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I try to eat low cal foods that are high volume as side dishes and snacks. Think "big" foods. Like a huge veggie salad with my dinner with light dressing. I eat a TON of vegetables. Broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, zucchini, stuff like that you can eat boatloads of it for very few calories. Dip them in hummus, salsa, or…

I have this book and I love hungry girl! The guacamole is really good. It's mostly canned peas but I swear you would never know it! All of her drink/shake recipes have been good. The dips are good. I sometimes have to add extra sweetener to some things. Not crazy about any of the recipes using ground up fiber one cereal…

Portabella mushrooms sprayed with Pam and sweet potatoes!

Congrats! Be proud !

You are probably eating more than you think. Do you use a food scale? 1200 calories a day + exercise for three months would have produced significant weight loss for sure especially since you were just starting out.

You can't really force someone to lose weight if they're not ready to. He just quit smoking which is a huge deal. He's obviously capable of making healthy life changes so I think you should give him some time and let him do it when he's ready. And as far as your weight loss efforts, that's completely up to you. You can't…

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I like vitatops. They're like a little chocolate cake with chocolate chips in it. They taste amazing in the microwave and they're only 100 calories. High fiber and lots of vitamins in them too.

She likes to accessorize!

Go rangers!!!

Me! Favorites are: Tool Alice in chains Mad season Nin In that order :)

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That's helpful - thank you :)

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I lost over 50 lbs over a period of 2 years and I've never experienced it and I was pretty restrictive in the beginning. Any time I wasn't losing it was because I was eating at maintenance due to not logging correctly and underestimating my food intake. Every time I cut back to 1200 calories I started losing again. From my…

If you were hungry and under your calorie goal why didn't you just eat more? Problem solved!

It's a total bs excuse for me! I'm craving chocolate cuz I have my period. Or I'm getting it next week. Or I had it last week. That's 3 weeks out of the month! I just love chocolate that's all there is to it.

I hear that. I still shop juniors! I'm 32 but I just can't wear women's sizes especially jeans and dresses. They don't fit right. I'm 5'2 120 lbs so it's not like I'm even that skinny but the smallest size women's clothes are still too big most of the time. I do feel a little weird going in stores like forever 21 but who…

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Did you actually try it with the Splenda? I did and it didn't work. They never set. Still yummy but just balls of goo :(

I like Jose Cuervo light margarita. It's premixed, cheap, and tasty. I love me some tequila!

Sounds good to me.

Omg I did that once!

Before it was a hot fudge and pineapple sundae. Now its kale. Yeah right. It's still the sundae. Loved it then and love it now!

Your daughter is adorable by the way :)

Ok I saw your diary. Since you lowered your intake for the past week I think you will lose weight on that even if it's not totally accurate. You have a little margin of error now. Also since you're small just know it's gonna be slow coming off. It's not going to be like a pound or two a week. Probably more like a half…

Yeah seriously. How big is the piece of chicken? You need to know. A chicken breast can weigh like 12-14 oz which would be around 400 calories.

You are also confusing bmr with tdee. Bmr is calories to stay alive and at 5 ft 120 lbs there's no way yours is anywhere near 1700. That's probably your tdee (maintenance calories).

Do you use a food scale? Do you know packaged food nutrition labels are allowed a 20% margin of error? I'm small too - 5'2 120 lbs and at our size accuracy is so important. I'm not saying you're eating food and not logging it because you're cheating, I'm saying get a food scale. That first couple of pounds was probably…

Good for you! Who cares what they think of your workout clothes! You're working out - it doesn't matter what you're wearing. People are ridiculous sometimes.