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I plan my day around Christmas dinner and dessert. I'll log that first (probably the night before), then figure out the rest of the day accordingly. Macros may be wildly off from the usual, but overall calories should be reasonably close.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether you believe it or not. Science does not support somatotype theory. Your belief in it is about as useful as my kids' belief in the tooth fairy: good for use as a motivational tool to build healthy habits (although I think the tooth fairy wins over somatotypes), and…

The calories you can eat now and still remain in an overall deficit are going to be high because of your current weight. As you lose weight, you will need to adjust your calories, and you won't be able to eat as much and still remain in a deficit (assuming your activity level stays what it is now). Losing weight too…

My husband makes the sweet-and-sour mix for our margaritas. Per the app, it's high in Vitamin C. Margaritas for health!

I tracked what I ate during pregnancy #3, but did not restrict calories. I gained 30 with that one (as opposed to 70 with my first, and 50 with my second). I second the above not-a-doctor advice: eat maybe 250 above your maintenance for a slow weight gain (gaining weight while you're pregnant is okay, especially if you…

I promise you the app cares not one whit about your coffee. It neither loves nor hates it. It is, at best, apathetic to your coffee. What is happening is that you are choosing to drink your calories (in your coffee) as opposed to eating them. Try flavored coffee, or tea, or a low-cal version of that powdered stuff people…

Given your post history, what you are doing looks like a fad diet. You are eating more healthily compared to what you were eating, but it looks to be incredibly short term. I'm not sure I'd call what you're doing healthy; it's not unhealthy, but you seem to be learning about water weight manipulation and little to nothing…

Many of us, myself included, have at least one graduate degree in a research-intensive science or math related field (physiology, chemistry, statistics, etc). We do research for a living. Liver flush: woo.

The salt from the junk food would level itself out in a day or so. Those extra calories, on the other hand, would take the better part of four days to burn off, assuming a 500 calorie per day deficit. (1800 calorie difference between the 1200 of "salty junk food" and the 3000 of veggies).

This is, at best, a crappy analogy. Refugees frequently have less access to food. Less food = fewer calories. This also discounts cortisol when food access is not an issue: high levels of cortisol can also be a factor in slow or nonexistent weight loss. OP, see if you can get your stress in order, first. You've used a few…

Turkey pot pie

I pre-logged Thanksgiving on Wednesday night, so I had a plan for hitting my calorie and macro targets. Nothing extra to work off. Sure glad to be out of the car, though - 10 hours on the road with three kids is a very, very long day.

There are a few possibilities: If you are really, actually eating 1500 calories and you're gaining weight, then you are eating more calories than you need to maintain your weight. Eating more than you are now will cause you to gain weight more rapidly. Another possibility is that you are not tracking your calories…

Wouldn't that be maintenance given the person's actual activity level? So, maintenance calories, taking into account that the person is active, not maintenance for someone who is sedentary. TDEE, not NEAT, if I have my acronyms right.

Hoop dance. Read. Write.

Consistency. Find what works for you. Do that.

I was. I started out at 5'6, 253 lbs. I'm at 153 today. 1700, provided you're being accurate in your logging, should get you pretty far.

Nope. I did not lose weight breastfeeding any of my kids.

Additionally, sticking to just protein isn't going to help; the extreme restriction may contribute to another binge. Try balance, instead.

Eat something. Don't eat everything. Problem solved.

The good thing about losing slowly is you build skills that are sustainable. It took me four years to lose roughly 100 lbs - so, on average, about half a pound per week: SLOWLY. But I know how to eat in a way that is sustainable. I don't panic when I go out to eat or go out of town on business - I know how to handle all…

Nearly three pounds from yesterday - had Sonic for lunch. No regrets.

Sodium?

You don't think a BMI of 19 might be a stretch?

Those like shakes have you losing weight much too rapidly to be safe or sustainable. Try food?

I have a 50+ hour/week desk job. I exercise after my kids go to bed, and I weigh and measure my food. Lost close to 100 lbs just by sticking to tthe calorie range I need to be in to lose weight; I only started exercising as well a few months ago.

Rear leg lifts engage my hamstring, not the glute; same with glute bridges- I feel the glute on one side, the hamstring n the other. I can activate the gluteus medius with clam exercises, but the muscle doesn't stay engaged when I go to do something else. I'm not great even at an isometric contraction - when I go to…

Dance w. hula hoops (see Deanne Love, Safire, JL Baxter, or Khan Wong, for example). I am nowhere near that good, but it's still a heck of a workout. You can build your own beginner hoops to start, using materials from Lowe's.

Hoop dance!

Cortisol? How does cortisol factor in to CO? Specifically, how does cortisol factor into OP's CO? OP works in a science lab; to suggest she can't tell the difference between the words "pounds" and "kilos" is, quite frankly, more farfetched than the idea that she may actually be an outlier.