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Haha. Good analogy. I like the episode where Stan's dad explains to Stan that pot isn't okay because pot makes it okay to be bored. I feel that way about eating for entertainment. Sure, it's easy, it's cheap, cookies will never reject you or stand you up, or require any skill to eat, but as a substitute for real life? Nah,…

Last night I had serious cravings. Little voice pops up and goes, you know you can hit up the store and buy all the cookies, ice cream, cake, and trailmix you want, and eat it and not log it. No one will ever know! Then I remembered how slow I'm losing weight right now and how long it would take me to burn off 5000+ cal of…

Had the same issue plus an early and brief visit from dear Aunt Flo a couple weeks ago that coincided with taking up bike riding. So maybe that caused it? But it's also the time my genetically cursed female relatives tend to hit perimenopause, too, so I don't know. Then there are fun fun fibroids that run in the family. So…

Just cut him off a slice twice as large as the one you're going to have. Problem solved. ;)

This TOM thing, too. But for a different reason. I'm already crabby, I already hate the scale, I'd be even unhappier if I were recording those gains even if I get to record a loss a few days later.

I don't think it's mostly built in, I think you train your brain what to crave by what you eat. At one point I was taking a liquid multivitamin that looked like bottled swamp water. It tasted gross. At first I could barely get it down. The rest of my diet was really poor, I was eating college cafeteria food, gas station…

Agreed. You wear your clothes, not your scale. Enjoy how everything fits looser and track by that!

I do this, too. I'll record a 2 oz loss, but I am not recording any gains, nuh uh!

I stopped seeing food as a form of entertainment and started eating the foods that give me the most energy for healthy entertainment instead. Sadly the cupcakes were much cheaper. But someone gave me a bike and I found some rollerblades at the thrift store for six bucks, so I shouldn't cry too much. And I still have video…

There is one hill still in my neighborhood I just can't get my bike up. Every time I get off and start pushing, it's in front of the same house, and now I picture someone snickering at me behind the curtain!

I can wear my favorite jeans again and be able to breathe at the same time. Still not as loose on me as they should be, but definitely getting there!

I had to slap myself this morning and remind myself that it's only 10-12 more pounds to go, and whining because it comes off so slow after already losing over half my body weight is just being spoilt. But I still hate it.

Yup. I find this true as well. I blame cheese. I bet I could go without counting calories, at least when I hit maintenance, if I would just not buy it every week.

Love it!

2lbs of red meat here. Way more than 1000 cal. PMS strikes again. Twice in one month for the first time ever. I'm guessing it's the start of perimenopause? And if that means I'm going to risk having PMS more than once a month I might have to move to a deserted island so no one gets hurt.

You may not like this and I'm not saying it's easy to do, but I had to start eating home cooked fresh meat and produce and cut out everything else until I started to crave the taste of the foods I wanted to eat for my health. Not saying you can never have DQ again, but for awhile maybe you should focus on teaching yourself…

*insert goofy applause gif I'm too lazy to go find here* The science is shaky and some people treat it too much like a religion instead of guidelines for healthy eating, but Paleo is still destined to end better than the low fat processed foods craze. Well unless and until the federal gov cuts meat subsidies. In which case…

Yeah but if you only do low carb for three days your appetite will not only come back when you go off it, you won't even start to adjust to burning ketones instead of carbs for fuel. You might feel horrid on day three (but a lot of people do feel their worst on day 4 and 5) and wonder why anyone would even do that to…

They don't pay a living wage or want to provide decent health insurance for the people who actually make their money for them.Actually scratch part of that, double checked, they aren't so bad on wage, they just got cranky about the health insurance. However, back on topic, I went and reread the article: "The team fed mice…

I don't like Trader Joe's for political reasons, but they do seem to have some preservative and additive free chocolate bars. Whole Foods needs to play catch up if they don't.

8k? Yikes. Not likely then! I had no idea making good chocolate at home required anything special. That's a shame.

I'll mention the conching. As for roaches, she has a small dog with the disgusting habit of eating every bug it sees.

I have craved sugar ever since I can remember. I was one of those kids who got up in the middle of the night to sneak it. So for me cutting it out entirely is the only thing that keeps me from having annoying cravings for as much of it as I can shovel in. I consider myself an extreme case. Lots of people have had luck…

I hope for her sake you're wrong. She usually makes some pretty good homemade treats. And she loves her chocolate.

Yeah, beans. I'm kind of glad they don't seem to fill me up very well, because what comes out of my mouth is often socially unacceptable enough. I don't need to be worrying about the other end!

And of course my sis, being more healthy by far than I am for decades, is already on it and planning to make her own chocolate and other snackfoods completely from scratch.

I just sent my sister a text to check out the article.

Oh that's not good. My brother-in-law is celiac and eats packaged gluten free foods regularly. I wonder if this could be even worse news for him if it applies to humans?

Aw, and I was going to stock up just in case! Maybe laughing hysterically at the reviews will get things moving for some, though.

Some foods do have less calories than listed (in the sense that you don't digest them all). Like almonds. Some foods do take more energy to digest than others. The difference is really small, though. And that makes sense. We are very well adapted to consuming high fiber foods and extracting the calories with minimal…