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I have a $100 a week grocery budget for my husband and I, but that includes all grocery items, not just food. So TP, Paper Towels, cat food, cat litter, etc. all fits into that amount. For me, I read the sales ads every Tuesday and make a note on my phone which store has the cheapest price on the item I need. All of the…

Well, when I say listen to your body in this context, I mean it in terms of paying attention to how it reacts to different breads or to bread in general. If you eat two slices of bread every day, have no discomfort/physical issues, and you are losing weight, then obviously your body is doing fine with it. But if you feel…

You’re going to get a lot of varying opinions on this. Ultimately, it’s going to come down to what works best for you, your food preferences, and how your body responds to certain foods. For me, I lost almost 50 lbs while eating the Sara Lee 45 calorie per slice bread, which is super processed and made with HFCS. Nowadays…

I like cottage cheese in pretty much any way. But my favorite way to eat cottage cheese is with Cheddar and Sour Cream Ruffles. My mom is actually the one that got me hooked on that combo as a kid. But I eat it plain about 95% of the time.

Always weight before cooking. The only time to weigh after cooking is to portion. Calorie/nutrition data is always based on raw/uncooked product unless it specifically says "cooked". Why? Because the cooking method can never be 100% the same every time. Weigh out 6oz of raw chicken breast, and it will be 6oz of raw chicken…

I've never eaten a burger from McDonald's, they always looked scary to me, even as a kid. I was used to how my mom's burgers looked, so the very few times I ever went to McDonald's as a kid, I got chicken nuggets. So nope, this changes nothing about how I feel about fast food. I'll just keep eating the fast food I still do…

I love weighing myself every morning for exactly that reason, the fluctuations. Yes, they are totally normal. I like seeing them on a day to day basis because it gives me a much more realistic idea of my weight on a whole. It also shows things that immediately effect me as well as helping me spot patterns to be able to…

I haven't read the entire thread, so I don't know if this has been answered yet. But IHOP puts pancake batter in all of their regular omelettes. The only ones that don't have the pancake batter in them are the ones from the light and fit menu (or whatever it's called).

I'd second the recommendation to talk to a doctor before having him start any training programs.

I'm definitely curious to see pics too. Maybe you have a lot more muscle than you think you do. I had a pair of Lee Relaxed Fit, at the waist, jeans and at 5'5", 170lbs they fit perfectly at a size 14. And would get a little snug in the *kitten* and hips (I'm pear shaped) if my weight went up or I was bloated. Have you…

Rather than self-evaluating, it would be best to go into a run shop and have them do an actual evaluation of your feet and how you run to be able to recommend the best shoe for you. I thought a lot of things about my feet and my gait, most of which I found out were wrong after my evaluations. Yes, plural. I went to all…

Well, if it's really every night, shouldn't that just factored into your normal daily activity level? ;)

This is the saddest thing I've ever read. If I ever thought I had to give up doughnuts (or anything, for that matter), I'd just decide to be fat and happy. As it is, I just fit things like doughnuts into my eating plans and enjoy 'em. Heck, while not doughnuts (this time) last night I had one regular sized cupcake, along…

How many calories total are you consuming in a day? I mean, eating at 8pm and waking up at 4am is still eight hours since the last time you fed your body, so the hunger still doesn't seem unusual to me. It could just be that now that you aren't overeating you don't have a carryover feeling of fullness that stays with you…

Cottage Cheese. I grew up on cottage cheese and have always loved it. But I started watching my sodium really closely I cut cottage cheese out of my diet. And after I stopped being so restrictive on the sodium, it took me seeing it on the shelf one day while picking up some sour cream to remember how much I loved it. And…

More realistic and also been around a while to be able to laugh about stuff like this. I admit, somewhere around April or May of 2010, my log probably has some housework in there as an exercise. And I've also logged M&Ms by the gram (because I only had one or two), daily cups of black tea with zero calories (because I…

A few ideas: Chew gum while you cook. Keep a bottle of water nearby and sip instead of snack. Log the snacking as part of the meal. Mind over matter, only taste what you need to as you prep. Measure out a specific amount of something to munch on while you cook instead of mindless snacking. Serve yourself smaller portions…

I honestly thought this was going to be a thread about someone finally being hungry in the morning and learning to love breakfast. Or something like that, at least. I always thought that being hungry in the morning was the normal state of affairs after not having eaten for so long. Usually the length a person slept plus a…

I just get back in my regular eating/workout routine. I tried the fasting or even a super low calorie day after a few days of overeating back years ago and found that I just made me too hungry the following days. The most I'll drop calories the day or two after big overeating days is 100-200 calories. And that's often just…

Actually, it's because doughnuts were originally just balls of fried dough before the hole got added in some 50-60 years later. Which meant that, when fried up in the oil, their rough, brown, exteriors made them resemble the outer shell of a nut. So they were balls of dough that looked like nuts.

I didn't say it was the *only* correct spelling. I was saying that it was correct in that it was the recognized correct spelling and that donut is seen as the shortened version, but I can definitely see now that I could have used an better term in the opening line. That's also why I put official in quotations rather than…

Ummm...yeah, you pretty much just agreed with what I said in the rest of my post. That both are used and accepted pretty much every where. I was just giving a little bit of the actual history of the word was all. :)

No, etymology. I was looking into opening a doughnut shop a few years ago and contemplated using donut over doughnut for the name of the shop, but after doing my research into it, found the history of it and decided to stick with doughnut. Unfortunately, another shop opened in the area that I wanted (and uses donut in…

Depends on the range of vinegars you're looking at. If you're getting into true and/or aged balsamics, they're going to taste very different than what you traditionally find in the grocery store. And they also start getting much thicker, starting out almost at what a traditional balsamic would be reduced to in a pan.…

Doughnut is the correct spelling, no matter what side of the pond you are on. It's the original form of the word and the one that's "officially" dictionary approved as the correct spelling. Donut is a shortened form of the word which has become readily acceptable. It's been in use for hundreds of years at this point…

Yup, that was exactly why I only posted the nutrition info of the cereals I had and no names. One of them is one that has been said multiple times here as a healthy cereal and I'd bet people would be hard pressed to figure out which one it was of the three. (The other two were "kids" cereals). Once labels are compared, all…

Having gone to the park with my five year old niece, I could see someone logging that. Because it's not just casually walking between swings. It's running around the park, pushing her on every imaginable piece of equipment, it's climbing up all of the various climbing apparatuses available, it's lifting and lowering her on…

I was rarely ever allowed sugary cereals as a kid. My childhood cereals were Shredded Wheat (the big, giant, ones, no bite-sized), Grape Nuts, regular Cheerios, Chex, and plain Kix. And the rare box of Life. When I got older, we had Total Raisin Bran, some Quaker crispy oatmeal cereal I forget the name of, and one that I…

I wish I had a better answer to give you, but I don't, I just have personal experience. I wore a BodyMedia Fit for two years. In that two years, according to the BMF data, I ate at a deficit 82% of the time, at an average of a 835 cal deficit per day. So one would think I'd have lost weight, even if not steadily, at least…

Woot!! New plan, move to Alaska and eat 24/7 during Summer! But I'll stay at home during the Winter months. Or I'd starve to death not being to eat for a couple months during winter in Alaska.