Sally -
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I think it's an inexact sceince at best, and a creative art at best. We've just got to keep working.
It'll come.
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Thanks... yes, I think it's figuring out the balance. We have a body gem at work that measures RMR - I'm trying to get a chance to use it on myself...
Karla -
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Do you have a food scale and do you weigh your food? I know that before I got my scal I was grossly over estimating my foods in many cases. You may be doing the same thing.
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I do measure some, but not all, of my food. I count out things like 12 almonds too, instead of "a handful"... and I buy prepackaged when I can (yogurt, cottage cheese...) because I know it's exact. I should try being really strict with it and see if I can catch myself super-sizing...
PowermanDL -
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Also ditch the ratios. Ratios don't mean much.
Shoot for:
1 gram per lb of body weight in protein
10 kcals per lb of body weight
Fill in the rest from healthy fats and carbs (you won't have much left over).
If that doesn't get the weight dropping, not much will.
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Ditch the ratios? Really? Because I've been trying to increase my fat (When I started logging and checking macros, my fat was usually around 15%). I do get about 150g protein/day... Do you suggest 10kcal/# goal weight or current body weight? That seems low, though, for someone who is doing these workouts (NROL4W) and wants to be around 130-140#... ??? Seems like going back to where I was stalled-out - struggling to stay under 1400 kcal/day and starving and all that other crap...
Leslie & Pauline --
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Did the eggs explode, too? Apparently they do that if you let all the water boil off. Oops. Not that I know that from experience or anything... 
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Put 'em in cold water
Cook 'em till they bump.
Simmer for 12 minutes,
Peel 'em with a thump.
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Uhhh... well... seems I put them in when it was already boiling (oops!) and so they, of course, exploded upon contact with the water. In the process of containing the mess, somehow the flame was turned off - but not the gas. Yikes! So then I left my eggs sitting in water with gas but no flame... the only thing that saved us was that I have this egg-timer thingy that floats in the water and turns colors to show the eggs are done. It didn't change color - that's how I noticed the flame was off and ran to open all the windows!!! If I hadn't had it in there, I'd probably have cooled off and cracked a buncha raw eggs before I figured it out
Love the poem - I think I'd better memorize it!!!