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Sounds heavenly. I make quinoa tabbouleh (sp?) a lot. Just your standard tabbouleh recipe, but using quinoa instead of bulgur wheat.

Unfortunately, the idea that this is the easy way can lead to stigma for those who have to choose it. It's a major surgery that should only be undertaken if the alternative is a greater risk to someone's life. And as others have noted, there's nothing easy about it.

Really depends on what works for you. I'm finding small breakfast, small lunch, big dinner, few or no snacks keeps me under my limit. If I'm really, super-hungry I'll have a light snack, but it's rare these days. If I go out to lunch with a friend, I make that my big meal. I can handle being hungry during the day, but not…

Please feel free to add me! I'm trying to focus primarily on health and not get too worked up over the scale. I'm not much into weights, but love to bicycle. (And yes, I know it would be good for me to do the weights thing. Working on it.)

Most of the time black, but when I want a treat it's 8 oz. coffee + 1/2 cup whole milk + 1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses + 1 tablespoon cocoa powder.

I've discovered the individual serving size tubs of hummus. That with veggies or gluten-free crackers. I keep it refrigerated because I can, but I can't imagine it would hurt to leave it out a few hours.

Would it help to change the time of day you exercise? I've found I'm not a morning exerciser, for the most part. If I go too hard in the morning, I'm worthless for the office.

Depends on what works for you. When I switched from skim to full-fat, my cholesterol didn't budge (it's low already) and my triglycerides went down. And I'm happier eating full-fat. Others may find that saturated fat has ill consequences. The debate is ongoing still on saturated fat from natural sources. The consensus on…

Going back to the OP question -- are you picking your battles in terms of how accurate you are on the logging? On low-cal items such as veggies, I don't worry about getting it precise down to the gram. On the oil, starches, etc. I'd want to be more exacting. If you eyeball the veggies close enough, would that help make it…

I like to take those individual serving size containers of hummus with a lot of veggies and some multi-grain crackers.

Those veggie joe's sound heavenly. I'm not vegetarian, but I really like a lot of vegetarian foods. In college, I lived on lentil soup -- just broth, rice, brown lentils and chopped onion, cooked together until the lentils are soft.

I don't like to classify foods as "good" or "bad," other than of course something that will give you food poisoning. I find I do better if I don't turn food into a moral issue. I don't sin when I eat a donut, I eat a donut. It makes me woozy, so I limit my donuts, but if I really, really want one, I fit it into my day and…

Another soup -- kind of into soups. Saute chopped onion and chopped kale together. Set aside. Cook chopped potatoes (I leave skins on) until soft in veggie broth. (I usually use half & half broth and water so it's not so salty.) Add 1 can rinsed, drained white beans. Puree until smooth Add kale/onions. It's kind of like…

I don't really have a recipe, per se, because I was raised by a cook whose operating instructions were "so it looks right." So there aren't really any set proportions on this, but it's my favorite tomato soup recipe: Mix of veggie broth/water -- "enough" (sorry!) Red lentils Peeled, diced sweet potatos Either fresh or…

Avocado-banana-chocolate breakfast smoothie. Dessert for breakfast! Since I had dessert for breakfast, I'll probably go with breakfast for dinner tonight and make goetta. Anyone else ever heard of goetta? It's a Cincinnati OH - Northern KY thing. Steel cut oats and meat cooked to a thick mush, put in bread pan and chilled,…

Thread got me inspired enough to make me a smoothie this morning. I'm always trying to make sure my smoothies don't get over-the-top sweet on me and I try to work in veggies where I can. I've found peeled seedless (or deseeded) cucumbers are good in a lot of smoothies -- the green ones, or more citrusy ones. I've also been…

I am totally hooked on blackstrap molasses -- 1/5 of my daily calcium and iron in a tablespoon and nearly 1/5 of the potassium. (Regular molasses does not have the same nutritional profile. ) And a friend of mine put me onto banana-avocado chocolate shakes. Hence this: Breakfast chocolate smoothie 3/4 cup milk of your…

I'm in. I've got an organized ride coming up and am planning on doing probably a metric half or a half-century. Probably the metric half. We shall see how I hold up. I haven't been training this year as I have in some years past.

The big question is how do you feel not eating them back? If you're not hungry, no sense in eating them. If your body feels like it needs them, you know you have them.

Not quite fifty yet, I don't know if I'd say fluffy, but definitely not waif-like here, and I've been through thyroid cancer. Trying to focus more on healthy habits and not get too worked up about the number on the scale. Close enough?

I'm going to tack on a second question to this thread, since we're discussing measuring -- how tightly do you pack raw salad greens if you're measuring them by cup instead of by weight?

That's too bad. I'm a HAES-er and on here for various reasons and starting to look for fellow souls. It's a shame the OP left. There should be room for different paths to health. And there's a lot of misconceptions about HAES out there.