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It's usually not a donut because they're just too calorie dense and aren't satisfying enough for me, but yes I have sweets every day.

Your headaches are most likely from the increased stress of trying to make too many changes at once. This isn't a race, you have to keep this up for the rest of your entire life. Make small changes and stick to them. Once you can live with those changes, keep adding more. And as chewyxrage said, carbs don't matter one bit…

As others have said, you just have to make it a non-negotiable part of your day. You can't rely on motivation to lose weight, most of your progress will come from the days where you're bored or hate it but do it anyway.

Thank you for the reply, your last line is exactly why I was questioning it. I think I'm going to just stick to maintenance for now while upping my protein. If I don't see any results in a few months I'll look into the cycling.

Thank you for the reply, your last line is exactly why I was questioning it. I think I'm going to just stick to maintenance for now while upping my protein. If I don't see any results in a few months I'll look into the cycling.

Thank you for the reply, your last line is exactly why I was questioning it. I think I'm going to just stick to maintenance for now while upping my protein. If I don't see any results in a few months I'll look into the cycling.

5'4 SW 208, 16w CW 128, 4

Something I've been wondering about recomping. Is calorie cycling really necessary? What happens if you just eat at maintenance every day?

I've been (by my standards, probably not clinical definition by a long shot) addicted to soda before but with diet I am perfectly able to control myself. I don't think it causes cravings, same for regular soda. I've always had a sweet tooth and that was before I ever liked soda, I used to hate it.

I was weighing every day when I was losing 1-2 pounds a week. Now I've decided to slow down my loss rate and will just weigh once a week on the same day/time.

Good job, keep it up!

Well my goal was to just get to 115 without stopping. But I'm 80 pounds down now, 128, and thinking if I want to just do maintenance and recomp for a while.

Abscessed tooth with a cavity drilled too close to a nerve ending. I also have a lot of jaw problems that I'm getting corrected with surgery soon.

I know my limits. I don't continue my work out if I feel pain. I've pushed through pain in the past and ended up having to stop for weeks at a time. Now I listen to my body and am only out of commission for a day instead of a week.

It's expending effort to reap a reward. It's no different from anything else hard we do in life. It only becomes a problem when your desire to eat overtakes your ability to burn it off effectively. Or if you were eating something that went against a medical condition I suppose. Don't listen to elitists who tell you…

You will not lose 25 pounds in one month safely at your stats. You would have to be extremely, life-threatneingly obese for this to be "safe" in the most liberal sense of the word. I don't know about the loose skin since this is not something most people would even attempt.

What do you mean you're given calories to eat back?

If all the math is correct then yes, you would be able to eat 100 more calories, you would be netting 1200 since you burned 400. Where are you getting the 400 calories burned figure from? Exercise machines tend to drastically over-estimate calories burned, even when calibrated to your age/sex/weight.

Skip a meal or drastically size down portions so you can have a little bit of all your favorites.

Is there a reason you want to eat tuna when you don't like it? With the levels of mercury in most canned tuna, experts tend to recommend only eating it once or twice a week. http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/mroussell5.htm this article elaborates..admittedly I am not an expert, but I frikkin love tuna and still heavily…

You say you're taking thyroid supplements. What is your doctor saying about your thyroid? Most people with hypothyroidism can control it with medicine, and if not, it's a sign of needing surgery. Also, what is your fitness setting on MFP and are you eating back exercise calories?

Groceries. I guess the last thing I scanned was wheat bread.

That you have to eat clean. If I had known I could lose weight eating cupcakes and pizza, I'd have never gotten fat in the first place.

Your thighs will probably always be the biggest part of you, but they don't have to look bad. Lose weight and fat will eventually come off your thighs. I kind of resigned myself to never looking "thin" but rather looking fit. I have drastically thinner legs, but they're more muscular looking than ever, even eating at a…

If you choose anything beyond sedentary you don't eat back your calories. Don't use the MFP calorie counter for exercise. Calibrate machines to your age/sex/weight and then halve the calories burned total to get a reasonable "eat back" amount.

Black coffee has no calories per serving.