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5'10" and 130 -- sounds like a model! You will get back to a size you like with commitment and time. Have you tried getting a few hours of sunlight/daylight during the course of the day? That should help you get more sleep at night. Being sunlight deprived can do a number on your body. Your topic got me thinking about how…

Excellent. I love all of these foods. I already ate a banana today, and am going to eat a baked potato at lunch. Maybe raisins at dinner. Yum.

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I buy a whole bag of popcorn kernels and air-pop them. Cheap, low-cal snack.

I was vegetarian a few years ago. Here are the cheap foods I ate more of: Carrots Potatoes Eggs Fresh string beans Bananas Dried lentils

To make things easy, loosely add up all the extra calories you ate that day, and then make one custom entry for the day in your online food diary. I think you can add custom calories under "Quick Tools." If you have trouble getting sleep at night, I suggest a one-hour somewhat intense workout during the day. Either walk…

The sugars criteria I don't pay that much attention to. It seems like it's wrong somehow. I don't gorge on sugars, but I eat fruits, which ups that quickly, and milk too, which I love to drink. I'm just eating balanced without overdoing it.

I steam the pepper in a steamer basket above a sauce pan of boiling water. When done I stuff the peppers with rice and beans, paprika, salt, pepper, herbs, and a little oil or butter in the mix.

Online, you've got a lot of support on this site. I suggest exercise videos if you want to work out by yourself. You will feel very secure as you won't have anyone around you.

I was the queen of Yo-Yo. I found that strength training is the only thing that maintains my weight, plus eating some raw food each day. Regulates blood sugar somehow.

I wish it did stuff me more. But I think when you get used to drinking a certain amount, you just start to want it on a consistent basis, because that has started to happen to me too. I have never been one for soda, so water usually takes that spot. Drinking Pepsi on a hot day is the worst. It never really quenches.

Makes complete sense. Both just have their own way of working.

Thank you. I am just curious. Perhaps I get dehydrated without actually knowing it, in which case the water is good anyway.

Yeah, I'm not taking them. I asked a question for general reference. Maybe you need to read a little closer.

That is what I hear. I have been drinking 8 cups of water a day for the past few weeks and wonder if it is actually doing me any good in that department. I mean visually it does not seem to change anything, but I guess that is hard to measure.

When I was 15, I ate hoagies, Tastykakes, and drank Snapple all Summer. I actually lost 15 pounds. If I tried that today I'd be 30 pounds overweight in a few short months.

Yes. Occasionally I would just love to eat a lot of pizza, some Caramello or Rolo, and some mozzarella sticks sound good right about now.

I keep hard-boiled eggs on hand for breakfast and snacks. Also turkey lunch meat and peanut butter. I'm not low-carb but I love my protein, and make sure to get it.

Am I the only one that thinks fast food doesn't taste good?

I don't like fast food burgers. But I'm not a burger person in general. I like nuggets. I don't know if Roy Rogers restaurants are still around, but they had great chicken nuggets.

Factory jobs were prevalent, which kept people on their feet. Farming jobs were also high in manual labor and we used mostly Americans rather than Mexican migrants back then. Home video games and internet were basically non-existent. Junk food and processed food were totally around, but people did not customarily eat…

I have old VHS exercise tapes that I loved that they never then released on DVD -- for example some Crunch videos. I keep these old tapes for memories. I was also doing videos all during the Buns of Steel era. I also loved the Elle McPherson video. I am showing my age! I like Denise Austin too. Sometimes I need that dose…

I was doing some NetFlix exercise videos last year, but then they got rid of them all. Are they back?

I'm black, so I'm def looking into this. Thanks.

Yes, if I'm really upset then I won't eat at all.

That made me crack up.

I can imagine if you're building muscle that it really regulates your appetite and it must be generally difficult to force yourself to have a high-calorie consumption daily. I'll say one thing. Any cravings I do have on strength training days tend to be for a big piece of chicken breast or some hard-boiled eggs. I guess…

Yes, I don't want to wind up with a pile of empty doughnut boxes around me. Maybe I need to just add some cals intentionally to make 1,200 at least.

That's what initially got me working out. On the days I exercised I knew I had control over my appetite. On days I didn't I was constantly munching. Now I am getting control over my appetite in general.