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Do you have a crockpot? That's an easy way to dip your toe in to the whole concept of cooking for yourself, it's incredibly easy, and you can even prep multiple crockpot meals at once and freeze them in advance- and because you can start it in the morning and it's done when you get home, there's no temptation to put off…

Remember too that not only do your coworkers not know anything about YOUR diet and activity levels in particular, or (most likely) health and nutrition in general, that a lot of people are DEEPLY invested in magical/black and white thinking about weight and health. Admitting that it's possible to walk a middle road- that…

Drinking lots of water, remaining active, trying to avoid exceeding your calorie limits, and minimizing your salt and carb intake can help, but much of this "gain" is hormonally mediated and nothing is going to stop it completely. Unless you're blowing past your calorie goals all week, the "gain" doesn't represent fat but…

I'm 5'4 and my goal is 128, a weight I maintained and was happy with for many years before lifestyle changes and illness caused me to put on weight. I'm more than halfway there!

There's plenty of clinical evidence that people "act" drunk when they're simply around other drunk people/believe they've been drinking. So there's really no reason you couldn't be good at being the life of the party while still staying sober (or reasonably sober). The only person who has to know that not all of your…

This is much too little food for anyone. 470-500 calories a day? You are starving to death. Your body is consuming itself, including muscle, in order to survive, and your extremely low protein intake may even have led to kwashiorkor, a disease of malnutrition which can cause a swollen belly and fluid retention in the limbs…

NobodiesGirl, do you mean your cup size went up and your band size went down? This is actually not that uncommon with large-breasted people when they lose weight- if there isn't much fat in your breasts compared to glandular tissue, and you lose the subcutaneous fat on your rib cage while your breast volume remains the…

Dairy as food is no more unnatural than most of the things we eat, which do not occur in nature but were created by humans because they are nutritious, delicious, and more convenient than subsistence-level hunting and gathering. Even the fruits, grains, and vegetables we eat have been drastically changed by agriculture in…

I have the Ozeri Pronto- $12 on Amazon and does everything I need it to.

Where your body loses and gains fat is genetically predetermined, and breasts are only partially fat. If you're already at a relatively low body fat percentage, your breast size is unlikely to decrease much. I agree with the poster who said that avoiding looking "fat" in tops with big breasts involves dressing to your…

Yes, I definitely log fruit. It has calories (sometimes quite a lot- while a small apple may be sixty calories, one of the gigantic honeycrisps we get at high season can easily be 200 or more), and other nutrition you'll want to track, like fiber and vitamins. The "best" foods to eat are the ones that make you feel…

Part of the issue is that an 11 year old is smart enough to know the difference between eating what they always have (be that healthy foods or junk food 24/7) and having the type and amount of food they're eating radically changed suddenly because their family thinks they're fat. It's really not that the food you're…

I weigh and log it. I don't eat iceburg lettuce, though, mostly my salads are spinach and other dark leafy greens, and I want to know that I'm eating *enough* of those things, and denote the fiber, vitamins and minerals they contain. I also think it's just simpler to log everything that to constantly try to determine what…

As stated above, there is nothing in your gut that is "blocking" nutrition. Particularly if you already have GI problems, daily laxative use is a terrible idea and likely to wind you up in worse shape than before. Be kind to your poor beleaguered intestines- they are a delicately balanced system, and especially if they're…

Go to bed. Honestly. I mean it's not always possible, but being hungry in the middle of the night (assuming you're not massively undereating and legitimately hungry) is usually a combination of boredom and exhaustion. I worked night shift for years, and the less sleep I got, the hungrier I was. If you refuse to give your…

I plug my daily weight in to trendweight and watch the line/trending average. It's higher than my lows but lower than my highs, and I can see if it's headed up or down over a few days or weeks and adjust my choices accordingly. Especially when you're past the first rush of water weight and as you approach your goal weight,…

The thing that stood out to me in your post is that you asked if you should be "proud" of having a large number of uneaten calories at the end of the day. No! And you shouldn't be ashamed, either. It's hard- it's REALLY HARD- to take feelings of morality and pride/shame out of eating, because so much in our culture tells…

Different people react differently to caffeine, so you may have few or no withdrawal symptoms. For me, I'm down to one or two diet cokes or unsweet iced teas a day, but if I miss one? Massive migraine incoming. My husband drinks a ridiculous amount of Mt. Dew- probably a liter+ a day (he's very active in the military and…

Your body doesn't need a detox. Your body detoxes on its own. If it ever stops, you will know *very* quickly and end up in the hospital on dialysis. Anytime someone tries to sell you a miracle weight loss or health product, ask yourself, if it really works so well, why hasn't the creator put it through clinical trials,…

Bariatric surgeons are advising bariatric surgery patients, who have a severely restricted stomach size, can only eat a certain volume of total food, and therefore must prioritize nutrient-dense foods to get the nutrition they need and not become deficient. Pasta is a bulky, not particularly nutritionally dense food, and…

I have an Aria and love it. Mine doesn't take long to weigh or to sync (generally the new weight is on the app and synced to Trendweight before I walk from the scale to my computer). It seems to be accurate in the sense that I get consistent weights in a small period of time, I get small changes if I do something like pee…

I have not done this as I am not prone to bingeing (I sometimes eat over my goal or even my daily calorie burn, but rarely in great excess, and I log that anyway, to keep track) but many people have reported such behavior in forum posts. Bingeing in people with no history of disordered eating is strongly suggestive that…

Yes, your BMR is "just" what you burn by living, but it's still the bulk of nearly everyone's daily calorie burn, and depending on how large you were to begin with and how much you lose, the change can be dramatic, up to several hundred calories a day. It's also the case that burn from activity will decrease with weight-…

It's hard to say but it's very possible that a rapid 3 lb gain is all about water retention/actual food content in your body. Unless you've absolutely gorged for the last five days, it's not likely that it's all fat gain. If you were very large to begin with or were on a very restrictive regimen, your initial rate of loss…

This is why mine isn't open. For one thing, I don't have any questions/welcome any input, and for another, I eat like kind of a weirdo and I get more than enough unsolicited "advice" and commentary on it, especially from dudes, in real life. I don't need any more of that online. My diet is nutritionally balanced and…

This just isn't true. It's true that larger people are sometimes capable of achieving unusually large caloric deficits without ill effect because they have a high BMR and enough fat reserves to handle significant deficits without losing as much lean muscle as someone starting at a smaller size. But losing a pound + a week…

Wearing a corset, "waist trainer," or any kind of binder while working out is like wearing a brace on a healthy limb. Over time, the braced part is going to weaken, because the brace is doing much of the work. Even in the best-case scenario where you don't injure yourself or feel so crappy from compressing your diaphragm…

I'm a daily weigher- I aim for a .5 lb/week rate and it's too easy for that to be masked by fluid fluctuations on any two individual days to be satisfied with once a week weigh-ins, which I think is common for women (I may well be trending down, but approaching TOM, for example, may have me up from a week ago on the…

For most people I think it's not a productive way to view things. It can both contribute to overeating (from overestimating how much you've "earned" from exercise) and to disordered eating/thinking. I eat what I enjoy within my calorie budget, which generally means I have something "treat" like about once a day. More than…

There is evidence that each person's capacity for willpower is finite (although that capacity can probably be altered with practice and changes in circumstances). When that reality collides with all the other emotional and physical associations food has, it's not surprising that someone who consistently makes good if less…