoid diets rich in refined, rapidly digested carbohydrates. This includes limiting foods such as bread, grits, rice, potatoes, corn, and concentrated sugar that is found in sports drinks and juice.…

I was hungry at 1200, I changed my weight loss to half a pound a week. I also try to get some exercise each day, even if it's only 100-200 calories of exercise. After about a month you will find you are less hungry too, your stomach will shrink a bit. Eat low GI, eat more protein. Hydrate about 20 minutes before you eat.

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Nuts! Put peanut butter or almond butter on the bagel. Skippy makes peanut butter with honey added, it's addictive.

Be aware that cholesterol numbers can be heavily influenced by genetics. So even if you do all the right things your numbers can be high. I used to eat a low fat vegan diet and my total cholesterol was still 200! It's even higher now that I eat animal products again. I have to wonder my parents' numbers were, they put…

I make my own. I control the calories. You can buy frozen dough in the supermarket. (I get the kind made by an Italian bakery.) It's really cheap. Take it out of the freezer in the morning, stick it in a big tupperware type container, rub a very small amount of olive oil all over it. Stick it someplace warm to defrost and…

Perhaps it's muscle gain. Have you been tracking your measurements as well? In addition to bust, waist and hips you might want to measure your thighs and maybe even your calves. Muscle is denser than fat. So perhaps you're thinner in those areas. What happened to me this summer is I put 2" on my chest from kayaking but…

Starvation mode is a myth. It is easy to underestimate the calories you eat and easy to overestimate calories burned thru exercise. You should eat some of your calories back but be wary of eating all of them back because of inaccuracies in measuring. Try calculating your TDEE. I figure if you eat at or above your BMR but…

I put myself down as completely sedentary and no exercise whatsoever. I am only trying to lose half a pound a week so I get about 1350 calories as my baseline. (Tried 1200 calories originally and was too damn hungry!) If I want to eat more than that I earn it thru exercise. So I log my exercise to earn more food. I don't…

Maybe you had a really big BM.

Eat fruit. Have a piece at every meal. Don't drink juice. Eat sweet vegetables like sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, parsnips, etc... Eventually you will retrain your taste buds. Stay away from refined carbs, flour products, sugar. Eat low GI or GL. If you can't eat something without sugar on it then don't eat it, eat…

Stealing that!