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It is indeed. "Candida overgrowth" is one of the go-to woo diagnoses.

lol -- You have to replace *kitten* with a bovine scatological term.

Who has been insisting? All kinds of nonsense has been ascribed to "inflammation" by peddlers of woo.

I just make sure any drinks I want fit into my calorie goals.

I love Pop Tarts, but they have to be unfrosted. I see no point in putting a sugary glaze on top of something that's already that sweet.

The calorie amount MFP computes for you takes into account the rate at which you've said you want to lose weight. Particularly if you've said you want to lose 2 lbs/week, it's unwise to eat less than it recommends. Don't worry about restricting macros like carbohydrates. For one thing, if you're going to be exercising…

I'm convinced that most of the obesity epidemic is directly related to the fact that Americans have become accustomed to eating every day as if they were celebrating a special occasion.

Yup. That's my wife. No chocolate is safe with her, and oaths that she'll eat it a little at a time mean nothing. A pint of ice cream? Gone in a half hour, with no awareness at all that it consisted of 4 servings. The idea that is should be possible to treat oneself in moderation is understood by her on an intellectual…

One difference between when you're making an effort to lose weight and other times is that you're regularly stepping on the scale and paying close attention to what it says. So what might be normal fluctuation in weight that would pass by without notice is suddenly right in your face. For all you know, your weight goes up…

Don't be so sure. My wife is doing one of those medically-supervised weight loss programs -- not sure how often she sees the MD, but there's definitely one involved -- and they're having her buy a "fat burner". The whole thing irritates the kitten out of me, because I'm paying quite a bit of money for her to do something…

1200 is the hard minimum it will allocate for a woman, so very likely the calories it computed based on your present weight, height, activity level, and desired loss rate was even lower than that. If you've said you want to lose 2 lbs/week, that's too fast given how much you have to lose. Cut it back to 1 lb/week. After…

I did this when I was lifting years ago. I probably had a nascent shoulder problem at the time which I didn't properly recognize, and only knew that the position a BB would fix my shoulders to during an OHP was intolerable. Switching to DB at the time fixed the problem.

I eat and drink whatever I want on weekends and vacations too. It has very little to do with how I eat the rest of the time.

It even made me replace my car. First time in about 30 years that I've regularly driven an automatic.

I have rotator cuff damage and a torn labrum, and haven't even begun with weights for that reason. Surgery is the only treatment option at this point, but I'm not rushing into it.

Just cream. Good coffee is plenty sweet enough; I just need to take the edge off the acid.

The upside is that at your age you have a much better chance of recovering tight, smooth skin than us old folks. Me, I'm in my mid-50s, started out a little over a year ago with only about 35 lbs to lose, down to about 10% body fat and my middle is still loose enough to jiggle. And when I plank... ugh. Not a thing I can do…

Here's the thing: The first response you got was correct. If you were really eating 800 cal to start with, there should have been no way you were losing only 2 lbs/week. With that kind of starvation diet, and based on your weight, that should have given you about an 1800 cal/day deficit -- if you're sedentary, and not…

By definition, if your thyroid tests come back normal then you don't have low thyroid. Sometimes your doctor might note a trend in your hormone levels that might point to a future problem -- which is what happened in my case, so that when my TSH was finally above the normal range it came as no surprise -- but otherwise,…

Tell her it's called "dirt" and is commonly found only on the outside of the body.

Do it however you like. It doesn't matter in the least.

I'm from the north, but I think this is exactly it because I saw the same thing. When I was a kid, my 4H leader -- who ran a dairy farm -- was huge, and so were her sons. (Her husband had died in a tractor accident some years earlier.) Even though she was still in agriculture, I'm pretty sure she learned to cook for a…

I hope you followed it up with a skillet chocolate chip cookie, because that stuff is awesome.

I used to be Russian Orthodox -- before a crisis of faith; now I'm not religious at all -- and served as a subdeacon. Most of the time that meant I was an overgrown altar boy, but when the bishop visited I had much more do to, since the real job of that position was to assist the bishop during services. The other thing…

That's not a thing to worry about.

That's the entire point of spiritual fasting. It's not to impress God, and it's not even for health. It's to exercise the control of the mind/spirit over the fleshly appetites of the body.

You can record whatever you like for whatever days you want regardless of what the calendar and clock say. This is something those of us who keep to nonstandard schedules deal with regularly. My last snack of the day is frequently after midnight, but I record it on the same day as the rest of my food for that waking period.

It's impossible to say. Weight from water retention is highly individual.

If that were the case, you'd have needed dialysis long ago.

The color varies individually, but it will tend to get lighter as you drink more water. If the cereal you're eating is heavily fortified with B vitamins, or if you're taking a vitamin supplement with lots of B vitamins in it, that will tend to make it more yellow regardless of how much water you drink. But do I understand…