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@maricash - I used to be skeptical about the soda stream thing but soda water & lemon juice actually sounds like a great idea! (Also I love your Dr. Who profile pic - those were definitely the cutest & creepiest aliens ever on the show)

With chicken cutlets I've been making an amazingly simple dinner of chicken with lemon and mustard. It's delicious, flavorful, and gets really moist. All you have to do is bake or fry your chicken with mustard and lemon juice, as much or as little as you want!

I'm only 10 pounds down but I look and feel so much better already, which is enough motivation to keep at this... I wanted to share this, partly because I want to keep a record of it, partly because what I've been doing is just so EASY, I haven't even felt like I was on a diet. Just a few simple steps, don't let people…

I feel your pain! Try either hosting a party or bringing your own alcohol to a few of them, and try making these low-cal cocktails, that way you can have the best of both worlds! This is my plan. http://www.fitsugar.com/Healthy-Low-Calorie-Holiday-Cocktails-20443867?slide=5 Alternately, it sucks to have to miss out on…

The phrase "a moment on the lips, forever on the hips"...someone said this to me last year. Makes me want to eat more things. Lol.

There is no such thing as "starvation mode" in the strictest sense. When you eat too few calories, you probably aren't getting all of the nutrients you need along with your calories, and different hormones and enzymes may be slowed in production - while this isn't good, the "rule" that you need 1200 calories or more to…