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I split my days at midnight. It doesn't really make much difference when you split days as long as you do it consistently.

Something about that doesn't sound right. Usually, when potassium is high sodium is low and when potassium is low sodium is high. Potassium and sodium are intended to work in conjunction. Sodium is used to allow water into a cell and potassium is used to release it. When sodium is high, blood holds more water than it…

No, you're just fat. "Skinny fat" means that you are slim and look like you should be healthy but tests showing your risk factors (blood pressure, etc.) indicate that you aren't.

Here's my portion size for lunch. That is following a significant breakfast. And if supper isn't also significant then I'll be in a calorie deficit for the day. Everybody is different.

Based on your profile picture, I would say that you don't need to lose any weight. But with that being said, keep in mind that MFP is giving you a number without taking exercise into account. Even if your NEAT is 1200 calories it would be possible to eat at least 1200 calories and lose weight if you are exercising because…

I suppose it is possible for there to be fat around the eye sockets, but that seems unlikely. It seems more likely that something like lower blood pressure or better blood flow (both of which can result from weight loss) might have something to do with it.

Just use less sugar. For that matter, you could just use something like Splenda in place of sugar.

That makes for a good sound bite until you consider that the people who stay out of the kitchen lose more weight.

I don't know that I understand what you did or what your calorie goal is, but I can make the general statement that if you are trying to eat at a deficit and you fail one day that you don't need to do anything different. Just forget about it and continue eating at a deficit. You will reach your goal more slowly than you…

For weight loss I would say that cycling or swimming would be your best options and I would lean more heavily toward cycling. Both are fairly easy on the joints. When you walk or run you have a big portion of your weight driving down on your joints. When you are overweight the last think you want is to drop those extra…

Embrace the hunger. When I was losing weight that feeling of hunger was a friendly reminder that I was using fat for my activities.

I suppose you could make apple pie "healthier" by using whole wheat flour in the crust and reducing the sugar. I suppose that if you used one of the sweeter apples (like a Honeycrisp) you wouldn't even need to add sugar. But apple pie doesn't seem particularly unhealthy to me in the first place.

I tend to agree that a person losing weight should feel hungry.

I've heard that they have kicked people out for openly disagreeing with their political views.

Don't stress over day-to-day changes. Keep doing what you are doing for another couple of weeks and if your weight has gone up or stayed the same then start looking for causes.

Staying in bed all day isn't "normal." I would suggest forcing yourself to open the curtains and going for a walk or participating in some other form of physical activity. If you can't force yourself to do that then you probably do need professional help. But if you can, it will change your attitude completely. You can…

Don't confuse the rate at which food makes it through your digestive system with metabolism. The trip through the digestive system is a physical process rather than chemical. People worry about their metabolism a lot, but it is rare for people to have anything but a normal metabolism. Sluggish workouts are more commonly…

Weighing yourself every day is one way to see if your colonic cleanse is working. :)

Your BMR is meaningless unless you are in a coma and they have removed your feeding tube. At best it is a starting point for other numbers that indicate calorie burn. As long as you are eating 1200 calories or more, there is no reason to worry about eating above your BMR. It isn't like your body is going to shut down if…

I pay closer attention to the calories I burn than the calories I eat.

Overeating can sometimes lead to the body dumping more than normal. There is probably nothing wrong with the scale but your current result will tell you nothing about fat loss. All it will tell you is that the weight of the food you are consuming is less than the weight of the food leaving your system.

Weekly, just for self accountability.

The scale goes up because you eat food and drink liquids. The scale does down because you exhale carbon dioxide and excrete various stuff. The balance between the things that make the scale go up and those that make it go down determine the net effect.

There are 3500 calories per pound of fat. 50g is 0.11 lbs, so at most the bacon would have 385 calories (though part of it is protein and water). But the information on the package assumes that you are going to cook the bacon. Most likely, they are assuming that you will cook the bacon to crispy, so that most of the fat is…

When I was losing weight I would weigh twice a week. One was the "official" weigh-in and the other was a mid-week checkup that I used to tell me if I needed to do something to make sure the official weigh-in showed a drop in weight. Now that I'm just trying to maintain my weight the two weigh-ins have morphed into one…

I'm sure someone would try to diagnose it as something, but it seems pretty normal to me. We all have stuff that we would rather not do and the things we want to take priority. I deal with folding laundry by dumping it on my bed. That way I'm forced to do something with it before I can go to bed. I can't say I'm real good…

It's kind of up to you. As MFP is intended to work you would include that in you activity level rather than logging it. The days you work less would balance out with those where you work more and you would have one calorie goal. But if you are going to log your work as exercise then you should set your activity level lower.

As long as your weight loss isn't more than 1% of your body weight per week, I wouldn't be too concerned about adding more calories. If it starts going over that then you should probably be eating more.

Something being past its Sell By date doesn't mean it has gone bad.

At most you shouldn't be trying to lose more than 1% of your current weight. With you weighing in at 125, that would be 1.25 lbs or a deficit of 625 calories per day. 1,200 calories is a number you shouldn't go below and you may be burning about 1,625 calories without exercise. So your deficit would be only 425 calories.…