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If you DO start to eat breakfast your body with start to adjust Start small (fruit smoothie/yogurt/anything). It will kickstart your energy and within a few days you might find that you're useless without breakfast. I started small and now i"m working my way to upping my breakfast to 500 or so calories then decreasing the…

WIthout reading all the other posts. and depending on your goals. I'd say dont go by the general "3 meals a day thing." Always...>ALWAYS eat something within 30 min of waking up, preferably followed by SOME kind of activity and it will get your metabolism off to a running start. 3, 4, 6, whatever. Eat when your hungry,…

3lb lost this week

8/1: 296 8/8: 293 loss 3lb

I think another major concern possibly beyond cancer is emphysema. I am kind of fortunate in that I've heard from many experts that people who play wind instruments (like i do) will not develop emphysema because I do a multitude of breathing exercises and I'm working out my lungs many hours a day. This, however, is a major…

It's VERY easy actually. The dough i use is a "no knead recipe" yes it gets slightly messy with the flour but you can refrigerate the dough for up to 12 days or so and pinch off a small handfull whenever you'd like to make one. Being a thin "neapolitan" authentic recipe, you set your oven on as high as it will possibly…

My view on the E-cigarrete is: What? Am i going to keep smoking an e-cigarette indefinitely? It does nothing to help curb the oral addiction which is for most...the issue. If it were a nicotine addiction....gum or a patch would work. Also It might be marketed as healthier but who knows what kind of adverse things things…

You can cook really healthy gourmet pizza at home with little effort that will rival that of any pizza you'll find when you go out! :) Especially with gluten free , thin crust with mostly veggies on top......i see that as reasonably healthy.

Perhaps. But i think it's more likely that vigorous means effort expended for whatever time you input. You can leisurely swim for 3 hours or 3 minutes i suppose (do professional swimmers even come close to 3 solid hours of 'all out' effort??? Maybe in a full day's time!) or you can vigorously swim for 3 hours or 3 min.…

I've been a smoker (a paranoid, overly "hide it" kind unless near other smokers) for a long time. If they dont smoke or have a SUPER nose, they dont know. I have always considered quitting of course, but this weight loss is a priority and I wont take one chance of hijacking the loss by adding another drastic lifestyle…

I think that's probably right! I do 30 min of fairly vigorous swimming a few times a week if possible. Often times I have to be VERY careful that i dont over do it. It's hard to gauge your energy expenditure when you're swimming. I burn a lot more than others because I have more to lose so mine is sometimes near double…

I did slightly UP my calorie intake after week one (i'm just ending week two) because i was losing as much as 2lb a day some days and I realize that as thrilling as that is, it's probably a little rapid. The weight loss did decrease slightly but still at a substantial rate. I really like this at first for a good motivator.…

I guess that was yesterday (i'm a late night person). Tomorrow for a 2 week/17 pound treat I'm going to probably make indian food. Chole palak (chickpeas and spinach in a tomato curry sauce) and some flatbread. Or maybe a gluten free flatbread, homemade pizza. Problem is my favorite has bacon (candied bacon) though a very…

1, Like so many...(it's sad how much soda is promoted and readily available): Soda for sure. I went from very very little water and probably 5 to 6 cans of soda on days (often) when I just didnt bother to even keep track....to 6 to 9 cups of water a day and once every 2 days I do have one can of soda but only if i'm well,…

Unfortunately since I've been really keeping track I have been on a pretty boring diet. I dont mind it so much but I find that since I'm eating many small meals a day it's more convenient (and needed for my body) to just stick to my standard albeit possibly boring foods that I can not spend an hour or more cooking: -Egg…

With still having people joining; Being somewhat new to the site and new to a "challenge" thread: Should we just say we are in and post starting weight then again at the end? Or is it an open and ongoing discussion and/or checkins periodically?

I think, also, that people with more substantial weight to lose CAN afford to have a higher deficit. If a person is looking to drop 10 to 15 pounds; I think that doing it slowly with weight training and replenishing burnt calories (within a minor deficit goal) is likely to work for them. I'd be very happy once I was to the…

I should have been a little more clear on what i meant. If you're active and working out like 4-6 times a week...when you feel hungry it's your body telling you that you need to eat. Unless you have some sort of brain malfunction that fires some wrong signal telling your brain that your'e hungry. I dont see how a persons…

HEADACHE!!!! I can see, if you're a reasonably fit person or one with little to lose that perhaps you might be engaging in such calculations. If you're a person looking to lose fat, well....it's clearly about calorie deficiency. I'm set at 2310cal/day (2lb per week loss by this site as it's maximum goal). I typically…

Even better than the 5 lb challenge. August 1st starting weight: 295.6

Eat. Not a lot, but a little amount, often if you are exercising! Don't feel bad or let some diagnosis make you feel bad for being hungry (if it's actual hunger)!!!! You have to fuel the fire! Eat...exercise....eat....exercise. Just eat good things then I, personally, see it as a good thing! Use this site/app to monitor…

I think, based on the amazingly VAST number of reasons that, clearly there are a VAST amount of reasons. So many in fact that even I find myself baffled and I have to come to the conclusion that they are mostly justifications and not reasons. Other than legitimate medical reasons (i'm skeptical of modern medicine though)…

Completely joking of course. Making light of the fact that the potential vanity after weight loss overshadows the loss itself, already.. If you're in a position to have enough to lose that you'd worry about excess skin/surgery then I'd cross that bridge once you get to it. Getting to it is hard enough.

You dont need P90X. Not knowing (nor asking) your current weight or fitness level it very well may work you to the point of saying "ok this sucks" and stopping altogether. Switching from an hour or so of p90x a day and dreading the next, to two or three moderate to heavy (not nearly as heavy as p90x) workouts a day…

A challenge as in...first one to lose 5lb wins? :) Sorry i'm fairly new here and I assume it's simply an invitation/motivation. Regardless; Of course I'm in.

On the upside, it might save your life, slowing your descent, if you fall from a great height.

Absolutely right. With a little extra digging I found that the FDA is not required to list potassium levels but they can be found. Now I can add them to "my foods" and get more accurate readings. Thanks.

Well I'm keeping a pretty accurate watch and I'm well under. So I have no worries of going over even with a 550mg over the counter supplement (in vitamin section of most drug stores). I just wasnt sure if a supplement form has potentially negative side effects as opposed to natural forms which I know are ultimately better…

You can make smaller batches of pesto super easy if you have a magic bullet or some mini processor like that.

I didnt look at the recipe link one suggested but i mean...no chicken parm is chicken parm unless it's been fried. I dont see much sense in losing the appeal of a dish by trying to make it as healthy as possible and chicken parm isnt exactly light eating. But....no harm in it from time to time of course. I find it MOST…