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For other meals, beans are great source of both fiber and protein you could try making some lunch salads with those. Although salad is great leafy greens don't actually have a ton of fiber.

I like to have oatmeal with a hard boiled egg or two on the side, or Greek yogurt with a high fiber fruit like an apple. You could also add some whole grain toast to your eggs.

Honestly I know that protein is generally considered the gold standard of feeling full but I find no matter how much protein I eat, I will be hungry again soon unless I also have a good amount of fiber. Maybe try adding something high fiber to your breakfast in addition to the protein and see if it keeps you full longer.…

And yes I am in hospital nursing so I am definitely not sedentary on work days, usually 10K plus steps. Just not doing cardio or strength training

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who saves their workouts for off days. I've never been successful with forming an exercise habit that lasts beyond a month, and whenever I read up on forming habits, everything I read seems to assume having a similar schedule every day (which we definitely don't, in addition to my…

I haven't completely cut out anything. There are some things I buy less often now, because the calories weren't worth it. The main thing that comes to mind is orange juice in the morning. I still buy it occasionally but I don't drink it every morning anymore, not worth the 120 calories. Now, cream in coffee, or wine, or…

Usually once a day, sometimes twice. Morning coffee always does the trick. Afternoon coffee sometimes does.

For example, this recipe is one of my favorites. It's not perfect health wise, sure it has signifiicant salt, but it also has a LOT of vegetables and is quite filling, tasty, and only 5.60 per recipe. It usually lasts my family of 4 (3 eating) 2 days. https://www.budgetbytes.com/2012/03/chicken-yakisoba/

Agree. When and how you use salt in the cooking process makes a bigger difference than how much you use. For example, if you put a bit of salt on meat several hours before you cook, it will be more evenly seasoned and tender, versus having to put a lot on after its cooked. You dont need a lot if you time it right. :)

Im jealous, I can never find it that cheap! We can only eat steak occasionally on our budget. But yes, grocery shopping is almost always cheaper, I can definitely see that being the case even with steak. Even fast food really isn't that cheap anymore. 2 adult McDonald's meals is $12-13. I can cook a meal that costs $5-7…

Yes, I forgot, potatoes! Very filling and budget friendly, and only "unhealthy" if you eat huge portions or drown them in calorie heavy things :)

Beans, especially if you can cook them from dry, are very budget friendly and healthy. Frozen veggies just as healthy and cheaper than fresh. Eggs. If you buy meat, buy the meat that's on sale, in bulk, freeze it in portions, and cook it in the slow cooker to make tougher cuts more tender. Rice. Lentils. Barley, etc. You…

Most people (obviously there are medical exceptions, IF you have a medical condition that makes you constipated I'm not talking about you) just need adequate fiber and water to be regular. Regular means different things for different people. The standard American diet is very low in fiber. Even when I feel like I ate…

I agree with others that your calories might be too low. I see you're trying to go low carb, but I personally find fiber fills me up just as well if not better than protein. There doesn't seem to be any fiber in what you've eaten so far. Can you fit some more fiber in? Are you open to grains such as oats? If not, more…

Love This! I think extreme thinking ("all or nothing") is what leads a lot of people to fail

Are you male? Is the fat just around your nipples, and you never tended to store fat there before? If so, have you been to a doctor to rule out gynecomastia? Otherwise, I agree with the other posters. Patience.

Agree, I recently started adding walnuts and fruit to Greek yogurt, it's a very good filling breakfast between the fats in the nuts and the protein in the yogurt

I think so. People always say protein is most filling, but personally I find a high fiber, lower protein breakfast like oatmeal, or even mini wheats keeps me full much longer than a high protein, low fiber breakfast like eggs. Of course, both protein and fiber is best if you have the time (oatmeal +hardboiled egg is the…

Me too! No matter how skinny I get, even back when I had a BMI of 20, I can almost never get normal boots to Fit Or if I do squeeze into regular width boots, I have a little muffin top at the knee :D

I think your calves look fine. It's mostly genetic. I have large calves (15+ inches even when I am only 125 lbs, which is considered "large" if you're looking for compression stockings, they have measurements on there for sizes). My mother, brother, uncle and grandfather are all the exact same way. Exercise doesn't change…

That makes sense, although 900-1000 calories for only 5k steps still seems off, even at sedentary

He hasn't really been weighing himself regularly, he says that as far as he knows he has lost about 2 and a half pounds in a month, so slower progress than what he had planned for but still progress. So when MFP connects to fitbit, it adjusts for your activity level? That surprises me, because it starts giving me calories…

I did lose a lot of weight without eating at a deficit the first 2 weeks which I attributed to the shedding you speak of. Then I gained 6 lbs of it back, and started counting calories the following week

You're not discouraging at all! It's actually kind of reassuring to hear. I would be worried if the 3 lb/week thing did keep going. I am happy to be back on mfp and seeing some results (even if they slow down). I was a little afraid someone was going to say this was a sign I needed to stop eating at a deficit at all and…

With my oldest, once he was on solids around 6 months I started only adding an additional 250 cal (instead of 500) for breastfeeding. When he was closer to a year I stopped giving myself extra calories for it at all. I think exactly how many calories you need for milk production may vary based on how much your baby eats…

Rum or whiskey with diet coke. Vodka tonic. White wine is relatively low cal. (120 cal or so) Most 1 oz shots of liquor vary from 60-80 cal (except high sugar ones like fireball are more like 100). So if you mix it with a diet soda it's only the 60-80 cal for the liquor.

Personally, I measure every week because it's a habit to do it the same time I do my weight. But I am realistic in my expectations. I dont get discouraged if I havent seen a change in my measurements from one week to the next, since those changes can take longer

Not in terms of the right/left differences, but there are certain things that changed permanently after my first child. My hips (the bones it seems) were permanently wider, as well as my rib cage, if that makes sense. These differences stayed even after I was back down to pre-pregnancy weight, but again it was more so the…

I never used to have a sweet tooth but breastfeeding makes me crave sweets like crazy. That's one of my biggest challenges

Hello! I currently have a 1 month old and am trying to lose 30 pounds I gained with him, as well as an additional 10 that I never lost from my first pregnancy. 40 lbs is the biggest weight loss journey I've ever done so it feels a bit overwhelming. Feel free to add me!