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If you can't stick to low carb, why not try eating all food groups while counting calories? I lost weight quickly while I did keto, but couldn't stick with it after 6 months. So now I eat all food groups while counting calories, and am losing weight again.

Have you talked to your husband about why you're pushing him away? Does he reassure you, and tell you that he's still attracted to you, or does he make disparaging comments about your weight? For your weight gain to be causing "major marital issues", I would have to imagine some pretty bad lack of communication, or else…

I bought a physician's scale off of Amazon a year or two back, and I'll probably never buy a digital scale again. It cost around $150 at the time, but I feel like it was worth every penny.

My lunches are either leftovers or tuna, usually. On the rare occasion that I don't have time to fix anything, I keep 230kcal tuna lunch kits at my desk so I can have lunch available.

Every morning. I keep an average going, so I need continuous data.

Before the OP goes about eating more food, she needs to tighten up her logging. I agree that she should eat more than 1200kcal per day, but until she learns how to log properly, saying just to "eat more" isn't the best advice.

At least it's cute when it leaves. Unlike the orange Alli oil stains.

Some people on here report that their Fitbit measures their energy expenditure very accurately, and eat all their exercise calories. Some people say that theirs is not accurate, and don't eat the exercise calories, or only eat a portion. You're going to have to go through trial and error to see which of those categories…

I think this all depends on the type of job. When I worked a desk job, I could see this having been a problem had I worked from home. I would have wanted to snack while dealing with paperwork/accounts. Now my experience has changed, working in a chemistry lab. Today, for instance, I was busy with an experiment and food…

A little over some days, a little under on others.

I'm hoping you meant TDEE, not BMR. No one should be eating under their BMR.

As long as you stay in your calorie range, eating rice isn't going to hinder your weight loss. I find rice amazing and filling, it actually helps me keep my calorie goal.

I haven't found that it actually hinders weight loss, but I tend to make poor food choices when I'm sleep deprived. That's my fault, however, so as long as you stick to your calories, it shouldn't affect anything.

Not applicable to me (yet) as I haven't been under 200lbs since I was a literal child, but now I have that Taylor Swift song stuck in my head. Thanks for that.

Is this just a one-day fluctuation? Or had the scale shown that number for several days? Your weight can fluctuate several pounds on a day-to-day basis. Yesterday my weight was up 4lbs, this morning I had a 5lb 'loss', so a net loss of 1lb. And those fluctuations can happen every single day. If seeing fluctuations bother…

I love huge dinners, so I plan for about 1000kcal for dinner and a nighttime snack. Then I allocate the rest of my calories, depending on how much activity that day's going to have. My breakfast is almost always 400kcal because I'm a creature of habit who eats the same breakfast every day. That leaves my lunch, which is…

Run. Just... run away. ETA: Sorry, I'm trying to hold in just how much these types of people bother me. But they can not tell those things by scanning a toe. They can't. Good on you for looking for another nutritionist. Try one with a degree in an actual science.

I try to go to bed at 11pm, wake up at 6am. I'm an absolute night owl, but my schedule doesn't allow it, so I make myself go to sleep at what feels like the middle of the day.

I'm also working on a PhD, and I'm guessing that you're experiencing stress eating instead of real hunger. You have to find other outlets for your stress/boredom than to eat. I learned the hard way, I gained 40lbs during my first year of graduate school. I got it back off over the summer, and I'm finding that walking is a…

My dinner is usually 1000kcal, I lose exactly according to plan. As long as eating right before sleeping doesn't make you sick, there's nothing wrong with doing it.

I love working out in the morning because I'm usually exhausted in the evening and I can just come home and veg out without feeling guilty.

Put your stats into MFP, set your weight loss goal to 2lbs/week, and eat the amount of calories it gives you. If you stick to it, you should lose around 100lbs in a year. There's no reason to starve yourself on 1200kcal. Please don't go to such ridiculous lengths to lose 100lbs in 6 months when you could be much healthier…

Yeah, see, we scientists like to stop the spreading of false information. So when you (or anyone else) start telling people things that at scientifically inaccurate, such as this line: "cause the artificial sweeteners that are put in some ice creams or sweet treats do your body more harm." You're spreading false…

There's no reason to eat less when you can eat more and still lose 2lbs/week. You're much more likely to stick with this if you're eating at a reasonable deficit.

I'm so happy to see biochem on MFP first thing on a Monday morning. I'm not even being sarcastic. It made this chemist happy.

That's actually an impossible goal, please reasses your expectations.

OP, my night meal is usually over 1000kcal. I've lost almost 70lbs. It doesn't hurt anything.

Is there... non-innocent coconut water? What does it do?

Echoing the poster that says save calories for an evening snack. I almost always have a snack or two before bed, I just save calories for them.

I swore I had said my piece in this thread and was going to stay out of it, but can you post your peer-reviewed, scientific literature sources for the claim that 'people who drink sodas crave a greater amount of all foods'? That seems like a very important claim, and I'd like to read the research behind it.