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Hey guys! I'm caught in the grip of sugar and need some ideas! I am NOT someone who can substitue fruit for my sweet tooth. I love fruit, but they are in different categories for me. So here's why this is tough for me.... ANYTHING with sugar alchohols turn me into a human whoopie cushion within 15 minutes. My fiance can't…

Bunny- Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwhiches baby! They are 140 cals per and it isn't that crappy "no-taste" ice cream. Honest! I eat 'em as much for the cookies as I do the ice cream. It's two soft chocolate cookies and probably a half cup almost of ice cream. So for the cals it's a great deal! If you are a "piece of candy"…

Hi Snaylor! Just out of curiousity, what is your daily "allotted" calorie total? Also, about how many calories a day do you think you were eating before starting your program? -rdecember

WOW! 50 pounds, that's absolutely amazing! You must be totally "high" after that docotor's visit-and shopping trip! Those new pants ain't lyin'-nor the lighter ladies on the front of you:) You must feel SO exhillerated. 15 weeks is no small feat for that much weight. Please keep us posted-especially if those stubborn final…

Sorry to be the bad guy-but it's actually 3,500 calories to a pound. BUT... The good news? Just cut out around 175 calories per day for the next week and it will be like it never happened. Or just add a little more excersize. 15 on the eliptical here, 20 minutes more on your morning walk. This will be totally O.K.!!! If…

Hey there! I know the idea of eating a few more hundred calories probably sounds terrifying, but 1000-1500 calories per day for someone at your height and weight sounds like a HUGE step! I admire your willpower for keeping it up for 4 whole months! I am at about 1500 cals per day (very slow/moderate loss) with about 12…

In response to Meg: While I definately think you are doing your body and overall health a disservice to have a large portion of your caloric intake be alcohol, I do think that it's worth it to to cut back on food calories on the days you want a couple of drinks so that you can have the drink you want. In my case, dark beer…

Hi Beth! Ahhhhh. A fellow beer lover. I SO feel where you're coming from! And what's worse, I love dark beer. Really dark, dense porters. These babies pack in about 220 cals apiece compared to a regular domestic beer at about 175. I REFUSE to drink light beer. You know how some people will suggest a nonfat version of…

I agree with cwalbrj. If you put some thought and planning into your indulgences, you'll be surprised to find that sometimes they won't really throw you off all that much. For instance, if you are eating 1300 cals per day, and you eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast and a frozen dinner and fruit for lunch, you might come in…

I stand corrected folks on the "changing your intake goals" statement! I swear I couldn't find it before:)Yeah!

If you can afford it, go for the Kashi frozen meals. They are totally natural, suprisingly tasty (and I'm picky), and are somewhat more filling due to a bulky grain mixture in most of them. They will set you back between $4-$4.75 per, and most are around 300-350 cal. But hey-it's your health and since they aren't full of…

I have this problem every day! I don't eat any refined sugar either. But I eat all the fruit I want. My sugar intake is always way over. Unfortunately you can't customize the actual grams of a particular component. This is too bad because I'm also way over on fiber-which I'm aiming for. To heck with 24 grams of sugar. If…

Not hard at all! You can highlight the entire text/content of your food journal, right click and choose copy. Exite out and email your trainer. Right click in the message area of your email and choose paste. All the info. from your food journal will be placed there.

No problem counting tea as water-as long as it's decaffinated! Also, sounds like a lot of Splenda intake...do a little reading up if you are interested. I used to cook a lot with Splenda. Then I read that it's made by chlorinating sugar, which changes its molecular structure. That's how it becomes sucralose which Splenda…

Hey there! I happen to love cheese, eggs, butter, etc. But I also believe in a lot of the bad "mojo" that goes along with eating dairy as well. (I won't get on my soap box for this discussion!) To respond specifically to your question regarding adequate calcium intake, here is a list containing some foods with naturally…

Hey everyone! I just wanted to put out a search for anyone who like me, is on a slow track to lose a (smaller?) amount of weight. I started on the site weighing in at 150 at 5' 4". That was on July 20th. Two months later I'm at 144.5. That's right folks. Two solid months of being a very good girl and I've lost only 5.5…

That's an interesting question that I too, have gone back and forth with. 9 times out of 10, the higher carb count from low fat foods comes from sugar. Likewise, lower sugar foods will be packed with fat. So. What's a person to do? I am one of those people who believes that at the end of the day-in terms of WEIGHT LOSS-a…

Hey everyone! For all of you who are (or were) big "eater outers" here is a site that I found and saved to my favorites list. It's got quite and extensive list of restaurants, their menus, and the nutrition information for those items. Hope it helps! http://www.dietfacts.com/

By the way-I love Trader Joe's!!! If you can SWEAR your salad dressing kicks *kitten* I will definately try it. Especially for 35 calories per 2 tablespoons!

So....Not to put you on the spot or anything, but how can you pull off a turkey wrap for 200 calories? 100g of turkey breast-on average-comes in at about 80-90 calories. Low fat cheese is-on average- 60-70 calories an ounce. And tortillas, even low fat ones rarely come in at lower than 80-90 calories per. Add some low cal…

SO COOL to see where everyone is writing in from!!! We (my fiance and I) moved here (Atlatanta) a year ago from Olympia, WA. Talk about a change! So "HELLO" cmriverside!! The name makes more sense now. Also to our Oregon friend-hello. We managed to pack on a few since all the change this past year... But no matter. Here's…

Cheers to you for taking the chance of letting other people in on your "quest." I, too have gained-lost-and regained the same 12 or so pounds for the last fifteen years. And I have always been very solo and private about it. Turns out, it's kind of fun to poke around the message boards and see what people are thinking and…

Hello! I've been using this site for almost a month for tracking purposes. It's so nice to not be charged for this kind of service... Just wanted to share with other users that I am a HUGE Trader Joe's fan and have slowly but surely been adding foods that I eat on a regular basis. Anything from Albacore tuna to cereals,…