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I don't like shopping much either, so it's a pain for me to shrink out of all my clothes... Especially because I really hate loose fitting tops :( Luckily, it's warming up now, just as I'm shrinking out of my previously tightest pants... I plan to stick with dresses with belts so they can work for a long time, and skirts…

Eggs, tuna, oats, low fat dairy, low fat ground meat (from what ever animal), leafy greens (could be iceberg, spinach, etc.), what ever veggie is cheap (keep an eye out for cucumber, zuccini/squash, egg plant, pumkin), berries and/or melons when in season. Those are some pretty good basics I look out for, you can usually…

Yes I am! Yes I do! Yes! More so veggies, berries and leaves rather than fruits. Though I am eating mango right now as I type (together with chili, shrimp, onion, leek, coconut, spinach and ginger!) Well, I actually used to eat a lot less meat, often went many days without it... But now I'm all about the protein, so less…

Have you considered histamine intolorance? My mom was diagnosed recently, and it's like a light bulb went off... She was always red and swollen, generally feeling 'allergy-ish' at seemingly random times, sometimes it seemed like she must be allergic to EVERYTHING! She also developed more severe allergies, she's had…

I'm pretty much doing it as well, have a bit of an irregular schedule, and I'm in it for the long haul, so I tend to go quite low on some days, and over on others, but it should average out to about 1200 :)

I lost about 25lbs by doing nothing else but cut back on my drinking (would still drink the same amounts, but much less often)... I didn't cut down on it to lose weight, I cut down because it was getting out of hand, so the weight loss was just a bonus, that got me motivated to do something about my weight for real. Now…

I'm 5'8"! :D Don't have official 'before/afters', since I'm not done, but SW was 253.5lbs, current is 192.2lbs, and goal, who knows? and here's a recent pic

As others have said, start small, introduce a few leaner items into your meal. If you are still getting take outs etc., switch one of the items to one their leaner option (some carrots instead of fries etc.) Also, how good are you at cooking? I love how creative all the 'lean junkfood' recipies are, but since I never…

Here in my country, we never have free refills, it's a completely foreign idea. Soda is also really expensive, so people generally drink very little of it. Maybe once a week on average.

I shop in a slightly expensive store, which gets me a lot of disapproval from other people, seeing as I'm a poor student, and it seems there is a rule that students MUST live off dollar store food. The reason I shop there, though, is because I don't actually believe it's that expensive: They have their own discount brand,…

The fiber should be a minimum rather than a limit, so it's no problem :) In my country, the food recommendation is actually 35g of fiber

I lost my first 22-33lbs without counting or even thinking too much about it - just skipped more calorie dense things Though I'm surprised now, I feel like I frequently go way over, even when I keep a sharp eye on it!

Unfortuneatly, no :( I like it crunchy too, so I'm sad. But I eat it on crisp bread, to give the illusion, lol :b

I bought some chocolate sauce from them... it seemed to be the item with the most positive reviews, all the others had "Yuck!" as their highest rated review pretty much... But it tasted so awful, I had to throw it out... I tried it in all different kinds of ways, and it was just not edible. And I'm not at all sensitive to…

I'll open mine, I weighed 198.4lbs on the 28th of March, and weigh 196.2lbs today (4th of April) My macros this past week have been 34%fat, 33%protein and 33%carb

Sounds good, I really feel like I could use a manual, and I like the sound of this one, focusing on 'functional strength' over 'gains'. Your other answer in this thread is really great to hear too, I'm glad to know what I do know will help me when I can get more into it when I get to maintance. I knew I wouldn't bulk now,…

Oh, thank you so much! I'm waiting with the free weights though, until I get a bit better balance and control, but I hope to use those soon, I've only used them for bicep so far! And I can see how those would be more benificial for functional strength.

That's really good to hear :D I have hope, lol :b I "can't" really do squats yet, as I suck at posture and keeping control - so I'm doing weight machines that will help me "get to know" my muscles, give me some core strength so I can eventually start doing squat

I do get a lot of protein, and I'm improving on that too, the total trend since I started logging has me at 24% protein, but this past week it's at 32%, and I plan to continue that trend :) I'm at a large deficit though, but I hope it will still give me some benefits! I don't mind stalling a bit, as long as the trend long…

Ok, good, I was a bit worried! It did seem rather counter-intuitive that I would lose muscle by training them! But I won't get stronger either then? So the weights I can lift now, will that be how much I can lift until I start eating at maintance? Or will I actually get a bit stronger, even if my muscles don't grow? (I…

I already ate pretty 'clean' so I guess I'm proof that it's not processed food that makes you fat :b I lost my first 22lbs by cutting back on my drinking... Hadn't even considered how much of my calories I had been spending on that until I suddenly found that non of my clothes fit anymore.. So I suppose me diet wasn't that…

Ethanol is not a carb. Especially in a biological sense, carbs need to have more than two carbon atoms. Also, carbs have aldehyde or ketone groups. Since it has it's own calorie density as well, it makes sense that it is its own macro as well.

Depends on the purpose! For clothing and what your figure looks like, yes, measure at the narrowest point/natural waist. Though if you doctor measures you, they'll do it 1" above your belly botton, as that is more relevant to if you are likely to have too much fat around your organs.

Yes, alcohol is a macro - just not one that's included in the official macro distributions :) (as putting a percentage on how much of your intake should be booze is pretty silly!)

I sort of track it, but very conservatively. I only track stuff that actually gets my pulse going, and is considered an actual workout (so no, I don't track vigourous cleaning etc.), and even that I list as 'light' and for a conservative amount of minutes. I have a graph in excel where I do 'projected loss' for the week…

Alchol has twice as many calories than protein and carbs. So yes, you can get fat from vodka. I certainly did. Well, I was already fat, but when I started to drink heavily, I gained until I was morbidly obese. Then I cut back to a more normal amount, and dropped 22lbs within a few months, just like that, no other effort…

Because I like it :) So unless there are some real negatives that I need to consider, I would very much like to continue drinking this amount

I'm averageing sodium a good bit below 1000mg, and I drink 4-5L and more a day. Drinking a lot is new, I used to have to force myself to get up to 1L/day. I've never eaten much salt, but I'm probably lower now, since there are a couple of salty foods that I almost don't eat anymore.

I'm worried about that too, my mom needs a dietician (she has histamine intolorance, which means she's actually allergic to everything in varying degrees, and her symptoms are severe), and when I told her about this guy and some of the others in my class, she was really worried about if she would risk getting a dietician…

It's very simple, you can do it yourself: Boil out the leaves in water, and you'll end up with a liquid stevia, though not completely pure, and not very concentrated, but can still be used in your cooking or what ever. To get a stronger concentration, you need to destil it, which is also fairly easy to do, I've done it.…