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Well, you can be slim and not obsess over weight gain and calories. If you lose the weight, you can still enjoy food. Just eat a healthy, balanced diet with things like cake and cookies in moderation and you won't need to worry.

2,500-3,000 approx. Not much dinner but really went for the desserts :)

I don't have a food scale so I use measuring cups but I use it for pretty much all my food and look up the nutrition data online and then log it in my food diary.

I eat around 1700 when I don't exercise and 1900-2000 when I do, and I'm maintaining my weight so...

There are a lot of great pumpkin recipes out there. Go on skinnytaste.com or chocolatecoveredkatie.com for some great ones. Pumpkin is really versatile. You can add it to overnight oats, make it into soup (as you said), make muffins, bread, pancakes, cookies, scones, granola, and even smoothies. Type in "Pumpkin Pie…

First of all, just because women shouldn't go below 1200 doesn't mean you need to eat only 1200. Find out your BMR and eat that calorie amount. Most overweight people have a BMR that is WAY higher than 1200. 1200 is the daily recommended intake of a 6 year old, and is a very general guideline that is too low for most…

-Dehydrate them -Cut out their cores, then bake them and put granola, cinnamon, and low-fat yogurt in the middle -Slice them up and dip them in honey or peanut butter -Use them in apple pie -Make apple muffins, apple bread, or apple pancakes -Eat them straight -Put them in smoothies -Make apple butter -Make apple sauce…

Mine is 19.2 and was 23 when I started.

I suppose you could say that. I've always been pretty slender (but not too thin) without a lot of purposeful exercise or having to closely monitor what I eat. I would always just eat 3 meals a day, snack if I was hungry, and I didn't really count calories but I ate fairly normally I'd say. I gained about 30 pounds and got…

Most of the time I eat organic

Check out skinnytaste.com. Lots of healthy low cal crock pot recipes

Jam, butter, honey, marmalade, cheese, sliced fruit. :)

High-glycemic doesn't always mean bad and if it's organic corn then it's fine.

Cardio or circuit training. But keep in mind that MFP often overestimates calorie burn by a little so only eat back some exercise calories.

Make homemade zucchini chips and add salt when you have a potato chip craving. That alone will save you a lot of calories. Your average potato chips have at least 150 calories per just 12 chips. That's not a big serving, and it's easy to eat a lot more than that. If you MUST have some, put a handful or a serving size…

The mind can do crazy things...like make you think you look much bigger than you do. It's hard to gain even 1 pound of fat in one day, much less enough fat to actually make you look bigger. You'd probably have to put on about 5 pounds to notice just a little difference, and in one day that would have you eating 17,500…

Quest bars, Luna bars, Lara bars (not really protein bars but because of the nuts and peanut butter in a lot of them, they have a fairly decent amount of protein).

It's fine if this is a one day occurrence but don't make it a regular thing. That would be terrible for your metabolism and health. Like another user said, if you find that you keep ending up under your calorie goal, eat high calorie foods. There's lots i.e avocados, nuts, beans, lentils, dried fruit, cheese, and meat. If…