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Planning helps. Thinking first in terms of calorie budgeting helps. It's a good idea to eat "healthier" in a nutritional sense, but if you're currently eating unhealthy food *and* too much of it, it's okay to tackle the portion part first, before you try to overhaul the actual content of your diet. Doing that will give you…

I bought a bulk package of "unscented" Dove body wash once (so they were all shrinkwrapped together and I couldn't open them to smell) and not only were they very strongly scented, they had fragrance pretty high up on the ingredient list, too. Next time I'll read it more closely. They really can say just about anything on…

Weight loss is not linear. Early on, you typically have some large losses due to water weight that can make the first week or two show consistent downward scale weights, but that doesn't last forever, and over time there will be days and even weeks where you see no loss or actually a gain register on the scale. Water and…

There's nothing mandatory about breakfast if you're not hungry in the morning. Your metabolism runs just fine without it, no need to "kick start". If you're a breakfast person who intentionally skips breakfast and then overeats later out of hunger, that's not good, but if you've never been hungry first thing and you delay…

If those numbers are accurate, yes, over time that should be your trend, but (especially with weekly weights) it's really, really easy for loss to be masked by day-to-day non-fat-related fluctuations in the fluid and waste content of your body. Personally, I regularly see day-to-day fluctuations of up to 3 pounds depending…

None of this is necessarily correct for the OP depending on his nutritional needs and size. Some of it just isn't correct at all. Fruit is great but does not necessarily make a filling snack that will help someone adhere to their plan, and it is low in protein and fat, two important macros that any individual person may…

Seconding this. Don't mess with your fluid balance like that. Diuretics can cause electrolyte imbalances, block vitamin and mineral absorption, stress your kidneys, and otherwise screw you up. If you're having the kind of edema that causes serious discomfort or high blood pressure, it's time to see the doctor. If not,…

If I'm going to drink, I usually have either a gin and tonic or, if it's a place with an interesting specialty cocktail, one of those, or a glass of wine/beer. It's a lot of empty calories, sure, but I'm drinking as a treat and to relax on a special occasion, I don't see the point to drinking something I don't really enjoy…

I am prone to drops in blood sugar and their attendant symptoms in the mid-morning if I eat certain things. I work 12 hour shifts, and have breakfast around 5-530, and typically a snack around 0900. When that snack used to be a granola bar with a lot of added sugars, I would often crash hard between 1030 and 11. By…

You came to a community full of people who use calorie counting as a lifestyle and asked who was following a fad diet that you yourself have previously tried and failed at. What exactly were you expecting in the way of reaction? Look, you might lose weight on this plan- it's very restrictive and that will probably create a…

It is and it isn't. If the society as a whole, all the individual components of society, and biology were all in perfect harmony, then beauty standards would never vary from time to time and place to place, and they do, quite widely. They change over time and across cultures. So yes, "we" are all a part of society but "we"…

Are my goals and desires and personal aesthetic influenced by the larger culture, which is pretty sexist and patriarchal in a lot of ways? Heck yeah. I'm not a magician who can eliminate the impact of decades of media and social imagery and pressure on my own mind. Does that make me a bad feminist? No. Feminism is about…

Straws are generally not recommended after tooth extractions (no smoking, either) as the suction runs the risk of dislodging a clot and causing bleeding or dry socket.

No exercise at first- you don't want to raise your blood pressure and increase the risk of bleeding and dry socket. And it's pretty unlikely you're going to feel like it. Accept that going forward so you don't feel like a failure. It also takes most people a day or two to be completely over the side effects of anesthesia.…

None of the elaborate specifications of the diet or the promised stages ("activation," "cleansing" etc) are a necessary part of weight loss. I'm plenty educated, thanks, and one of the things I'm educated about is the telltale signs of weight loss scams and fad diets, and this hits every tickybox. Will it still work if you…

OP, your body doesn't need "cleansing" (your kidney and liver do that just fine, and if they don't, a diet isn't going to fix it, you're having a medical emergency). Your metabolism doesn't need to be retrained. You don't need to eat special combinations of specific foods to lose weight. You don't need to eliminate food…

You're the only person suggesting it because: 1. "Working off" 1700 calories in the gym in one day is an unrealistic goal, and the OP already works out regularly, 2. Creating the expectation that any calories over goal *must* be exercised off after the fact is a big old step towards the kind of disordered eating behavior…

DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) is pretty brutal and there's nothing aside from gentle exercise that does much to relieve it except time. Warm baths/anti inflammatory pain meds/stretching/massage can make that time pass a little more bearably, but the clinical evidence for any of them actually hastening recovery is…

When I was low-normal BMI and in my lifetime best shape: "Of COURSE you can have a second piece of cake, you're skinny." "Why are you only eating that ["that" being a nutritionally balanced meal of ~500 calories]? You're thin, you can eat whatever you want." "You shouldn't stress about fitting in workouts, you're not even…

Awesome, congratulations!

You know the display shows your total calories including BMR for that day so far, right, not just the calories for recent activity?

No. Your body is detoxed by your liver and kidneys, and if they're not working, your problems go way beyond anything a dietary change is going to help. I've been a vegetarian or a pescatarian since I was about 13. It's hard to say if it had a positive effect on my weight as I was still growing at that point. I will say…

Mine mostly underestimates. I eat back the adjustments it sends to MFP when I'm hungry, but there are plenty of days when it tells me I haven't even reached what most formulas say is my BMR- yet I'm eating more than that and still losing. I love it for steps and flights, I mostly ignore the calories.

Your body needs energy to function 24 hours/day. Over short periods of fasting, like overnight or for one day, despite not having new food to digest, your body can draw on glycogen stores in your muscles and liver to function. Once those stores are depleted, your body starts breaking down its own tissues to run. Some of…

Fitbit's calorie estimates are always wacky for me- very unpredictable, and I don't like that they adjust throughout the day in an unpredictable manner, sometimes bumping me from "on target" to "over target" without any additional intake. Some days with the same step counts get much more estimates burn than others. It…

You've done an amazing job so far, congratulations! I'm a nurse, and I've seen literally thousands of naked everyday people over the course of my career. The belly fat pattern with an upper belly and a panniculus you have is very common. The fact that you think you've never seen it on anyone else should be a confidence…

This is not accurate. While the metabolism does slow slightly in true starvation, the effect is not enough to prevent weight loss, only to slow the rate somewhat. The effect is no longer observed once the person refeeds. And this does not refer to the kind of restriction that someone dieting generally achieves. This is why…

This is a sketchy approach for both weigh loss and health for many reasons that other people have illustrated above, but 3.8 lbs in 3 weeks is a very good rate of loss, more than one pound a week. It is definitely not "barely losing." Your expectations for weight loss need adjusting to reality. And even if you don't enjoy…

The saddest woo things to me are people who buy a miracle product and also put in the work to lose weight and then attribute it all to the product. I have a friend who bought in to Thrive hook line and sinker. She's started going to the gym five days a week and cooking all her meals from scratch, and wonder of wonders, the…

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