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I keep a few things in an immediate size up, in case of fluctuations, bloating, slight gains, etc. But most of it I give away.

With it being a social event, and having your friends around you eating food you love, you should order whatever you want most. Ask for a take-out box when your food arrives so you can portion out most of it for later. Eat slowly, and maybe share a dessert with a friend. I usually ask someone to share with me and then only…

Also, it could be that your single cheat day is closing the gap in your deficit. If you're eating at a reasonable deficit for 6 days, but then overeat by a few thousand calories on one day, then you've undone the week's work. Cheat days/meals (whatever that means to you) should still be weighed/logged accurately in order…

I've had similar moments recently! I had a particularly bad day and decided, eff it, I'm eating everything in sight! I ate a single serving of potato chips. :)

My husband does this often, so we just don't keep food in the house. Like, at all. We get the foods that we need daily. He or I will stop at the store on the way home to pick up what we need for dinner and next day lunch prep. We rarely keep snacks or bulk sizes of anything in the house. It works for us. As a type 1…

There is nothing wrong with diet soda. I drank nothing but diet soda for 1.5 years and it didn't hinder my weight loss or hurt my health.

Good luck to you if this helps with your weight loss journey. For me, this would be too restrictive. My veggie portions are usually at least a full plate's worth, which is still very low-calorie. I also tend to eat fairly low carb without trying (usually below 100g), and most of my carbs come from my veggies or daily…

I eat out at fast-food/restaurant places once a day during the week for my lunch hour, and it hasn't affected my weight loss or health. If I always got a large fry or a dessert, I'd probably be very hungry. But since eating out is a part of my life, I try to choose lower calorie, nutrient dense options that will keep me…

14 pounds in 10 weeks is almost 1.5 lbs a week, which is an excellent rate of loss. You could lose weight more quickly, but you would also burn through muscle mass (possibly including heart muscle). The key to long-term sustainable weight loss is a reasonable calorie deficit. If your calorie deficit is too high, you aren't…

OP, when you are with someone who loves and values you, you won't have to try and convince everyone else of it. Please focus on you and stay far, far away from this guy. I don't know you, but I know you are worth more than that. I don't think it's so hard to be happy, but you have to stop sabotaging yourself by…

No, I would not trust a nutritionist. And actually, I've seen 2 registered dieticians in the past that gave me incorrect information, so from my n=1, I don't trust RD either.

ETA - As already mentioned, these foods are usually high in sodium. That isn't something I've had to worry about, and my sodium intake is still fairly low-normal.

I know how to cook, I just don't like cooking. At all. I grab "convenience" frozen foods all the time. My weight loss and health have suffered exactly zero. You may want to estimate higher on the calories for those prepackaged foods though, if you cannot weigh them on a scale. There's more food in there than what the…

Unfortunately, you cannot target a specific area for weight loss. Much of where the weight comes off first/last is due to genetics and isn't within our control (aside from surgery, of course). The only way to lose belly fat is to continue eating in a calorie deficit. It may be the last area you see shrink, but as long as…

Water, coffee/caffeine, tea (even non-caffeinated help for me), exercise, sleep. Not sexy and not a weight loss miracle. But anal leakage isn't sexy either.

So you're derailing a thread to criticize my lack of a qualifier? Okay. OP, since I don't think that any miniscule possible variance that meal timing may possibly ever be shown to account for (since there is no definitive research as of yet) in weight loss effectiveness would be enough to warrant changing your lifestyle,…

If it were a fact that meal timing accounted for even 1% of the variance of weight loss effectiveness (which it is not), my answer to OP would still be, "it doesn't matter." I'm not sure why you feel the need to argue that I should have included "much" at the end of a sentence that expresses the same sentiment as everyone…

This is why I paid so much for my home gym.

lol right. All scientific evidence found to date, yet there's nothing definitive about what you've stated either. I didn't say "0%"; I said it doesn't matter. Because it doesn't. Which is not a far cry from, "it does not matter much; especially for OP's current situation." But go ahead and argue a point that you've stated…