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An idea for breakfast is to eat brown rice with fruits, dried fruits, nuts, etc. Also, eggs scrambled with veggies. I don't eat "clean" but my parents are vegan, so I have some ideas. A crockpot might come in handy.

I no longer live there, but my parents do. Try to get back every year and boy, do I miss it!

7 months, slow and steady! At the moment I am losing 5 lbs a month on average. I figure this is not something that ends. It will change: calories, exercise, but it doesn't end, therefore no rush.

Thanks you guys, I really appreciate that!

I eat half my exercise calories back but most of my exercise is badminton, not steady state. I see you do pilates, not necessarily steady state, I would think. I would start out eating at least half back and see how you feel and how fast you lose. If you lose too fast, not good( counter intuitive, I know, but muscle loss…

I have no experience with depo, but I will say this. Eating "clean" or eating "junk" doesn't matter as far as weight loss goes. Weigh your food on a kitchen scale, measure your liquids with calories, and stay in a caloric deficit. Eat how you want but track it. If you gain over several weeks, lower your calorie goal. (…

Read and reread the announcements at the top of the Getting Started and Diet and Weight Loss Help forums. Make changes slowly and remember it takes time to form new habits. Good Luck!

This! 2 weeks is not long enough, and then all those changes During that 2 weeks... See my chart? If I gave up every time my weight went up, I would have given up long ago. As it is I'm down 41 lbs. Good Luck!

I have zumba dvds and tae bo dvd, (I know, kinda old school, but I like them). I do these when I can't get to badminton.

Too bad our tongues aren't scanners linked to mfp! Bump for sticky status.

I play badminton twice a week, 2 hours each time. Other then that, nothing so far. Have lost 40 lbs.

I wrote a short blog on this exact subject. Love my mfp charts!

Try the food and nutrition forum. Also search setting macro targets. I don't know enough to answer your question intelligently. Might also try the Eat, Train, Progress group on here.

I see from your profile you only have 7 lbs to lose. It will go VERY slowly now. Large deficits will do more harm then good.

Why drop 500 calories? Why not lower by 100 calories, give it a couple weeks, and if that shows no change, lower by another 100. Weight loss takes time. If you want specific advice give age, weight, height, how much you want to lose, if you weigh your food with a digital scale, and open your diary.

Try the Eat, Train, Progress group here. They can give specific advice if given specific info.

Does anyone else think the cream filling is a little skimpy!!

Don't eliminate anything completely! If it's something you really want, save some calories and go for it every once in awhile!

I'd rather have a glass of wine with my calories.

I understand this completely! My husband is a 1/2 inch shorter than I, but I could always claim to weigh less than him until this last couple of years. Now I am 25 lbs less than him so he is joining mfp, too! I have to stay below him!

I just want to say that with me, at least, if I tell myself I can't have something, I soon find myself obsessing about that very thing. Maybe set aside one day or meal a week, to have what you crave and set aside the calories for it. This is assuming you can't control yourself around it the rest of the week. Good Luck!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1096001-halp-heavy-lifting-made-me-supah-bulky This link should help with the dumbbell question.

I'm not sure I understand you completely, but this is what I do: I manually enter a new recipe, name it, and make it 10 servings( to make the math easier.) I weigh out each ingredient and input each. Then cook it. After it is cooked i weigh the whole thing. If it is something like lasagne, I don't weigh it, but cut it into…

AGE: 45 Height 5’7 1/2" Starting weight: 222 Current weight 180 Goal weight: 140 but that is just ballpark. I eat what I want, no bad foods, like to cook and play competitive badminton. Starting a bodyweight program. Send msg with add request

You might try fitocracy.com but it may not be exactly what you're looking for.

I have to get up at 6 am to take my daughter to school and some days I hate it. I drag myself up and tell myself I'll go back to bed when I get home, but I never do. Then I work out. After I do it awhile my body adjusts and I wake up at 6 whether (sp?) I want to or not. Have to make it a habit.

1600 before exercise, to lose 1 lb a week. Right now I am on a 2 week break, so I'm eating at 2130 before exercise to maintain.

Open up a second window, go to profile, then add ticker, copy link, paste here. Lot more work now and I do miss the old way.

Well, if the recipe is 150 cals then u could just eat 2 servings, or, add jam or peanut butter or both. Make sure you have a food scale and you weigh your portions. Measuring them out, especially high calorie things, can be very inaccurate. If you want to eat from this cookbook you can, but it isn't necessary. No food is…

You can! I have seen some people on here that never use the scale, or weigh weekly, or even monthly. Taking pictures is a great way to track progress, also. I personally weigh and log it daily, because I love data points, but I just pay attention to the general trends. The daily fluctuations don't bother me. If they bother…