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The bolded is really confusing to me. Where do you get food that you don’t like and why is it faster than food you do like? There is no food in my kitchen that I don’t like and I certainly wouldn’t pay money eating out on food I don’t like. [/quote] Planning and cooking healthy meals takes time. We have kids and our fridge…

I am just looking for encouragement and was discouraged by the article that is all. And I have often eaten food I don't like because I'm tired or don't have time to cook. Logging and following a routine takes a lot of effort, and I do care about the results: to look and feel better than now. I know that what my sweet tooth…

Thanks everyone!

I am losing 1 lbs per week it seems, and I am using a food scale. I am experimenting with foods that make me feel good but so I still end up in the 1200 range. My maintenance is 1650, so I feel that if I stay with 12-1300, at least I create a deficit. Am I overdoing it you think?? I eat back 50% of the exercise calories,…

Limiting your access to foods you find particularly troublesome is not a bad strategy when it comes to building new habits. But to tell yourself you can never have these things sets a person up for trouble. That's terrific if you primarily crave nutritionally dense foods, as long as you aren't laboring under the idea that…

I take your advice to heart, and wonder if I am too restricted. However, I am an emotional eater and I noticed that I do not even see bread as a possibility I am less likely to eat it. I do believe in CICO. I also think that so many recipes are more unhealthy than they need to be. I was sick as a child and could not…

I feel like I've been very destructive, and want to take care of my body. I hope it is reversible. I need to lose 30 lbs. However, after two weeks on here, I now am in the "normal" BMI range.

5'5" CW: 151 lbs (heaviest at 155 lbs) GW: 120 -125 lbs Lower body fat (currently at 26%.) My maintenance level is 1650 cal per day, so it is tricky. I am 43, so age matters too, you seem young. I am very out of shape. I do HIT cardio 40 min 6 days per week. I am interested in strength training, got dumbbells. I fight to…

You look 20 years younger

That is good to know. I just feel really tricked into eating badly. All this sugar in everything. I feel good this far, I do. Love the success stories. I am so happy that being fit is at least a possibility for me.

It is encouraging to hear the arguments against the article. I actually think turning myself against food works. To be honest, I do not love the food I have given up. Bread in the US sucks, inferior to Sweden where I am from. I can't bake it either, can't get it right. The same with baked goods here: just too sweet. I was…

Spices are the key to me. I am interested in cooking and am discovering middle eastern food. I started to exclude my staples (butter, cream, white rice, pasta) and instead cook-tomato based curries. It is pretty exciting. I also am rethinking what goes in a meal. Why bread? Why rice or other grain? Thinking outside what I…

HI everyone! Unless there is a scale error I lost 1.2 lbs today. Encouraging.

I'm battling sugar addiction too. I noticed that I find processed sugar a little disgusting after cutting it out. But wow am I cranky. It is nuts how I get hungry for anything sweet after 9 pm.

Oh it does seem I lost 2 1/2 inches of my waistline. If I measured right. Always something!

I do that too, but it has also worked to import. I think!

I noticed that already when I slipped and ate processed sugar a week ago. It made me almost lose interest in any item with processed sugar.

That is helpful. We are basically similar in weight and goals (not knowing what your end goal is.) I am also a mother of young children and it seems you also have a very cute child! Do you want to keep in touch? Would be so awesome to get under 150 at least!! It is hard because my partner (a female) is eating the same as I…

So you are saying my loss is normal? I understand everyone has different goals and experiences. Mine is that I feel extremely uncomfortable in my own body. I just feel I have been really unhealthy and it is a long way back. I use to be quite skinny and the last years the weight just piled on, so I do not recognize myself.…

Orange with cinnamon. Date, walnut and shredded coconut balls with green cardamom and orange zest. Frozen raspberries. Kiwi. Grapes. This is how I get through it. But I seem to always be in the red on the sugars.

Me too! really hoping to be under 150 in a couple of weeks. It is very difficult to get the scale to move.

My goal is 1 lb per week

I am not noticing much on my measurements, maybe a few cm on the waist. I really accumulated fat in my mid-section. Worried my logging is off, but I am really putting effort into it.

I aim for 122 lbs. I am 5.4. I might need to reconsider if I manage to build muscle, I know. I am following the Fitness Blender 4 week Bodyweight exercise routine, and do the occasional snow shoveling. I walk my son to school and pick him up. I know, it is hard not to compare. She is of athletic build, so she usually gets…

Thank you everyone! I am struggling with drinking enough water, I just do not enjoy it. Sorry for the confusion, I am not Vegan now! I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables. OK, let me tell you the diet if it interests you? Breakfast: 1 cup oatmeal with unsweetened almond milk, coffe with the almond milk. I add toasted nuts…

I am absolutely constipated.I make a shake that always resolves this, but it does not work. I used to go 1-2 times per day. My partner whom I am feeding it to is running to the bathroom constantly. It is like my body refuses to let go. I am getting more and more vigilant in counting the calories, it is not much to play…

Also, I have the craziest mood swings. Like I want to kill something.

Thanks everyone so much for the replies. I just started an exercise routine and I do eat back exercised calories. I am now super diligent with counting calories. I seem to always be over sugar, not by a much but anyway. I have been fighting fatigue, headaches, metallic taste in mouth. Is it the sugar leaving my system?…

I am 153 lbs and 5.4. I am trying to lose 30 lbs. Very uncomfortable in my body. I am very interested in food and have a digital scale. So I do think I am doing things correctly. But that could be the mistake of course. Now I am starting to dream about eating a bag of cheese puffs.