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I'm a consistently lazy logger. I guess if I started gaining weight (I've been in maintenance for months) I'd tighten up. But I had no problem losing and have had no problem maintaining while being consistently lazy. It kind of boggles my mind that people talk about weighing individual slices of bread or taking a food…

Be prepared for a "regain." Your loss was mostly (likely almost all) water. I hope you're feeling better!

I'm glad you've found something that works for you. But I too seriously doubt that you were eating 1100 calories a day for years and maintaining at 200 pounds and then started losing on 1600. It just doesn't work that way.

@amusedmonkey said it very well -- you need to figure out what satisfies (satiates) you. For some people it's sheer volume. Which usually means lots of high fiber, low cal foods (steamed or raw veggies, plain popcorn, etc.). Others find protein and fats, while less voluminous, to be more satiating. You'll have to…

I'm 53 and hypothyroid and I lost 25 pounds from late last summer until this spring and I've had little trouble maintaining it (other than a small blip due to my thyroid issue). Compared to when I lost weight when I was 25 it was much easier this time. Easier to control my appetite, easier to keep my eye on the long term…

Ummm . . . what kind of whackadoodle websites have you been reading? That's some crazy stupid info. Levothyroxine does NOT make you gain weight. Exercise isn't bad. That's sheer stupidity. You need to take your levothyroxine with water when you wake up and then wait at least 30 minutes before eating or drinking anything…

1200 calories can look like a LOT more food than that. I never eat granola. It has too many calories for such a small volume of food, and is usually full of empty sugar calories. IMO it's junk food. I also would never do something like wheat crackers and carrots--there's nothing there that's satiating. I might do crackers…

I'm 4'10" and have no trouble losing on 1200 calories a day. My maintainance cals are around 1600-1650, so 1200 gives me a nice deficit.

All that matters for weight loss is the calories in the coffee you consume. Black coffee is very low calorie. I want to say something like 5 calories per cup. So it's really what you put in it that you need to think about and account for. The way I make my coffee it has about 30 calories per serving. I make room in my…

For something like a soup or stew I tally up the calories in the raw ingredients and then measure the cooked amount to come up with calories per cup. Yeah, yeah, I know -- weighing is more accurate. But I typically make really big pots of soups and stews to have some for leftovers or freezing. The quantity is typically too…

So things that come in cans are okay? And bags? Just not boxes? Are foods in cans and bags and that have additives okay? Or is it that food in cans and bags is okay as long as there are no additives? Or maybe you just forgot about stuff in cans and bags and used "boxes" as a catch all term for processed food? (Please note…

I think "clean eating" is so vague that it's meaningless. As an example, someone earlier described a meal of chicken breast, broccoli and rice as fitting the description of "clean eating." But some people think "clean eating" means LCHF and that meal wouldn't fit their definition. And yes I'm being judgmental here but any…

Anything you drink is about 99.9 percent . . . (wait for it . . . . ) . . . water. So it all counts. You don't really need to worry about water being "better" because as long as you drink enough of anything you're getting plenty of it. Of course you do need to count for any extra calories consumed and, if you're sensitive…

I don't think dieting has any effect at all on thyroid function. Although it can certainly work the other way around. An over- or under-active thyroid can affect weight and make it difficult to lose or gain. It's also quite normal for your TSH to fluctuate some. I'd just be mindful of the symptoms and note your TSH on your…

I never know what "eating clean" means. It's got to be the stupidest phrase ever because as far as I can tell it can mean whatever the user wants it to mean. In any event, whether you eat "clean" or "dirty" (or whatever) really makes no difference for weight loss. The question is -- have you been staying within your…

What is unhealthy about coffee and bread?? My standard breakfast is coffee (lots of it -- I need all those wonderful antioxidants it contains!) and a piece of cheese toast made with one slice of sourdough bread and one slice of cheese. Quick, easy, filling and healthy enough IMO. Works for me.

Nothing for me was instant. I did feel significantly better (less brain fog) a week or ten days after starting medication. But it took six weeks before I was able to start losing weight.

All I can say is that I've been wearing a Charge HR for over 13 months and at the same time tracking my calorie intake and weight closely. And the HR has been extremely accurate. I'd give it better than 95% accuracy. The HR monitor had no special appeal to me. I just wanted a device to wear on my wrist (less chance of…

I don't believe in a set point in that if you consistently eat 250 calories a day (relatively random number) more or less than you need that your body will put up a huge resistance to losing/gaining weight. But . . . homeostasis is a thing. So I'm not convinced that smallish changes (say food or activity increase/decrease…

I agree about STTM. I find many of the ideas pushed on that site to be rather scary. I wouldn't mind trying NDT but the only person who seems to prescribe it around here is an integrative medicine doctor who gives it out like candy w/o much testing. He offered to switch me over to it with no testing at all! I personally…

Restaurant food is loaded with sodium.

Yes, the number Fitbit gives you is your total calories burned so far that day. It's your combined calories from BMI and any activity you've done -- whether that's walking or working out at the gym or cleaning your house or brushing your teeth or whatever. I don't understand how people say "I walked 10,000 steps today and…

No, it's not really. It only has a diuretic effect on people who don't normally consume caffeine. For those of us who regularly partake it's not a problem. (Source)

I'm on my fourth very large cup of the day. The consensus over the past few years has overwhelmingly been that coffee has many health benefits.

I agree that IME it takes about six weeks for the medication to take effect so you can start losing weight. In your shoes I wouldn't try to lose now. Just try to not gain anymore or minimize the gain. Before my medication kicked in I was slowly gaining weight on 1200 calories a day (but I'm super short). After the…

Ditto -- You need to weigh them. Just like all fruits and veggies, grapes vary tremendously in size, so of course they won't all have the same number of calories. The link @Queenmunchy posted will give you reliable information.

Normal. It would be a normal rate of loss for anyone (even very obese) since the general medical advice is to aim for a 1 to 2 pound weight loss per week. But in general the closer you get to your goal weight the slower you lose. Think of it as a slow acclimation to maintenance.

I'm confused -- why would you want a smaller dosage of levothyroxine? Are you having overactive thyroid symptoms? What symptoms are you having? What are your numbers? If you're wanting to try Armour or one of the other natural dessicated thyroid medications then IME the best route for that may be to try to find an…

Why do you need to lose it in four months? You could probably do it. But it wouldn't be particularly safe or healthy. And experience (from watching others crash diet versus taking a slower approach) tells me that you likely wouldn't keep it off. It takes time to learn the new habits that keep weight off.

Umm . . . define "salad." For one person it might mean lots of lettuce, cukes, green peppers, onions, vinegar or lemon juice as dressing and other low calorie ingredients. For others it might mean lots of cheese, bacon bits, nuts, seeds and high calorie dressing. One salad could have 200 calories and another could have…