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My oldest had a nutrition unit in school and came home from school afraid of sugar. So we had our own little biochem lesson and talked about how sugar is good, as are protein and fat, and you need a good balance of the three to support healthy growth and development. When they need guidance in making different food…

What meds are you on? I think I would die if I tried to fast on metformin. It's taken me a long time to figure out how to modify my diet to tolerate the metformin side effects.

Here are links to studies that looked at your question: what is the best diet for a person with elevated LDL/success with a ketogenic diet. I think they would be a good starting point. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1476-511X-9-54.pdf http://annals.org/mobile/article.aspx?articleid=717451…

This is a good question for your doctor.

When you start losing weight, your body burns through glycogen stores and water weight very quickly. That's why you were able to lose 10lbs in two days. That wasn't fat, that was water. It's fine to lose a relatively large number in the beginning. But after a few days to a week, the glycogen stores are used up and you will…

Congratulations on the weight loss. I couldn't tell if you are male or female. Statin drugs, like lipitor, have been linked to new onset of diabetes and breast cancer in women and no change in mortality. If you are female, these are things you might want to discuss with your doctor. As you continue to lose weight, keep an…

That's great! I would keep your settings where they are and see how things play out. Sometimes you'll see no change in weight despite doing everything right and then 5lbs magically falls off the scale. It happens. I only lose on my period. Re: nursing, for whatever reason, I've always found myself in surgical…

How long have you been logging? Are you losing at your anticipated rate as is? That seems like the best indicator of whether your settings are appropriate. On an unrelated note, what kind of nursing do you do?

Huh. There are sizes like 14P, which is made for a person who is a size 14, but shorter than average (petite). You better call all the clothing companies in the US and tell them they are labeling their clothes wrong.

The body won't JUST burn fat for energy, with an excessive deficit you will use lean muscle for energy as well. That is hard work to regain. That is one of the reasons for losing slowly, to avoid losing lean body mass. There's also the risk of malnutrition and loss of bone mass, which comes with risk of fracture. Our…

This is so important as a smaller person. We don't have the wiggle room for error.

In all fairness, your body doesn't either.

I'm 4'11 (BMI 22) and I can't eat 1200 calories. It just makes me sick and I can't sustain it. But a couple of things I've discovered as a smaller person: We really should lose much slower. Proportionately, 1lb is a lot more for us than someone who is 6' fall. The BMI scale is a little off at the extremes, and there are…

Ditto! Maybe that's how they lure people in.

Is it supposed to be pronounced like "foreskin" with an extra syllable that really doesn't make it sound that different from foreskin? That seems like an oversight on the marketing departments part.

I get it. I have days where I know going in that using the bathroom isn't going to be an option, let alone lunch. But eating a snack is better than using a pill to artificially suppress your appetite. I drink coffee with 12oz of milk on the way to work and hit the bathroom on the way in and that'll usually get me through…

Oh god, no.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10297512/bulimia-recovery-im-frustrated#latest

Personally, I'm not a fan. I don't think it's sustainable or necessary. Back when it was harder to find calorie counts and tedious to keep a hand written calorie log, the containers and point systems made more sense. Counting calories was a lot of work. Now, calorie counts are easy to find. A food scale helps to be…

You can add breastfeeding to your diary. If you are exclusively breastfeeding I think it adds 500 calories per day (not sure --I spent 5 years of my life breastfeeding but never tried to lose weight during that time)

Does it matter? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Ok. Come back when you're ready. When you do decide you're ready, get a food scale and weight and log everything you eat. Read the stickies at the top and make it a long term commitment. Slow and steady wins the race.

Yes. It is normal and expected to get comments on weight. And advice. Especially from your Korean mother or MIL. It's kind of like the "hi, how are you, you look great." Thing we do in America. They just throw a comment in about weight. It is not personal. It's just the cultural norm.

What is different about the fructose is fruit that makes it healthier than the fructose in soda?

You had blood work which showed differences in serum hormone levels and glucose?

So much woo in that one little post. I hope you got your money back. Some people like breakfast, some don't. I am the only one in my house who eats breakfast. It doesn't matter how much I eat, 80 calories of milk in coffee or a 3000 calorie easter feast, I still consume the vast majority of my calories at lunch. So if I…

I didn't know there was a correct way to eat. Please elaborate.

Congrats on giving up coffee! ...more for me!

I'm a recover bulimic of 10 years. (Met clinical dx for 3 years) I stopped purging before I stopped bingeing. I tried to tell everyone for the last year of my ED that I wanted to stop but I didn't know how to eat normally. Long story short, I got a hold of an experimental computer program out of Sweden that hooks up to a…

As long as you are still doing the thing with the oxygen --> carbon dioxide, your metabolism is fine. However, when you engage in a very low calorie diet, your body used both fat and muscle for energy. When and it you gain weight nack, it is relatively easy to replace fat stores. Replacing lost muscle mass is much harder.…