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Liver (chicken one is higher, I guess... or I just like it more :-)) and spinach.

Any grill (beef or chicken or fish) would be healthy. Avoid dressings, be careful with salads for same reason... I find steaks as one of best healthy alternatives, especially with fresh vegetables.

WOW!

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Same. I would download for money, but I do not have a DVD and do not want one! Memory stick would work much better for my TV...

1.Generic - Espresso With 1 Teaspoon Sugar 2.Coffee - Capuccino (Full Cream) 3.Lindt - Excellence Chilli Dark Chocolate 4.St Helens Farm - Hard Goat Cheese

I resized it 5 times, and still it does not show :-(

Better now?

One more try: Year ago And now:

I was here: http://s1187.photobucket.com/albums/z393/svetlana_vs/?action=view&current=Lana5.jpg And now I am here: http://s1187.photobucket.com/albums/z393/svetlana_vs/?action=view&current=redcarpet.jpg

I can only say "WOW"! Amazing!

Chicken liver is one of highest in iron. Also spinach.

Wow, this is really impressive! You look hot! :-)

I briefly looked at your diary, and to this quick look - you are not eating up your exercise calories, and you have a very light lunch... I would add proteins and maybe even bread to lunch, exercise almost daily and eat up your cal's. That would make you feel very good. 1200 cals is almost always hard for me, but when I…

Forget about refusing from any food - allow yourself some pasta, bread, even sweet things from time to time, but only within your calorie limit. Add calories through exercise. Do not treat this as diet - this is life-style change... do not have fixed "cheat" days - target having all days as "good" days... but just some…

It might be Time of Month... I try then to spend more calories through excercise and earn them for eating more :-) Usually having more proteins helps as well. But reality is, you are hungry before TOM :-), this is hormones, just try not to go too crazy with overeating and try to move more.

I went for my lowest in the past decade. It is the weight that all my near ones refer to "you looked sooooooooooo great then".

In general I eat more on week-ends usually, because there is more going out... but! - I also have more time for working out. This is my recipe - work out enough to allow some nice food out, BUT! this is a life-style change, not a diet, therefore I would not even consider something as McDonalds or Pizza (or both together…

Fruit are high calorie... but if you get it all within your calorie daily limit, you are doing great.

And wearing my old clothes too! I have some wonderful dresses waiting for me!

Shopping, shopping, shopping, shopping, shopping for smaller sizes :-)

I try to stick only to plain yogurt. My almost daily breakfast is 25-28 g. muesli with 200 g of 1.5% Yoplait plain. Is healthy and nourishing. Flavored yogurts have too much sugar and too many calories. If I want it sweet, I take it with honey.

Dry wine is healthy, but still high calorie :-(

Daily, unless I travel. I tend to get on the scale a couple of times per day, but I would log in only the morning weight. And as soon as I get to the lowest number, I log it in immediately, and do not log anything until I get to the next lowest number :-) Kind of self-deceiving, but it keeps me motivated ;-)

I log mine religiously and missed only 1 or 2 days within 3 months almost, only during days when my dinners included "meze" type of food in restaurants and it was practically impossible to log all.

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"You are shrinking!" :-)

For breakfast I have muesli with milk or light drinking yoghurt or just yoghurt with a piece of bread, or a piece of bread with some low-fat spread. Cottage cheese is another alternative. You can also make great porridge in microwave. The quick dinners for me are any types of salads, fried chicken liver or young potatoes…

It does not really matter. Stick to one type of scales and care only about the difference - i.e. what you lose... 5 pounds in the end result will not make or break it, you can always decide by how you look and feel if you want to go a bit more down.

I lost about 10 pounds in 6 weeks, but this all goes back to age, metabolism, how much you have to lose (I have a lot!) and how much excess water you have in the body, which goes away fast first. When I was 30, I could lose 20 pounds in a month by doing the same I do today... but things are slowing down with age…