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I eat cottage cheese with almonds for breakfast pretty often. For me it works great because it's got excellent protein and healthy fats from the almonds and it tastes great too. I'm sure you could change up the nuts for variety too. I just happen to like almonds a lot!

I'm 5'4" and weigh 218. I started on MFP over a year ago weighing about 234 and I've only managed to lose around 15 pounds and keep it off. Since then, I've been "stuck" and trying different things to get the weight loss going again. I seem to lose 3-4 pounds, then gain it right back. My body is a bit stubborn. My current…

I didn't say she beat cancer because of it actually...just said that her doctors believed it played an important role in her recovery - from surgery, chemo, etc. Her health is better now than it was for years prior to her diagnosis. She was skeptical of the diet at first, but soon became a believer or she wouldn't have…

Thanks for posting this information! I've been sharing information like this with people I know (including cancer patients) for several years. Cancer cells need sugar to survive. I've never claimed low-carb eating was a "cure-all", but I've been a firm believer for years now that a low-carb diet can be an important part of…

I LOVE Wild Harvest Organic Peanut Butter (available at Shop N Save in my area...don't know if you can get it other places). It is ONLY organic roasted peanuts. No salt. No sugar. No nasty palm oil. Nothing else added. Just organic peanuts. I'm a peanut butter junkie for sure and I'm also a salt-lover so I was skeptical of…

Nice topic. I'm going to keep this for future reference as well. My favorite easy to grab and eat lunch is: 1/2 cup cottage cheese with 1 oz. almonds (290 cals) 3-4 oz of grilled chicken breast or other protein (cooked the night before and very quick to reheat) (100-125 cals)

Nice tip. I'll have to give that a try sometime....

LOL I agree! I may not be one of them, but there are definitely some fat and stunningly attractive people in this world!

Exactly. Everyone has some level of body fat. Some thin people have more visceral fat (around their organs) than some people who carry more weight. For example, a skinny guy with high visceral fat vs a woman with big hips -- her fat is in her butt where it's much less danger to your health than visceral fat. Viewing…

My question is...do you mean which would we prefer to be ourselves? Or which would we prefer to date? For myself, I was going to say I might rather be fit and ugly because there is so much discrimination against fat women everywhere, including in the job market, and I HATE BEING FAT!!! I really don't want to be butt ugly…

Beef jerky, almonds, and other nuts are also good for when you are on the go. Apples are easy to take with you. So are bananas and probably some other fruits. My best advice is find a time when you are at home and cook a bunch of food at once that you can use for meals through the week. This is what I do since I work…

I live in mid-Illinois so I don't exactly have the beauty of the mountains or the ocean here. I just found a park with hiking trails that was about an hour's drive from my house. It had somewhat rugged trails through the woods. Some hills, some debris, stumps, roots, and minor obstructions, but overall it was pretty…

For the extreme calorie burn, I suggest a hike day on your day off! Of course the calorie burn does vary by body weight as everyone has said. I hiked 3.5 hours on Labor Day and burned about 2400 calories (shows how much I weigh!). So even the skinny people should probably burn 1000 on a 3 1/2 hour hike, right? Take a…

What can you eat in "3 full healthy meals and 2 snacks" that only adds up to 1000 calories? I certainly can't have 3 meals and 2 snacks for 1000 cals. I definitely need to know your secret because 1000 calories makes me feel like I'm starving to death!

Enlightening...thanks for sharing! Looking at that chart, I find some of it hard to believe though. I am definitely not typical. I rarely touch dairy that isn't cheese so where does that 600 pounds of non-cheese dairy come from in my diet? I also think it would be good, but unlikely, that the average person eats 415 pounds…

I've had extreme blister issues since stepping up my workouts, partly due to hereditary foot problems. Anyway, I spent months trying everything and finally found the proper setup to avoid it. Obviously, proper shoe fit is important. I also read up online and found reference to these socks - Thorlos Thick Cushion Running…

I think that a low carb diet is 30% of your calories or less. Atkins starts at 20grams of carbs per day. Protein Power, which I like better than Atkins personally, starts at 30 grams of net carbs per day. The key to these plans is the NET carbs because you can actually eat a lot of veggies and still have lower carbs…

First of all, congratulations on an amazing loss! 150 pounds is incredible and very inspiring. Way to go! My best suggestions after looking at your diary are to decrease your carbs and increase your healthy fats. You don't have to go extremely low-carb, but I would suggest trying under 100 grams of carbs per day and…

Agreed!

Someone else briefly mentioned gender as a setup option...but I tried to research that online to see which HRM's include that option and what the calorie burn difference is and I came up with nothing. Do you have a link to some resource that explains how this is different? I'm stuck with this HRM for the time being (would…

I have the Timex T5G971. I researched some on Amazon a couple of months ago and at the time it seemed like the best one for the price. I've heard good things about the Polar HRMs (here on MFP) but I've never used one. I just know that they cost significantly more than the Timex I got. This one has been very good for me so…

I'm just guessing here but maybe your HRM reads less than MFP for you because you weigh much less than I do? I don't know exactly what you weigh but your ticker looks like you are close to your goal weight. I am about 100 pounds above that. So maybe MFP is estimating in between someone as small as you and someone as heavy…

I seriously do not believe that you are eating enough! Looking back at your diary I see this: Friday's diary = 1341 net calories. Saturday's diary = 597 net calories. Sunday's diary = 359 net calories. Monday's diary = 301 net calories. Tuesday's diary = 1310 net calories. Wednesday's diary = 253 net calories. You need a…

Agreed! 300 carbs is pretty astronomical. Shooting for around 100 is better and making more of those higher fiber, complex carbs is ideal. A lot of people simply cannot lose weight successfully with the extremely high carb recommendations. If you can manage to lose weight and feel good when eating 300 carbs, then I guess…

Exactly! And if you think you may be insulin resistant or have trouble losing weight with carbs, also watch your intake of fruits, especially the sweeter ones. I control my carbs by eating meat, cheese, nuts, salads with lettuce and spinach (no croutons), broccoli, and other low-starch veggies. I love potatoes and corn but…

My suggestion would be to lower your carb intake - shoot for below 100 grams per day to start with. Also - increase your protein and fat. It takes fat to burn fat. And for protein, to preserve your muscle, you should shoot for 1 gram of protein per day per pound of lean body mass you expect to have at the end. For example…

I have to agree with Joybell! You can do this. You just have to attack it in small chunks instead of thinking about the big picture. Make mini-goals and only focus on your next one, not on the end goal. I'm here with you too. And...my waist started out at about 47 inches so I know exactly where you are coming from. Keep up…

Awesome tip. I would never have thought of this and I was concerned I would paddle like hell and go nowhere. LOL I will definitely look into getting flippers when I start swimming!

Thanks for posting this -- and thanks to everyone for the many thoughtful responses. I would really love to get involved with swimming. I'm seriously considering a membership at the local Y just so that I can swim. I will keep all of this great advice in mind when I finally have access to a pool!

Did you use the same scale both times? Do your clothes seem much looser? If it's a digital scale, any chance the battery could be bad? Or that it needs recalibrating? Especially if your clothes feel about the same, I would suspect a scale problem. It's basically scientifically impossible to have lost 8 pounds of fat in a…