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I make a protein smoothie almost everyday for breakfast. It has cold cooked oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, protein powder, blah, blah, blah... It comes in at ~320 calories and helps me meet my other macros. The smoothie tastes great and is very filling but does nothing to help me lose weight, keeping my calories under 1900 helps…

I haven't had Freschetta yet, thanks for the tip. We've been buying the Sabatasso's 4 cheese at Costco and really like those. $12 usd for a pack of two is as reasonable as GF gets I suppose.

Significantly more often than I'm sure she want's to hear about.

^^ This works for me. Exercise cals are fuzzy logic so I leave them alone. MFP has me at 1900 per day, I usually hit around 1700 but I make sure I hit at least 1500. I also pre-log my day and use dinner and evening snacks to even out my macros. Almonds, granola and/or greek yogurt are my usual calorie boosters.

Sabatasso's gluten free cheese pizza Kirkland Tuna - copious amounts of tuna Reser's baked scalloped potatoes - a recent find, very tasty Mixed frozen fruit and blueberries for the seemingly endless number of smoothies we make Foster Farms Frozen Chicken Breasts - Oh look, dad made chicken again tonight. .... I'll stop…

Far too many to list but the turning point was at my 7 yo daughter's soccer practice. At the end of one practice they had the parents come out on the pitch for a parents vs kids match. There was no way to avoid it. One of the parents took some video and posted it on FB. There I was, lumbering along with that awkward fat…

300 calories is correct for 80g (about 1 cup) of uncooked quaker instant but the banana will run you another 100-160 calories. If you're not weighing you could be off by quite a few calories on that breakfast. If you leave enough calorie head room at the end of the day it's not that important but if you are keeping your…

I've been averaging around 1600-1700 daily since last May. I have gone from 245lbs down to 195lbs averaging about 1.3 lb per week loss. I watch my numbers pretty close so I don't get too low in anything (fats, carbs, protein, etc...) and do light strength and cardio exercises. I have a desk job with lots of meetings so…

Alright I had not thought about adding pumpkin or other squash to my smoothies before but now that I see it written down it makes perfect sense. Nice. Thank you for sharing that idea.

My typical morning smoothie... .5 cup plain greek yogurt .5 cup mixed frozen fruit .5 cup blueberries .5 cup cooked cold oatmeal .5 cup water 1 scoop protein powder No juice, just water. It is pretty sweet. I'm not sure I would want it any sweeter but everyone has their own taste.

Dang, that's a tough post to follow with this... I can easily touch my toes for the first time in 20+ years.

Peppers, mixed veggies and broccoli slaw. Added some chicken breast and served on white rice.

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Turkey, dried cranberry and feta cheese wrap with a pile of chopped veggies. It's my go-to lunch. I even put a picture of it on my profile page in case I forget what a really tasty lunch looks like and start thinking a trip to McDonald's is a good idea.

If you are talking about the minus sign in your food diary, that means you have exceeded your limits for that item. On some things that is not necessarily a bad thing depending on what is important to you. If I go over on my fiber (have a negative red number) I'm OK with that. More fiber, yay! If I have a negative number…

A lot of good thoughts on this... kudos for keeping it civil. I use a couple of different exercise apps that sync to MFP. I let them sync but zero out the calories because I just want to log that I've done a given exercise and for how long. Like a lot of the others have said... pick a method that works for you and go with…

Thank you for sharing this recipe and the link. My wife and youngest daughter need to eat a gluten free diet so regular wheat based pizza crust is not an option for us. I do make GF pizza crust and can buy crusts and pre-made GF pizza's at regular grocery stores but anything that helps add variety to our diet helps. Thanks…

Same for me... I love oatmeal but plain oatmeal just won't get me all the way to lunch. If I add a little protein and fat I'm good until noon. I'm on a smoothie kick right now so I've been adding cold cooked oatmeal and protein powder to my morning smoothies to add a little body.

Rot-tel tomatoes with diced green chilies, diced tomatoes, worcestershire sauce, lime juice, celery seeds, horseradish (if you're brave), salt and pepper to taste. Blend thoroughly and drink plain or add it to a we bit of vodka. If you give it just a slight blend it makes a pretty tasty salsa.

I've been adding baby spinach to our fruit smoothies for a long time and nobody has noticed. I add baby spinach, cold cooked oatmeal and unflavored protein powder to my breakfast smoothie... it all just disappears under the fruit flavors. Have fun.

Thanks for the link. That looks pretty simple... Even I might be able to pull that off without making too big of a mess :smile:

I'm off for the next two weeks and the only thing on my todo list is to make two loaves of pumpkin bread... If I budget my time I should be OK.

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