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Personal Victory: Feeling Sick After Carb Loading
So I've been doing a LC/HF mostly paleo diet the last two weeks and it's been amazing. Yesterday I decided to cheat and splurge on pizza and garlic bread. Normally, that's a weekly part of my diet and I haven no problem with it. Now... after having my pizza and garlic bread yesterday (which I've never had problems with…
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Weekly meal prep
I've started cooking for myself more often (yay!) thanks to the help of a new cookbook (The Frugal Paleo Cookbook). Though since I'm only one person and most of these recipes are meant for a family, I'm stuck with a lot of left overs. Since I started this I've only made one recipe and it's lasted me a while because I've…
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Lost 20 lbs before my vacation!
I'll be going on vacation next week. Last time I went a cruise (last July) I realized that I had gained too much weight over the last three years so it was time to lose weight. Now, a week before my next cruise, I am 20 pounds LIGHTER! Well, at least I will be by the time we sail (I'm 1 lb away). I can keep on going! 20…
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I either eat too much or too little
Something I have noticed lately is that now that I'm getting more serious into heating healthier foods and normal portions, I am having a harder time eating more than 1200 calories. Sometimes I don't even reach that. I'm trying to teach myself portion control (doing a pretty good job so far) and trying to save money by not…
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Small Victory...My belt
Hey everyone. I never thought I'd be posting on Success Stories but just wanted to share. A few months back I lost over 10lbs and then gave up my weight loss and flat-lined. I'm getting back to counting my calories and the numbers on the scale don't change too much (some fluctuating but in the same range). This week was…
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Should I have some take out right now??
So, tomorrow is weigh in day and started a bet yesterday with a friend. I've been plateaued for three weeks now. Today, just by chance, I've only eaten 720 calories (well, that's IF I eat an apple right now) and burned 700. It's 10:35 pm and was wondering, is 20 net calories OK for today, or should I order something so I…
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Been a Bad Week
I've lost 8 lbs since I started my weight loss journey a few weeks ago (maybe a month ago?). I've been having a lot of success, finally fit back into my sports coat which was one of my main motivators for losing weight. Been eating healthy, except this week. I went out to eat last night with friends, thinking, "Hey, I…
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School and Meal Schedules
Classes start tomorrow for me and for the first time I'm going into the school year working on my weight. So far I've had success and have lost 6 pounds! (Hopefully my last few days of bad eating hasn't undone that) And want to make my weight loss successful. Because of my weird schedule, it wasn't unusual for me to eat 2…
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Eat or Throw It Out?
Last night I pigged out and ordered a deep dish pizza (just got back to Chicago and barely eat them). I have 4 remaining slices in my fridge. I saved it for left overs, but now that I see the calories, I see that one slice is over my daily calorie limit. And half a slice won't really be enough to eat for me. So I have come…
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Hign Impact Apartment Workout
Hi everyone. I recently started working out and have been loving it. Last week I got into zumba while visiting family back home. I would do 30 minutes a day and burn about 600 calories or more depending on how long I did it. Now I am back to my apartment and while I have a free university gym, it won't open for non-summer…
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Heart Rate Monitor
ok, so I've decided that I need to start living a healthier lifestyle. Part of it is food, but part is also exercise. I just realized that this is my last year of free gym membership (my university gym). I haven't used it often (the cold is great for excuses) but really want to start using it to help with my weight loss…
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Ate double my calorie limit for the day
Now I remember why I give up on MFP so often. The first sign of I can't do this and I give up. Today I started what was supposed to be a new change of eating habits and working on weight loss, but by the end of the day (THANKS DINNER) I ended up eating double my calorie limit. And I was doing so well!! Part of it was I…
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Let's Get this Done
Hi everyone. I've been on the forums a couple of times but I thought I should stick around for a while. A bit about me: I'm a 21 year old college student (male), 220 lbs. When I graduated high school, I was at 197 and when I finished my freshman year of college I was at 177. Now I'm 220 :( My freshman year the only thing…
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Replace meal with soup
Hi everyone! So I'm currently 215 lbs with my goal weight of 159 (hard to believe 2 years ago I was 168). Weight loss has been very hard for me as I love food so much. I was thinking, because I need to get into the healthy eating mindset that to start getting into that mindset it could help if I replace a meal, probably…
