EmmaFitzwilliam Member

The only advice I can offer is to suggest you build food you can bring with you or get where you are into your day. I have a microwave at work; I cook or reheat cereal (10-grain cereal, quinoa, or steel cut oats) for breakfast, and I have snap peas and an apple for lunch (with the option of adding hummus, wasa cracker,…

I love my Up24 (though I spent about $120 on mine!). I actually *like* the sleep tracker, and its results tend to match the experience I am conscious of, but then, I like knowing how much I slept since my sleep tends to be pretty poor quality. It has pluses and minuses. I think the "step count" is simultaneously optimistic…

Knowledge is Power. Trends, not days. Real life happens.

Congratulations!!

Dance, belly dance, step workout, jump rope.

My Up24 counts my steps, and that uploads to MFP, so I don't add additional exercise to MFP. My Up24 is not a perfect indicator of my steps (for a couple of reasons, some positive and some negative) but it's good enough for my purposes. If you really care, and think you will get better results with manual logging over the…

I eat what I want to, record it, and move on. By chance, I had the opportunity to have dinner at an unexpectedly nice fine dining restaurant, and enjoyed every calorie in the entire serving of Chicken Genovese, and 1/2 of the chocolate mousse for dessert. I looked up the Chicken Genovese in the database, and selected a…

I went to "settings" to change the items my nutrition report tracks. I swapped fiber for sodium and turned off the sugar display.

I'll start small. Just for today, I will include 25g dietary fiber in my food plan.

I like this method: http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-cook-the-best-chicken-breasts-in-the-oven-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-211453 I still have trouble getting the timing just right for moist chicken breasts, but for me, baking 4 chicken breasts at once works out to pre-cooked chicken for two meals for my roommate and…

I weigh myself daily, but I don't fret about the fluctuations. As for the lose some, gain some back, that's the story of my graph. In the end I'm still steadily losing so I don't worry about it. My progress is pretty much flat for the past 10 days (except it's actually up and down). My weight today is the same as on 2/28,…

Congratulations! No suggestions - you did better than I did when I ran my 5k!

If you're stressed about it, log all the food. There are no MFP cops who will issue a citation for going over the calorie goal. If you don't want to log yesterday, but don't want to break your logging streak, log everything you ate, up through the saltines, but not the pizza and the cookies. Feeling better is most…

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I'm in my office from 8:15, after a commute of over an hour, so I eat breakfast and lunch at work (and at my desk to keep costs down!). Pre-commute breakfast - Grande latte (whole milk). Breakfast (at work) - Bob's Red Mill 10grain Cereal (cooked in the microwave), with 1 cup blueberries. (Sometimes I bring in…

I don't get them at Starbucks any more, but I have a daily grande latte (whole milk) and one or two cups of coffee with half and half.

I'm down 60 pounds in 8 months. IIFYM is "If it fits your macros". On good days, my protein is a little high and my carbs are a little low; more often, my protein and my fats are both high, at the expense of my carbs. But the Carbs/Fats/Protein macros are only part of the picture - of what you ate, how much is…

I've lost 60 pounds in 8 months. It seems to be working for me. MFP is only a tool. For me, facing portion control and calorie content worked. Food logging helped me see where my portion control was non-existent, and where I had the decision making practices of a spoiled 4 year old when it came to what I chose to eat. Now,…

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Just over the curve - I'm 5'1.5". :) One part of me is looking for 125; another part is looking for 135. Subject to input from my doctor and awareness of body composition (body fat vs. bmi, etc.).

For me, the clothes and the pictures are an awesome side benefit, but my initial motivation was to be able to stand up, hunker down, walk from the far end of the parking lot, go hiking, walk faster, etc. The pictures and the clothes give me a huge boost when I get frustrated, as does remembering not being able to stand up…

Congratulations! I'm 5'2", and 2/3 of the way from 220 to 130, so I appreciate where you're coming from! I decided when I started that sustainability was key, so I took a good hard look at how I got to my starting weight. (For me, self indulgence, lack of portion control, disregard of nutrition content, and general…

Portion control, more water, more physical activity, calorie/nutrition awareness, long term commitment to choices and trade offs without self denial or self recrimination.

Food scale. Especially one that offers both gram and ounce measurements. Also, measuring cups in the proper sizes. (Most of the time, I measure out the 2T of half and half for my coffee.) Take a deep breath whenever looking at the database for calorie information. A huge amount of that is wild a** guess, or subject to…

Belly dance. Yoga. Hand weights. Step aerobics.

3 oz snap peas and a medium apple. If I'm still hungry I might have a wasa cracker with hummus and/or 2 oz deli ham.

How do you define "quick" and "low calorie"? 5 reese's mini peanut butter cups - 220/calories (44 each); 3 mini 3 musketeers 180 calories (60 each) 8 slices "lite" dry salami - 60 calories. With a medium bell pepper (46 calories) and an ounce of hummus (70 calories) 175 calories total. Not the OPs theoretical 120, but…

As noted elsewhere above, the sugar level is higher because the fat has been removed, which changes the ratios. I never said sugar was added to milk. I said to check the ratios of protein/fat/sugar. As a side note, I observed that generally speaking the trade-off of low fat was higher sugar.

Pre-prep. And purchased prep. I have an hour-plus commute to work, each way, and a toxic job I hate, so food prep is where I made the cut. *** 20 minutes seafood etoufee - Buy one pound cleaned, cooked shrimp (bay shrimp are fine), a package of diced onions, a jar of diced garlic, a package of diced or sliced bell peppers,…

Knowledge is power. That's the big lie about low fat milk. When friends of mine were doing Atkins, they pointed out the protein/fat/sugar ratios in whole milk, lowfat milk and skim milk. As a general rule, if the food industry takes out something (fat) they replace it with something else (sugar). For me, higher protein and…