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For me: Yes! I drink a 12 oz coffee from Peet's with a splash of cream and a bit of sweetner each weekday morning. Sometimes I splurge and have a nonfat latte on the weekend. I use to drink all the fancier sugary drinks more often, but quickly learned they are dangerous! My morning coffee has become a treat to me in some…

I'm in the same boat. After Easter Weekend and being gifted bags of chocolate, I have learned that I cannot be around it. Having one chocolate square just leads to me having most of the bag. With time, this will hopefully change!

This is such a happy post! Love all the positivity!!!! My SO is also eating healthy and trying to lose weight, but doesn't use mfp or see the need for it. Things work differently for everyone and we both accept that. We often take turns making dinner and he always calorie counts for me when it is his turn.

Here are a few things I would try: -Up your calories a bit and eat back at least 50% of your exercised calories. If you are having a hard time doing this, add some milk to your meals, add some PB to your celery, etc. -Are you hitting your macros? Take a look at those and try to adjust. -Eat a few smaller meals or add…

I love ground turkey! When cooked certain ways you can hardly tell it is not beef. I tend to use it for meat sauces, tacos, turkey burgers, meatloaf and meatballs. With meatballs, I can tell the difference the most, so I tend to experiment and make different kinds (lots of seasoning required!)

My office food culture is pretty good. Luckily, my office is small and we all are trying to be healthier, so lots of packed lunches with produce. I work in a property management office and the residents are always bringing us treats. This week I got some ghirardelli chocolates, sees candy, and red velvet cake. We usually…

Great idea, have never tried with turkey sausage! I will probably skip the submerging peppers in water...I always bake @350 for 1 hour and they come out perfect.

I generally go with the lower number and understand all numbers are estimates. I figure as long as I'm losing weight and feel good, I'll stick with this method. I will not be surprised if I come to a time where I will want to invest in a FitBit or something similar so I can get more accurate estimates.

I love this! So many good ideas. The big ones I use: Pam spray butter or spray olive oil instead of pouring it in the pan Air popped popcorn instead of chips Coffee with a tiny bit of creamer instead of the decadent treats at places like Starbucks Frozen yogurt instead of ice cream

Pre-logging! During the week I pre-log my breakfast, lunch, snacks and sometimes dinner for the next day. This helps make me plan ahead to keep on track. There are usually about 300-500 calories left over for snacks and such, so my day doesn't feel completely planned/controlled. Just enough to keep me on track!

I would try out some flavored sparkling water. Not sure if it is truly a healthier option.

1) Coffee only. Lattes and such will probably be more like a monthly treat 2) While I do not weigh all my ingredient yet, I am slowly working my way to that..makes a difference! 3) I eat small meals/snacks often! 4) I love going out to eat on the weekends, frequency and what I order/how much I eat are changing slowly.

I completely understand! I am going through the same struggle. My weeks have been rocking, but the weekends are a different story. I think everyone deals with this completely differently, for me I have been taking Friday nights off. What I mean by that is, I have a couple drinks (cocktails or wine) and have a "cheat" meal.…

I am such a night snacker! My breakfast's are typically low in calories, I'm not a big eater in the early morning and then I make it so my lunch, daytime snacks and dinners are well balanced. I try to keep my nighttime snacks on the healthier side, popcorn, 100 calorie packs, frozen greek yogurt popsicles, etc.

I plan to indulge a little bit on Easter, an extra 500 calories probably. I have also been having a really good week, so I am not too worried. I plan to get in extra exercise on the weekend to help counteract the extra calories.

I picked a number that is on the high side of the healthy weight range for my height. That number means very little to me though, it is just an ultimate loose goal. Right now I am more focused on losing 1lb/week. After doing this for 6+months and losing 20+lbs, I will likely reevaluate and make a more solid goal.

It depends on your budget! Shortly after college, my laptop pretty much died. I bought a small Acer Aspire for a little less than $300. The laptop that got me through college was $1000+ dell, so I was hesitant to buy such a cheap one. But, it has worked out! I have had it for a year and a half and started using it for grad…

Chips. I love me some chips. I would be working on homework or relaxing and graze on them...before I knew it, the bag was almost empty. I also would eat out 2-3 times each weekend. I quickly learned that most of those meals were 1500+ calories.

AMEN! I am looking at this journey as a lifestyle change. The word diet does not exist in my world. Thanks for the motivation and positivity!

Please go see a doctor or find a clinic that is free or cheaper. At the very least you can get yourself a rescue inhaler. I would very slowly get into exercising and probably just stick to some walking for now.

Looking awesome! Cute dress too :D

I have seen and heard many things like this. Like you, I don't buy it and continue to log everything. I look at it as normal calories my body burns off by living anyway. Would be interested in learning more about it though.

I have been doing this for 3 weeks and do not see a change yet. I don't expect to see a real change for 2-3 months. But I do feel the change. Not only do my pants fit a little looser, I have more energy, feel more focused, and this forum helps keep me in a positive mood. Also, when I have a heavy splurge meal, I feel yucky…

To satisfy this, I eat air popped popcorn or Special K chips. They aren't nearly as great as real chips, but you can have quite a few for about 100 calories.

While you don't care for the taste of fruit and veggies, maybe you could slowly incorporate those foods into your diet more. The more/longer I eat healthy thing, the more I start to like them and crave them. If you really don't like them though, then it is time to get serious about portion control.

Here is an example of a common weekday menu for me. Breakfast: Either oatmeal or 2 muffin omelets (50-80 calories each) Coffee with milk, sometimes a tbsp. half and half Lunch: Smaller portion of leftovers from dinner or salad with chicken, lots of veggies and balsamic vinaigrette (the kind I use is 15 calories for 2 tbsp)…

I do 90% of my logging with the app on my smart phone...really easy to use! I would also be nervous as well, but the easiest thing to do would be to either keep a paper log and record it when you get home. Or do not log and just watch what you eat and make sure your active! I think it would be nice to have a break from…

This isn't exactly a recipe, but this weekend I tried hot Italian turkey sausage (jennie-o brand) and was very impressed. 1 sausage link is 160 calories. I typically fry them up in a little oil with onions and peppers. If it has been a really good day I can throw it on a roll, typically I just eat it with lots of veggies!…

I don't do binge days, as much as a 2 cheat meals on a Saturday. This has been making me about 700-1000 calories over my allowed calories (1400). I suspect this will turn into 1 cheat meal on Saturday and maybe 1 more cheat meal a different day.

I avoid chips! Those things are deadly. I eat a lot of produce and since I love snacking I have a lot of low calorie snack options. They are not quite the same, but make due on most days.