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Half a small pork loin seared on cast iron then finished off in the oven, 1/2 cup cooked brown rice seasoned with garlic, lemon peel, and pandan leaf, and roasted eggplant, portobello, & shishito peppers. This looks like a lot, but #1 it's a deceptively small bowl and #2 I tend to eat smaller meals for lunch or breakfast…

OH. And I can't forget my 2 favorite vices: Rear Admiral Gin Grifone Sangiovese

-Coconut Creamer -Almond Milk -Oatmeal -Coffee beans (I forget which, but I know it has a parrot on the container??) -Eggs -Butter -Limes (they're so cheap there) -marinara sauce (for pizzas, or to use as a base for pasta sauces) -pre-made pizza dough -typical veggies are: zucchini, mushrooms, bell peppers, tomatoes,…

Just stay within your caloric intake goal?

I put my eggs in a pot with cold water and plenty of salt. I turn the heat up high, then as soon as it comes to a boil, I take it off the heat and cover it with a lid for 5-6 minutes, then drop them in an ice bath for another 5 minutes or so before peeling. I honestly cannot recall a time that I had issues with the…

btw your tummy is cute!

! My tummy does this too. Unfortunately this is just the lovely way our lovely bodies want to be lovely, lol. Unless I have cosmetic surgery to remove the last bits of tummy pooch I have, I'll always have that little indent. The only other way is to drop even lower in bf%

Everything you eat (minus water, diet drinks) have calories. You can't have one without the other.

You can't. Protein is a nutrient, and all foods have nutrients and are made up of calories.

Tell me about it. I successfully lost 30lbs the first time around (it crept back after 3 years of being in love, yay* :| ) and I can't wait to get back to the point where I can "afford" a small bit of so-called garbage to fill in the spaces. *still in love, just not in love with the chub

Unless OP is growing her protein powder in her garden, she is already regularly consuming highly processed food stuff and might be blind to it because of that bright shiny health halo around that sort of thing.

I feel like I'll be waiting in my grave for people to stop adding some kind of moral/purity value to foods: AKA Fuel. OP, I understand, from a nutritional standpoint, why you want to give your body fuel that is nutrionally dense. HOWEVER-once you've met your nutritional goals, if you're trying to fill in the space to meet…

Sorry for the impromptu stalk but YOU LOOK AMAZING at 189.6

I'm not interested in narc-ing you off the site, op, but I agree with the poster above me. I hope you can get your parents to take you to a doctor for an assessment and help if you are having health concerns due to your weight. Body image issues are hard, even harder for a teen. Its important to first learn how to take…

CICO is literally exactly how weight loss works. Bodies may be different but they aren't so different that they defy the laws of science. If someone fails, it's because they were not logging/weighing accurately or not being honest with themselves, short of a severe metabolic disorder, which...lets be honest, is incredibly…

Tomato juice, ginger tea, eggs and plain toast. Sometimes a pickle :)

I'd love to trade both of you. If I suddenly remember the time in middle school that I tripped in front of my crush, I break out in sweat. If I THINK too hard, I sweat. If something makes me anxious, I sweat. At the gym? I'm dripping from my elbows. I once weighed myself before and after a treadmill run (to be fair, I was…

OP, losing "water weight" is bogus in terms of actual weight loss. Water cells do not fill in for fat cells. None of what you're saying makes any kind of sense and I suspect you've been following some nonsense woo-practitioners to believe that losing water is somehow the way to lose weight. You have to track your calories…

I only wanted to jump into say WOW you're doing great! I love your approach to this!

I've been grabbed by the shoulder by a stranger I'd never seen, who proceeded to demand I remove my earbuds so I can hear him, and when I reflexively pulled away he got all offended, and started shouting at me that all he wanted was to tell me not to look so serious and that I didn't have to be such a b***h. I had a man…

Short answer: No. I season my food.

I would only call them a superfood because one baked potato with veggie toppings and low fat cheese will make me feel SUPERfull.

Eggs are my favorite kind of protein so this has definitely taken some serious modification for me. I'll have a whole egg on the weekends for breakfast, but weekdays I've been having small veggie breakfast burritos on wheat tortillas with egg whites only. Savory breakfast for me is the only way to go (if my breakfast is on…

Thanks everyone! Looks like I'm on the right track with regard to losing that weight. I'd previously successfully lost 30 lbs with MFP and kept it off for about 2 years, but I got REAL cozy in my not-new-anymore relationship (now going on 3 years), and most of it crept back. Even at my lowest weight/most active, my…

More miles! I'm a pacer, not a racer, myself. lol My speed only increases when my endurance is stronger, and that happens with more miles. Increase your running distance safely by adding just 10% more each week, as you feel comfortable. Doing a bit of 'cross training' helps too. My time increased when I would do some light…

That....sounds like bs to me. I had one session with a personal trainer who actually LISTENED to my desire to focus on basic Olympic lifts (and understood I wasn't interested in hearing any weight loss, hiit stuff that they love to sell to women they correctly or incorrectly assume are uneducated about the benefits of…

I prefer when people laugh, because my reflex is to laugh at myself when I do something clumsy like that. Laughing alone is no fun.

No big! I've had my own treadspill before! I had just walked into the gym cardio area, with my earbuds in and my music on loud. I carelessly stepped onto the first free treadmill I saw. Unfortunately, I didn't look down. If I had, I would have noticed that someone before me had used it, but had apparently just jumped off…

I hope this isn't crossing a boundary, but have you considered therapy or counseling? Talking to someone about how you feel-at least during these tough few stages of significant weight loss-might help you work out some issues with regards to emotional eating, and might help you fortify your mental resolve for when things…

Are you eating back 100% of your calories burned? Do you weigh everything you log?