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I read that a little differently - for example, I weigh daily and my fluctuations are HUGE when I eat late. Not because of anything magical or special snowflake, but simply because sometimes I eat smaller portions that are more calorie-dense, sometimes I eat bigger portions that weigh more in my stomach but are less dense,…

Am I missing something magical about greek yogurt or isn't plain greek yogurt very different taste-wise from regular vanilla yogurt? I can make it work if I'm getting a special flavor but plain greek yogurt just tastes like I'm eating sour cream for me :astonished:

Frankly, if I know it's in the plan, I'll just eat less throughout the rest of the day to account for it. Or I'll find something that really absorbs my attention - I notice that I'm much less likely to want food when I find something to think about because it...takes me so long to think about things when I'm high that it…

I feel like MFP has taught me the tools to be able to estimate, more or less, my food. I'm sure I'll have to make adjustments all my life to make sure everything stays in check, but I'm still losing weight without counting now and I'm very aware of what issues led to the weight gain to begin with, so I believe once I reach…

Can you cite that study? I'll show you mine if you show me yours :) https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/willpower-limited-resource.pdf This has a citation of both the original study I read myself to learn that, and other studies that also come to the same conclusion. It does in fact cite the study that you mention...right after…

And there have been studies that have shown we have limited willpower! So why make it harder for yourself by telling yourself you're not taking responsibility if you make it easier on yourself by asking for more support?

Just finished? As in...3 years ago?

Disappointed I could only choose one insightful/like/awesome for this post...you are a saint for putting up so calmly with those random insults for daring to be logical.

I think what she's trying to say is a common sentiment but there's no way of actually explaining it to other people because it's just something you feel based on how you were raised :D Like if you're making a pizza - no one would argue that baking a pre-made, frozen pizza is 'cooking', but people might disagree how…

I log every day if I can. Sometimes I skip though if the daily fluctuation is too big; I know it's just a water weight thing but it makes me feel better to not have that number in my chart :D I enjoy that when I zoom out to 3 or 6 months I have so many entries but I can see the line zigzagging its way down.

I have that issue too! My solution is mostly just to save calories for that time of day, since I know I enjoy those snacks and am not really willing to cut them out. Although I do have "safe snacks" - for example, I can only eat 200 calories worth of popcorn before I'm full so I often use popcorn to snack on. Sometimes I…

I do them whenever I hit a goal weight (edit: my goal weights are 15-20 pounds apart) or whenever I feel like my clothes are fitting me differently. I don't have a set date to measure; it's just whenever I feel like it might be appropriate.

There's nothing natural about non-diet soda either, don't worry LOL :D

I was about 100 pounds overweight when I decided to lose weight. It wasn't emotional. It was a combination of 4 years of buffets at college and 2 years of suddenly having the freedom of my own car and salary (I'd never been able to buy as much food as I want whenever I want), plus a new city with new food and driving by…

I use Cookinglight a lot! I also just use normal sites and plug the recipes into the recipe builder here on MFP - as long as you're not looking at heavy cream sauces, things covered in cheese, or things that are obviously not going to be low-calorie, you'll likely find a serving is less calories than you'd think. I also…

Whaaat? This is defeatist! Feeling overfull is not a comfortable feeling, especially if you've been eating at a deficit and haven't felt that way in a while. If you eat slower, then you have less food in you when you start to get full, and prevent getting too overfull. For many people, one of the biggest issues is portion…

The weight graph tracking tool is under "REPORTS" at the top of the page, and you can put in a new weight from the home screen (click the little scale icon). My macros show up on my food diary when I click FOOD. Are you looking for something more specific than those? :)

Yeah, I'm sure the intention isn't to send the message that people should be logging forever in any post individually - it's just an overall attitude, a relentless pressure as I put it. I honestly don't think I've seen a post here where someone mentioned not logging where there wasn't at least one person who told them that…

I don't know, it's easy to say that no one is literally saying that you have to log for the rest of your life, but this thread is kind of refuting that. I was really pleased how this thread started out with people celebrating a different way of being nutritionally aware, but then it switched pretty fast into people trying…

I think being pro-FA and also wanting to lose weight can go hand in hand; in fact, I think they often do. As strange/cliche as it sounds, I had to accept who I was before I was happy enough about myself to get that motivation to lose weight. Losing weight is a form of self-improvement just like anything else, and the shame…

This is a post we can all get behind

If he is interested in making it work but just hasn't been able to and got discouraged, talk to him and let him know it's important to you and try some different things until it happens. Stressing about it doesn't help, it can be a completely lighthearted, fun conversation about things you can try. If he just doesn't care…

You could weigh it, eat it, then weigh it again....of course by then the calories are already inside :cold_sweat: I just have a question, not judging, I eat plenty of TV dinners myself but...how can you be not a leftover person and still want TV dinners? They're the exact same concept, meals stored in individual containers…

You've continually misrepresented our discussion to make snarky points and it's not appreciated. I specifically said in my very first reply to you "I like the suggestions on how to not drink as much while still seeming to drink, but all this weird disbelief about whether or not she's expected to drink is silly," making it…

I'm the same way - I think about food almost all the time. This is part of why I learned to cook; the food 'lasts' for several hours of cooking then. I also made it a point to make sure my food is always "set up" correctly - I'll make a conscious decision whether I should eat it at the dining room table or the patio or as…

I tend to IF if I can, and I make sure my last meal is laaaate. As in, after 10PM if I can swing it (I sleep somewhere around 11-12 usually). Sometimes I get hungrier earlier, but in general if I eat dinner around that time I'm full until I go to sleep, and when I'm full I'm less likely to crave all the snacks that I…

Do you eat the appropriate amount of calories throughout the rest of the day? If so, it's not really important that those come long after exercising as opposed to just after. :)

So this comes down to your inability to understand the struggle others are going through then, if you can agree asking for help is unrelated to this because you can do it for yourself.

Yeah, I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree here. I don't think that any weight loss journey should necessitate going it alone without support from your social structure; I think that that's what they're there for, to support you and for you to support. One day you're (general you) asking your friends to…

I never got devil's advocate. Either you actually believe it, in which case you're using the phrase to imply you don't actually believe what you believe, or you don't, in which case you probably shouldn't be making the argument. :grey_question: :grey_question: :grey_question: Anyway there are dozens of ways in which we…