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Giving up anything for Lent??
Hello There! So Ash Wednesday is this week and so begins Lent. I teach in a Catholic school and we all talk about what we are giving up. The kids give up pop or McDonalds or potato chips or backtalk, it's very cute, but this year a bunch of the teachers are giving up junk food/sugar for Lent. NOW...before anybody freaks…
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too many snacks and not enough meals???
Okay, so my food diary is public--I have a question--am I eating too many snacks and not enough meals? 1200 calories is doable for me, so I think in terms of 250 breakfast, 250 lunch and 500 dinner with 200 left to play with BUT I never hit those amounts at breakfast and lunch. So if my breakfast is closer to 200, I plan…
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weighing vs measuring food
So there is a lot of discussion about weighing food. I have 20 pounds to lose, I have lost 10 since June 30 by logging here, exercising a lot more than I ever did (it's summer, I'm a teacher, so I have the time right now), cleaning up my diet and measuring everything. I have been using measuring cups--whatever the portion…
