Trevor10, thank you !!

That is the first thing I did as soona s i got on to this forum - up my calories, with some good protein sources.

i lost a pound and a half this week, yay!! (I just cant stop saying that ) )

Christmas lunch accomplished!!

I managed a nice festive but healthy meal, wihtout being a party-pooper either!

my husband and i are just by ourselves this year - Christmas lunch (we prefer to make the holiday meal a late lunch rather than dinner - that we we dont go to bed all heavy and uncomfortable from the holiday feast)

We baked cornish hens with a nice light middle-eastern type spice rub and olive oil, and herb rice and vegetable stuffing.

I ate about 3/4ths of a cup of the rice and about 50 grams worth of breast meat. For dessert, we had mango, and later, a lovely rich dark hot chocolate to drink.

i didn't talk about calories and fat AT ALL (not until now, hehe) - We had a pleasant holiday meal, husband very happy to eat all the dark meat, and I'm thrilled that my big holiday meal added up only to some 600- 700 calories. Mango and chocolate. Yumm!!

Congratulations on the weight loss. You are almost under the magic 25 BMI! What great progress!!

Also, well done on enjoying your Christmas without any food issues!!

Thanks felici!

I'm looking forward to going back to the gym today - was closed the past two days :s

Some thing that I'm struggling a little bit with is that I fear that my girl friend will not like single ingredient foods (simple healthy stuff). I was surprised to find out that she will mostly eat what I'm having It's cool that your husband is following along. Just don't swerve too much when he swerves...

paydirt, fair warning.

Thing is, my husband has always been quite athletic - 6 ft tall, about 175 pounds, quite muscular. in 2005, he put on a lot of weight and reached 225 - then he just took the weight right off - he reached 200 in about 10 months, and reached 180 around the end of 2006. Now he cannot stop losing weight - he is down to 172 pounds, and i'm getting him to eat larger but healthier, protein rich meals so he'll decelerate on the weight loss!!

Crazy that i have to struggle so much to lose just 18 measly pounds :/

But he is game about it, participates in my weight management, encourages me, works out with me, and helps with the healthy eating.

Unlike my parents or brother - who'll eat cake, and make fun of me for not doing the same )