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Nah. Most days I can still eat all the food if I were to let myself. Edit: In fact, since I can't run if I have more than just a little food in my stomach, my hunger is what determines the timing for my daily run. If I'm getting hungry and I want my afternoon/evening meal, it must be time to run!

If you get European recipes, all these quantities will be specified by weight. So go across the pond for your ideas and you won't have to guess about converting.

Those are so cute. I've only ever gotten to meet one once. A co-worker had one and brought her into work with her. I'm not sure it's terribly legal here in California, but who cares...

Calories burned for strength training are pretty low, though. I don't bother recording it, and if I did it would only be for my own records.

I'd be too, if I found a giant roast hamster on my supper table.

This isn't worth stressing out about. Just log the calories. MFP has many cocktails, wines, and beers in its database. It shouldn't ruin you unless you're drinking like a fish.

That's it! Shut 'er down! EGGS ARE POISON!!1!

True, and that just proves the point. If it takes more calories to digest than we can derive from it, it's not food for us. (Unless, of course, someone here actually eats hay. But I'd guess that's too extreme even for extreme Paleo dieters.)

I started around the beginning of July, and just hit 30 today. Still have another 5 or 6 lbs to lose before I'd consider "enough" fat is gone, I think.

Those mostly aren't processed in the sense people mean when they say "processed foods" though, are they? Beans and rice are simply dried; oats are just rolled or cut. It's not as if we're talking about microwavable meals or cured meats or something. (Tofu/tempeh are indeed processed though.)

It doesn't make a difference as far as the original traditions, but it makes a great deal of difference in their American experience. Most Byzantine Catholic churches in the US are "Ruthenian" in origin; that is, Rusyn, an ethnic group similar to Ukrainian but a bit further West and who mostly lived outside the Russian…

I ate half a loaf of bread today. Nothing else seemed appetizing.

You seem hung up on the label. Don't be. It's just a way to characterize your lifestyle excluding purposeful exercise which, as others have said, you are to log separately. MFP estimates the calorie burn from your purposeful exercise and adds it to your available calories for the day. So yes, you need to do that to get an…

It's a word that's been kicking around in my head for awhile, searching for something to attach to.

I also have Hashimoto's, and I also take my Synthroid every morning, and my numbers are also normal now. The trouble with low energy is that it's what doctors call a non-specific symptom. There are so many possible causes that ascribing it definitely to one thing isn't something you can confidently do, particularly when…

Flapdoodle.

Your Orthodox friend may be spending Wednesdays and/or Fridays during Lent eating absolutely nothing at all until evening. It sounds like what Muslims do every day during Ramadan, but it's actually a tad more stringent. (If only for 1 or 2 days per week anyway.) On those days many Orthodox Christians receive communion at…

Don't get my mother-in-law started about her "apron". She'll tell you all about how she has to keep it clean, and how she pads it to keep from chafing...

Yes. Although most folks eat back only a portion, to allow for possible overestimates in your calorie burn.

When I was a religious believer I was Eastern Orthodox. There were no real options about the minimum you were expected to give up for Great Lent. The dietary rule was that you were to abstain from meat, dairy, fish, wine, and oil. (By dairy is really meant anything taken from an animal, so that category includes eggs. Wine…

I put it down to constant grooming, and high-quality, grain-free kibble.

At least you select an appropriate wine to augment with a soft drink mixer. That sort of treatment on good wine would be very rude.

I can vouch for that. :(

I haven't yet mentioned that I'm 53 either.

On the up-side, in my experience a stomach flu is great for short-term weight loss.

Thanks! I certainly do have the loose skin thing going on too -- not too bad, and probably only I notice it -- and I'll give it a try for that. But "squishy fat" is a different sort of problem, as far as I've been able to tell.

Not in terms of weight loss, which has gone reasonably well, but in terms of my looks. The fat is not shrinking in an orderly way. It's squishy and jiggly. I don't have much left to lose, but I want it to stop jiggling at least, and it's driving me nuts.

That ain't all. It's very hard to get adequate nutrition on only 500 calories no matter how obese you are. You can probably do it, but unless the doctor is following the case closely it's incredibly irresponsible to recommend such a thing offhand. Even the medically supervised fast weight loss programs put a patient on…

Restrict yourself to having wine with dinner, perhaps. Once you become used to it as part of a meal, you might be less tempted to reach for it at other times.

I have no idea. I use it for mental focus, on the recommendation of a psychiatrist I saw years ago. I can't even really tell if it helps with that, to be honest. (Nothing else that guy suggested ever did anything for me, so...)