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I'm a three meal a day plus one late evening snack person. I pretty much get hungry 4 times a day. Even yesterday when I had trouble sleeping and didn't wake up until 11 am, I still ended up eating half a sandwich between lunch and dinner.

soy sauce ketchup dijon mustard horseradish mustard lemon juice

Scallops, pineapple avocado salsa, red and orange bell peppers, sauteed spinach.

Did the doctor do a sleep study? Sleeping 10 hours and waking up tired could indicate sleep apnea.

Gaining or losing weight or a change in activity level CAN mess with your cycle, but it's important that you get checked out by a doctor to rule out a problem.

I like to poach chicken breasts that I plan on keeping for a few days because I think it keeps them moister. I just put chicken broth in a pot with dried basil, pepper, and a splash of white wine, then add the chicken, bring it to a boil and then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook until cooked through. It's super…

If you don't want to turn on your oven, the best advice I can give you is to freeze the roast until it's cool enough. Please do NOT cook a prime rib in your crockpot. Slow cookers turn tough cuts of meat tender and tender cuts of meat tough and dry. You will be very disappointed. My other suggestion besides freezing it is…

This is pretty much what i do. I prelog every evening for the next day, but I just update it after I weigh it with the exact gram amount.

I have a 5 oz glass of wine 4-5 nights per week.

I think organic is probably preferable, but I eat a LOT of fruits and veggies on a not-unlimited budget. I buy mostly conventional, except for milk and eggs.

Oatmeal with raisins and 1% milk. I eat it easily 5 days of the week for breakfast. Lately it's also been blueberries, every single day. I love blueberry season.

I get most of my meal ideas from the sale ads. Ground turkey and bell peppers were on sale last week, so I made chili. Scallops, pineapple, avocado, and sweet corn are on sale this week and I'm having my dad over for dinner, so I'm making seared scallops with avocado pineapple salsa (the salsa is based on something I saw…

I have successfully lost weight many times over the years, and the thing that has tripped me up has been having a bad couple of days of eating and skipping the weigh in. I would skip it and never get back to it. I encourage you to stick with your routine if it has been working for you and go ahead and step on the scale.…

As the above posters said, it's not going to affect your weight. Personally, and whether you feel comfortable with this or not is up to you, I took sugar off of my metrics that I monitor because I get it almost exclusively from fruits and I just don't worry about sugar from fruit. I eat something with added sugar about…

If not seeing a change for three days upsets you, weighing every day is probably too often for you. I like to weigh once a month, but I think once a week is much more common. I prefer less frequent weigh ins because it helps me focus on being healthier, not on the scale going down. I try to squeeze as many fruits and…

Things I can't have in the house because I WILL keep going back and eating them until they are gone: potato chips, wheat thins, cookies, chinese takeout. Things I can keep around, get an inordinate amount of pleasure out of, and indulge in measured quantities to keep me satisfied with my eating plan: cheese, peanut butter,…

How about a vegetarian night and a leftovers night? I find I end up wasting a fair amount of food if I don't schedule a meal to eat up whatever's in the fridge, plus it's nice to have a night off from meal preparation. Or if you deal with your leftovers in other ways, you can make double of something one night, then you…

I ate two cups (about 2/3 of a pound) today for 147 calories and 37g of carbs. Totally worth it. Will eat again tomorrow. Edit to add: But I have a fair amount of weight to lose. If I were on 1200 calories daily it would be a tougher choice.

This! What the heck is he eating?

Men have a greater lean body mass than we do and can often eat more, plus if he weighs more than you already it's going to be easier for him to lose it. Also, our hormones often skew the progress on the scale once a month. It''s hard though. Someone I am very close to loses weight without meaning to and then has to try to…

Cardiovascularly, you're right. Studies indicate it is better to be fat and fit than thin and unfit.. I don't think you've thought about your joints, though, especially if you want to add running to your workout program. Being severely overweight (regardless of your body fat percentage) is very hard on your knees and…

You need to have a plan and stick to it. If you're influenced by what the people around you are eating, decide what you're going to eat ahead of time. If you're going to a restaurant, look the menu up online and make your choices, then don't even look at the menu when you're there. If you have a friend that always orders…

Not to be revolutionary or anything, but people did count calories before the internet. Why not take something like this and a small notebook with you on your trip?…

The first thing you need to do is go back to your doctor. Your levels can change over time. I'm now at quadruple the dose of levothyroxine that I started at. Secondly, weigh and measure everything you eat to make sure you are counting calories correctly. Thirdly, be aware that as you're gaining muscle, the scale may stall…

I have a lot of weight to lose too and it's hard to see the progress right now, but here's a quote I use to motivate myself. It's from one of the women studied in the book Strong Women Stay Slim. "I've lost forty-six pounds over a twelve-month period and still have a long way to go. But this is not like waiting for a…

In a crockpot: chicken breasts 1 can tomato paste 1/2 can beer 1 small jar pimento stuffed green olives cook 3 hours on high. enjoy bliss over rice.

I'm not going to comment on your 1200 calorie goal, I do have a lunch suggestion. If I were eating in the car I'd put a small container of hummus in my cup holder and dip carrot and celery sticks in it. It also has the advantage of being high in fiber and giving you some fat and protein so it may help you stay full longer.

Could you be a little more specific about what you're looking for in an eating plan? If it were me I would probably focus on breakfast and lunch and just eat dinner with the group, making the best choices that I could. Eating a separate dinner may tend to isolate you or make you appear as though you don't consider yourself…

leftover roast chicken thigh 4 cups of spinach sauteed in garlic and little olive oil banana I had planned to have watermelon but the banana was going to be too ripe if I didn't eat it today. :happy:

White wine and I'm another with mayonnaise. Ketchup is probably the third because of the sugar. It's really the only thing I knowingly buy with added sugar, but I just won't give it up, no matter what happens.