rhyolite_ Member

Citation needed.

Agree to what other posters have said. You might also get as lucky as I was and lose a bunch of hair, too. Just to check, though, are you sure you're having trouble getting 1,200 calories? Are you weighing all of your foods? It seems odd to me when people claim they're too full to eat the full 1,200. It makes me wonder how…

No. This site is full of people who have successfully lost large amounts of weight and successfully kept it off while drinking A LOT of diet soda. There's a lot more about your post that's incorrect.

I just looked for the study again, and the study I was/am referencing is the CSPI study from 2009, which does claim that Regal medium and large unbuttered popcorns each hold 1,200 cals and enough sat fat for 3 days. I don't think their claim that a medium and large hold the same amount can be true. I'm a type 1 diabetic…

I like late-night snacking, so I eat up until bedtime. Then, sometimes I wake up a few hours later and head down for another snack. There has been nothing problematic about this so far, since I make room for it in my calories and hit most of my nutrient goals most of the time.

This is not true and makes absolutely no sense. SOME movie theater popcorn varieties can have those numbers. If I remember correctly, the numbers you're referencing come from a lab study on Regal Cinemas popcorn sizes large and medium. The study claims that both the medium and the large have 1,200 cals. That doesn't make…

What....no one said those things. This thread is making me hangry.

You've clearly never had a Ruth's Chris steak. Several people, including myself, have told you that there are plenty of vegetables or meats we can binge on happily.

;) I'm not sure I'll ever get tired of seeing this response to posts like this.

You keep saying that we need to acknowledge the "fact" that some foods are unhealthy. Are you even reading what people are writing to you? Because everyone else here is disputing your assumption that there exists the idea of an unhealthy food. The difference between a cookie and a bowl of fruit is the amount of nutrients…

Someone bought me one for my birthday. I have never been a watch person and honestly wasn't interested - but I love mine! I'm not sure of the accuracy of the fitness/workout/calorie aspects of it, but I also tend not to eat back any exercise calories. It's been a good push for me to hit the daily goals. If it had not been…

So now the definition of healthy is how much volume you can get for your calories? That doesn't make sense.

You're turning this into a discussion about your personal lack of self-control and your personal feelings of satiety toward cookies. If you are meeting your macro and micro nutrients, then it does not matter if you are meeting them through cookies, broccoli, or fruit. The assumption of this conversation is that you are…

This is what I was thinking. Why does using a barcode mean you can't also weigh the food? It's way faster than searching for the product first (at least on the app that I log my food on, which I believe is still similar to MFP).

The problem comes when that person suddenly becomes a "coach" or "consultant" who then pushes the product onto another person who doesn't realize they can achieve the same results for free. And I eat as many snacks or meals a day that I want, staying within my calorie range, and don't have to eliminate anything. And all of…

I came here to post this exact response. :)

If you are eating an amount of calories that allows you to lose weight, you cannot also be eating enough calories to gain muscle mass. As a previous poster explained, you may be revealing existing muscle by losing fat, but you cannot do both. When you lose "weight", you are losing all the things that make up your weight -…

Use the tears of those the mean posters have "acted hard" with.

What WBB55 is trying to tell you is that if your goal is to look better rather than see a specific scale number, then you need to look into weight lifting (recomposition). If you are doing recomp, the scale won't tell you much of anything, since it may not change at all even though you have clearly changed your body…

I'm so sorry to hear about what you're going through. I went through a separation/divorce a few years ago, although I was the one to initiate and felt a lot of relief. It was still hard, though. My ED got a lot worse during that period, because it was very difficult to focus on my well-being. Some things that helped get me…

So the healthiness of a food would be determined by how much bang for your buck you get in regards to nutrients vs calories. That makes sense. I'm not sure if I agree completely, but if you're going to determine the healthiness of a food, that's a good way to measure. It may just be semantics, too (as far as our…

Tbh, I'm not sure what would make cookies an inherently unhealthy food. I do understand what you're saying, and I'm not trying to be purposefully argumentative. I just think the healthiness of your diet is determined by, well, your overall diet. Zucchini is a "healthy" food to most people and provides quite a few…

I'm pretty sure the "everything in moderation crowd" frequently (not always) advocates for hitting your macro goals and eating nutrient dense foods while enjoying your treats. So no one is suggesting "stuffing your face with junk food" or eating cookies for dinner so you have no room to meet your other nutrients. To those…

Okay....If you don't like what others are saying to you, simply don't read it... ? Must be another rule that doesn't apply to you.

Due to having an ED in the past, my hair thinned by about half. I was lucky that I had pretty thick hair, so if you didn't know me before you wouldn't know...but, man, I miss my hair. OP, warning you about the dangers of a VLCD is not "putting you down". But since you only came here to tell all the successful MFP members…

But if you're losing weight on a vlc, all liquid diet...then you would lose weight on a calorie deficit. Why not just put in the extra effort to learn the skills you will need to keep the weight off?

Take a bag of raw baby spinach. Remove one leaf. Tell yourself it's a cookie. Eat in volume. Otherwise, make a cookie like a cookie is supposed to be made and enjoy. ;)

I hate going to the gym. I always thought I hated exercising, but I think I just have really bad social anxiety associated with the gym. Idk why. My solution was a tad expensive, but it worked for me. I invested in the equipment I like to use and made a home gym. I have my treadmill, free weights/power rack, heavy bag, and…

If there's a family meal, my husband is usually the one who cooks. He leaves off the extras (like butter) in cooking and lets everyone add in to their taste/preference individually. He usually makes at least twice what we need so that I have leftovers for packing lunch. If we're wanting different things, we just cook for…

I agree with those saying talk to her - but the advice to eat low fat because you're overweight is wrong. Dietary fat doesn't make you fat. If after talking to her she continues to insist on a low carb AND low fat diet, it's time to find another professional to advise you.