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Where you gain and lose weight is mostly genetically predetermined. Many men carry their weight in their midsection, while many women carry it in their hips and buttocks. I lose weight in my belly quickly and in my thighs very slowly. You can search the forms and see many similar posts from people upset that they've lost…
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What everybody has been saying about your calorie target being too low is right on. You're eating several hundred calories a day less than your body would need to function even if you just laid in bed all day without moving. Even with a desk job, getting out bed in the morning, moving yourself to work, walking here and…
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You realize that it isn't "cheating" if you stayed within your calorie plan, right? It's just eating some food that might not be nutritionally optimal. Which is fine and won't affect your weight loss, although as a regular habit it might have nutritional consequences (pizza for dinner every single night would make it a…
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This. If someone is eating an entire pizza every weekend and still losing weight, they must be eating at a massive calorie deficit the rest of the week. If that arrangement works for them- cool. I'd personally rather have a slice of pizza when I'm actually craving it and not suffer with hunger and deprivation six days out…
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Planning. Most stress is predictable (what days of the week are busiest for you, what times are you tired or overwhelmed, what scenarios create temptation to go off-plan for your). Think ahead and don't plan for the perfect scenario, the one where you're cool, collected, and satisfied with just a salad during a time of day…
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King Cake in the US definitely stems from New Orleans tradition, and I'm guessing what happened is that French settlers in Louisiana brought the idea of the cake but gradually transferred the association from Epiphany (not a very big holiday here) to Mardi Gras (sometimes close in the calendar, and a very, very big holiday…
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There is nothing inherent about processed food that makes it "unreal," and there is no evidence for nutritional supplements being effective for anything in the absence of actual nutritional deficiencies, which most of us do not have.
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If these are daily fluctuations, this is normal. Weight loss is not linear, and things like fluid balance, food consumption, and waste excretion can influence your weight by several pounds over the course of a day or week. For instance, I know that reliably, if I sleep until 8:30 or 9, my morning weight will be .5-1 lb…
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For starters, I'd strongly recommend starting to actually track your food. Seeing how many calories are in what you're eating vs how many you burn is SO enlightening. You don't have to start restricting at first, just track honestly. Realizing that eating a biscuit every 100 words of a 3K word essay could easily put you…
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I've done it in the past and I think the nutrition portion is okay for someone who is very large and overweight and completely overwhelmed by approaching a calorie-counting diet, or who doesn't understand macros/nutrition at all. If you're small, it's easy to wind up unintentionally going over your calorie allotment using…
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This. Also, my husband is pretty understanding- while he isn't going to give up the snacks and high-calorie meals he loves (and can easily justify given his size and physically demanding job), he's good about buying ones I don't find as tempting or appealing, or keeping them in his car or at work, so they're not around me.…
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The thing that determines if you lose weight is whether or not you burn more calories than you consume. Full stop. It's hard to say exactly because you didn't include quantities or calories, but this looks like far too few calories for an adult male to survive on, and almost no protein. While you will lose weight on a plan…
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We don't call it pancake day in the US, we call it mardi gras, but we do sometimes eat pancakes on it, since the whole idea is it's the last hurrah of fatty foods before Lent... or more commonly, we eat King's Cake, which is a delicious coffee cake with purple/green/yellow sugar glaze. There's a baby figurine inside, and…
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When I originally went on the pill, it was a godsend that helped regulate my cycle, drastically reduced pain with my periods, and I actually lost weight. I went off it years later in favor of a mirena IUD for several years, but when I had complications from that, I went back on the pill. Coming off the pill the second time…
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If you predictably crave something sweet every afternoon, don't restrict yourself from having that- portion it in to your calories. Planning an all-salad-and-chicken-all-the-time diet is all well and good, but if you wind up going over your allotment by eating a candy bar every day, at some point you have to say "okay, I…
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Another vote- from a health care professional- that you need to call your doctor. Also, try (I know it's hard, I have an anxiety disorder myself) to stop thinking of your anxiety and mental health as a separate issue from your physical health that you can put off addressing till the indefinite future. It's very, very…
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Good if it fits in your calorie and macro goals and helps you meet those goals without being hungry. Bad if it makes you go over, or if you don't find drinking calories very satisfying and wind up eating more to compensate. I like them occasionally- Chocolate protein powder with some frozen banana and milk is a pretty good…
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Weight gain is not, fundamentally, a product of the type of food you eat, it's a product of the amount of food you eat. For the sake of your long-term health and well-being, you should eat a balance of nutrient-rich foods, but treats are fine, too- as long as you're hitting your calorie goals. That probably means much…
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"Health" and "weight loss" are sometimes related, but not actually synonymous goals. If you replace your carbs with an equivalent number of calories of protein or fat, it will not increase your weight loss (beyond perhaps small fluctuations in water retention that aren't relevant to your long-term goals. Many people say…
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If there were a topical medication that actually did all the things that Thrive claims with no side effects, a pharmaceutical company would have done the research to support it, patented it, and made more money than Pfizer did with Viagra. The reason Thrive (and all supplements) can make crazy claims about what they do is…
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Agreed with "don't feel bad" but "do log it." It sounds like you're treating food and exercise as a moral/ethical question, and if you're "bad" in your conception of it, then there's no point in even tracking how "bad" you are because bad is bad and you've already been "bad" so why not be extra, deliciously bad and expiate…
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Good call, all the people who mentioned possible asthma. I have mild asthma, but my biggest triggers are cold air and sudden exertion, and it tends to be very rapid onset with coughing but little wheezing- so I might go weeks or months without an attack, and then a jog in the first cold snap causes excruciating pain and…
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How much and how quickly your skin rebounds from large changes in size is mostly genetically predetermined, although being young, gaining and losing at a moderate pace, and eating a nutritious diet is potentially helpful. The stretch marks were created as you grew, not as you lose, so... they're already there, you have a…
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What a goofy assertion. Freestanding trackers probably won't be around forever in the sense that this technology is already being incorporated in to multi-functional devices like smartphones and watches, but the idea that tracking of biometrics is a flash in the pan just because it hasn't existed before now is silly. It's…
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There are tons of good low-cal suggestions here, and after eating homemade lower cal options for a while you'll probably find commercial dressings taste gross, like sickly sweet. But in situations where you have no control over the dressing options, try just dipping your fork in the dressing before you take a bite. You get…
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It doesn't. A hospital I used to work for gave a big discount on fitbits, and nearly everyone had one, but when people realized the wrist models didn't count steps while pushing things, you started seeing nurses and techs pushing wheelchairs and beds down the hall one-handed, swinging the other arm to get their steps!
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I absolutely adore mine. I've had a Fitbit One (the same one) for almost three years now and can count on one hand the number of times I've had it off longer than to shower. That said: 1. It's most useful if you're a person who enjoys and is motivated by data. Do you log everything you eat, enjoy looking over your MFP…
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This is great to hear, OP. Sounds like you've both had some promising insights in to what's going on in yourselves and between you. Just chiming in another voice of support for "absolutely take her up on her offer to join her for a visit to her psych provider." The symptoms you've described- weight gain, low energy,…
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For most people, "No thank you, it looks delicious but I'm not hungry" will be enough. For someone you know will give you a hard time, taking a small serving of something and then eating only a little of it may be the path of least resistance. In general, avoid telling people it's because you're trying to eat healthy or…
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Anecdotally, I found it much more challenging to eat healthily *and* found that even when eating at a deficit and exercising for many days in a row, would never register losses while still on a night schedule. It took at least one 24 hour cycle of diurnal wake/sleep before I would drop water weight and register a…
