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People needlessly demonize carbs, excluding legitimate medical conditions, which you did not mention you had in your original post; without that knowledge, there's no reason to suggest cutting carbs as opposed to one of the other macros; rarely do you see someone suggest cutting protein as a way to lose weight. My point…

Heh, I travel this week for a conference; conference catering tends to favor bakery stuff, which I cannot eat (severely gluten intolerant); I've given a lot of consideration to a Snickers Diet for the four days I'm away from home...

Tell that to the 80/10/10 guy who will tell you everything you never wanted to know about how awesome carbz are (he lifts weights regularly, and does look rather buff). Everyone has their own personal macro split that works best for them. Some people eat higher carb, some higher fat. It's a personal choice. I eat lower-ish…

Measure all solids, even fruit (the weight of an apple can vary greatly from Apple to Apple; the same goes for slices of bread, etc.); measuring cups are for liquids. Echoing the poster you quoted: there is no reason to go low carb/no grain, unless you have a legitimate medical reason to do so. People on low carb diets can…

If her body mass requires fewer calories, why drop carbs specifically? Why not protein? Or fat? Why is it always carbs? Additionally, if she increases protein by as much as she decreases carbs, the net effect on her calories will be 0, as they both have the same number of calories per gram.

I am severely gluten intolerant (puts me in the ER). Tips: Don't eat gluten. That's really all there is to it. I don't see it as a lifestyle, much as I don't see anyone who can't eat a particular food living a _____-free lifestyle. That makes it sound more like a fad and less like a legitimate health problem.

Work on not being greedy. You have to want to lose weight more than you want to overeat. Decide which is a priority. Being slightly hungry between meals isn't a bad thing. Pre-log your food for the day, and stick to that.

Re. the bold: No. Just no. I haven't seen anyone try to argue that diet sodas are healthy. People have said, and continue to say, that in moderation (probably in mild excess, even), they are not harmful.

Sorry, no. 1500 is not starvation for a man. It is minimum recommended (and quite possibly too low for OP), but it is no more starvation for a man than 1200 is for a woman.

1-ish per week, at this point; sometimes more, sometimes less. I'm 2lbs above a not-overweight BMI. (I started with a BMI of 40+). SW: 253 CW: 156.2 GW: 153 (???)

SW: 253 CW: 156.2 GW: 153 (???) I go for a walk with my husband, kids, and dog a few times a week. In another month or two, it will be too hot to do that (summers routinely get to 100+ for a few months at a time). I do Convict Conditioning twice a week or so. That's it, really.

I have also had substance abuse issues, and have never once had a food cravings that was anything near what I went through with my substances of choice. Not even close.

You should talk to your doctor. Even herbal pills can interfere with your thyroid medication.

My father-in-law fed one of my daughters a bite of peanut butter fudge at a family picnic when she was a baby because "one bite won't hurt"; he was holding my daughter, and he was too far away from me for me to stop him. We had not introduced peanut butter, and my father-in-law is very, very lucky my daughter did not have…

No. Grandma can read the memo that she is not the parent of her grandchild, and she can follow the child's parents' instructions, or Grandma can start referring to her grandchild as "the grandchild I don't get to see because I can't follow simple instructions".

If you don't eat, how is it you have weight to lose?

I am gluten intolerant. Gluten makes me violently ill, to the point where I have to go to the ER for IV fluids. I do not, however, have celiac disease (as tested through bloodwork).

Mercola is an AIDS denier; not only that, but he claims that one of his "miracle superfoods" fight the HIV virus directly. Do you have an actual reputable source to cite?

Time for one less &&#@# in your life, especially if he also comments on your daughter's weight. At some point, you go from being a victim to being a volunteer. Know where that line is. (I stopped being a volunteer for my own father's verbal abuse a year ago. It's been a great year.)

"Clean eating" is a nonsense, non-defined term that means nothing in terms of weight loss. The deficit is what matters for weight loss. It's even possible to eat processed foods and be healthy.

You should stop comparing yourself to others, readjust your expectations, and (I'm going to be blunt) get a grip. You're losing, on average, right about three pounds a week, which is actually above what's recommended as a sustainable weight loss of 1-2lbs per week. There's no reason to lose faster than you are. Develop…

Calorie deficit. Eat less than you use per day. Keep in mind you use calories by existing; you don't need to create that deficit through exercise. I lost the better part of 100lbs without exercising much more than a walk now and again.

It takes maybe five minutes in the morning for me to weigh out breakfast, lunch, and two snacks. It just doesn't take that much time.

Yes, absolutely, if they disliked it as much as the OP didn't like CrossFit, there's no way I'd make my kids do something they disliked that much.

Have you told your counselor you can binge 8000 calories a day? You need to be upfront about that, if you haven't been.

I did not lose weight after any of my three kids until they weaned. Sometimes it happens.

Either add protein to your meals, or snack, or both. If I had oatmeal and fruit for breakfast, I'd be hungry by 10:30AM, too. There's nothing wrong with having a snack to fill the gap between meals - just plan them into your calories for the day.

"The findings support the hypothesis that high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets are associated with the onset of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in humans." http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/134/6/590.abstract?ijkey=03bc27d5bfa50f59494b6cc75c02fbbfd43c3119&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha "Fat consumption significantly predicts…

In other words, you're losing weight because of CICO. There is no CICO plan. It's not a plan. It's a formula. If you're losing weight because you've reduced your calories below the number you need to maintain a given weight, that's CICO. It doesn't matter if you're eating 80/10/10, LCHF, paleo, vegetarian, 5:2, the Twinkie…

So she only finds the obesity of two specific people to be disgusting? Riiiiight......