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Meals to make when only one of you is vegetarian?
Good morning my fabulous loves!!! Over the past few months I've been eating more and more vegetarian meals. I'm definitely not 100% meat free by any means, but I just find myself less and less interested in eating it. When I cook for just myself (breakfast,.lunch, and two dinners a week) I pretty much always eat meat free…
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Joining the gym tomorrow HELP
Hey loves, I'm joining the gym tomorrow, but I dont want to go in without a plan. I want to lose weight, build functional strength, and get a nice squat booty. Can anyone recommend a good (free :'( ) workout plan? I'm hella out of shape, so something appropriate for people with the mobility, flexibility, and sex appeal of…
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Your friendly neighborhood barista, coffee suggestions
Hello MFP world! You know what the internet is good for? Shouting unsolicited advice into the void! So here I am, your friendly, neighborhood spiderman barista, with a complied list of lower kcal alternatives you can order next time you're craving caffeine! Drinking too many calories has also been a struggle for me, and as…
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Job offer advice...pretty please
Hey internet people! Not fitness related at all, but just crowd sourcing opinions. Ive been unemployed for 7 months and really need a job. I'm a full time student who just started my senior year at university. 6 days ago I interviewed for a job I REALLY want. I sent a thank you email, and the interviewer replied saying I'd…
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adding fry oil to food diary?
Hello MFP people. Tonight for dinner I'm making tacos (yuuuuum!) and I was wondering how y'all go about calculating the oil used during frying into your diary. I don't own a food scale, or I'd just measure the starting oil amount and then the remaining amount and log the loss....but with that not being a possibility, what…
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Anyone into Blogilates?
I was just curious what entry you use on MFP to log the workout? The one "pilates" option doesn't seem quite right as I'm usually sweating, panting, and hella sore the next day for what MFP shows as a low calorie burn...or maybe it's just wishful thinking on my end.
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How many kcal in a slice of new York pizza?
So I'm planning to grab a slice of pizza tonight at a little local joint that doesn't have nutritional information available. Looking through available options on mfp there seems to be a couple kcal difference entry to entry. In your experience how many kcal are in those giant yummy slices of new york style pizza…
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Anyone else have a life long bad relationship with food?
I grew up a chubby kid with a bulimic mother who told me when I was about 6 that no one would ever date/love/marry me if I didn't lose weight, and from then on made me stand on a scale in front of her once a week while she yelled at me about my weight, I wasn't allowed to eat/drink anything without permission (not even a…
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Who eats roughly 1500?
Hey there MFP people! I love all my friends here but I they seem to be split between people who eat 1200 kcal or 2000+ and kuddos, whatever works for them! But I'd love some friends who eat closers to my calorie goals because I like to snoop on your diary and get meal ideas :) :p
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Self imposed dietary restrictions, advice please
I have felt sick pretty constantly over the past few.months, and in the past 3-4 weeks it seems significantly worse. My stomach is very often upset, I am gassy and bloated, and I've started having frequent headaches. I'm not a fan of doctors, doctors offices, or medication for that matter and very often rely on "home…
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What I bought for $20
So, I went to update my other forum post and found out it had been closed! Woopsie! Anyways, Here was last nights shpping trip, coming in at just under $15! Roughly 2lbs rice, roughly 2lbs rolled oats, 5 potatoes, big bunches of celery and carrots, two onions, big box of strawberries, 4 peaches, big bag of grapes, six…
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what would you buy with $20
Very poor college student here. I have $20 to buy groceries for the next 10 days. I'm trying to make a healthy shopping list that will cover 3 meals a day for the next week and a half. What would you buy?
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how to eat during loooong days?
The longer my days are, the harder I find it is to stay within my calorie goals - and balancing work and school can equal some long days. For instance, tomorrow I work at 5am - 2pm, then head to class until 5pm, and then have homework, reading, general chores, yadda yadda, all in all, I'll wake p about 3:45am, and get to…
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Victoria Secret NSV *pic
I went to VS today to buy a sports bra, I've been wanting one super badly and was excited to treat myself. While there I saw some super cute matching pants but was devastated to see they didn't carry them in XL. On a whim I decided to at least try them on in a Large, thinking I could use fitting into them properly as…
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Girl Power NSV
I work at home depot. Yesterday a customer needed help with some big 5 gallon buckets of paint, Without hesitation I was able to lift one out of his cart and replace it with the correct one. I felt so strong! (Have you ever picked one up? That *kitten* ain't light!) Customer's wife was super impressed, and guy seemed…
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Can someone please tell me if this plan seems right?
I'm approaching weight loss as an equation. Numbers and facts: A pound is 3500kcal I'm female 23 years old Current weight is 194 TDEE 1988 I'm going to attempt to eat 1460kcal/day And attempt to burn an average of 420kcal/day with exercise (biking and circuit training) If I don't eat back any exercise calories I'll have a…
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The Healthiest Things You Tell Yourself?
About 4 years ago I recovered from anorexia, but shot drastically in the other direction, peaking somewhere at 240+ I managed, using MFP to get back to the 175ish range, but got lazy, moved to the land of real mexican food, and found myself pushing 200 again! gah! I grew up in a home where food was an enemy, my mother - a…
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Your thoughts on a brief morning workout
So, I live a generally active life. I walk and bike everywhere I go, a few mile a day for school on foot, then 10 biked miles round trip for work, then general things like a couple miles for groceries or what not. My job keeps me on my feet, walking for 8 hours - approx 30 hours a week. But I don't exercise consistently.…
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What activity level should I be logging under?
Hey guys! I'm a full time student who works around 30 hours a week, give or take. I work on my feet, walking the majority of the time I'm working, or standing, I literally never sit (I'm not even allowed to). When I've worn a pedometer it reads between 5-10 miles walked in a shift(fitbit). I walk and bike everywhere I go.…
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What Fitness Routine Would You Do if You Were Me?
Alrighty guys, here it goes: I'm a full time college student who also works 30ish hours a week. Classes at 8 am 5 days a week. Monday and Wednesdays I have class 8am-10am and work ranging from about 12pm-10pm. Tuesdays and Thurdays I have class 8-9am, and then 2pm-6pm Fridays 8am-10am and no work. Saturdays and Sundays…
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My Super Exciting ( Size Medium) NSV
Yesterday I was out shopping and pulled this darling dress off the rack. As I was looking at it, the sales associate walks up to talk to me. He looks at the dress I'm holding and then at me and asks, "What size is that (dress)" I told him Large. He shakes his head a little and pulls out the same dress in a Medium and says,…
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I want to cry, WTF is the matter with me
So, after about a year and a half without one I bought a scale. I knew I had gained some weight back since my big push to get healthy a couple years ago, and I wanted to know where I was at. About six months ago I moved 1,500 miles away from everything I've ever known and been eating way to much since. So there I was this…
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Mexican Food
S about 6 months ago I moved maybe an hour from the border and have discovered the absolutely mindblowingly delicious thing that is authentic Mexican food, and in that 6 month have gained a whopping TEN POUNDS! OH HELL NO! Granted, I've been making my fair share of not good at all choices ("oh why yes, I'd love a 4th…
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Catwoman Challenge!!!!
So on Halloween my boyfriend and I were chatting - I had failed at convincing him to wear a costume, to which he was adamantly against. However, we reached an interesting agreement - next year he WILL dress up like batman IF I go as Catwoman. SO I have one year to get into Catwoman shape! - so how would y'all go about…
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Lord of the rings hallowern costume input
Hi there MFP world, I have been given the task of choosing a creating costumes for me and the boyfriend for Halloween this year - the request being couple costumes from the hobbit or the lord of the rings trilogy. I was leaning toward Legolas and Gimli, because I think I'd make one excellent dwarf, but my SO wasn't feeling…
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NSV from a complete stranger <3
NSV from a stranger. I work at Home Depot, the other day a nice older gentleman I was helping commented on the fact that I was wearing a dress to work at a hardware store and he thought I looked lovely. I thanked him and moved on with my day, hours later I was leaving work and the same old man was just heading back inside…
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whole roast chicken
So, as my poor college student budget grows thinner and thinner I've come to realize how darn cheap it is to buy a whole chicken (vs buying packaged boneless/skinless breast meat) wowza, hello a weeks worth of dinner for around 4 dollars, caching! anyways, I have just been stuffing a cut up lemon inside, covering the…
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I need to buy a scale, any advice
Hello members of the MFP world, I need to buy a new scale. Weighing in approx. once a week is a big motivating factor to me, keeps me on goal, and pushes me to strive for progress. So a good scale is an awesome tool for me to have. That being said, I'm on a poor college student budget and looking at the stores some scales…
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NSV wedding pictures!!!
So, I posted about this, this morning but now I have the picture evidence and I'm sooooooooooooooo excited. So, a couple years ago my dad got remarried - seeing the pictures from that night was devastating, I was so much bigger than I realized. Seeing those photos was one of the biggest things that motivated me to start…
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NEW NSV SOOOOOO HAPPY
So about two years ago my dad got remarried, it was seeing photos of me at the wedding that really inspired me to lose weight. I just couldn't believe how big I'd gotten. Holy heck! Anyways, my brother got married about a month ago and I just received the photos and I have to say, Damn I looked good! I'm really proud of…
