Posts by goodchoices

1200 cals are not enough to keep up with baby. Are you breast feeding on 1200 cals? 

I like kashi products but have to say the BEST bran commercial is on youtube for all bran construction commercial, you have to check it out! :)

Besides making sure you are eating good food with lots of healthy protein and nutrients, check your activity level.  Are you doing the activity log? If you are very active physically you might need more calories.  I know on my active days I can easily eat 2300 and am still losing weight because I burn so much. 

I also think that for some people a gradual reduction is better to help your body adjust to less food.  My stomach as adjusted and I just can't eat the volumes I used to eat.

I try to save a lot of calories for dinner.  I am a mom with teenagers and it is our "family" time about 50% of the week.  I lost my job and am not working so am trying to do a lot of healthy cooking but still it can use up a lot of calories.  I think it is ok to do this. I have lost about one pound a week for the last 9 weeks and on those dinner days, I eat over half my calories after 5:00 pm. 

I have the same problem. I wake up around 5 am, have a couple of hot drinks and am not interested in eating until 8 or 9.  If I eat within a couple hours of waking up, I eat more all day long. I am seriously, unstoppably hungry by 10 if I eat breakfast by 6:30.  

I used to worry about trying to get breakfast in earlier but now I do what works for my body.  Later breakfast, normal lunch, snack, supper 

sugar snap peas or snow peas

Easy to carry around, don't get squished, don't need to be cut.

If you have a Trader Joes around you, they sell these and lots of other snacky veggies

What kind of bars are you eating?  I agree, some are just not that good for me. 

however, they are handy when I am on the run. I do like LUNA Bars because it is like having a candy bar :) but I get some healthy out of it. Most of them have about 180 cal, 9 g protein, 30 carbs, and other good stuff but yes, 14 g sugar.

I also have tried Melaleuca Pro Flex those have 15 grams of protein but I find I can't eat a whole one and Melaleuca products are too expensive.

A very yucky feeling in my stomach and mouth.  Never got sick during any of my pregnancys - just felt blech! during the first trimester and "freakin exhausted"

One friend had a particular ache in her teeth and had it every time she was pregnant during the first four weeks.

I feel funny with Pilates - I just don't get it.  It seems so easy and I can't make myself use my exercise time to do Pilates.  Do I need to know more?

The shakes have protein and a lot of good healthy stuff in them in a relatively small amount of calories. Mine are a total of 200 cals with milk.  I use them to replace a meal every other day or so.  Or for a healthy snack.  It has helped my keep my calorie count under control while still getting good nutrition.

Hey there,

I am a mom and I wouldn't care about how my kids got married.  i think using money on long term things is much better than blowing it all on one day.   Who you choose is much more important than the ceremony

a lowfat way to use eggplant in any recipe - I put it on pizza, in lowfat eggplant parmesean, grill it, anything that uses eggplant, I do this first

preheat oven to 425

peel and slice the eggplant about 1/2 inch thick

spray cooking spray on a cookie sheet

cook eggplant for about 7 minutes

flip each slice

cook for 7 more minutes

use eggplant as directed in recipes except skip the added fat most recipes have that help cook the eggplant cause now it is most of the way cooked.

It is so interesting that for you  watching calories is the easy part and exercising is the tough part.  It is the exact opposite for me.  i love to exercise and have struggled for years to control what I eat.

strawberry rhubarb is the absolute best kind of pie yum!

I feel very similar to you in starting, quitting, mad at myself, disgusted.  (I am 14 years past the birth of my last child) 

What did it for me was my 17 year old daughter who in the past year has put on weight saying "This is the one thing in my life that I am so unhappy about and it is something that is completely in my own control, yet I don't change"  Those words coming out of her mouth were the power that turned my life around.  Now I am in the right mindset, losing weight s-l-o-w-l-y, filling my home with healthy good foods and modeling the right behavior for her as much for me. (I lose sleep over worrying about her being overweight, the ultimate curse in my mind)

So starting now, forget the past, eat healthy, count those calories, exercise, love yourself and your family enough to do what will make you happy.