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And also taking into consideration that this isn't just a hypothetical. People do go for the elk vomit waffles (usually its weed) and then they die. The end point of this slippery slope is anti-vaxxers, a brand new measles epidemic and homeopaths treating leukemia in children.

Binge eating disorders have a wide variety of causes and expressions and it isn't really fair to present a solution that works for you as somehow universal. I thought this was also my solution until "everything in moderation" failed to stop the behaviour. The over-restriction was another symptom of the anxiety and poor…

How hungry are we talking here? You shouldn't necessarily need to be "full" all day but you shouldn't be getting too hungry either. When you're too hungry it can be hard to make sensible choices and getting too hungry a lot can lead to just getting fed up with the restriction and eating everything. And that can be the…

Well why would you? What's the reason for doing something (whatever that is)? If the reason is good enough, you'll do the thing. If it's not then you won't. It's not about motivation it's decision making.

Usain used to be pretty well known for just going to the track, running as fast as possible and not necessarily going mad with technique or nutrition or fine detail. Take it with a grain of salt but he apparently just ate his grannys cooking and as much of it as he could get when he was younger. He's just a crazy gifted…

I eat a lot of vegetables and protein at every meal. I can't skip eating exercise calories. Breakfast is two eggs on toast with some onions, mushrooms and spinach. Lunch every day is cauliflower, carrot and broccoli (about 230-250g veg total) with either 80-90g chicken breast or a tin of mackerel and hot sauce. Dinner is…

You don't rely on motivation to get up on time to go to work. It's just part of your schedule. Make this your schedule. Set your alarm, have clothes ready to go, have your day planned around doing it early. Make it as hard as possible to come up with a reasonable excuse. But if you don't actually want to or you genuinely…

What is "considered" a binge is a medical/ psychological definition. Below is from the NHS website, as a simple definition. The calorie amount doesn't matter. I can eat 250kcal feeling out of control and guilty which is a binge episode or I can eat 3000kcal on christmas day and feel fine about it, which is not a binge…

That's why I said "sometimes". It's just an observation I've had with a few people personally and also a mindset I completely understand myself because tbh I do the same thing with exercise. Nothing derogatory about it, it's just how some people's brains work, some of the time.

I think sometimes it has to do with the fact that restrictive plans are just harder. You get more of a sense of satisfaction and control sticking to keto or paleo or whatever. It feels active and purposeful. Eating normally, just a bit less, is boring. It also means that there is no evil combo of nutrients (wheat, gluten,…

Depression and anxiety leading me to quit my job, so the only thing I did was cook and eat and drink wine and smoke. Over eating numbs feelings and I use extreme over-eating as self-punishment when my brain has a bad day. When I'm busy and content I still probably eat a bit too much sometimes because I just love food but…

Next time reply: Too skinny for what? If you're not actually underweight, struggling or feeling any ill effects being at the weight you're at then what would you need the extra mass for? Do you need to be larger to block a gap in a seawall or act as a windbreak? If they mean "too skinny for my comfort/ approval" you know…

There is something wrong. It's not normal to be afraid of food and although women feeling constantly paranoid about weight gain is definitely normalised in society it is not a healthy way to live your life. I do the hipbone thing too, and the "good" weekdays not eating enough and the "oh whatever" weekends that I then feel…

This is actually pretty common I think, but it's a question of "you feel fine until you don't" and like Tavistock says, the damage is already done. Feeling lighter and more energized on minimal food will probably be a temporary thing, (it's one reason people fast for spiritual reasons because that is a thing that happens)…

Only if they're mis-labelled, all cookies should be equal under the law :smile:

I was raised Catholic, now atheist (and quite anti-Catholic-Church tbh) but I am considering doing something for Lent this year when I don't usually. I don't like the idea of Lent as penance or as some test of willpower but I do like the idea of using it for some conscious self improvement. Practicing gratitude? Donating…

You didn't have a bad day, you just had a different day. Cookies aren't sinful. There are no Cookie Crimes on the books. Agree with bpetrosky above: Rather than getting back to your regular diet which seems to have no room for cookies, I would start looking into making room for the occasional treat. When you put these…

I am sorry you were let down like this. Sometimes I don't think people appreciate how much it can affect your brain not to have positive feedback and role models for exercise and being active. Doesn't need to be depression or bi-polar (that bit you wrote about your past doctor was horrible, yikes) or anything diagnosable…

I did struggle. I also just kept losing, way past my original goal and well into underweight territory. For me it was a fear of losing control and regaining everything that prevented me really attempting maintenance and it turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, when I stopped "dieting" it was because I had started…

Don't lift anything. Get good at picking things up with your feet. In seriousness, losing some weight will make your arms thinner, gaining some might make them look softer and less muscled. If the only muscle you have currently is from doing everyday things I don't see a way to make the muscle atrophy.

BUT, in the same way a broken as hell clock is right twice a day, that's also the best way to eat peanut M&Ms. Eat the chocolate off the outside then crunch the peanut and if you leave the peanut whole you get imaginary points. Crunching a whole M&M in one go is a fools game. They are actually doing the thing people accuse…

Agreed. Absolutely encourage your husband to provide feedback, or do it yourself. It's shady as heck that his employer is being (in my mind) fleeced for some pseudo science mumbo jumbo that seems more likely to encourage disordered eating than anything.

I really really want to be able to buy my first house. But a vague "I want" doesn't do anything for me. Motivation doesn't do anything for me. I need a plan, and information and good habits to be able to get what I want and it's the same here. You have information; access to all the stickied threads here and a forum for…

There was a show on the BBC a while ago (Possibly The Truth About: Beauty??) where they had 8-10 women try cellulite creams, exercise (lunges mostly from the looks of it), I think pills and body brushes. It was by no means a scientific study but the women who used the body brushes saw more of a visual improvement than the…

I only get to have gluten free pizza which is a rare enough thing for me (frozen once every couple of months, restaurant maybe once a year) that I am always eating the whole thing. Even a smallish one is 60-80% of my daily kcal for maintenance depending on toppings but having 2 slices and leaving the rest... It just…

If you use this app as designed then you shouldn't end up so hungry you feel like you have to eat whatever is at hand. Use it to sort out a reasonable diet plan where you are not eating as little as possible until you snap. Choose a sensible rate of loss (say a deficit of approx 20% of your maintenance calories, not…

My Fitbit gave me ~100kcal for what it thought was vigorous cycling. I was just enthusiastically petting a dog. It gives me an extra ~300kcal for my regular non-exercise days where I walk about 3miles to work and back. The bodyweight formula gives me 108kcal and I know I'm a fast walker but really???

I have read about cases like this, while out and about on the internet. It seems to me like you can very easily separate the control and coercion from the actual "fetish". Some abusers use emotional or financial control and these people use both making it physically harder to get away and also "only I love you like this".…

They're two different calculations. TDEE (Total daily energy expenditure) includes an estimate for exercise x-times per week averaged out over every day and the NEAT (Non-Exercise activity thermogenesis) method has you add those exercise kcal as they happen. It's not complicated.

I went from 150lb to 105lb just with diet, no macros, no minimum protein just straight CICO. Wouldn't recommend it tbh, I'm still trying to get my glutes and hamstrings back. I looked like a floppy noodle. I will say that getting a decent eating pattern in place before you start an exercise program can be helpful. Both…