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Personally I think you would do well to also consider relaxing your ideas about "bad" foods. I eat 200-400 calories of empty-ish snacks (add another 100-200 for alcohol) many if not most days and to be honest, having that snack to look forward to each evening is a fantastic reminder that I can eat healthier and lose weight…
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BE PATIENT. You might think you look "bulkier" now but 1) that's likely a bit of body dysmorphia (i.e., you look worse in your own eyes than you do in reality) and 2) even if true, it's temporary. If you're eating at a healthy deficit, you are NOT getting bulkier over the medium-to-long term, and your stronger, healthier…
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Cat food. Srsly. Look it up.
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Hmm, I started last year at over 300 lbs (and over 40 yo) with no exercise experience, but now I workout for an hour a day 6X a week, plus walking. When I started I focused on being gentle to myself. So I started with just stretching and "warm up" exercises only, probably less than 10 minutes a day. Pretty quickly got the…
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If, as you say, you've had a lifelong issue with yo-yo dieting, it might be worthwhile to think about why your downward momentum isn't SUSTAINABLE. It sounds like you have had short-term success in the past with dieting, but inevitably fall back into overeating patterns and gain the weight back. Many of us have been there…
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Yep. I average around 40ish grams per day, though it's not unheard of for me to get in the 50s or even 60s. My diary is open. 1. Beans and lentils. I love all of 'em. Put beans in my eggs, eat lentils with chicken, roast chickpeas for snacks, make chili and bean soups all the time. Easy shortcut: I keep frozen shelled…
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Here's a good seasonal one for spring. Requires a bit of prep, but can be taken to work in a commuter coffee mug and eaten directly from it cold. Cold blanched asparagus with peanut dipping sauce. 1. Make the peanut sauce: 2 tbsp peanut butter (or I use a blend of 1 tbsp peanut butter + 6 grams of PB2 to cut the calories a…
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You can't, as you say, lose 1 lb, doing nothing. However, you can lose an ounce or two. The reason? Respiration. As you breathe, your body converts O2 molecules into CO2 molecules. So some carbon in your body is leaving as you breathe out. It's miniscule (about 1/100th of a gram) per breath, but over the course of an hour…
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Two pairs of socks is great at preventing blisters. Instead of the shoe catching your sock and rubbing on your skin, the shoe catches the outer sock which rubs on the inner sock. Rubbing on your skin, if present at all, is very minimal. Once a blister has formed though, everything around there is really sensitive. I find…
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Damn. WELL PUT. To all the people saying "please would have been NICE" -- sure that's true. But I think the question is whether she was WRONG to not use it. She was not. She shouldn't have had to ask the guy in the first place. He was in the wrong and he doesn't get to complain that she wasn't being self-effasive enough…
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Meh, bottom line you gave him a sad for calling him out on his thoughtlessness, he knew he was wrong and is pissed he didn't get away with it without someone calling him out, he even tried to bluff his way out of it (frankly, I think the fact that he was a man and a girl was instructing him on using the squat rack right…
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If you are truly concerned about fresh fruits and veggies and not packaged food or meat, it's just not true that they are only sold in family-sized packs. (Except in discount markets, and obviously if you're shopping somewhere that exclusively pre-packages in restaurant sizes, you're not really saving money if it spoils,…
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I find this whole question troubling because the question seems REALLY to be "what, how can a NICE COLLEGE GIRL be doing porn? How degrading." This would be an arguably valid point if it were aimed at ALL porn workers (and by extension, a question about whether the very existence of the porn industry is degrading), but…
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I made this last night and it was DELISH. For people who are worried about the olive oil or the uncertainty of oil (because yes, the original photos showed an awful lot of oil, and I always prefer to use less oil but count ALL of it in my diary), here's how I handled it with minimal oil and lots of certainty (and it turned…
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When I was younger I always eyeballed my portions when I was dieting. I also was pretty much always wrong. I had this idea that a boneless chicken breast was "probably about 3 oz" because that's what serving recommendations were (now I know they are typically between 6 oz and 10 oz, at least where I buy them); or that the…
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The "added calcium" in cocoa mixes is just the powdered milk, I believe. The idea being that you make the cocoa by adding water and not milk. (That being said, I always make my cocoa with milk because OMG IT'S SO RICH AND YUMMY). Classically you would make really good hot cocoa from scratch using chocolate, not cocoa…
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I try to get minimum 135 g of protein every day and find that I really have to focus my meal planning on it to get there. If every meal isn't built around protein, then you have to sneak it in and/or have "super protein" meals to make up for lower protein meals. I eat a lot of chicken breast and I get a solid amount of…
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In my experience, "net" weight means weight of full package minus the CONTAINER / discardable containment materials, not subtracting edible packing fluids such as water or oil. "DRAINED" weight would mean the weight of the anchovies minus the oil.
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The flip side of measuring the oil, of course, is to weigh the anchovies, then subtract that from the weight in grams on the package (if it doesn't say "drained weight" to get the oil weight. The olive oil is about 40 calories per 5 grams. My guess would be there's between 1/2 and 1 full tablespoonful of oil, so 60-120…
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The thing I find about my fitbit and "nonfitness walking" is yes, I get a little less credit for it. When I'm taking an actual walk, I move pretty purposefully, even though I don't go more than 3 mph. I don't know if you have a fitbit that is worn on the wrist or not, but mine is on my wrist. So if my hands are busy…
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First, portion control. You can eat anything if you just nibble a little bit. You might end up leaving the restaurant not feeling like you ate a whole meal, but whatever. In my experience, going to eat with a group at a Chinese restaurant means some degree of family-style food sharing, rather than everybody ordering…
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This is currently my favorite kettlebell workout. I love it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDMOIlPLFE&feature=share&list=PLBH-3WW4e_QRCmMsaqJyBt8SNktifL24W&index=13 I've been using mine for only a few weeks, but I do think they're helping me improve my form with squats. But honestly I think I like them because they're…
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Ooops I forgot to mention in step 3 you also need to add some oil to the potato mixture so it fries. Not a lot is needed; I make this all the time and do fine with 1 tsp of oil per 150g of potato (as long as I toss the oil with the mixture before putting in the skillet -- if you put the oil directly in the skillet you will…
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I'm 100% with you, sweet potatoes with sweet stuff added (marshmallows, brown sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon) are the devil's poop. Nasty. I love sweet potatoes cooked in savory recipes. Here's a great one from the NY Times' Mark Bittman. Vietnamese Style Beef and Sweet Potato Stir Fry 1. Quickly stir fry thin slices of…
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Yes and going off meds.
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Bumping to see others' replies, but I'll tell you what I do. I workout every day, but only only shampoo my hair 1X per week (I sweat a lot, but my hair and skin both tend to dryness, so I don't have much of a grease problem except sometimes on that last day of the week). 2X per week I rinse it with the aid of a…
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Yeah, it cooks down a lot. Those great big 1 lb tubs of spinach were on sale 2 for 1 last week so I got 2. I don't like it raw, I always cook it and even those packages I get maybe 3 or 4 servings out of. Down to my last serving today. One package got stirred into a big pot of vegetable soup. Done. The other package I just…
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I make a simple lentil stew for lunches. It's not fancy, but I think it's pretty flavorful. Per each serving of lentils (35 g = 1 serving), add one chopped carrot and 1/4 C of chopped onion or shallot. Cook lentils + veggies in water according to package directions. Simple, and the onion and carrot add quite a lot of…
