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If this is the first time you've had a reaction like this to pizza or coffee, don't discount the possibility that you're actually getting sick and the timing is coincidental. Sometimes a bug comes on slowly- I felt really run down for two days this week and wasn't sure what was up... until I woke up yesterday with a fever,…

I don't log if I'm out of cell service (like overseas or on a cruise) but I do log even when on vacation and not stressing about a deficit. It probably isn't the most accurate logging I do, but it's an eye-opener to look up restaurant meals and helps keep me honest with myself. I want to keep in the habit and also don't…

You can be at a low total weight and still have a relatively high body fat percentage. Given that you're on the bottom end of the BMI range, it's probably time to start focusing on recomposition rather than weight loss. It's likely that continuing to lose weight will eventually eliminate most of your subcutaneous fat, but…

I've worked at jobs where I frequently couldn't stop to eat for so long I've gotten excellent at tuning out physical hunger pangs/stomach growling, which I rarely notice and which usually pass after a minute or two, especially if I drink water. But a sudden drop in my ability to concentrate/irritability is impossible to…

It's hard to say without seeing your actual numbers, but the "cheat day" is a likely culprit. Mindfulness is very well and good, but depending on the size of the deficit you achieve on your plan days and the number of excess calories you're eating on your cheat day, it's totally possible to wipe out and even exceed your…

I think it's possible for self-hate to be temporarily motivating for some people, which can make it a hard habit to kick- if they only time you've successfully lost weight is by channeling self-loathing, it can feel like you HAVE to hate yourself to succeed. But that's a miserable way to live. And if you are at all…

I'm a nurse, and when I went back to school to get my BSN, I had to do a community health practicum in which I did field research on a local public health problem. I chose obesity, and one of the places I did research was a very high-end weight loss clinic, a place much less sketchy than you are describing. No sketchy…

I think seven pounds in a week is my largest ever fluctuation. It's never permanent (not to say that it can't be masking an upward trend, which is WHY I weigh daily, but if it fluctuates up seven pounds overnight, it will drop back down by 7 at some point soon). Graphs are my friend.

Peanut butter is particularly notorious for being under-estimated when measured by volume, and because it's very calorie-dense, that under-estimation can really add up over time. Your logging is inaccurate, I don't know what else to tell you. You may not be eating a *huge* amount more than you think, but because you are so…

You're missing a big percentage of your days and meals, and the meals that are logged are logged in volumetric measurements, not by weight. This is not a very accurate way to log- volume measurement-based caloric estimate can be off by as much as 50% or more, depending on the food. It's easy for those unlogged days and…

It's hard to say without numbers, but if your profile picture and the ticker on your profile are current, you appear to be well within if not on the low end of normal weight for your size, with three pounds you want to lose. Your margin for error when you're looking to lose tiny amounts of weight while already small is…

I just go back to square one each day. Taking it in 24 hour blocks helps me mentally compartmentalize in a way that I find somewhat liberating. No one day is going to make or break my long-term success, and I don't struggle with bingeing, so recognizing that it's okay to eat over my deficit or even over maintenance once in…

Thank you for putting this so much better than I could before finishing my morning caffeine, less thanks for making me inhale Diet Coke while laughing.

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First off- 27 pounds in that time is an amazing loss! Congratulations! Second- everybody is dead on about the fact that you have to reframe your thinking to include non-scale and short-term goal terms, so that you're getting satisfaction and reinforcement about your progress frequently. The best, most effective goals for…

I have a One- I love it. Love is an understatement. I've taken it off only a handful of times in the three years I've owned it other than to charge (while I'm in the shower and then back on it goes). I like that it's more discreet than wrist trackers. I wear it on my bra or neckline. I wore it under my wedding dress,…

This! Personally, I've realized over time that I'd generally have a little of the real thing than a lot of an inadequate substitute (I got a 100-calorie greek yogurt version of a full-fat greek yogurt I enjoy the other day and blech, I didn't even finish it). I'll just keep getting the 200+ calorie version that actually…

I spread my snacks out throughout the day and don't usually eat a big breakfast or lunch. I wake up at ~0500, and often don't get a lunch break until 1400 or even later (if I get one at all), and I don't get home till around 1945 most days, so I eat a small but protein-heavy breakfast, and I pack a lunch bag of things that…

This. The bulk of the change in your weight from day to day is not down to fat gain or loss, no matter whether you eat half the fridge or run a massive deficit. It's affected in a much bigger way over a 24-hour period by things like water retention (or not) and waste in your GI tract (or not). Most people can't…

This. She's gone, and hurting yourself (and this extreme food restriction and overexercising will definitely hurt you in both the short and long terms) will not bring her back. You're already hurting, and you're punishing yourself still further with this extreme but ineffective plan. Ineffective in that it won't make you…

Psyllium husk (the main ingredient in metamucil) works by absorbing water to help soften and bulk up the stool, stimulating bowel movements. That might mean there's more actual mass of waste in your bowels than before, although 6 kg worth seems unlikely. Metamucil is also not calorie free- it's ~20 calories a tablespoon,…

2 lbs is the top of the range for steady loss for nearly everyone. Extremely large people with lots and lots of weight to lose may see larger losses in the early days, as they deplete their water and glycogen and reduce their intake (which means less food and water in their stomachs registering on the scale) but 4 lbs is…

Advance planning is key- eating slightly smaller meals during days when I knew I'd have to work that night to account for more snacks was helpful. Being realistic was also important- I'd rather pack maintenance calories worth of snacks than have a meltdown at 2 am because I only brought salad and I'm so hungry I eat the…

To my way of thinking, this is the most compelling argument against the "five pounds a week" mindset. It's borderline-impossible for anyone who isn't get-their-own-Discovery-Channel-Special size to to lose 5 lbs of fat a week- that much fat is worth more calories than a lot of people burn TOTAL, before you even account for…

What? Calories are, for weight gain/loss purposes, all the same. Yes, macro changes affect overall health over time and satiety immediately, but excess "healthy" food causes weight gain the same as a donut. There is nothing inherently unhealthy about meat or dairy products (and I say this as a non-meat-eater of 20 years).…

If you're too early to test, then even if you are pregnant, implantation hasn't even happened yet, or is just now happening i.e., your body doesn't "know" about the pregnancy yet. Even once you are pregnant, the first few weeks, the embryo is *extremely* tiny. Little speck of cells tiny. While you may have increased hunger…

Most of your measurements are in cups, not by weight. Some of the volumetric measurements are for very calorie-dense foods like pasta- those can easily be off by hundreds of calories. It's highly likely that in measuring by volume, you're eating more calories than you think you are. I'm not being critical of that- I don't…

Personally, I weigh daily and record it in a trend-tracking app, because my deficit is such that my weekly target loss is less than the possible range of fluid fluctuation, and it would be very possible to miss the overall downward trend if I happened to pick two high days a week apart. More data makes me happy. And…

This sounds like the theory the nation's finest broscientists would come up with if they ever turned their bro-ttention to possible explanations for menstrual cycle variations during diet and exercise changes. There are a lot of reasons it sounds implausible at every level, but the most basic one is: estrogen causes the…

The part where you smell awful and have nasty hands and hair and skin might reduce the number of social occasions to which you're invited, so... less temptation to eat cake and stuff? But then, the lung cancer. And the smoker's voice/cough. And again, the reeking horror of how you smell everywhere you go. You can't smell…