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Cake, cupcakes, conch fritters.

Def gonna try some of these, thanks for asking OP!

I like it a lot. I have a treadmill and weights at home, and I used to TRY to go to the gym...I would get bored with both and not keep up, because although I'm not super sociable, it's boring to me to work alone and I lose focus quickly. Not that I wasn't interested, just that exercising in that manner is not the best…

Thanks so much for this, this is beautiful :)

Nothing to add, except that this post, answer, and response from OP have made me so happy. I feel like this is what the forums are supposed to be like. Question, answer (which could have been considered blunt or rude because it didn't say "do whatever is right for your body") and response saying thanks. Sorry to hijack,…

Are you physically disabled? Why can't you up your speed? :S

No amount of motivation in the world will help you, until the day your desire to be healthy/in shape is greater than your desire to be comfortable. Once you reach that day, I have a tip for you - focus on cultivating determination instead of motivation. Motivation comes and goes, but your determination to reach your goal…

Wow way to go, you look great!!! Keep it up :)

Is the difference in weight loss significant enough to justify the misery of eating 200 calorie dinners for an extended period of time?

Way to go!! Congrats on meeting your goal, keep up the good work!! :)

I thought this said something completely different lol.

I'd suggest that you develop clearly defined nutrition targets - calories target, macronutrients targets (in case you don't know and as far as I know, these are what your calories are made of - carbs, fats, protein - and your body needs these to live). Once you do this it'll be easier to stop labeling food as "junk" - food…

No, no, no. The more salt the higher blood pressure. But I'll concede that you probably won't use TOO much salt anyway....My concern is stemming from the fact that I come from a culture where we use a lot of salt...a whole lot of salt...really too much salt. (Just trust me on this one.) As a result a very large percentage…

You should not consume excess sodium, OP. Not going to run on with the sugar or carbs but excessive sodium consumption is very problematic.

Vanilla birthday cake, coconut-almond milk, hopefully a turkey roll

This thread is the best part of my day.

'Fat free' versions of food are gross (to me). But I can understand someone who doesn't really like mayo using gross (to me) low fat mayo if he likes it...and so on. I will use substitutes in some dishes...greek yoghurt instead of milk in mashed potatoes etc. I made blondies out of chickpeas one time and they actually were…

Actually I didn't. Didn't have a clue until you just made that statement. Clearly if I had known, I wouldn't have qualified the word "restaurants" by adding the words "large chain" in front of it. Because mom and pop restaurants (hey, what's that mean?) usually have lower calorie menu options while refraining to include…

Oh I have nothing at all to substantiate the bolded. Sorry for disappointing. But in response to your point about menus, I'm reasonably sure that most large chain restaurants change their menus pretty frequently, due to new products coming out or being discontinued. I think that if there is a set date for implementation of…

Also, to the OP, I totally get what you're going through even though I'm kind of embarrassed that I succumb to this kind of peer pressure. I've been achieving moderate success eating in moderation and working out a few times a week. Don't restrict the types of food I eat, will usually eat over (way over) my goal on…

Lol that's the same thing I got, glad I don't heavily associate with persons who feel that if I don't order dry grilled chicken all the time I'm lazy and asked to be fat. The reason restaurants don't put calories on the menu is that most of the food they serve is so caloric that people would be horrified, because most…

Aha hilarious, thanks for starting my Friday off right! Off to get a Mr Tickle mug

Yeah, I actually agree...but I just can't find it in me to feel bad when someone who insults another person's choices, is in turn insulted by that person. Quid pro quo, it is what it is, etc. My sympathy just isn't set up like that. If you (general not personal) say to X "Your diet is stupid and the food you eat is…

That is a ridiculous statement (though it is his opinion, and I have seen IIFYM practitioners on MFP tear cauliflower rice lovers a new hole because cauliflower, to them, is "disgusting"). But I think a lot of these lovely MFP flame wars would be less...flamey....if persons distinguish between the practice of clean eating,…

1 cup almond milk 2 slices wheat bread 2 boiled eggs 5 oz 2% fat plain greek yoghurt black tea no sugar (This morning I made an egg salad and used some of my yoghurt instead of mayo....it was interesting and edible!)

Ugh that sounds awful. Your party sounds really fun, sorry that everything turned so nasty. You sound like you care about her, so my advice would just be to zen through it. If you value the friendship and want to smooth things over, call her and tell her in an even manner that you worked really hard to throw her a good…

Come back after you at least do what your doctor tells you to do.

I have nothing to add in terms of advice, everything's pretty much covered. I will say, though, that it would be really sensible to listen to persons who are telling you that they have been in your shoes, have struggled and failed using your current weight loss method, and have found success doing the things they are…

Margarine tastes a bit plasticky to me. I think butter is delicious so I buy it. I generally try to stay away from food substitutions. Margarine is a butter substitute as far as I'm concerned. I'd rather have less of the real thing, than tons of a substitute which doesn't taste as good and which probably is loaded with…

I input "Circuit Training" as the exercise, and typically put in about 2/3 of the length of the session. So if it's an hour and it really kills me I put in 40 minutes. If it's an hour and it doesn't really kill me I put in 35 or 30. An HRM isn't really the best option for Crossfit IMO because of the strength training…