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Hm, why if someone likes slimmer people should be a garbage person? I'm personally put off by overweight and obese men. And I don't feel like I'm a garbage person. Am I?

Oh c'mon Toad, cheer up a bit. Why are you always the first to strike any new post which is not "up to your standards"? Leave people be and may I suggest some therapy as well. Or just get a hobby (another one). OP, I think being attractive to the opposite sex has more to do with your self esteem and confidence than your…

What concerns me is that 10 women is an insignificantly low number and the paper was published in 1986. This is not a reliable study.

erm... binge eating disorder?

All the studies which I've read show that there is no increase in BMR. My own experience of several years of careful logging confirm this.

Northern. Heard of chippy tea.

1200 is very little food. If you were truly eating that much you would've been here screaming that you haven't lost anything after a week. Not after 5 months. Like the above advice: either start weighing all your food and tracking catefully or just start eating less.

Don't overtrack. If your tracking is not accurate for some reason, statistics tells us that on average you will underestimate by the same amount that you overestimate so it evens out. By overtracking on purpose you will introduce an artificial bias. It will make it more inaccurate, not less. ETA: the 20% error in packaged…

As far as I know magnesium helps with that. You might try.

Stews and casseroles was what I was going to say too. That's the best way to incorporate more veggies if you want to.

I've been taking 10mg melatonin for 3 years while successfully losing weight (exactly as much as my calorie deficit created). I've read a lot of research papers on melatonin and I'm pretty sure it has no effect on your weight. Use scholar.google.com if you're looking for scientific information, not google.com

Can't have been MFP forums. This thing you mention is frowned upon here because it is untrue. Get a weight trending app and and start weighting every day. I have no problem eating enough. I love food. Don't you?

I only get hungry prior to meals (I eat 3-4 full meals and no snacks) but I never go for huge deficits. I go for 0.5lbs loss rate if any. I'm 137lbs. So I eat 1600cals on days I exercise and I eat at maintanance (1500) on completely sedentiary days. I can't sleep unless I'm full either so I either eat my dinner close to…

I'm sorry for your loss. I cannot imagine the horror! I moved to another country, started a fulltime degree in theoretical physics at the age of 34 and quit 20 years of heavy smoking all almost at the same time. Gained 30lbs in the span of a year which got me to the overweight borderline. I think at least 5 of them were…

69kg is 152lbs. To fluctuate from 152 to 160 overnight is huge. That is 5% of your weight. The OP confirmed they have oedema.

I wasn't arguing with you. I was just thinking. From the calories reported it seems unlikely that the OP is 400lbs or over. 8lbs overnight is a huge fluctuation. Isn't it?

8lbs though? Doesn't sound like a normal fluctuation to me. If you are sure you really have gained 4kg and it is not your scale that's faulty or there are other factors then I would call my doctor and tell them. This much water weight in one go could be sign of heart or kidney problems (oedema). Are your ankles swallen?

There are no camps (like this) in science. This is not a matter of personal belief or opinion. You see, there is gravity on Earth regardless of your opinion about the matter.

Like the poster above said it is from the added exercise. Macros make the calories. Carbs are 4cal per gram, protein is 4cal per gram and fat is 9 cal per gram. If you add 200cal exercise then your allowance changes to 200cal more. So you need to eat 200cal more worth of carb, prot and fat in the same proportion that you…

It doesn't have to be 0. You have to assume that if you're estimating some days you'll be a bit over and some a bit under so on average it will be close to zero. Try not to consciously under or overestimate.

Congratz. But you're very wrong. People want to stop but when the craving increase they no longer do. That's called addiction. The normal rational thought pattern is broken by the nicotine binding to your dopamine receptors (and the lack of it). DO NOT understate people's struggles. It is rude. For the majority of people…

Mmm, I'm thinking non-smoker. No ex-smoker should be able to say this. I went through hell personally.

You lose weight by eating less calories than you burn. To lose 1lbs of fat you need to burn 3500cal less than you eat. So you need to make 3500cal deficit. Say you want to lose 1lbs per week. Then 3500cal divided by 7 days equals 500cals per day. So if you burn 2000cal per day as an example, then you need to eat 1500cal…

I aim for 1-1.5lbs a month.

As far as I know dietary cholesterol like this in the eggs is not responsible for your cholesterol levels.

I stopped cold turkey after 20 years of heavy smoking. I used the videos of a guy on Youtube to help me. If it wasn't for these videos I'd never stopped because I had countless fail attempts including patches, vaping, gums, inhalators etc. I used to smoke 2 packs a day. His name is Joel Spitzer, look his channel up on…

1lbs fat = 3500cals. So you can decide how much over maintanance you want to eat.

What a nice post! Congratulations, I'm very happy for you!

I search in scholar.google.com instead of just google.com.

Do you know what the life expectancy was then? Like 25 years.