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String cheese, cheese cubes, hardboiled eggs, steak strips, beef jerky, pepperoni chips (nuke in microwave until crispy), cheese crisps (nuke on parchment in the microwave until crispy), celery sticks stuffed with cream cheese, cucumber/cream cheese "sandwiches", tuna salad with celery sticks, chicken wings... off the top…

5-6 small meals a day is not true, it's the kind of thing that people repeat but has no scientific basis.

Do you have any studies to back that up? That switching calorie levels daily causes your body to "stay in storage mode"? Because I can show several studies that show the opposite. Just because you eat at a big deficit one day and not the next doesn't mean that you're not averaging a good amount of calories. I am not paleo…

1) Ketosis - low carb diets kill my appetite. 2) Caffeine 3) Intermittent fasting, controlling ghrelin - if you're used to always eating at a certain hour, you will probably always feel hungry at that hour. If you stop eating at that hour you will probably stop feeling hungry at that hour. I just allow myself a certain…

OP cut out all white based products though! Crack is really more of a peachy color no?

I really wanted a Striiv, unfortunately they won't sell to Canada yet boooooo. I would have bought one from Ebay or something but decided against it because of possible warranty issues, so I got a Fitbit instead. I

I hear crack works too!

I weigh every morning, naked, after peeing :) For me it works, I chart my weight, and I understand that some days are gains and some are losses, and as long as the general trend is downwards I'm doing fine! If I only weighed once a week I might be weighing on a day where Im retaining water for whatever reason (a big issue…

I do this, 500 cal day, 2300 cal day, repeat. I have been doing this since January (with a few breaks for vacations). It has been absolutely great for me, physically and mentally. I am not hungry on my low days anymore, and I have just as much energy on a low day as on a high day... it did take a few weeks for me to adjust…

It should make absolutely no difference if the food you eat is late at night or high in fat at all.

Well I wouldn't be able to if I did it every day :) I get by on 500 calories on alternate days because I'd much rather eat a large amount of food on alternate days than be stuck restricting myself EVERY day. I'd rather restrict only half the time. And since I've been intermittent fasting for so long, it's no big deal for…

Girls, what is the pattern to your weight loss? I mean as girls we are especially sensitive to hormone changes, and from years of tracking my weight daily I can tell you right away that around ovulation and around menstruation, I don't lose anything, I gain weight. There are so many reasons for a "stall" or a weight gain…

It really shouldn't be a problem. I hate feeling like I'm on a diet, so I restrict my calorie intake one day and put them all on the 2nd day, (so I do 500 calories on day A, and 2300 on day B... instead of 1400 a day). Been doing this since January and have lost at least 2 pounds a week doing that.

I tell myself that daily exercise helps sleep and try to keep on top of it that way. If I'm too tired to do anything else then I can at least take a walk and get off my butt, get some fresh air.

I don't eat mine, but then again I don't go by the calories MFP gave me, I overrode theirs and set my own.

Strange that it was necro'd as someone's first post too! I mean were they just searching in the search box for people eating too few calories so they could randomly comment? :)

Look at the date of the OP, I'm sure she's not wondering about this anymore :)

At 5'1" you should have no problem at all getting to 130!

After lots of trials I found that one high protein meal works best for me. And I eat it as late in the day as possible. Today is one of my low cal days and I'm probably not going to eat anything until 7pm, then eat a plate of chicken, cucumber, tomato... There are others who graze all day, but I found that eating triggers…

And a habit can absolutely be something about eating or exercise. If every day you walk into the house after school or work and go looking for a snack, isn't that a habit? Maybe you look for a snack even if you're not hungry, that's habit eating. If every time you reached for food you took a second to think "Am I really…

Habits don't only need to be simple things. It can be simple like brushing your teeth. But it can also be more complicated like, an hour long drive to work that you do every day that becomes habit. Meaning, you don't consciously have to think about every little thing about it, oh I have to turn here, oh I have to merge…

The 21 days to start a new habit thing is bunk, it can be any number of days. An easy habit might take 2 weeks to form, and a hard habit (like... exercise every day etc) might take a year to become habit. This year I've decided that I want my life to be good things and effortless, so I'm forcing myself to live every day…

I do a version of calorie cycling, on one day I eat really low calorie and the next I eat high calorie. My calorie levels are 500 and 2300. It averages out to 1400 a day, the 500 cal days have become surprisingly easy for me (no hunger) and I love that on the days that i eat 2300 I don't even feel like I'm on a diet. This…

In my case it was just a bad mindset. In the past, I would say "I need to lose weight, I need to eat 100% clean, I can't have cake, I can't have ice cream, rah rah rah". This would work for one month, maybe two... and then something would happen and I'd eat a slice of cake. And then I'd feel guilty "Oh no I blew it! I'm so…

Oh and I dont have the Wii balance board but a quick search online tells me that it's not accurate, someone was saying that they had a difference of 10 pounds when they climbed on and off... 10 pounds, imagine thinking that you "gained" that because your scale sucks... An accurate scale saves so many headaches :)

Hah yeah I've given up on recalibrating it, it's always been 100% accurate even before recalibrating it, and that's with a toddler and a 5 year old jumping onto it every day to see the pretty numbers light up! OP I would spend the 30$. It's a small investment! It will last you a long time, I've spent way more money than…

I've eaten fruit (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries) on ketogenic diets (20g or less a day) so you can eat berries and still be fine for that, some people have to cut them out but I didn't seem to be very sensitive to them. Some people need to cut out all artificial sweeteners and I wasn't sensitive to those either,…

I bought this one after having read all the glowing reviews on Amazon, It's been really accurate for me, no more having a scale give me 5 different weights when I step on and step off. It always gives me consistent readings:…

I highly highly recommend this one, it's been super accurate for me, I've had it over a year now with zero issues: http://www.amazon.com/EatSmart-Precision-Digital-Bathroom-Technology/dp/B001KXZ808/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335141335&sr=8-1

On the mental side of things "Brain over Binge" helped me a whole lot! It has really helped.