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Update: It's been 2 weeks since I jumped up to 2400 calories a day. I immediately gained 2 pounds (I'm assuming they were mostly the food in my stomach) and have since lost them. It looks like I'm still steadily losing a tiny bit, so 2600 calories may be closer to the magic number. Not too far off from my original odd…

I think I just had an epiphany (or a huge "duh" moment) while reading about someone's heart rate monitor and calorie burning. The higher your heart rate, the more calories you burn. If even my resting heart rate is, and always has been, much higher than average - then my calorie need is going to be higher than average.…

I'm only worried about when I go on vacation. I'm meant to log calories for foods I can't even pronounce, never mind spell?

Yeah. It's more overeating by other people's standards. Like the looks of horror I get when eating a triple scoop ice cream and then following it up with a full meal. >^-^<

I've been losing at a steady rate for a little over a month and a half. The only working out I do is cleaning the house. I've actually counted calories burned while cooking. Ha. I've always overeaten and usually maintained my weight over the years, so maybe I do just have a higher caloric intake level? The only thing I can…

I had a lot of salads as snacks when on 1200 calories. Cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, vinegar - all super low calorie and filling when in a heap together.

Olives have fat? I just lost 10 pounds on a diet that consisted of snacking on olives pretty much constantly between meals. Lol.

Every few mornings, with clothes, before eating (but usually not before coffee) and I only note it down if I've lost weight. Otherwise I ignore the number until it says I've lost weight. I like having a chart that only shows the positives.

I eat vegan for breakfast and lunch because the antibiotics I'm on are all "anti-iron, anti-calcium, anti-life within 2 hours of taking". Dinner's another thing altogether. Anyway, it's lots of fruits, veggies, dark greens, chick peas, tofu, peanut butter, beans and multivitamins for me.

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My math is adding 200 calories every time I lose a pound. I still have 2 pounds to lose and probably about 400 calories to add back still, so I kind of planned it. No idea how it'll actually go.

My waist is around 28 and it goes up and down by an inch on any given day. Measure it a couple of different times before panicking :)

As I weighed myself today and saw that I lost another pound despite having yet again increased my calories....something occurred to me. My weight gain had been slow and steady - essentially 1/4 pound a month for several years before I decided to lose it. So, I was going over my own maintenance level by about 29 calories a…

It's essentially koolaid, but it comes in a concentrated liquid instead of little packets. I can't stand either, so I can't judge which one is better.

There's also the psychology of deprivation. I always feel hungry (and somehow end up eating more) when there's nothing in the fridge. However, if it's overflowing, I barely feel hungry or eat at all - probably because there's no sense that starvation is imminent.

Supposedly if you start treating them in the first year, there's a better chance of diminishing the things. That's the rumor anyway.

Aw. Take care of yourself. I'm out of the exercise game for a bit too. I strained some weird joint or ligament thing I didn't even know existed, but apparently it needs a few weeks to heal.

When in America, I avoided junk food because the stuff read like an industrial waste site. When in England, I ate all of it because most of it just had normal ingredients. Then I ended up here for the 10 pounds of fat it gave me. lol. I do love real candy though - nice, normal, tasty candy that came from tasty ingredients…

It's helped me because I'm a sucker for charts and seeing progress on a screen. Things like this make me positively giddy (and motivated). lol (Just for the record, I only chart weight when it's going down. If it goes up for a bit, I just ignore it until it hits the next lower number)

I end up exercising for my dinner most days. Tis the curse of the indulger.

Hey :) I'm just starting maintaining by slowly adding calories back in. I still have 3 pounds to lose, but I figure I'll lose them while trying to find my right maintenance level.

Find the -10 button then ;)

Do they still have the little wheel at the bottom that let's you re-calibrate it 10 pounds lower, or am I stuck in the 80s? I'd so do that just for my mental health.

Now I want a biscotti, but that would be a 200 calorie cookie.

Hehe. I won't even look at the good cookies. I already know I'd end up starving for them. Generic custard creams are somewhere between 62-65 calories each.

That's my kind of diet :) I'm currently on a search for cookies with slightly less calories. The ones I like are 62 calories each O_o

^^^ Dinner time has been slowly getting earlier and earlier the longer I'm dieting. If I don't reach my goal soon, we'e going to be eating it at noon.

Thanks :) I'm down half a stone. I might actually be happy with where I'm at if the weight loss stalls out for some reason. Dieting just makes food taste even better - it's one of those ironic evils.

Why is not overeating a hindrance on quality of life?

*scratches head* Doesn't being obese cause health problems? Also, I'd like some of those super charged calories in strawberry flavor, please.