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Lunch/Dinner Type Recipes Around 500 Cals a Serving?
I have a feeling I am going to be a little sick of my current 'main' choices for lunch and supper. I currently usually make and have in my freezer for lunches and suppers Chicken 'Casserole' (Mostly chicken, stuffing, corn, and mushroom/chicken soup) Lasagna (cottage cheese kind) Enchiladas (Chicken) All of these come out…
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Eating According to Your Body Rather Than Counting Cals?
Last year I lost 30 pounds by counting cals and working out probably around 4 of the 7 months it took me. I averaged a 1800 cal a day diet (usually ate around 1500 during the week so I had some extra calories for the weekends to go out to eat and munch with friends a bit (as well those days were days I often sat at home…
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Anyone Else Not Seeing Results with 30 Day Shred?
On my first day of Level 3 of 30 Day Shred, I did level 1 and 2 doing both of them for 10 days (doing this consecutively as a challenge to myself, after the 30 days I was planning to do Ripped in 30 5 days a week) so I am on day 21 of working out. I have been within my weekly calorie goals since I started doing it and yet…
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Slowly Getting a Nice Back. *NSV with Pic!
Was just checking things out in the mirror today and thought I saw a semi decent back staring back at me. Took a pic and low and behold it's getting there. Now if only the front of me was having as much progress as the back of me!
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Thinking about taking a week off?
I have been at this for over 8 months now. I have lost 30 pounds, which is great, though it's really slowed down now. I currently am not lowering my cals or reworking anything until I actually stay stuck at one weight for a good few weeks or I stop seeing any changes in pics/measurements. I would rather keep my cals as…
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Spinach and Cream Cheese Salmon
I just got this recipe from my mom who got it from my sister in law. I quite good and surprising low calorie and takes maybe 5 mins to prepare. Ingredients (for one serving Salmon (about 113 grams worth I think) Spinach Cream Cheese (I use the low cal stuff that's 35 cals per tbsp) Paprika Minced Garlic Powdered Garlic…
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My 30 Day Shred Results, with pics.
Just finished 30 Day Shred in 31 days. I was a bit disappointed after 20 days but finally saw a bit of results on the last 10 days (even though Level 3 was in general easier than Level 2). I couldn't do measurements today as I was not at my house and I could not find a measuring tape where I was. WIll try to get them…
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NSV for the day!
I can now cross my legs and tuck the top leg's foot behind the bottom leg's calf!!! Hard to explain haha, but I've seen my skinny friend be able to tuck her foot like that, whereas when I was fatter my top leg stuck way up and to the side thanks to my thunder thighs! Anyone else had this happen haha.
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30 Pounds Down! And Finally the Visual is Slightly Changing.
Took some new progress pictures now that I have FINALLY hit the 30 pounds lost mark, and I FINALLY see some visual changes. Here are the pics (I don't have pics right from when I started, so here are the last 20 pounds) There's less difference between these 2 pics than the above pics. You will have to right click the pic…
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FitBits and Standing?
I got a FitBit a week ago and have been surprised by what it's been saying for what I burn a day. (less than what TDEE calculators have put me at) I'm don't think it recognizes when I am standing as apposed to sitting, so I manually log my work hours (as I have a standing job). However I'm not sure what to put as there are…
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How Accurate do you Think FitBits are?
Got my Fitbit one and couple days ago. Yesterday it got kinda messed up cause I wore it while riding so not sure what it would have said calories were there, but today it says that I have burnt 2033 calories with only an hour till midnight when it resets. That is lower than I thought it would be. I work a standing job with…
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A Few NSV's!
I've experienced a few NSV's lately. Tried on some clothes from high school (been out of high school for 9 yrs) and one pair of pants were WAY too big, and a size 5 pair of shorts fit me great. (I obviously was a few different sizes during high school haha). Second NSV was realizing I now have these amazing looking…
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Face Comparison Pics. About 25 Pound Difference.
Finally got a decent comparison pic of my face. Most of my comparison pics are body pics not face. I'm surprised by the amount of difference between the 2!
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What Would You put my Activity Level as?
I originally used the IIFYM TDEE calculator to get my TDEE. It allowed me to put in how many minutes I did things (such as sleep, sit, walk, run, etc) so I just calculated my activity level from that and got about 2500 cals on work days and 2000 cals on non work days. I am now down probably 15 pounds since I originally did…
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New Progress Pics and NSV's and such!!
I just made it to 25 pounds lost!!!! It feels good, but yet I thought I would have seen more of a difference in my body. I see a decent difference with clothing on, but stepping out of the shower is still a scary sight. I've lost a total of 17.5 inches (I measure upper arm, chest, waist, abdomen, hips, upper thigh, calf)…
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How Come Biggest Loser?
I don't much watch the show but I sometimes switch over during commercials on other shows or if nothing else is on, but I noticed that all of a sudden for the last couple weeks the contestants went from no shirts (for guys) and sports bras (for girls) to shirts and tank tops (which I am guessing are covering a compression…
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Weight Lifting 'Program" with Pics?
Trying to find a free source on the internet showing me weight lifting exercises for the whole body, especially with pictures showing how they are done. I have done weights in the past so know basic technique but it was also all light lifting 50 million reps. Most all I can find is woman lifting 5 pound weights and I know…
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Those Doing TDEE, a Question.
So this last weekend I went to watch a horse show. It really is difficult not to be tempted to eat the food there, I usually spend 6-9 hours watching the show and I have no access to a microwave or fridge. I ended up going over my 1800 calories both days. The food is really quite good and you smell it all around you from…
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NSV, Finally Laundry is a Good Day!
20 pounds ago I HATED laundry day, cause it meant clothing that had shrunk back to the size they were suppose to be instead of the comfy, WAY stretched out to fit my fat body size they were after a few wears. I hated trying to cram my body into tight pants, leaving me with muffin tops, having the button area on the front…
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20 Pounds Down, Halfway There. Pics and NSV
To try to keep my eye on the prize this holiday season I did a few things to help me see how far I have come. I tried on an old pair of pants that used to be tight and now are too big (in fact my current pants are much too big in the waist) I laid my current pants on top of my bigger pair I used to wear, and saw how much…
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Looking for New Snack Food
I am trying to find a new snack food to add to my roster. Right now my main snacks are yogurt with frozen raspberries and a small apple dipped in a touch of cinnamon sugar. I like my snacks between 75-200 calories. Whats your favorite snacks under 200 calories?
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What Amount of Food WERE you Maintaining on?
I sometimes think back to what I was eating before I started to lose weight. I weighed 165 ish pounds, bouncing around at that number but staying there for a good year or so. I ate A LOT! It's amazing how much I was eating, and yet, I was maintaining that weight! I used to eat out for lunch EVERYDAY! I ate footlong subways…
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Do you weight EVERYTHING?
Urg, just did something that REALLY made me realizing how important weighing your food is. My bag of small apples says that per one apple (100 grams) is 50 calories. I just weighed all 3 of the apples I had left and they each weighed around 150 grams! Half as much more than they are supposed to weigh!! That's only about 25…
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Chicken calories? Weight before or after cooked?
Do you calculate calories on the weight before it's cooked or after? I bought Maple Leaf Prime Chicken Breast (boneless/skinless) and raw it weighed 225grams. The nutritional info is for 150 grams it's 160 calories. So that would but the calories at about 210 for one chicken breast if weight is based off raw weight. Or do…
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Splitting Cardio? Defeats Purpose?
I recently have started to split my cardio sessions up. Instead of doing all 30 mins at once, then weights, I have been doing 15 mins cardio, then weights, then 15 mins cardio. I started doing this as I was having a harder time motivating myself to get to the gym when I thought about doing 30 mins straight of hard cardio.…
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Slow Cooker Calories?
I got a slow cooker for Christmas and made pulled chicken in it the other day. I initially calculated the calories with all the ingredients in full, but then I got to thinking that there was a LOT of liquid still in the cooker that I did not use. I just took the chicken out and left the liquid. How do you calculate this…
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First Progress Pics
I don't have any good pics from when I started (20 pounds heavier) but I have pics from 10 pounds ago and now. Until I edited the pics to be side by side I didn't see a difference at all. Luckily, after putting them side by side I do see a small change. Yay. About 20 more pounds to go (then I will see how I feel about if I…
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Dressed, think I am getting there. Naked, see no change
Anyone else? Right now, when I am dressed, I can look in the mirror and think, ya I am definitely getting there. But stepping out of the shower and seeing myself in the mirror and I feel like I don't look one ounce skinnier!! I don't have any 'good' pics of my heaviest but I have bikini progress pics from the last probably…
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How Late at Night do You Eat...?
PLEASE read my actual question!!! I KNOW eating late at night won't affect your weight LOSS! I am asking if it will affect the number on the SCALE cause your body hasn't finished digesting what you ate so late the night before. to avoid it affecting your weigh in in the morning? Or don't you notice it affecting your weigh…
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Low Calorie Treats/Desserts?
So with the holidays coming up there are going to be lots of goodies going around. Luckily I don't live with my parents anymore so that makes things a lot easier as I just won't be around them nearly as much. However there are gonna be days where I am around it so I thought a good plan of action would be for me to bring…
