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Background: I gained about 60lbs with baby #1, lost about 25lbs by 8 mo post partum and then I got pregnant again with baby #2. So this pregnancy I began about 35lbs heavier than I was with my 1st baby. I had been actively calorie restricting and losing weight when I found out I was pregnant at 6 weeks along, so I had…

I did the scan last week and they took blood for genetic tests. Everything came back normal/low risk, and the genetic tests says we're having another girl! <3

Yes, March 11th! Baby #2. My first baby I was here in the Oct 2016 thread, which seems like yesterday but my little girl is almost 11 months now. Happy to see a new thread here for women expecting March '18 babies.

That science was on the verge of solving the obesity problem with some silver bullet, whether it be a pill or discovering that a certain common ingredient in foods was the culprit, or whatever. Some solution other than eat less, move more. I had hoped, anyway.

I eat it raw in salads most of the time, with whatever toppings. Cooked I will sauté with a little butter or stock and mix in a laughing cow cheese wedge. As mentioned earlier up thread, nutmeg is a great spice with spinach and works really well with creamed spinach (nutmeg also compliments cream). Sautéed mushrooms and…

Yes this is what it smells like to me too. Related, I don't know if my opinion is popular or unpopular but I do know my OB is of the same opinion: That women who claim to not know they were pregnant until they went into labor are full of baloney.

Yeah, such idiots who say butter has more calories given that 1000 calories of lettuce has the same calories as 1000 calories of butter, derp derp.

I presume you weren't in a place of being diligent in watching your intake when you tried to quit before? Seems to me that quitting now when you are in a place where you are already mindful about your intake is a good time. I quit 3.5 years ago, then a few months later joined MFP and lost 130 lbs (regained some since due…

I tend to think all foods that clock in at less than 1calorie per gram is a volume food. As well as recipes that come out to less than 1cal per gram. Black beans (canned) are 90 calories per 122g serving. I also personally think beans are filling. And though canned tuna for example is a little greater than 1cal per gram…

So if I assume $10 AUD per lb, that's $7-something USD per lb, so yeah, you're paying more, even if just a little more, for some reason. You really didn't have to go to all the trouble to call around for prices to satisfy my curiosity, but that you did was pretty cool of you. :)

@Christine_72 I'm curious how much you pay for boneless leg of lamb there? At Costco it's imported from Australia and is priced anywhere from $4-7 per pound. Which is pretty cheap, imo. I'd be amazed if Australians paid more for lamb than US does for an Australian import.

Log everything. Weigh everything, and if I must approximate then err to overestimating. Weigh myself often. Be honest. Excuses and dishonesty have never once served me or helped me reach my goals. Nothing is off limits but I do better with my calorie goal if I stay below my fats goal.

Definitely anything that suggests certain foods are magical, supernatural, medicinal, not natural, frankenfood, junk food, are engineered to {insert some conspiracy here}, are divinely intended to {insert some teleological argument here}, etc etc. Food snobbery really annoys me. Lecturing "poor people" about their diet for…

I think far too much importance in our culture is placed on "the why" one overeats instead of 'that' they overeat. I think it's a distraction from the problem, often involves a crafting of a rationale for overeating which is far grander than warrented, and is a stalling tactic from tackling the problem. Like a toddler you…

When I was pregnant and craved hot dogs I'd put a dill pickle in a hot dog bun with some yellow mustard.

I've had the Sno-ball ice cream, it was pretty great.

Ben & Jerry's The Tonight Dough. It has everything I ever wanted in an ice cream! ❤️

Looks like a kind of baklava to me.

No there is no setting I'm aware of, however there are breastfeeding entries in the food database that will log negative calories per oz of breast milk that may help to balance your food diary.

I think you should give your wife one less thing to feel sad about and just adore her. Is that not what you would want?

This is a great idea so I just made this since I had cucumbers and deli meat. After trying it I recommend eating them open faced, like a cucumber boat. The middles slide around (and squeeze out) too easily otherwise. :) Thanks for the idea.

I use it for taco meat, chili, meatloaf, curry, etc. I really like it. I do make sure it's very heavily seasoned and browned in a pan with a large surface area to assist with both flavor from browning and water evaporating so the meat is not boiling in its own water content. In the case of meatloaf I bake it in a 9"x13"…

She can clarify but I took her to be taking issue with just not fully enjoying what she has limited herself to (1 cookie, or whatever) because her mind is already going to wanting to give in and have more. And I'm not sure this goes away... it hasn't for me. This dissatisfaction seems to me a natural consequence of setting…

I don't really recall ever not being faced with the temptation to give in and have more than that which I've determined I 'should' have to stay on track. Is that not normal? I assumed it was normal.

.73 right now. The difference between my waist and hips has been between 12-14 inches throughout my weightloss, and I began with what I think was a quite severe bottom-heavy pear shape. But despite that my body surprised me and transformed to more hourglass in figure the closer I got to goal. However my weightloss got…

Costco.

dollop of cottage cheese and/or a dollop of Greek yogurt. Sometimes add salsa and/or guacamole.

I usually include "net carbs" in my search in the database and pick the entries that have subtracted them.

You and a pp (who I can't include here to quote for some reason) do make some interesting points here I didn't consider. I'll be thinking this over for sure.