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With all due respect, this same computer program is also telling people to eat less against their perceived hunger, too.

If I'm looking for a low cal drink, it's water. If I'm looking for a sugary coffee drink, then I'll get that too. It's usually one or the other for me... with an occasional bar crawl night where I'll drink martinis or vodka on the rocks

Aside from injury, what would be the reason to stop exercising?

Ok, so it's habitual. Try substituting the habit of eating at 9pm with something else(unless you're certain you're hungry) rather than habitually eating at 9 because you're used to it. I quite often hear a meal should last at least 20 minutes. Try chewing longer if you're eating too quickly. Something about the brain…

Well, is having a meal planned what you've done the days you're working/ during daylight hours? I'd continue the same practices on days off/nights

Then it may be habitual or ritual. Look at what you do when you're making eating choices you're converted with and try to make it happen at nights or on days you don't work.

If you're now mostly eating high volume low calorie (plants, fruit, lean meats) it's totally understandable. Good on you! :-)

This makes piggybank checkbook balancing soooo much more simple!

;mmmmmmmmm! Cut throat kitchen had a competitor who was going to make crispy chicken skin as a type of chip for something. Would've been nice to be the judge eating that!

Blech. I can't eat chicken on the bone without the skin. What a travesty to throw it away instead of eating it somehow :-(

You'll have to experiment for yourself. The most active posters here will suggest you monitor your results for four to six weeks before making calorie changes. For me, eating back most to all of my activity/exercise calories hasn't stalled my loss. For you, you may have similar results or you may need to eat less than all…

Deli meats are notoriously high in sodium. Maybe try for a lower sodium alternative?

If your way of living doesn't feel sustainable in the long term, you may want to reconsider how you're approaching this all. Personally, i feel it's alright to have nights to sit and relax and eat conveniently while still managing your weight. That doesn't become a letting go situation unless you're cutting too deep into…

I would go for a 30 minute walk, then re evaluate my hunger. If i really want it, I'll walk a little more and give myself a bigger net to offset the full caloric hit.

For a minor point of reference, a snickers bar is approximately 250 calories and weighs about 57 grams. For the same 250 calories, you could eat 500 grams of pineapple, which weighs about 8 times more than 1 snickers bar. 500 grams (~454 grams is a pound) of pineapple takes up a lot more room in your stomach, and…

Google has faster answers than message boards most of the time

Google says:

Hi @tiffanyschadow , have you looked at the stickies? Please review the calorie counting 101 sticky. You will probably have all your questions answered from that. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10177910/most-helpful-posts-general-diet-and-weight-loss-help-must-reads#latest

Yeah, i mean if you're doing this for a short time then it won't change your weight drastically anyway id imagine, so you will probably have to experiment to see if logging and weighing raw and discarding the pulpy bits is less caloric than eating the whole fruit/vegetable. Good luck on that! I wouldn't juice as a way of…

I'd imagine it's like making a smoothie. You weigh and log all raw ingredients.

Please do this, OP.

Yes. Why not do this, OP?

Whaaaat? An official overnight thread? Hi errbody

Can you get me an Uber home? At least let me believe there will be a next time

Did i give you the answer you were looking for, yet? o:)

It's not like he was asking me how many inches i can handle before i gag, or if i wanted to top or bottom that night. Asking what i did to lose weight is not a personal question.

Are you ever in a social situation with grown ups who ask you what you did to achieve something that they found worthy of note but didn't really want to hear your answer? Please explain this to me. I can't wrap my head around why this would ever happen unless you were being purposefully obtuse.

Because their follow up question was "What are you doing?" Why do you think they didn't want to know even though they very clearly asked?

I was at a bar (minimum age to enter: 21 years old) and an old friend who met me for drinks said "holy *kitten* did you lose like a ton of weight? What are you doing?" How would you answer this? I have a feeling there is a very specific answer you want to see

I genuinely don't mind discussing my diet with others who ask, especially if it's something they can learn from and apply to their own health maintenance.